A blowup of a famous JFK assassination photograph reveals a shooter on the Grassy Knoll.

"One by one, local governments have filed lawsuits that try to hold firearms manufacturers responsible for gun violence on city streets. And, one by one, the lawsuits have either been dismissed by courts or dropped. Until last week. In what gun control advocates quickly hailed as a landmark decision, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that a lawsuit filed by the city of Gary can proceed toward trial. That leaves Gary as the last plaintiff standing among more than 30 cities and states that have sued the gun industry over the past decade -- and at the epicenter of a contentious debate. Gary, a city of 96,000 with one of the nation's highest homicide rates, filed its lawsuit in 1999. It argues that gun manufacturers -- including Smith & Wesson, Beretta and Colt -- and several gun dealers are liable for gun violence because they readily supply handguns they know will reach criminals, juveniles and others forbidden from buying them, and cast a 'willful blindness' toward a lucrative illegal trade."

The skeletal remains of Chandra Ann Levy were found scattered on a steep, forested slope in Rock Creek Park yesterday, more than a year after her disappearance touched off an investigation that captivated the nation and ended the career of Rep. Gary A. Condit of California. Note: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000670. Maybe bio might help some of you remember this famous missing person story.

The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, a group seeking to sow fundamentalism as far as they can strew it around the public, has started a petition drive to influence the selection of vice presidential candidates, calling for the presidential candidates "to select a true Christian as a running mate." The group even provides its own definitions of "true Christian," just in case the presidential candidates don't get the gist of their demands: must be born-again, anti-abortion and anti-gay. That's what "true" Christians are, right?

John Mack, Morgan Stan­ley’s chief executive, is to invite senior staff to a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton on Monday, in a pointed endorse­ment of the Democratic presidential hopeful from an important backer of President George W. Bush in 2004.Mrs Clinton, a New York senator, is scheduled to appear at the fundraiser on the 41st floor of Morgan Stanley’s headquarters in Times Square.The minimum donation for the event is $1,000 (€726, £492) per person but Mr Mack urged those attending to give $4,600, the max...

In a sharply worded letter, former Senator Gary Hart demands that Giuliani respond to questions about how he prepared New York City for attacks that Gary Hart's commission predicted on January 31, 2001. "What did you do during those critical eight months? Where were you? Were you on the defensive, or were you even paying attention?" Hart concludes, "P.S. You might ask these same questions of George W. Bush while you are trying to find a better reason to run for president."

Another repug official getting caught for scamming the public: "In the video, the Brea Republican is seen appealing to the council to purchase his 165-acre hillside plot during the Feb. 29, 2000, meeting. Miller later avoided paying capital gains on the $10million profit he made on the land sale by claiming the city forced the sale."

Gary Hart, in his book The Courage of our Convictions, A Manifesto for Democrats, takes us back through history to rediscover the roots of the Democratic Party’s core convictions and beliefs