Citizen Journalism Priority: Avoiding Plagiarism in Research and Writing

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Saturday March 05, 2011 · 12:53 PM PST

2011/03/05 · 12:53

What follows is an excellent piece providing important information about avoiding plagiarism. Originally posted in September of 2005, it was reposted again is February of 2007 on the old ePluribus Media Scoop site.

The piece contains extensive excerpts from The Plague of Plagiarism by Professor Irving Hexham and are used with permission.

Avoiding plagiarism and ensuring that one provides proper attribution for any citations and excerpts - and has a firm grip on the concept of "fair use" - is crucial to the ongoing successful efforts of bloggers and citizen journalists. We'll have more on the subject soon, too.

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Frank Schaeffer: Organizing to Stop Far Right Violence - HuffPo

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Tuesday October 06, 2009 · 11:27 AM PDT

2009/10/06 · 11:27

A couple of days ago, I asked, What's next, wholesale body bags? to address the wave of terroristic violence that has overtaken the country. In our society of mega-extreme-new-improved-more-bigger-better-faster-now provocation to consume, I fear there's one direction the wave can go. Bigger.
Frank Schaeffer inspired my article and StopDomesticTerror.com because, as he says today on HuffintonPost,

I started pondering the question of what we could do right after the assassination of Dr. Tiller by a religious extremist...because that did not really address the core problems.

In fact as a former right wing religious "pro-life" leader I felt compelled to publicly apologize (in the Huffington Post) for the "America-is-like-Nazi-Germany" rhetoric that my late Evangelical leader father and I helped create in the 1970s and 80s that inexorably led to justifying violence in the Tiller case.

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 5:07 PM PDT

2008/09/22 · 17:07

[since the crisis looks very different knowing the extents to which they reached, I crossposted this from ePluribus in full]

Roger Stone is the longtime dirty-trickster who knocked the socks off of Eliot Spitzer in a scandal of high-priced trysts that forced resignation of the NY Governor earlier this year.

With a Republican pedigree stretching to Watergate, Stone needed little inducement more than Spitzer's capital "D" affiliation.

But, as the nation's taxpayers await the terms of our extortion by the Bush Administration's 'exempt from oversight' bankers' club under a plan -- including full immunity -- led by Henry Paulson, it's time to consider the political assassination of another White House enemy for the SOP it was.

luaptifer

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Friday August 08, 2008 · 1:46 PM PDT

2008/08/08 · 13:46

Why is it important to rehash what Mike Connell did in 2000 Florida and 2004 Ohio? Because those very same key elements for potential election theft are firmly in place within the McCain campaign for 2008.

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Monday April 02, 2007 · 5:26 PM PDT

2007/04/02 · 17:26

Contributed by Todd Johnston and Luaptifer

Who is Michael L. Connell? Part II: Behind the firewall explores why in 2001 Michael L. Connell, the Republican Party "Internet guru" once fired for unethical campaign tactics, was allowed to install proprietary hardware behind the firewall at the U.S. House of Representatives.

Part II also provides a detailed time line of how Connell's web services company called GovTech Solutions -- formed in Ohio with fellow GOP operative Thomas J. Synhorst of the DCI Group -- was chosen to re-design the databases and web sites for the most sensitive committees on Capitol Hill, like Intelligence, Judiciary, Financial services and Ways and Means: sites GovTech still administers today.

Check out Who is Michael L. Connell? Part II: Behind the firewall @ePluribusMedia

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Tuesday March 27, 2007 · 6:40 PM PDT

2007/03/27 · 18:40

in collaboration with Todd Johnston

Crossposted at ePluribus Media

In the virtual worlds of computer security, networking, and email, the lines separating the inner workings of the current government in Washington D.C. and the outer world of partisan politics exist only in theory.

The recent discovery that top strategists emailed plans for dismissing 8 U.S. Attorneys using accounts on the gwb43.com and georgewbush.com domains, hosted and paid for by the RNC, is just one indication of a much bigger disregard for the necessary separation of government and private industry.

Not only are the lines now blurred, but they became so years ago. Indeed, at the very inception of the Bush Administration, there was an effort to leverage partisan loyalty on the outside to preferred vending inside of dot gov.

