Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

Kentucky Senator, Tea Partier, and D.C. budget autonomy denier Rand Paul can now add “accused serial plagiarist” to his resume. The Washington Times announced yesterday that they’ll be ending Paul’s long-running column after multiple plagiarism accusations.

According to Buzzfeed, Paul’s termination from The Times came after parts of an op-ed he wrote on mandatory minimum sentencing was apparently “nearly identical” to an article by Dan Stewart of The Week. Of course, this isn’t the first time Paul has been accused of plagiarism. Buzzfeed also reported that parts of Paul’s 2012 book, Government Bullies, had plagiarized sections from a Forbes article.

Paul took responsibility for the plagiarism accusations, but skirted the blame a bit by saying “The standard I’m being held to is a little different than everybody else,” on CNN’s The Situation Room. “They’re now going back and reading every book from cover to cover and looking for places where we footnoted correctly and don’t have quotation marks in the right places or we didn’t indent correctly.”

The Times reports that they “mutually agreed” with Paul to end his weekly column, which had appeared in the paper every Friday since the beginning of last summer. Times editor John Solomon said “we expect our columnists to submit original work and to properly attribute material, and we appreciate that the senator and his staff have taken responsibility for an oversight in one column.”

In a statement to The Times and other outlets, Paul’s advisor, Doug Stafford, said that while his ideas were original, he “relied on staff to provide supporting facts and anecdotes—some of which were clearly not sourced or vetted.”

The particular passage in question was this: “By design, mandatory sentencing laws take discretion away from prosecutors and judges so as to impose harsh sentences, regardless of circumstances.” Which appeared, verbatim, here.