WHEN a story is not in the mainstream press, you can bet the house that it tells against a fragile consensus, and it will be reported only if it changes to supporting that consensus. Such a trial was the long-postponed legal brawl between plaintiff Professor Michael Mann and two non-academic defendants, Mark Steyn and Rand […]
TO THE dismay of climate sceptics the world over, the long-awaited defamation lawsuit between climate scientist Michael Mann and conservative writer Mark Steyn ended last week with the jury in Washington DC finding against Steyn and co-defendant Rand Simberg and awarding more than $1million to Mann. It was a case that had enormous ramifications. As Chris Morrison […]
Damn. I mean, you could almost have called it, even though praying for a miraculous bolt of common sense and decency to strike at the heart of the D.C. courtroom where the execrable Dr. Michael Mann was claiming Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg’s articles from decades ago had defamed him. Steyn himself seemed to acknowledge […]
So, I have to thank our son, Ebola, for this story. Tied up with military stuff in foreign climes, he hadn’t heard about The Trial of the Century: Mann v Steyn. Nor, that after twelve long years of putzing around by notorious former Penn State (now U of PA) climatologist Dr. Michael Mann, the lawsuit […]
The Prisoner of Windsor by Mark Steyn; Stockade Books (April 2023) LAUGHTER is the balm of life, and if you are in need some of that balm I cannot direct you to a funnier book – one that makes you laugh out loud – than Mark Steyn’s novel, The Prisoner of Windsor, which he describes as a sequel to The […]
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