Three Cheers for the VA

Have you ever noticed how stories about federal agencies that are successful always seem to appear during the slowest news periods of the year, like the last couple weeks of summer or that dead zone between Christmas and New Year's? Today's example: The piece on the front page of today's Post about how the Veterans Affairs has set up a model health care organization. Of course, the story's not exactly news. We were reporting about VA's successful transformation way back in the last millennium.