By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years

Second Amendment supporters beware: Cathy Lanier is talking tough — Annie Oakley tough.
AMTRAK: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
Fittingly, the American passenger train was born on the Fourth of July. On that date in 1828, one of our Founding Fathers laid the granite cornerstone of the first chartered railroad in the United States, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

The head of the National Park Service said Tuesday that parks should take down any signs blaming service cuts on the budget sequesters, saying he thought that was inappropriate.

For more than 200 years, the United States Merchant Marine has been a key element in our overall national security equation. It has supported our nation's military operations and conflicts throughout the world.
When a man goes courting, it generally doesn't involve shouting and flailing around in ice skates on rotten floorboards in the middle of summer. Yet the 1944 wooing of southern belle Sally Talley by an unlikely suitor includes all that and much more.
After an autumn in which Sarah Paulson went through some pretty harrowing stuff, the idea of doing a play this winter in New York didn't initially seem like much of a reward.

“Sequestration,” which sounds like an impolite stomach ailment that almost nobody can spell and few understand, now gets really interesting. With the sequestration deadline having passed, the White House is under siege by reality.

Washington's aggressive trade last winter to move up in the draft to select Robert Griffin III continues to pay off, and this is the latest reward. With that critical puzzle piece in place, the Redskins can spend this week addressing other needs.

A recent Bloomberg Government study reveals that Democratic congressional districts will be harder hit than Republican districts with the March 1 sequester. It stands to reason that conscientious Democrats might be leaping for compromise. Or maybe not.

Beyonce is coming back to New Orleans and back to the Superdome. After entertaining a huge television audience in a packed dome during the Super Bowl halftime show, Beyonce is now scheduled to perform at the Essence Festival.
Beyonce is coming back to New Orleans and back to the Superdome.
Beyonce is coming back to New Orleans and back to the Superdome.
The Essence Music Festival is dropping the music _ from its name, that is.

Residents of Dupont Circle, Kalorama and Adams Morgan relish living in some of Northwest Washington's liveliest neighborhoods. While those neighborhoods offer plenty of shops, restaurants and night life within walking distance, residents sometimes can have difficulty finding a home with the space, privacy and contemporary style they desire.