[Carry_Okie]

Mark Steyn should be recorded as one of the most prolific, thoughtful, and evocative writers of our time.

Michael Mann should go down.

[Pontiac]

When his candidate Mark Herring also prevailed over the GOP in the attorney general's race, Mann crowed and published tweets from his acolytes congratulating him on "two fresh notches on your hockey stick." That would seem, definitively, to move the hockey stick into the realm of political speech explicitly protected by the First Amendment

It seems to me that when Mann started advocating political solutions to global warming that he inserted himself in to politics and left private life behind. He should have only very limited protection from any slander just as any public figure does.

[ConstantSkeptic]

You might want to include the latest update on this case. There was a decision this past Wednesday, Jan 22. Per the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/01/23/mann-v-steyn-mann-wins-round-two/):

“On Wednesday, Judge Frederick Weisberg handed climate scientist Michael Mann a potentially significant victory in his defamation suit against Mark Steyn, National Review, Rand Simberg, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. In a relatively brief order, Judge Weisberg denied the defendants’ motions to dismiss and lifted the stay on discovery in the suit.”

Read more at the link.

[Slings and Arrows]

Steyn ping.

[bert]

——we are now entering the second year of the anti-SLAPP phase of our case-——

The purpose of law in America is not to protect the innocent from claims of guilt. The purpose of the law is to enrich lawyers.

Those that accuse and those that defend are all guilty of unjust enrichment

[Travis McGee]

This highlights what RINO GOPe cowards are running the NR today, that they lost Steyn over free speech.

[Gritty]

Mark Steyn is indeed on a lonely outpost defending the 1st Amendment and America. It's a shame so few native born Americans seem willing to do the same nowadays.

No doubt that has a lot to do with the massive number of Liberal lawyers and Liberal judges infesting this once fair land. They are eating out our substance as well as our freedom and liberty and making a nice living doing so.

[NonValueAdded]

At any rate, it seems to me that a fear of offending judges is unbecoming in a free people. So screw that.

Ah, Mark, we love your eloquence!!! I sit in awe.