Buoyed by a wave of small-government enthusiasm after a march on Washington earlier this year, the region’s tea party movement is sweeping up new acolytes even as controversy swirls around a group deeper South, area organizers said.

Never have so many, having been given so much, done so little to stop the plundering of their nation. Our financial system and investments are being destroyed. Washington incompetence is also subversive, rewarding financial fraud and punishing the productive private sector. The government can’t manage Social Security but now will run the auto industry, energy and health care. The U.S. Constitution is violated every day by unauthorized nationalization, power grabbing, manipulation and control.

WASHINGTON — Dan Uggla has no explanation for his sudden power surge.
Uggla’s second home run on Sunday was a go-ahead drive in the eighth inning that lifted the Florida Marlins to their seventh straight win, 5-4 over the Washington Nationals.

WASHINGTON — The Atlanta Braves simply cannot win a one-run game.
Felipe Lopez’s bases-loaded hit to left with no outs in the 12th lifted the Washington Nationals to a 3-2 victory over the Braves on Wednesday, dropping Atlanta to 0-9 in games decided by the slimmest possible margin.

Horns blaring, a caravan of truck drivers arrived in Washington on Monday to protest high gasoline prices.
The group, Truckers and Citizens United, circled the National Mall before traveling to RFK Stadium to park. From there, they were to march and take shuttles to the Capitol, where an afternoon rally was scheduled. Organizers say about 350 vehicles were expected.