Did Coulter Plagiarize in Godless? (Rude Pundit via Jossip)
At least two passages in Ann Coulter's hot-selling Godless are under scrutiny for their striking similarity to ones found in the Portland Press Herald of Maine and on the History Channel, respectively.

How Much Is That Blogger in the Window? (Salon)
Michael Scherer: In Las Vegas at the YearlyKos convention, Democrats court the netroots as if it were the AFL-CIO. "This is the new public square," former Virginia Governor Mark Warner told the crowd in a five-minute address. "This is the new form of democracy."

Why They Do It: Reporters in Iraq (CJR Daily)
Paul McLeary: Why does a reporter go to a war zone? Is it careerism? Vanity? Thrill-seeking? Or is it to push personal boundaries, to manufacture some sort of rite of passage that has been mostly lost in contemporary society? Probably, it's a combustible mixture of all of these.

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