Topic - 4th Of July

• American Scene

  A gunman walked into the Su Jung Health Sauna on Tuesday evening, argued with someone and then opened fire, killing two of his sisters and their husbands, then himself, authorities said Wednesday.

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  Return of the squares: Santorum, Lin, Tebow

  Three men seemingly out of pop culture time, they come to us clean-cut and edge-free, dripping with sincerity, owing more to Christopher Reeve's straight-arrow Man of Steel than to Christian Bale's brooding Dark Knight. Fashionable as George Will and as ironic as Ward Cleaver, they're the kind of characters former New York Yankees manager Billy Martin derided as "milkshake drinkers."

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  Resale of the week: Reston Colonial with hardwood on 2 levels

  While visitors to Reston may head straight to Reston Town Center to restaurants, shops, the movie theater, the ice-skating rink in winter or an outdoor concert in summer, residents know one of the joys of living in this planned community is walking on its paths to admire the woods or one of the lakes.

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  Resale of the week: Comfort, convenience, community all in one

  The neighborhood of West McLean is conveniently close to downtown Washington and Tysons Corner, but many residents love it even more because of the community activities.

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  Luxury home: A gem in Old Town

  One of the delights of Old Town Alexandria — beyond the enticing restaurants, the joys of the artwork in the Torpedo Factory and the eclectic mix of shops — is the history to be found on every street corner. Not only can fascinating stories be heard about Gadsby's Tavern and Christ Church, but plenty of tales can be told about the residents of some of Old Town's oldest homes.

• Andy Rooney, wry '60 Minutes' commentator, dies

  Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature "60 Minutes" commentaries about life's large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old.

• Andy Rooney, wry '60 Minutes' commentator, dies

  Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature "60 Minutes" commentaries about life's large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old.

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  '60 Minutes' essayist Andy Rooney dies at 92

  Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature "60 Minutes" commentaries about life's large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old.

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  SANDS: World Open coming to Arlington in 2013

  We are the world, or at least we will be for a couple of years. The Continental Chess Association, which organized the Continental Class Championships in Arlington featured in this column last week, announced it will be temporarily relocating its flagship World Open tournament to the area in 2013 and 2014 from its traditional home in Philadelphia.

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  Inside the Beltway

  Quick quiz: Who's behind "Women Working For Change"? Progressives and hippies? This upcoming political training conference was organized by Project GOPink.

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  EDITORIAL: Celebrate America on Columbus Day

  Over 100 years ago, Columbus Day was known as Discovery Day. President Benjamin Harrison's Discovery Day proclamation in October 1892 asked the people of the country to "cease from toil and devote themselves to such exercises as may best express honor to the discoverer, and their appreciation of the great achievements of the four completed centuries of American life." The holiday honored the spirit of the occasion more than the man who made it happen. The holiday did not glorify Christopher Columbus, but all he made possible and what generations of free Americans had made of it.

• At Cog Hill, players happy about event, not course

  In what likely will be the last time the BMW Championship is played at Cog Hill, some of the PGA Tour's top players are not sorry to see it leave the public course south of Chicago.

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  Leggett sees passage of Montgomery curfew

  Montgomery County Executive Isiah "Ike" Leggett said Tuesday he feels confident a bill to establish a controversial youth curfew has enough support to pass the nine-member County Council.

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  BARBER: 'Pride' vs. Patriotism

  To the modern Democratic National Committee, the mainstream media and other "progressive" outfits such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the words "patriot" and "patriotism" have become synonymous with "right-wing extremism."

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  Police to use social media to thwart flash mobs

  Law enforcement officials plan to use a combination of tried-and-true tactics such as curfews and newer techniques such as monitoring social media websites to fight the latest criminal phenomenon: flash mobs.

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