Events

Washington today is getting its biggest snowstorm in three years: A major snow storm pounded the Washington region overnight and this morning, dumping 20 inches of heavy wet snow in some locations and 8 or 9 inches elsewhere, causing power outages for nearly 200,000 consumers and disrupting travel by road, air and Metrorail. And in a later story: The snow swept in lazily yesterday afternoon and was expected to depart by midday today, giving residents ample time to dig out before the start of the...

From the Michigan Avenue Bridge.

Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn makes some good points about the Jyllands-Posten cartoons in his blog today: [S]ome of the drawings make a point in exactly the same way that any good editorial cartoon makes a point, and they have a grown-up, even sophisticated purpose: To challenge those who use intimidation to block free expression and those who find in their religious texts justification for mass murder. Specifically, Jyllands-Posten commissioned the cartoons to make a defiant statement after...

Charles Darwin was born 197 years ago this Sunday. In his honor, I proudly link to Garry Trudeau getting it just right.

First, House Majority Leader John Boehner is renting an apartment from a D.C. lobbyist: Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who was elected House majority leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has co-written and that he has overseen as chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee. The relationship between Boehner, John D. Milne and Milne's wife, Debra R. Anderson, underscores how intertwined senior...

George Deutsch, the suit puppy who wanted to tell NASA scientists about science, has resigned: George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said. Mr. Deutsch's resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his...