
DAVID IGNATIUS -- The holiday season is a good time to remember our faraway soldiers. The debate over Afghanistan has provoked strong feelings, but the country seems united in its appreciation for a military that has been suffering the stresses of war, without complain, for the last eight years...

From NPR: Washington Post Magazine humor columnist Gene Weingarten talks with Tell Me More guest host Jacki Lyden about his recent column "Tis' the Season to be Miserable," which explains why he loathes holiday parties, or any party for that matter...

RICHARD COHEN -- Behold the uninsured. Look at them in their fright. See their faces as they are denied coverage for pre-existing conditions or their look of despair because they cannot afford any insurance at all...

Comic Strip Tony Murphy
"'If someone doesn't criticize you, how do you know they love you?' asks Tony Murphy's anxiety-prone hero in this wry and funny analysis of MAS (Multiple Anxiety Syndrome). It's All About You is an urban comic fable that details the persistent ignorance of smart people." -- Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoo...nist
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-bo ok/its-all-about-you/7395647

DAVID S. BRODER -- President Obama deserves more help than he is getting from his fellow Democrats in Congress. But the reality is that the closer the midterm election comes, when they will be on the ballot and he will not, the more members of Congress will judge what is best for themselves...

JIM HOAGLAND -- Bankers: The ugliest Americans. For release Sunday, Dec. 20. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401628.html DAVID IGNATIUS -- Travels with Adm. Mullen in Afghanistan. For release Sunday, Dec. 20...

RUTH MARCUS -- There was a lovely, albeit fleeting, moment last spring when hospitals and doctors, drug companies and insurers came together at the White House pledging to do their part to get health care costs under control...

DAVID S. BRODER -- The president is sometimes criticized for the volume of his public appearances and, in truth, he is out there orating a lot. But it's a mistake to think of these talks as routine...

Freelance writer Jimi Izrael, editor and founder of the MuslimGuy.com Arsalan Iftikhar, syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette and Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The Washington Post, Eugene Robinson...





















