Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

It appears that “Sunita Paul” cannot help herself. Even after facing charges of plagiarism, she continues to plagiarize.
According to ”Sunita Paul”’s bio on American Chronicle, she is “considered as an expert of South Asian affairs, counter-terrorism and international relations.” However, when writing about militants in Bangladesh she plagiarizes published and copyrighted articles from Bangladesh’s leading English language [...]

I guess I am not the only one who “Sunita Paul” plagiarizes. It appears that she even plagiarizes big name reporters.
Consider the April 5, 2009 article by “Sunita Paul” in the American Chronicle entitled “DPRK: Missile-Satellite Controversy” - one of the very few articles not focused on Bangladesh. The article is about the North Korean [...]

Today The Daily Star published my op-ed “Who is ‘Sunita Paul’?” The op-ed expands on my post on Sunita Paul from last week.
The full op-ed follows:
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Who is ’Sunita Paul’? 
Mashuqur Rahman
“SUNITA PAUL” is an “Indian journalist” who has been writing inflammatory articles on Bangladesh in little known foreign online outlets. “Sunita Paul” is also [...]

Sunita Paul is a plagiarist.
Sunita Paul is a “journalist” who has recently been publishing a series of sensational articles about Bangladesh. She has caused quite a stir because her articles make extraordinary claims, based on anonymous sources, about the political situation in Bangladesh. Extraordinary claims without much factual support however require a significant leap of faith by the reader. [...]

The full unedited interview from last night’s Daily Show is below. Host Jon Stewart skewered CNBC’s Jim Cramer in a riveting bit of television.
I commend Jim Cramer for going on The Daily Show knowing full well he was going to get a drubbing. And a drubbing he got. But Cramer took it and persevered through [...]

In the aftermath of the BDR mutiny in Bangladesh that may have killed up to 170 people, Dean Nelson, the South Asia editor of the British newspaper Telegraph, thinks he has figured it out. He thinks himself clever because he has come up with a clever headline for his musings. He thinks that the Bangladesh [...]

I just watched a hit job on Barack Obama on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. In their "Keeping Them Honest" segment Tom Foreman looked at Obama’s press conference and said that Obama was pulling back on his campaign promises. This was news to me since I had listened to the entire press conference and did not notice [...]

In an article on Barack Obama’s rally today in Florida, ABC News gets the date of John McCain’s article in Contingencies magazine spectacularly wrong.
ABC News writes:

Obama used McCain’s words – and the financial crisis against him – reading a quote from McCain which was published in "Contingencies" magazine last year.
"Opening up the health insurance market [...]

If you are keeping score at home, John McCain has cancelled his scheduled interview with Larry King of CNN to protest CNN questioning McCain’s spokesman last night about Sarah Palin’s qualifications. The interview that Senator McCain thinks is out of bounds is here.
Hold on, the ride will get bumpy from here.

Today Tim Russert was laid to rest. Over the weekend the Boss dedicated "Thunder Road" to him.
For those of us of a certain age "Thunder Road" is an anthem of sorts. It is arguably one of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. The above is an acoustic version - a perfectly performed duet [...]