Day: October 14, 2024

JD Vance Pounces as Kamala Harris Gets Hit with Serious Plagiarism Allegations

On By Geri UngureanIn Uncategorized4 Comments

IT’S OFFICIAL: Comrade Kamala is a bona fide, Plagiarizing Train Wreck! And she is in good Company with Lyin’ Biden!

From westernjournal.com

Vice President Kamala Harris plagiarized parts of her  2009 book “Smart on Crime,” according to a conservative activist.

“Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation. The current vice president even lifted material from Wikipedia. We have the receipts,” Christopher Rufo posted on X.

Rufo posted five examples as well.

According to Rufo, the alleged plagiarism is “comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis.”

That led Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio to fire off a post on X.

“Hi, I’m JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia,” he wrote.

Harris wrote the book “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer,” while preparing to run for attorney general of California, Rufo wrote on his website.

The book is co-authored by writer Joan O’C Hamilton.

Rufo said that Stefan Weber, “a famed Austrian ‘plagiarism hunter’ who has taken down politicians in the German-speaking world,” found that “Harris’s book contains more than a dozen ‘vicious plagiarism fragments.’”

“Some of the passages he highlighted appear to contain minor transgressions—reproducing small sections of text; insufficient paraphrasing—but others seem to reflect more serious infractions, similar in severity to those found in Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis,” Rufo wrote.

The sources Rufo cites as plagiarized include an Associated Press news report, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release, a Wikipedia article, a Bureau of Justice Assistance report and an Urban Institute report from 2004.

“Harris stole long passages directly from Wikipedia—long considered an unreliable source. She not only assumes the online encyclopedia’s accuracy, but copies its language nearly verbatim, without citing the source,” Rufo wrote.

Rufo said that in the process, “Harris seems to have missed critical information and misstated a relevant detail,” adding that “Her reliance on Wikipedia, an unreliable source, led to an unreliable conclusion.”

In sum, Rufo wrote, “ there is certainly a breach of standards here.”

“Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism,” he wrote.

Seeking to head off one excuse, Rufo wrote, “ Harris, like many other public figures, may have relied entirely on a ghostwriter to draft her book. But that is not exculpatory: Harris, at the end of the day, put her name on the cover.”

“On that point, one might recall the title of her book: ‘Smart on Crime’ There is nothing smart about plagiarism, which is the equivalent of an academic crime. The publisher, as well as the sitting vice president, should retract the plagiarized passages and issue a correction. There should be a single standard—and Kamala Harris is falling short.” Rufo wrote.

In 1987, plagiarism was such a big deal that President Joe Bidenabandoned his presidential hopes for the 1988 race over such a scandal.

According to The New York Times, Biden admitted to plagiarizing a law review article during his first year of law school.

Before quitting the race, Biden also took phrases wholesale from a British politician during a debate, according to The Washington Post.

Christopher Columbus Was Likely Jewish and Spanish, Researchers Claim

On By Geri UngureanIn Uncategorized5 Comments

JEWISH AND SPANISH =SEPHARDIC JEW

From breitbart.com

(From me – not Breitbart)

In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue

And now we find he was a Jew

Does not surprise me

How about you?

A chromolithograph by Louis Prang and Company of Columbus Landing on San Salvador.

Spanish researchers have claimed that DNA and other analyses indicate that Christopher Columbus likely came from a Jewish family in Spain.

The 15th-century man credited with the discovery of the Americas has been traditionally recognised as an Italian who hailed from the Republic of Genoa and who sailed under a Spanish flag, however, an investigation spanning over the past two decades led by University of Granada Professor Miguel Lorente Acosta claims to have undercut the origin story of the ‘Admiral of the Ocean Sea’.

The Spanish team asserted that analysis of the DNA from the bones of Christopher Columbus and his son, Hernando, buried in the Seville Cathedral, indicated that both men had “traits compatible with Jewish origins,” The Telegraph reports.

The DNA also showed a “western Mediterranean” origin, yet it was not conclusive as to which Mediterranean country the Columbus family came from.

Yet the findings, published in a primetime documentary in Spain on Saturday to coincide with the country’s national day, claimed that Columbus was almost certainly not originally from Italy.

In addition to the DNA evidence, Prof Lorente Acosta pointed to an analysis of around 40 letters signed by the explorer, which the researchers claimed showed no signs of influence by the Italian language. The team highlighted letters written to a bank in Genoa by Columbus which were still written in Castilian Spanish rather than Italian.

He argued, therefore, that Columbus probably hailed from either the Spanish Mediterranean or the Balearic Islands off the East Coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

“What do we have left? The Spanish Mediterranean arc, the Balearic Islands and Sicily. But Sicily would also be strange, because if so, Christopher Columbus would have written with some Italian or Sicilian features. So it is most likely that his origin is in the Spanish Mediterranean arc or in the Balearic Islands”, the forensic scientist said.

Spanish historian Francesc Albardaner, who has long argued that Columbus came from the Catalan region of eastern Spain, said that his research points to the explorer coming from a family of Jewish silk spinners from the Valencia region of Spain.

“Jews could only spend three days at a time in Genoa by law at that time,” Mr Albardaner noted. The historian said that around 200,000 Jewish people were living in Spain during the time of Columbus, while there were only around between 10,000 and 15,000 living in Italy.

Albardaner argued that Columbus likely chose to obscure his heritage and faith to avoid religious persecution against Jews common in Europe at the time, including during the Spanish Inquisition.

The era saw the forced conversion of Jews to Christianity and an order of expulsion of those who refused to convert in 1492, the same year Columbus set sail from Spain on the voyage that would result in his discovery of the New World, earlier discoveries by Viking Leif Erikson that failed to create a broader awareness of the presence of the Americas notwithstanding.

“Christopher Columbus had to pretend all his life that he was a Roman Catholic Christian. If he had made one mistake, this man would have ended up on the pyre,” Mr Albardaner said, potentially undercutting modern leftist narratives branding the explorer as a figure of colonial oppression.

There have long been suggestions that Columbus was Jewish. Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Pennsylvania State University Tobias Brinkmann has noted that traditionally Jewish given names, such as Abraham and Jacob, were common among members of his maternal line. Brinkmann also pointed to the familial profession of the Columbus family as evidence, with weaving being associated with Jews in Spain at the time.

Columbus is also said to have selected many Jews as well as those who were forced to convert to Christianity, known as “conversos”, to staff his crew as astrologers, navigators, and translators. Others have even speculated that the true purpose of his explorations may have been motivated by a desire to find a new land for Jewish people to settle in free from persecution. (emphasis added) 

Come Lord Jesus!!