Angle: Don't blame me for Tucson shooting rampage (AP)

Mayor Bloomberg: Can't Blame Sarah Palin, Rhetoric For Arizona Man's Shooting Spree
Mayor Bloomberg struck the post-partisan tone of which he's so fond when asked today about the role (or lack thereof) of overheated Rhetoric in the Arizona shootings. “This would appear to be a very deranged, perhaps on-drugs individual from what I've read," Bloomberg said of accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner. "And I think we should focus on somebody with a gun that has killed six people. And I think the president put it very well yesterday -- the Rhetoric should be at a...

Angle: Don't blame me for Tucson shooting rampage
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former U.S. Senate Candidate Sharron Angle said on Tuesday that she's not to blame for the Arizona shooting that left six people dead and 13 wounded. Ms. Angle, a former Nevada assemblywoman who tried to unseat Senate M......

Sharron Angle: Don't blame me for Tucson shooting rampage
Former U.S. Senate Candidate Sharron Angle says she's not to blame for the Arizona shooting that left six people dead and 14 injured. The former Nevada assemblywoman who tried to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday she condemns all violence. The Tea Party politician calls the killings Saturday senseless and horrifying. Police say 22-year-old Jared Loughner fired at a crowd gathered at an event hosted by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords was shot in the head but survived. L...

Angle: Don't blame me for Tucson shooting rampage
Former U.S. Senate Candidate Sharron Angle says she's not to blame for the Arizona shooting that left six people dead and 14 injured. The former Nevada assemblywoman who tried to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday she condemns all violence. The Tea Party politician calls the killings Saturday senseless and horrifying. Police say 22-year-old Jared Loughner fired at a crowd gathered at an event hosted by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords was shot in the head but survived. L...

After The Shooting: Tucson Seeks The New Normal
Tucson, AZ -- They cheered, they cried, they celebrated and they mourned. And for perhaps the first time since the deadly shootings on Jan. 8, Tucson did it as one when the city gathered for last night's memorial service on the campus of the University of Arizona. In the days immediately following the massacre at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Tucson struggled to find its footing. As I was told so many times by so many different people this week, Tucson is the "Berkel...

(Sharron) Angle: Media 'inappropriately attributing blame' for Tucson shooting
Source: The Hill Former Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle denied her campaign Rhetoric helped motivate the Tucson gunman and accused the media of "finger-pointing towards political figures" to boost Ratings. Angle's suggestion during the midterm campaign that voters could pursue "Second Amendment remedies" to settle political differences with Congress has been widely criticized in the wake of the attack that left six people dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in critical condition. "I...

Sharron Angle: 'Irresponsible' to blame Tea Party
Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle is condemning what she calls "finger-pointing" at the small-government movement in the wake of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' shooting. Angle, a former Republican nominee for Senate, said in a statement that it is "irresponsible" to blame her, Sarah Palin or the Tea Party movement for the Arizona shooting rampage that killed six people and left Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, fighting for her life. "Expanding the context of the attack to blame and to infringe upon the p...

44: Palin accuses critics of 'blood libel'
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) released a statement Wednesday morning denouncing efforts to blame her for Saturday's Tucson shooting rampage. "Like many, I've spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance," Palin said in a lengthy statement posted on her Facebook page. "After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame...

Loughner's Ex: He Had a Temper
PHOENIX - An ex-girlfriend of the man accused of a Mass Shooting at a Rep. Gabrielle Giffords event is speaking out. She shares some personal, and frightening, details about Jared Lee Loughner. "He just seemed like one of those kids who kind of kept to himself, he was very quiet. I kind of made the effort to talk to him because he kind of kept to himself..he was actually a really nice kid when it came to it because we ended up dating..I think I I had just turned 15." Suspected shooter Jared Loug...

House Is Moving, Carefully, to Resume Work
Republicans are carefully trying to return the House to normal business, announcing on Thursday that lawmakers will next week consider the Health Care law Repeal that was pulled from the agenda after the weekend shooting rampage in Arizona. In a statement, Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for the Majority Leader’s office, said, “It is important for Congress to get back to work, and to that end we will resume thoughtful consideration of the Health Care bill next week.” To pre-empt any suggestio

House to resume health care repeal next week
Baltimore (CNN) - After a week-long pause in legislative business to honor Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, House Republicans will resume regular business next week- and hold a vote to Repeal the Health Care law. "Americans have legitimate concerns about the cost of the new Health Care law and its affect on the ability to grow jobs in our country," said Brad Dayspring, spokesman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. The Health Care Repeal vote had been scheduled for this week, but GOP leaders pos...

In politics, Palin has her own rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — With her video defending herself against critics — in which she accused them of "blood Libel" — former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin again showed she is weighing a presidential bid in unprecedented and even daring ways. Mrs. Palin commands nationwide attention with her selective use of Facebook and Twitter, choosing provocative words when others testing the presidential waters prefer a lighter touch. Some political pros say her tactics, which protect her from mainst...

Pointing Fingers and Violent Rhetoric
The right-wing has been really stung by the massacre in Arizona and the criticism they've taken for contributing to an environment where such violence actually makes sense. They keep pumping out columns that seek to vindicate themselves and lay blame on the left for jumping to conclusions about the motivations of the shooter. The president asked us to stop pointing fingers and trying to assign blame. We all know that is not going to happen, but we could try honoring his wishes in this case out ...

