Washington Times

washingtontimes.com — Trust us on this one. Do not try this at home. Walls are tougher than you are, and metal lockers are as well. Punch one and you will pay the price. It's common sense, which as we've learned all too well isn't that common.

washingtontimes.com — SAN FRANCISCO - Danny Espinosa burst through the doors of the visitors' clubhouse at AT&T Park on Monday afternoon with his bat in hand and his shirt drenched in sweat. The lineup card posted just across from his locker told the world what the second baseman already knew: he wasn't playing.

washingtontimes.com — The District's Office of Tax and Revenue failed to collect $6.5 million over a five-year period because it did not charge penalty fees to businesses that owed money - a punitive system now under review because officials said it was too ambiguous to enforce.

washingtontimes.com — Country music singer-songwriter Toby Keith says he grew up in the area near Oklahoma City that was hit by a devastating tornado.

washingtontimes.com — Every few years, at least from the time of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, there is a scandal involving abuse of power at the Internal Revenue Service. We are again in the midst of one of these periodic abuse scandals, with many solemn promises that the problems will be corrected and will not happen again.

washingtontimes.com — A Texas group dedicated to combatting voter fraud applied for tax-exempt status in 2010 and has suffered three years of delays, been through four different IRS agents, undergone six FBI inquiries and submitted thousands of pages of documentation - and its still hasn't been approved.

washingtontimes.com — Delicious irony, perhaps: the tea party has been reinvigorated and reinvented following revelations that its groups' nonprofit status had been singled out and investigated by the IRS. Though a critical news media has tried to purge the conservative, liberty-minded grass-roots movement from the public radar, the tea partyers still push back in huge numbers, and on their own terms. Rush Limbaugh now deems the tea party "fearless."

washingtontimes.com — More military men than women are sexually abused in the ranks each year, a Pentagon survey shows, highlighting the underreporting of male-on-male assaults. When the Defense Department released the results of its anonymous sexual abuse survey this month and concluded that 26,000 service members were victims in fiscal 2012, which ended Sept.

washingtontimes.com — What he wrote Sunday on Twitter to thank fans for their unsolicited purchases from his wedding registry was a nice gesture. We like our heroes humble, and D.C. has no greater icon these days than RG3. To know he cherishes the jerky maker and the corn peeler and the napkins is reassuring.

washingtontimes.com — The Redskins' star quarterback spent part of Sunday on Twitter defending himself after he tweeted a picture of himself lying on pile of empty boxes along with a thank-you message to fans for purchasing his fiancee, Rebecca Liddicoat, and him items on their registry at Bed, Bath & Beyond.

washingtontimes.com — Right-hander Ryan Mattheus broke a bone near the fourth knuckle in his pitching hand on Sunday afternoon when he returned to the clubhouse following a five-run inning and slammed his hand, holding his glove, into his locker. The Nationals called up left-hander Fernando Abad and right-hander Yunesky Maya as reinforcements and optioned Eury Perez to Triple-A Syracuse.

washingtontimes.com — Ross Detwiler stood by the railing of the Nationals' dugout at AT&T Park on Monday and smiled as he chatted with coaches and teammates. Normally, it would've been his day to pitch, but a slight right oblique strain forced him to miss this start.

washingtontimes.com — SAN FRANCISCO - After getting what Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson called "kind of an alarming report" on Jayson Werth following another MRI on his strained right hamstring, it appears the right fielder's return will be delayed even further than the start of the team's upcoming homestand.

washingtontimes.com — The not-so-subtle implication racing through the Internet of a concussion conspiracy by the Nationals makes as much sense as, well, running into walls. What could they possibly gain by pretending Harper didn't have a concussion or engaging in a game of semantics to avoid using the word?