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 10:30 AM PST

2006/11/09 · 10:30

A reader's observations prompted this followup. Was Blackwell forced to jettison the routing of Election Night returns through TN-based servers by the exposure of our earlier report?
Cross-posted from ePluribusMedia

On Election Day, November 7, 2006, ePluribus Media reported that technology
developed for live reporting of election results by the Secretary of State of
Ohio was programmed, hosted, and operated by companies that are related
to the Republican National Committee.

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Tuesday November 07, 2006 · 11:43 AM PST

2006/11/07 · 11:43

Contributions by ePluribus folks @ePM cross-post, below the fold

Mid-term ballots are likely to hand over at least one chamber to Democrats on Tuesday in elections overcast by a storm of GOP scandal. The vortex threatens Ken Blackwell, Ohio's Secretary of State (SOS), who aspires to be Governor while dancing at the eyewall's edge. In Ohio, even lobbyists are gagging on the pervasive sleaze of pay-to-play government and Blackwell mistakenly invests in Diebold shares. Voters have become fed up with corruption in government and their renewed fondness for ethical politics that has been missing for so long may shine too bright a light to allow Blackwell the confidence of their votes.

The takeaway message: Ohio's election results are hosted on the same servers by the partisan companies that run websites like eorgewbush.com and many of the familiar Republican group sites. The people who consoldiate GOP operations in Chattanooga early this decade have been responsible for Ohio's election night results since 2004 and will probably continue to do so if J. Kenneth Blackwell extends his pay-for-play policies as Governor of Ohio. Read More

Blackwell's CommonSense groups behind Push Polls in TN and other states

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 12:27 PM PST

2006/10/31 · 12:27

by luaptifer, bronxdem and Intranets
cross-posted to ePluribus Media

Recent reports suggest that organizations operating in battleground states under the "Common Sense" banner are behind push-polls playing out with increasing frequency as Americans approach midterm election decisions coming in November. (Such "polls," of course, push an agenda through the wording and the questions asked.)

Yesterday's Nashville Post peeled back one layer of "Common Sense Tennessee" to find "CommonSenseOhio.com" under leadership of Procter & Gamble executive Nathan Estruth.

That connection triggered our digging a little more deeply to answer these questions:

Does Common Sense have anything to do with Community Values? What links Kenneth Blackwell to the Republican Party of Texas? And how is any of this related to pornography and Procter & Gamble?

Curious also? Look at what we found below the fold.
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Sealed with a Kiss: Lieberman's "Roving" Independence

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Wednesday August 09, 2006 · 10:33 PM PDT

2006/08/09 · 22:33

by GreyHawk, luaptifer, Intranets, and wanderindiana

Cross posted at ePluribus Media

Ah, love is in the air.

While springtime is normally the time for lovers, the approach of the 2006 November elections amid the current political turmoil in the world has already made for some strange bedfellows. Politicians primp and preen, cutting deals and kissing babies -- and sometimes each other -- as they form new alliances and adopt new (old) strategies for staying afloat on the ever-changing seas of Fortune.

Now, perhaps, is a good time to pause for a moment and examine in detail one of the most ubiquitous symbols found throughout our culture -- the kiss -- particularly with regard to the various meanings it often conveys to the public in both physical and written expression. When taken in context of modern day politics, like the recently-failed primary bid of Joe Lieberman, such an examination can result in very enlightening -- and potentially sinister -- associations. Read More

D-Dubya-I

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Saturday May 13, 2006 · 7:25 AM PDT

2006/05/13 · 07:25

cross-posted from ePluribus Media Community

Future Headline: American People Convicted of Negligent Genocide. International Driver-license Revoked.

I have some failing hope that we'll turn the Titanic at the last second but my dark-moment fears are resurgent.

We Americans fell for the greatest conjob of modern history just three years ago. I felt that had to be the 2x4-magnitude blow to the head that can wake the comatose.

I should have known better.

We should know better (but jump anyhow) Read More

Jack Abramoff contributed no campaign money to Democrats

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Friday February 17, 2006 · 7:24 AM PST

2006/02/17 · 07:24

[editor's note, by luaptifer] Cross-posted at ePluribusMedia Community and BooMan Tribune

For the Record: Jack Abramoff contributed no campaign money to Democrats

To clarify discussion of Jack Abramoff's campaign contributions, our report wants to answer the still-debated but simple question,
'did Jack Abramoff act as a partisan with his own personal campaign contributions or did he make payments in a bipartisan way?

Get your answer here.

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