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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: Steyn
Mark Steyn on the trouble he has with facts: Incidentally, I stopped writing for the [New York] Times a few years ago because their fanatical "fact-checking" copy-editors edited my copy into unreadable sludge. I think it's some sort of chemical...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:47 PM • 173 Comments •
Category: Steyn
Johann Hari reports on the National Review cruise: The idea that Europe is being "taken over" is the unifying theme of this cruise. Some people go on singles' cruises, some on ballroom-dancing cruises. This is the Muslims Are Coming cruise....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:51 AM • 62 Comments •
Category: Steyn
John Holbo finds this piece of stupidity from Mark Steyn: Ann Coulter's new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a rollicking read very tightly reasoned and hard to argue with. After all, the progressive mind regards it as backward...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:28 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Steyn
Quoting myself: One of the less pleasant parts of my job is talking to students that I have caught plagiarizing assignments. All too often, rather than admit to copying they will tell me clumsy lies and blame somebody else. Like...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:33 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Steyn
Mark Steyn gets this email : ARE YOU A CREATIONIST? I enjoy your various articles in the Speccie, torygraph etc and agree with most of what you say and your support for Right views. But I am concerned with your...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:09 PM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Steyn
After falling for an obvious hoax, Mark Steyn has refused to correct his error. Instead he just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper into a hole. (My previous posts on this topic: 1 2 3). In his latest effort Steyn...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:11 AM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Steyn
Some of the readers of this Mark Steyn column might have wondered why he seems oddly determined to dispute one date in the 9/11 Commission's time line: they seemed oddly determined to fix June 3, 2000, as the official date...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:20 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Steyn
Last week the gullible Mark Steyn was busted by Media Watch for basing a column on Johnelle Bryant's crazy story about being visited by Mohammed Atta in early May 2000. She said that Atta threatened to cut her throat and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:46 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Steyn
Mark Steyn relates a story told by Johnelle Bryant: Bryant is an official with the US Department of Agriculture in Florida, and the late Atta had gone to see her about getting a $US650,000 government loan to convert a plane...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:43 PM • 62 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
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