WALMART scraps D.C. store plans. As they should. If I owned WalMart, I'd simply walk away, but it would be 'just desserts' for WalMart to build its stores just 1 foot outside the District line in Maryland, and just across the Potomac in Virginia.

And hire only [D.C.] nonresidents.

I recall an old story of an irate voter sending his Congresscritter a telegram: "Go to Hell. Strong letter follows." That's a tradition that needs to be reinvented.