Angle defends herself against ties to Arizona shooting
WASHINGTON -- Sharron Angle defended herself today against charges that comments she made in her campaign for the U.S. Senate from Nevada last year helped create an atmosphere that contributed to the Mass Shooting in Arizona last Saturday. "I condemn all acts of violence," Angle said in a statement issued overnight. "The despicable act in Tucson is a horrifying and senseless tragedy, and should be condemned as a single act of violence, by a single unstable individual." "Expanding the context of ...

Sharron Angle Responds to the Arizona Tragedy, Says It's 'Irresponsible' To Assign Blame To Her, The Tea Party or Sarah Palin
"Finger-pointing towards political figures is an audience-rating game" Politico.com Former Nevada Republican Senate Candidate Sharron Angle is blasting those blaming her for inciting the Arizona shooting that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others, saying the accused shooter went off the deep end long before the Tea Party movement started. In her first comments - coming three days after the shooting - Angle said in harshly worded statement that her critics were “dangerous ...

Imus Rips 'Angry,' 'Vile,' 'Psycho,' 'Spittle-spewing' Chris Matthews
As NewsBusters previously reported, Chris Matthews on Tuesday blamed conservative Talk Radio hosts Mark Levin and Michael Savage for supposedly creating the climate of hate that led to Saturday's shootings in Tucson, Arizona. 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 ...

Giffords Shooting 'Start of the Revolution,' Says Dem Congressman
Were the heinous acts that occurred on Jan. 8 in Arizona the product of an isolated deranged mind, or were they the spark of something scarier with more violent implications? According to California Democratic Rep. Bob Filner, it's something on a much grander scale that people should take very seriously. 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, expre...

Pres. Obama's Speech Undercuts Federal Charge for Judge's Murder
It may have been inadvertent, but a passage in President Barack Obama's Speech to a memorial service in Tucson Wednesday night could undercut a criminal charge Federal Prosecutors have leveled at suspect Jared Loughner for the death of U.S. District Court Judge John Roll in a shooting rampage Saturday. 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, express...

the Fruits of Political Extremism
The motives of the gunman who shot the US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed six bystanders in Tuscon on Saturday are unclear. We do not know whether the youth who has been arrested for the crime, Jared Loughner, was driven by political grievance or Mental Illness. But to many in America this looks like an atrocity that was waiting to happen. Since Barack Obama entered the White House two years ago, the American right has adopted partisan Rhetoric of the most reckless kind. A year ago...

Funeral Set for Tucson Rampage's Youngest Victim
Like this Story? Share it: Play CBS Video Video Ariz. Victim Tormented by Death of Young Friend Erica Hill reports on Suzi Hileman, the neighbor who accompanied 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green to the event where the girl was fatally wounded. During a Press Conference for the injured victims of the Tucson, Ariz. shooting, Bill Hileman became overcome with emotion when describing his wife who was holding the hand of 9-year-old victim Christina Taylor Green. Funerals and memorials have begun for...

Sen. Hutchison Wont Run Again in 2012
Sen. Hutchison Won’t Run Again in 2012 Yahoo! Buzz GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced today she won’t run for re-election in 2012, keeping a pledge to retire after she challenged Texas Gov. Rick Perry for Governor last year. The 67-year-old Texan is a social moderate, fiscal conservative and the Senate Republicans’ longest-serving woman. “I am announcing today that I will not be a Candidate for re-election in 2012,” she said in a statement on Facebook. “That s...

'I Would Be Nervous About Going Into a Bar in Arizona'
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. 'Cautious Optimism' for Rep. Giffords Mark Kelly, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' husband, holds her hand in her room at University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz. the day after the shooting rampage in ...

At congresswoman's bedside, good news keeps coming
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Even Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' doctors are starting to call her recovery a miracle. Few people who take a bullet to the brain — just 10 percent — survive such a devastating wound. Yet doctors say the critically injured congresswoman has been making steady progress each day since the Assassination attempt on Saturday. Six people were shot and killed. Mrs. Giffords is moving both legs and both arms, has opened both eyes and is responding to friends and family,...

Knightley and Friend break up
A source told People.com distance and busy schedules prompted the split a few months ago. "It was time for her to move on," the insider said of Knightley. Tucson, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A U.S. flag from the World Trade Center will be displayed Thursday at the Funeral of a girl killed in the Tucson shooting rampage, a church official said. Top Chef All-Stars Ep. 6: Fish or cut bait Ariz. lawmakers seek ban on Funeral Protests This January 9, 2011 photo released by Congressworman Gabrielle Giffords' ...

NASA sets dates for Discovery, Endeavour launch
NASA on Thursday confirmed that the Space Shuttle Discovery will attempt its final launch to the International Space Station on February 24, and also set a date for the Endeavour liftoff in April. The last two launches officially scheduled for the year, which could be followed by one more shuttle mission if budgets allow, will mark the end of the US Space Shuttle program. Discovery, which was to launch in November but was postponed due to leaks on its external fuel tank, is to attempt take off...