Posts Tagged ‘Mark Steyn’
February 12th, 2009 | Comments Off
You can tell that Edward Keenan is a leftist because he lists Noam Chomsky as a “great thinker”, but he nevertheless agrees with Mark Steyn that the right of free speech is essential for democracy. [T]he point of Steyn’s testimony to the hearing — echoing the sentiments of great thinkers throughout history including Voltaire, George [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Human Rights Commissions, Mark Steyn, Ontario, Tyranny
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February 11th, 2009 | Comments Off
In his testimony to the Ontario parliament on Monday afternoon, Mark Steyn accused the province’s Human Rights Tribunal of ignoring honour killings. When Toronto Sun columnist Christina Blizzard asked Barbara Hall, Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), to comment about that, she received a troubling response. It was her response to Steyn’s [...]
Tags: Barbara Hall, Civil liberties, Cowardice, Human Rights Commissions, Mark Steyn, Ontario, Tyranny
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December 3rd, 2008 | 2 Comments
Journalism Doctor John Miller has responded to Mark Steyn’s latest challenge with a conciliatory gesture—sort of. He acknowledges Mr Steyn’s verification of a contentious quotation from Ayatollah Khomeini, but maintains that Steyn presents his views in a way that is unfair to Muslims. Strangely, Miller even claims that there are essential differences between two independent [...]
Tags: Ayatollah Khomeini, John Miller, Mark Steyn
Posted in Canada, Media and Journalism | 2 Comments »
November 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment
In his latest blog post, “The Journalism Doctor” John Miller meditates on the preamble to The Canadian Multicultural Act of 1985, arguing that current objections to state censorship in Canada arise from ignorance of what multiculturalism entails. Along the way, he slips in yet another drive-by smear of his nemesis Mark Steyn. My fact-check analysis [...]
Tags: Blogging, John Miller, Mark Steyn, Media bias
Posted in Media and Journalism | 1 Comment »
Professor John Miller has an air-tight defence against the copy of Ayatollah Khomeini’s “Blue Book” that Mark Steyn promised to send him. Whatever it says, he won’t believe it. The Blue Book “is a collection of quotes purportedly from him, but without any documentation”. […] [N]o one has verified that the Ayatollah ever said: “A [...]
Tags: Ayatollah Khomeini, John Miller, Mark Steyn, Media bias, Oriana Fallaci
Posted in Media and Journalism | 11 Comments »
November 12th, 2008 | 3 Comments
Ryerson University journalism professor John Miller has crossed a line, and Mark Steyn has had enough. At a recent Halifax Free Speech debate, Prof Miller said that he was unable to locate the source of a quotation from Ayatollah Khomeini that Mr Steyn had cited in a column. The only place Miller mentioned searching for [...]
Tags: John Miller, Mark Steyn, Media bias
Posted in Canada, Media and Journalism | 3 Comments »