Arizona governor asks residents to pray for victims

House pays emotional tribute to Arizona victims
WASHINGTON (AP) — Grief-stricken members of Congress paid tribute Wednesday to the Victims of the Tucson shooting rampage amid consultations with security advisers on how they can protect themselves and their aides against such savage attacks. Still deeply shaken from Saturday's violence half a continent away, House Speaker John A. Boehner fought tears as he spoke of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' battle to recover from a gunshot wound to the head. "Our hearts are broken, but our spirit is not,"...

House pays emotional tribute to Arizona victims
(01-12) 12:37 PST WASHINGTON, CA (AP) -- Grief-stricken members of Congress paid tribute Wednesday to the Victims of the Tucson shooting rampage amid consultations with security advisers on how they can protect themselves and their aides against such savage attacks. Still deeply shaken from Saturday's violence half a continent away, House Speaker John Boehner fought tears as he spoke of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' battle to recover from a gunshot wound to the head. "Our hearts are broken, but our...

Giffords making spontaneous movements, doctor says
Stumble This! TUCSON (Reuters) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, gravely injured in a shooting rampage, is "making more spontaneous movements" and is able to feel her bullet wounds with her hands, a doctor treating her said on Wednesday. Giffords was shot through the head by a gunman who raked a meeting with semi-automatic pistol fire in Tucson on Saturday, killing six people including a Federal Judge, a 9 year-old girl and one of Giffords' aides. "She is making more and more spontaneous move...

Liberals Seek Ban on Metaphors in Wake of Arizona Shooting
After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we've got to pass Obama's agenda immediately and stop using metaphors. At least I think that's what the Mainstream Media are trying to tell me. Liberals instantly leapt on the sickening massacre at a Tucson political event over the weekend to accuse tea partiers, Sarah Palin and all Conservatives who talk out loud of being complicit in Murder by inspiring the shooter, Jared Loughner. You must login to comment. The Fo...

Obama to console US at Arizona service
President Barack Obama flew to Arizona on Wednesday to honour a wounded US congresswoman and pay tribute to the six people killed in the weekend attempt to assassinate her. Searching for the right tone, Obama sought to console the country, not dissect its politics. Obama and his wife, Michelle, headed for a night-time service in Tucson with a Bipartisan delegation aboard Air Force One in a sign of solidarity. Back on Capitol Hill, Republican Gabrielle Giffords' House colleagues praised her and t...

Loughner Case Will Be Heard By California Judge
What is this? "All Federal Judges in Arizona have recused themselves from the case against the man accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a federal judge and three other federal employees," the AP reports. In an order issued today, U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver says that the impartiality of the judges could be affected by the fact that U.S. District Judge John Roll was killed when, police say, Jared Loughner went on a shooting rampage outside an Arizona Supermarket. NPR ...

Officials: Frenetic morning for rampage suspect
(01-12) 14:26 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- For Jared Loughner, the morning of the deadly shooting rampage was a blur of activity. He hustled to Walmart twice. He ran a red light, with the officer letting him off with a warning. Back home, he grabbed a black bag from the trunk of a family car and fled into the desert on foot, his suspicious father giving chase. Later, Loughner took a cab to a Safeway Supermarket and began squeezing off round after round into the crowd. The new details of the Walma...

Loughner Case Will Be Heard By California Judge
What is this? "All Federal Judges in Arizona have recused themselves from the case against the man accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a federal judge and three other federal employees," the AP reports. In an order issued today, U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver says that the impartiality of the judges could be affected by the fact that U.S. District Judge John Roll was killed when, police say, Jared Loughner went on a shooting rampage outside an Arizona Supermarket. NPR ...

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed emergency funeral protections law yesterday
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (another woman I hope runs for president some day, because she is awesome), yesterday signed into law an emergency Funeral protections bill.  The bill was passed unanimously by the Arizona legislature.  It’s goal is to prevent people like Democrat Fred Phelps and his Westboro Hate Group from disrupting funerals in the state of Arizona.  Every state should have this provision. Ed Morrissey argues in the HotAir piece that there should be no such pro...

Wednesday's Mini-Report
WEDNESDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * House honors Tucson Victims: "Shaken by the attempted Assassination of their colleague, Gabrielle Giffords, and the killing of one of her aides, House members reconvened at the Capitol on Wednesday to honor the dead and the wounded in the Arizona shooting rampage and to begin reviewing security concerns with Law Enforcement officials." * The memorial service in Tucson will be held tonight at the University of Arizona, starting at 8 p...

Mark Udall: Let's All Sit Together For State Of The Union Address
Denver — Colorado Sen. Mark Udall is asking Democrats and Republicans to sit together rather than dividing up by party during the State of the Union Speech. The Democrat said Wednesday that the tradition of having the parties sit on opposite sides of the House chamber is a "negative symbol of the divisions in Congress." He says the separate seating arrangement is only a custom, not a rule, and emphasizes differences and divisions. Udall has said the Assassination attempt against Rep. Gab...

