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Palinistas furious over "surveyor's symbols"
The news was barely out today when social networks were erupting, blaming Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for inciting the 22-year-old alleged gunman who shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat from Arizona, and 16 others in a Grocery Store in Tucson, Ariz. Giffords was one of those 20 moderate Republicans and Democrats that were on Palin's now infamous "target list" that Palin compiled early last year. The graphic that went with the list features rifle scope-like cross hairs on certain legi...

BCS game holds moment of silence before start
The BCS championship held a pregame moment of silence for Victims of the weekend Assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson. The tribute came during ceremonies shortly before kickoff of the game between Oregon and Auburn on Monday night. Names of the six Victims were read and Giffords was acknowledged before the moment of silence, which preceded a choir singing "God Bless America." Giffords was shot in the head in an attack outside a Grocery Store that left six people dead and 14...

Obama Will Be in Arizona for Memorial
(NewsCore) - President Barack Obama will head to Arizona Wednesday for a memorial service being held in honor of the Victims of a shooting rampage that killed six and wounded more than a dozen Saturday, including US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Fox News Channel reported. Obama earlier Monday thanked Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for his department’s efforts in the aftermath of the shooting. The president also rang two heroes from the scene of the shooting, Patricia Maisch and Ro...

Redstate: Outspoken Sheriff Accused Of Dismissing Loughner Death Threats
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff's Office was informed, his deputies assured the Victims that he was being well managed by the Mental Health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Th...

Jared Loughner Will be Defended By the Woman Who Helped the Unabomber Avoid the Death Penalty
Media-shy Judy Clarke in 1998. Photo: RICH PEDRONCELLI/AFP/Getty Images Judy Clarke, a San Diego-based public defender, will represent Jared Lee Loughner, the twenty-two year old charged with shooting Gabrielle Giffords and seventeen other people, killing six. Even Fidel Castro has voiced disdain for Loughner, who authorities describe as "a troubled individual," but Clarke is no stranger to defending high-profile Public Enemies. Previously, she represented the Unabomber, Eric Robert Rudolph (t...

Loughner in court over attempted assassination
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 January 2011 03.04 GMT Jared Loughner has appeared in court where he was formally charged with two counts of Murder and three of Attempted Murder. Photograph: Mamta Popat/AP Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of shooting six people and wounding 14 others in Saturday's Assassination attempt against the Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, has appeared in court, charged with Murder and Attempted Murder. Loughner, 22, who arrived in leg chains and handcuffs and...

Paul Krugman's totalitarian temptation
Was President Obama encouraging Murder during his 2008 campaign when he said, "If they bring a knife ... we bring a gun"? Was he encouraging political violence when he said more recently of the new Republican House majority that "we are going to have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill"? Of course not. Similarly, former Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski was speaking allegorically in October when he said Florida Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Rick Scott should "be lined...

Obama Arizona Trip: President To Attend Shooting Memorial
WASHINGTON — Two senior administration officials say President Barack Obama will travel to Tucson, Ariz., on Wednesday to attend a memorial service for the Victims of last weekend's shooting rampage. Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition after being shot in the head Saturday. Six others died and more than a dozen were wounded outside a Supermarket where Giffords had set up a booth to hear the concerns of constituents. Obama observed a moment of silence for ...

Readers agree with me: Right wing off the hook in Arizona shootings
Since the summer of 2001, Drowning Pool’s thrashing metal anthem “Bodies” has been a ubiquitous Pop Culture presence. “Bodies” has been used on at least a half-dozen theatrical trailers for films such as “The Punisher,” “Friday the 13th: Jason X,” “Stop-Loss,” and “Daredevil.” It’s been utilized in Video Games, HBO’s “True Blood” and a number of pro wrestling events. When Red Sox closer Jonathan...

Beck: Stop it!
You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. Investigators today released this Mug Shot of Jared Lee Loughner, the guman accused of killing six individuals and gravely wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Saturday's bloody spree outside a .....

Yes, There is a Political Climate of Hate
While millions of Americans are privately praying for Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the rest of the Victims of a crazed gunman and their grieving families, those on the left have been repeatedly calling for an end to the politics of hate. Not the hate filled heart of a lunatic. No, they want to shut up those with whom they disagree. So they classify anyone with a differing point a view a hate-monger. It’s appalling and I don’t even want to link to any of it because I’...

Shooting tests US West love affair with guns
A billboard in Tucson, Arizona, invites residents to a gun show. Arizona ha... Months before she was shot in the head, US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords won a tight re-election battle vowing to be "moderate" -- including by staunchly backing the right to own guns. As she lies in critical condition, some are publicly questioning the gun-slinging culture of the American West where weapons at restaurants do not cause a second glance and opposition to guns is considered political Suicide. Jared ...

Arizona shootings prompt call for ban on high-capacity clips
For many in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' southeastern Arizona district, guns are a way of life for hunting and protection while they're working on their ranches in a part of the country that has become Ground Zero for Smuggling. But, to some East Coast lawmakers, that gun culture led to Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., which killed six and wounded the congresswoman and 13 others. Now two lawmakers have said they'll push for tougher gun controls, including stricter limits on high-capacit...

