Ariz. Shooting Suspect to Appear in Court

Parallels to 1995
PARALLELS TO 1995.... President Obama will travel to Tucson tomorrow, attending a memorial service for the Victims of Saturday's massacre. He will also visit with families, and is expected to deliver some remarks about what transpired. As these developments unfold, we can expect to see one reference point repeated quite a bit: Oklahoma City. In general, I tend to roll my eyes when the media draws hackneyed historical parallels for presidential challenges. Last year, for example, the BP oil spi...

The Morning Plum
* Obama steps up: The President is set to travel to Arizona tomorrow to attend the Funeral service of the Shooting Victims, and he is expected to give a Speech about tolerance, a theme he may reprise in the State of the Union address. But Obama's advisers are uncertain about the exact message he should send: It is not clear whether ideology motivated the alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, and Obama's advisers may conclude it unwise for the president to lecture the nation on mutual respect -- whi...

Can the Hate Be Stopped?: Tucson Struggles to Come to Terms with Slayings
Tucson, Arizona, has become a symbol of fanatacism following the Assassination attempt on a member of Congress. The city, with its deep political divisions, is struggling to cope with the attack. President Obama is hoping to foster Reconciliation during a visit on Wednesday. When the tears start flowing, she raises her sign, trying to hide herself behind it. Susan Shobe is standing close to the impromptu memorial that has been set up on the lawn in front of the University Medical Center in Tuc...

Arizona Rampage Suspect Ordered Held Without Bail
What is this? Jared Loughner has made his first court appearance and has been ordered held without bail as the federal case against him in the killings of six people and wounding of 14 others in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday gets underway. During a short appearance before federal Magistrate Judge Lawrence Anderson in Phoenix this hour, the 22-year-old Tucson man appeared to "understand everything the judge was telling him," CNN's Ted Rollins just reported. — Attempted Assassination of a membe...

Gunman in Arizona Shooting Held Without Bail, Assigned Lawyer Who Defended McVeigh
PHOENIX -- The nation got its first look on Monday at the 22-year-old loner accused of trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Jared Loughner, head shaved, a cut above the right temple and his hands cuffed, scanned a packed courtroom and sat down. His attorney, who defended Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mcveigh and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, whispered to him. The judge asked Loughner if he understood that he could get life in Prison -- or the death penalty -- for killing Federal Judge John...

The left's political dirt ball
On Feb. 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, delusional and a loner, fired his .32-caliber pistol at FDR in the Bayfront Park area of Miami. Five feet tall, Zangara could not aim over the crowd. So, he stood on a folding chair and was piled on after the first of five shots. He wounded four people, including Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago. In two weeks, Zangara, who pleaded guilty, had been sentenced to 80 years. When Cermak died on March 6, Zangara was retried for Murder and sentenced to the electric ...

Pawlenty jabs Palin over 2010 crosshairs map
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) said Tuesday he wouldn't have used crosshair images to refer to Candidates for Congress, as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's (R) PAC had done. Pawlenty, a likely Republican Candidate for president in 2012, took a shot at Palin over the Controversial map her campaign arm had released during the 2010 campaign, which depicted crosshairs over different lawmakers' districts that had been targeted in the election. "It wouldn't have been my style to put the cros...

Dr. Harold Koplewicz: Arizona Shooting: Treating Mental Illness Before it Kills
In the Mass Shooting in Arizona Saturday there were heroes who prevented even more bloodshed. We need heroes to intervene before lives are lost. The three people who wrestled Jared Loughner to the ground and disarmed him outside a Supermarket in Tucson are being hailed as heroes, and rightly so. They prevented further loss of life at the hands of the 22-year-old, who had, in little more than an instant, killed six people and wounded more than a dozen others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords....

Eric Fuller, Arizona Victim, Describes Shooting (VIDEO)
NEW YORK — One of the survivors of Saturday's Shooting Spree in Arizona says "it was like a bad crime drama." Eric Fuller said Tuesday on the CBS "The Early Show" that he felt the bullet that hit his knee but didn't know he had also been hit in the back. He says he didn't know how to react and felt the Victims "were in for more." Jared Loughner (LAWF'-nuhr) is being held on federal charges. He's accused of killing six people and wounding or injuring 14 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabriel...

After Shootings, Obama to Deliver Speech on Tolerance
Obama is likely to deliver a Speech about tolerance, a theme that could also be featured in his State of the Union address on Jan. 25. However, with liberals and Conservatives assuming their assigned battle stations over whether Gun Laws and partisan Rhetoric are to blame, the White House is Undecided about the exact message the president will send. It is not clear whether ideology motivated the alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, and Obama's advisers may conclude it unwise for the president to lec...

Video: How MSNBCs Chris Matthews Handled Tucson Shooting vs. Ft. Hood Shooting
Nidal Hassan, who yelled Allah Akbar as he murdered 13 servicemen at Fort Hood - ironically in a no gun zone - was taped murdering 13 people, plus a 14th Victim - an unborn child. A deranged "left-wing pothead" ;lunatic shoots a Congresswoman and a few others over the weekend. Chris Matthews handled both... quite a bit differently: After the Ft. Hood shooting, Chris Matthews went out of his way to find reasons other than Radical Islam for the shooting. And he had a representative of CAIR on his...

SPLC blames Ayn Rand, David Icke and Others for Arizona Shooting
Who is to blame for Jared Loughner’s bizarre shooting yesterday? According to Mark Potok, anyone with even the vaguest links to his bizarre and disjointed online ramblings. As a shocked world looks to the background of accused shooter Jared Lee Loughner for clues as to why he would shoot a Congresswoman, a Federal Judge and others, Mark Potok, spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, predictably stepped forward on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC program to paint a broad brush against th...

