PostPartisan: January 25, 2009 - January 31, 2009

In Defense of Snow Wimps

Et tu, Mr. President? Are you joining the ranks of those newish Washingtonians who don’t bother to distinguish between the occasions when our region’s hysterical reaction to winter weather is justified and the occasions when it’s not? To be...

By Eugene Robinson  | January 28, 2009; 5:52 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (89)
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Obama and the Wimps

An incredulous Barack Obama, experiencing the hysteria that overtakes the Washington metropolitan area whenever a flake of snow or even the prospect of it is forecast, joked about his daughters’ school, Sidwell Friends, being closed due to the thin...

By Marie Cocco  | January 28, 2009; 12:50 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (66)
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In Re: The Matter of Rod Blagojevich (Continued)

Justice Marcus misses the point. (Not so widely as when she tried to justify the unjustifiable by approving the disgraceful commercial exploitation of the Obama daughters by a dollmaking firm. But I digress.) I stipulate that in my opinion,...

By Eugene Robinson  | January 27, 2009; 1:54 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (25)
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In Re: The Matter of Rod Blagojevich (Dissenting)

In re: The Matter of Rod Blagojevich, with all due deference to my esteemed colleague, Justice Eugene Robinson, I respectfully dissent. I concur in Justice Robinson’s finding that the evidence would support a conviction of Gov. Blagojevich for engaging...

By Ruth Marcus  | January 27, 2009; 10:06 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (22)
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