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- Letters to the editor
Heartfelt thanks to outgoing Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson for his most valued comments regarding the ease with which terrorists might attack us through our food supply. They might not, indeed, have realized how easy it would be.
- Notable & quotable
- DAVID S. BRODER THE WASHINGTON POST
Accomplishments in a full public life
PORTLAND, Ore. 'Feisty" is the word I have used in two previous columns about Vera Katz – the first in 1985 when she had just become the second woman in American history elected as speaker of a state House of Representatives, and the second in 1998, when I wrote about her ambitious plans as mayor of Portland to remake her city's downtown and waterfront.
- GEORGE F. WILL THE WASHINGTON POST
America's greatest Christmas story
Let's get this straight: The greatest Christmas in American history was not the result of the Germans being drunk or hung over. Gen. George Washington lost most of his battles – it has been said the Revolutionary War was won by brilliant retreating – so let's not diminish any of his victories, and certainly not the one without which American independence probably would have been extinguished like a candle in a gale.
- Q&A: Ronald M. George chief justice, California Supreme Court
George was first appointed to the court in 1991 and was named chief justice in 1996. The court is based in San Francisco and regularly meets in Sacramento and Los Angeles.
- Keep Rumsfeld, for now
Among George W. Bush's best presidential qualities is his steadfast refusal to be stampeded. Thus, Bush is loyally standing by beleaguered Don Rumsfeld while a Washington lynch mob is demanding that the defense secretary be sacked for what has gone wrong in Iraq.
- A boomlet of hope for Israeli-Palestinian peace
Two elderly men brought hope to the violence-torn Middle East this year – one by dying and the other by being reborn as a political moderate.
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