Why would a judge in Fairfax County, Virginia release a sex offender with a detainer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Perhaps residents in northern Virginia should demand an answer to that question — and soon. ICE first encountered Ander Cortez-Mendez in February 2018, when the Guatemalan crossed illegally into […]

Back in February, MSNBC’s parent company settled a lawsuit brought by a gynecologist who accused the network of defaming him after three of its anchors referred to him as the “uterus collector” on air. The suggestion being made was that he was some kind of lunatic performing surgery on migrant women without their consent […]

meta April is the cruellest month…. The opening words of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot are amongst the most memorable and memorized in all of literature. They are as immortally ingrained and indelibly marked upon the imagination of the culturally literate as other immortal and unforgettable opening lines. They are as well known as […]

A few days ago, there was a bit of a tempest in a teapot when our representative to the NATO military committee, a female US Navy admiral named Shoshana Chatfield, was ‘forced out,’ as the media decided to put it. Now, the pretty sympathetic coverage the story got was overshadowed […]

Confused about the meaning of the unanimous Supreme Court order issued late yesterday? I certainly wonder what an order to “facilitate” an action without “effectuating” it means. John Sexton seemed similarly nonplussed about it last night.  So it comes with some sense of relief to discover that the demand […]