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KAMALA'S PLAGIARISM: I just graduated Theological Seminary with a Master's degree. This experience has been unlike most of the work involved in my M.S. Degree (in the 1980s & 90s) in Adult Education. There, I mostly studied the "masters "works and applied them. In the Seminary, I was tasked with two or three significant research papers per course.

In Seminary, we were tasked with studying a vast number of authors, research articles, Scriptures, etc., to populate the body of our papers, and we had to do it the right way!

I was both surprised and thankful at the "academic rigor" applied to the assignments. The profs emphasized that our writings were not to be "opinion" or "first-person", rather researched thoroughly. The placed great importance on citing the sources from which our information came.

If this is NOT the focus, the students' works would be OPINION. If not cited properly, the student could seem intelligent when they are really a thief.

Schools that place value in accepted norms of academic rigor produce responsible, honest graduates. It's hard doing the research! But not many easy things in life have lasting value.

Kamala's plagiarism is one more example of her value to America if she's selected to be the next empty suit that occupies our nations' presidency.

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Good points, Karen. Seems to me someone fact-checked Obama's book, but it did hot help.

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