The Left Never Wastes a Tragedy
Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com The Left never stands so tall as when it stands upon dead bodies. Whether it is Bill Clinton blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on Rush Limbaugh, Democratic mayors suing gun manufacturers after school shootings in Arkansas and Colorado, Democrats turning Senator Paul Wellstone’s memorial into a campaign rally, or Cindy Sheehan vastly overstaying her 15 minutes of fame, the Left never lets a tragedy pass without blaming it on its political enemies and pushing ...

Neighbour broke news of killing rampage
TUCSON: The parents of Jared Loughner were huddled in seclusion in their Tucson home on Monday night, his father crying and his mother so shaken she could not get out of bed, neighbours said. As the sun was beginning to set, Randy Loughner called his neighbour, a retired truck driver, Wayne Smith, 70, to ask him to get their mail. Mr Smith, who is not particularly close to the Loughners, collected it and was invited inside. ''They're in there now,'' Mr Smith told reporters. ''They're both in the...

Loughners Family May Break Silence
The Wall Street Journal reports: The father of shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner has prepared and may release a public statement, according to a neighbor who met with Mr. Loughner’s parents Monday. Randy and Amy Loughner disappeared from view shortly after the shootings, and a statement would be the family’s first public comments since the attack. Even in normal times, many on his block describe the elder Mr. Loughner as a reclusive man who had little time for neighborhood niceti...

Krauthammer Diagnoses Loughner
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 .....

Outlaw that speech because it MIGHT be a threat...
It was only a matter of time before the Gabrielle Giffords tragedy was turned into a rationale for the government to take more of our freedoms. This is how our government always responds to tragedy--it's almost formulaic: Step 1 - wait for tragedy to occur, or actually create the tragedy. Step 3 - pass laws, or institute policies, that take away people's freedoms. This same process, has led to the creation of most traffic laws, to the Patriot Act, to "enhanced pat-downs," and countless other usu...

Loughner's Parents Said To Be 'Devastated'; Very Private
What is this? The parents of the suspect in Saturday's Arizona shooting rampage are "hurting real bad. ... They are devastated," a neighbor, Wayne Smith, told reporters Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal. In this undated photo provided by the Pima County Sheriff's Forensic Unit, Jared Loughner, 22, poses. Some details are beginning to come out about Randy and Amy Loughner, parents of the 22-year-old Tucson man who has been charged in the attack that left six people dead and 14 wounded ...

Loughner's Parents Said To Be 'Devastated'; Very Private
What is this? The parents of the suspect in Saturday's Arizona shooting rampage are "hurting real bad. ... They are devastated," a neighbor, Wayne Smith, told reporters Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal. In this undated photo provided by the Pima County Sheriff's Forensic Unit, Jared Loughner, 22, poses. Some details are beginning to come out about Randy and Amy Loughner, parents of the 22-year-old Tucson man who has been charged in the attack that left six people dead and 14 wounded ...

Call it what it was: An Act of Domestic Terrorism
Good editorial cartoons rip the heart from the moment and always piss people off. … But even some Republicans sympathetic to Ms. Palin suggested that she needed to find a more substantive and nuanced means of addressing the criticism to avert any risk to her political standing and to maintain control of her political narrative. … But other Republicans said that if she was serious about becoming president, the shootings in Tucson might require Ms. Palin to step out of the political co...

Culture and Conditioning
Remarkably, some rightie Bloggers are still trying to peg Jared Loughner as a “Left Wing radical.” This is true even as News Media are doing their best to argue that only those nutty lefties are claiming politics had anything to do with the shooting in Tuscon. Chris Cillizza: In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, liberals sought to paint Loughner as an anti-government, Tea Party conservative. Conservatives retorted that Loughner lacked anything close to a coherent political p...

Tactics backfire, Palin caught in her own cross-hairs
Sarah Palin ... has become both ubiquitous and isolated. Photo: AFP UNDER criticism that her political Rhetoric had helped create a climate for political violence, Sarah Palin addressed the issue in Trademark Fashion: with an email to the conservative commentator Glenn Beck. ''Our Children will not have peace if politicos just capitalise on this to succeed in portraying anyone as inciting terror and violence,'' she wrote to Beck in the email he read on radio. By managing her image almost exclusi...

The Debate We Should Be Having
Rather than debate whether or not Republicans can say “job-killing,” shouldn’t we be having a conversation about the mentally ill in America and how we treat them? A reader who works in Mental Health services emailed: I’m here to tell you the gov’t does NOT have a handle on dangerous people. While it’s not a pandemic or anything, there are far too many ticking Time Bombs waiting to go off out there. Too often the default for MH [mental health] services is ja...

Obama White House also deals with tragedy at home
A White House already shaken by Saturday's shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., received another shock yesterday in an e-mail from acting Chief of Staff Pete Rouse: It is with great sadness that I share with you some news about our White House family. Dan Turton's wife, Ashley, died this morning at their home in Washington. Many of you have worked with both of them during their careers on Capitol Hill, and they exemplify the definition of public servants. We are making every resource a...

Accused gunman warned of brainwashing
Honouring the Arizona Victims ... Barack and Michelle Obama after observing a minute's silence with staff on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday. Photo: AFP Tucson: Online political ramblings of the man charged with the killings in Tucson bear a strong resemblance to the ideas of an extreme right-wing Conspiracy theorist who believes the US government uses grammar to control people's minds. The director of the centre's intelligence unit, Mark Potok, said Mr Loughner's YouTube rant that '...