Look out! Crosshairs, death threats now target birthers, GOP
The American Patriot Foundation has received dozens of threatening phone message, e-mails and letters during "birther" Army officer Terrence Lakin's legal proceedings the past few months, including two letters that view the words "GOP" and "Birthers" through a sniper scope. An APF official claims the threats are inspired by media attacks on people who question President Barack Obama's eligibility to serve in the White House, even as many media figures are attempting to blame the Tucson massacre...

Suspect in Arizona shootings appears in court
PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - A troubled 22-year-old College Dropout made his first court appearance on Monday on five federal charges, including the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remained in critical condition with a bullet wound to the head. His hands manacled together, Jared Lee Loughner said understood the charges against him that stem from a Shooting Spree in Tucson on Saturday that left six people dead and 14 others wounded at an event Giffords hosted fo...

Arizona Sheriff Dupnik Was Aware of Loughners Mental Illness, Did Nothing
From Reuters: The suspect in Saturday’s shooting rampage in which a U.S. congresswoman was critically wounded was unstable and had been known to make Death Threats in the past, the local sheriff said. The FBI is investigating whether the man is the same person who posted a rambling Internet manifesto accusing the government of mind control and demanding a new currency. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, of Tucson, was taken into Custody moments after the shooting at a political meeting held by Dem...

Arizona gunman in court as Obama leads mourning (AFP)
PHOENIX, Arizona (AFP) – The man accused of trying to assassinate a congresswoman in an Arizona Shooting Spree that left six dead appeared in court Monday but said nothing to shed light on his motivations. President Barack Obama led the American nation in a somber minute of silence to honor the 20 people gunned down in Tucson on Saturday, stepping out onto the White House lawn with his wife Michelle, their heads bowed. Flags were at half-staff at the Capitol in Washington, where hundreds...

Right rejects lefts charges on Palin
Prominent Conservatives like Bill Kristol, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are defending Sarah Palin, who was subjected to criticism from Liberal Bloggers after Saturday’s shootings in Arizona. The Bloggers suggested Palin’s use of inflammatory Rhetoric during the 2010 campaign helped create a climate conducive to the type of violence that shook the nation over the weekend.  Several sought to link Palin’s use of a crosshairs symbol on her website and Facebook page to the Tucson shootin

Official: Obama to travel to Arizona on Wednesday
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and government employees observe a moment of silence on South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, to honor those who were killed and injured in the shooting in Tucson, Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., is in critical condition after being shot in the head. A senior administration official says President Barack Obama will travel to Arizona on Wednesday to attend a memorial service for the Victims of last weekend's...

Chris Weigant: Heroism
When a national tragedy happens -- especially one with political relevance -- the country explodes in a paroxysm of commentary about the incident, in what psychologists would probably label a desperate attempt to attach some sort of meaning. Looking around the media universe today, I see that this is now happening from all sides. Snap judgments are made, spin is spun, and everyone tries to fit what happened into their own view of the world, whatever that happens to be. But since everyone else ...

O'Reilly Livid: 'Disgusting Display Sweeping America'
You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. Investigators today released this Mug Shot of Jared Lee Loughner, the guman accused of killing six individuals and gravely wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Saturday's bloody spree outside a .....

Jared Loughner Charged
Jan.  10, 2011  Jared Lee Loughner Charged with 5 Counts of Murder, Attempted Murder and murder involving a member of Congress.  He indicated he understood the charges in court and his lawyer spoke to him offering her guidance.  The same lawyer Judy Clarke who has defended another mass murderer the Unabomer Ted Kaczinski has seen insanity defenses before. Loughner has said nothing about why he did the murders and what drove him to trying to assassinate a US congresswoman in...

JTA: Is Loughner's mother Jewish?
Is Jared Loughner's mother Jewish, JTA's Ron Kampeas wonders, based on the statement that she is by Loughner's friend Bryce Tierney in an interview with Mother Jones Monday. Ron writes: "Now we get this from Mother Jones. Nick Baumann interviews Bryce Tierney a friend of Jared's who recalls the alleged shooter's first encounter with Giffords, in 2007 -- and then explains why Jared might have listed Mein Kampf as a 'favorite book': Tierney ...

Gabrielle Giffords Brain Injury Update: Congresswoman Gives Thumbs-Up
TUCSON, Ariz. — Doctors treating U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Monday the congresswoman was responding to verbal commands by raising two fingers of her left hand and even managed to give a thumbs-up. Giffords, 40, is in critical condition in the intensive care unit of Tucson's University Medical Center after she was shot through the head Saturday during a meet-and-greet with voters outside a Supermarket. Two patients were discharged Sunday night. Eight others, including Giffords, rem...

With E-mail, Palin and Beck Discuss the Arizona Shootings
As the nation reacted this weekend to the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others outside a Tucson Supermarket, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, a conservative radio host, took to e-mail on Sunday to have a conversation of their own. “I hate violence,” Ms. Palin wrote, according to Mr. Beck, who read what he said were excerpts of their e-mail exchange on his radio show on Monday. “I hate war.” Mr. Beck said that Ms. Palin reached out to him to ask h