In October 1992, several dozen people gathered at the base of a statue outside the Labor Department building at 3rd and D Streets NW. Together they unfurled large white sheets, and with some effort, draped them over the tall statue. The costume was not part of a Halloween prank. The uninvited decorators were followers of fringe political figure Lyndon LaRouche, the sheets were stitched together to appear as Ku Klux Klan robes, and the statue…

No, this weekend’s Ku Klux Klan rally in Sharpsburg didn’t get this big of a turnout as this historical photo of a Nebraska KKK gathering suggests. In fact, only nine members of the KKK showed up on Saturday, the AP, via WTOP, reports. Why Sharpsburg? A Klan leader said they came because of a local uproar over the Klan’s use of a Sharpsburg post office box for their mail. “If you’re going to run your…