Michael Mann Sues NRO, Mark Steyn, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Rand Simberg | Popehat

To have any chance of prevailing, Mann will have to establish that statements accusing him of scientific dishonesty must, even in the context of political opinion blogs, properly be interpreted as specific statements of fact, not statements of opinion. That's a tough burden. Courts focus on the context in evaluating whether statements should be interpreted as fact or opinion, and increasingly interpret internet rhetoric as opinion rather than fact.

Will Penn State Ever Learn? « the Air Vent

To me, there is a sad irony in watching what is in my opinion one of the most undeservedly arrogant and disingenuous public figureheads file a lawsuit, wholly supported in his own gamesmanship by a broken and corrupted university, against others for a comparison to another man who was protected by the same university’s defunct managerial culture.

Empty seats for Gore in Gibraltar

[Monckton] A slide introducing the series of lurid TV clips of droughts, floods, fires, pestilences, boils, toads, frogs, lice, locusts (Psalms of David passim) that made up the bulk of Gore’s presentation said there was a link between the “climate crisis” and extreme weather [no, there isn't, and just about all the events Gore bloviated about were in the past two years and had known natural causes, and there has been no global warming for close to 16 years. Warming predicted for tomorrow but not evident today cannot have caused yesterday's floods and droughts].