I suspect that most of you have heard that Rand Paul got caught red handed plagiarizing Wikipedia.  Rachel Maddow took him to the woodshed over it and Rand responded by challenging her to a duel.  Or some damn thing.

I guess it never occurred to him to challenge her to fact finding mission.

If I were not a lady and Momma was not watching, I say, “You know that hair on his head?  Plagiarized from his butt.”

Well, it does not stop there.  Now that people are looking, it appears that he plagiarized damn near entire chapters in his book.

An entire section of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s 2013 book Government Bullies was copied wholesale from a 2003 case study by the Heritage Foundation, BuzzFeed has learned. The copied section, 1,318 words, is by far the most significant instance reported so far of Paul borrowing language from other published material.

Now either you’re a libertarian and believe in standing on your own two feet with help from no one or you’re not.  Plagiarism is simply a form of intellectual welfare.

And since his book made money, isn’t that taking from the rich to give to the richer?

Thanks to Rick and Craig for the heads up.