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(CNN)The city of Waukesha, Wisconsin, will hold a moment of silence and light the city up in blue on Sunday, marking one week since a car drove through a city Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring scores of others.The moment of silence will take place at 4:39 p.m. local time, officials said on the city's website, asking people to attend virtually on the Waukesha Facebook page. Residents are also encouraged to light a blue light outside their homes at that time, officials said, to be left up throughout the holidays. A limited supply of blue light bulbs are available...

The highly encrypted email service reportedly used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden has gone offline - and its administrator claims the company is legally barred from explaining why. On Thursday, the homepage of Lavabit.com was changed to a letter from the company’s owner announcing that the site’s operations have ceased following a six-week long ordeal that has prompted the company to take legal action in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Now in the midst of an escalating fight from the federal government aimed at cracking down on encrypted communications, one of the last free and secure services has thrown...

This is the best message that I have ever heard on the sanctity of life. Please pass this around so this messge will be heard as much as possible.

Karl Rove? Please. I couldn't care less. This week finds me thousands of miles from the Beltway in what I believe the ABC World News Tonight map designates as the Rest Of The Planet, an obscure beat the media can't seem to spare a correspondent for. But even if I was with the rest of the navel-gazers inside the Beltway I wouldn't be interested in who ''leaked'' the name of CIA employee Valerie Plame to the press. As her weirdly self-obsesssed husband Joseph C. Wilson IV conceded on CNN the other day, she wasn't a ''clandestine officer'' and, indeed, hadn't...

Only my third vanity ever. Help me understand this: Driving to work this morning, I was subjected to a Kerry Ad on WBZ every five minutes, the the extant that I gave up and shut off the radio. WHY is a Massachusetts "Favorite Son" candidate spending all this money on his OWN STATE??? WBZ is owned by the Boston Globe, which is owned by the NYT. They are running the ads free. The ads are of the Attack Variety, e.g flu shots,etc. Are they saying Kerry is a lost cause, but are merely attempting as much damage to W's second...

GOP Research Shows Republicans Are Vulnerable on Social Security IssuesBy David Espo The Associated PressPublished: Apr 24, 2002 WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are vulnerable to Democratic campaign attacks on Social Security, particularly the charge they favor privatizing the program, according to GOP research that concludes candidates can only hope to "limit erosion" on the issue. Republicans also have "no effective direct rebuttal" to the expected Democratic charge that they want to spend Social Security trust funds on other programs, the research concludes. Facing certain attacks over President Bush's call for changes in the program, GOP candidates were advised to focus...