Udall: Let's all sit together for State of Union
Colorado Sen. Mark Udall is asking Democrats and Republicans to sit side-by-side rather than dividing up by party during the State of the Union Speech. Udall, a Democrat, said Wednesday the tradition of having the parties sit on opposite sides of the House chamber is a "negative symbol of the divisions in Congress." He says the separate seating arrangement is only a custom, not a rule, and emphasizes differences and divisions. Udall has said the Assassination attempt against U.S. Rep. Gabrielle ...

Hillary: Tucson shootings "a form of extremism"
SecState Hillary Clinton, who has been traveling in the Middle East this week, has reiterated her comments that the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the deaths of six others were carried out by an "Extremist." In an interview with CNN while in Oman (full transcript available here), Clinton said that "when you cross the line from expressing opinions that are of conflicting differences in our political environment into taking action that’s violent action,...

House pays tribute to victims of Arizona shooting
The House is honoring Victims of Saturday's shootings in Tuscon, including one of its own. Republican Speaker John Boehner is opening the session of remembrances and tributes to the 19 people shot, six fatally. The remarks are expected to focus on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat shot in the head as she spoke to constituents outside a Supermarket. Later Wednesday, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and other lawmakers are flying with President Barack Obama to Arizona to co...

Memorial Service .....
Tonight's program includes....Arizona Gov Jan Brewer, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, US Attorney General Eric Holder, and President Obama. How long have you been a GretaWire blogger? And how did you first hear about GretaWire? ...

Sheriff Dupnik faces reelection bid August 28, 2012
In response to a query by the L.A. County Libertarian Examiner,  Pima County Arizona election officials have confirmed that Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik will next be up for election in 2012. Mary Martinson, of Pima County Elections prompty replied to our question and said "The Sheriff in Pima County is up every 4 years. The Sheriff’s term is 4 years. The next time he (Dupnik) will be up for election is August 28, 2012." Republican Arizona State Senator Jack W. Harp...

Ariz. Sheriff's Dept. Releases Documents on Suspected Gunman's Past Arrests
The Pima County Sheriff's Department released reports on Wednesday detailing its contact with alleged Arizona gunman Jared Loughner prior to Saturday's shooting. 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. Giff...

On Arizona Shooting, Jon Stewart Skirts the Edge of Reason
One question: Who threw the first punch? Most of us know a disingenuous Apology when we hear one. The sincerity of a mea culpa is generally revealed by whether it is focused upon the offended party or the offensive behavior. Saying “I’m sorry you took it that way” does not fully own up to an offense. Likewise, the inclusion of excuses within an Apology indicates an offender hasn’t fully accepted responsibility for their behavior. Even so, a less than sincere Apology is ...

Sheriff Dupnik won't release reports...
Sheriff's Department and community-college officials in Pima County are refusing to release a wide range of public documents about the man charged in Saturday's shooting rampage that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded. The Pima County Sheriff's Department and Pima Community College have declined to release documents that could shed light on run-ins they had with 22-year-old Jared Loughner in the months prior to the shooting. The Arizona Public Records Law requires that records be "open ...

This is why Palin '12 just won't work
It has been widely assumed that Sarah Palin's response to Gabrielle Giffords' shooting would be a pivotal moment for her viability as a 2012 Presidential Candidate. Now Palin has finally broken her silence, with a seven-minute videotaped message released this morning -- one that, more than anything, will probably give Republicans yet another reason to look elsewhere for a '12 Candidate. As is the case just about every time Palin sounds off on a major topic, the result has been instant and bitter...

Colleagues Pay Tribute to Rep. Giffords
Yahoo! Buzz Rep. Gabrielle Giffords likes chocolate, especially peanut M&Ms and those little Hershey’s nuggets with almonds and toffee. That might be the most personal detail House members have shared about the Arizona Democrat during the nearly four-hour tribute to Ms. Giffords and the other Victims of the weekend shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. And it came from a Republican. Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert , who’s known for his occasionally outlandish partisan barbs, told the chamber...

Senator wants to mix it up at Obama address
Sen. Mark Udall wants his colleagues to adopt a new seating arrangement, calling on lawmakers to break with tradition by sitting next to a member of the opposing party during President Obama's State of the Union address Jan. 25. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, the Colorado Democrat said that having Democrats and Republicans sit on opposing sides of the House chamber for the annual address sends the wrong message to the American public watching on television. "It sets a negative tone tha...

Shooting suspect fell through mental health cracks
(01-12) 13:11 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- Jared Loughner had never been in major trouble with the law or overtly violent, but his behavior at his community college was so disturbing that Campus Police gave him and his parents an ultimatum: Get a Mental Health evaluation or don't come back. Loughner went away but his deteriorating mental condition didn't. Just more than three months later, he is charged in a horrific Mass Shooting that killed six people and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords clinging t...

As portrait of Jared Loughner sharpens, 'vitriol' blame fades
The suggestion that the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Saturday might have been influenced by political 'vitriol' seems less likely as more becomes known about suspect Jared Loughner. Neighbors check out the media set up at the Loughner home in Tucson, Ariz., Tuesday. Jared Loughner is the alleged gunman in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others on Saturday, leaving six dead and more injured. The wave of national soul-searching about the level of political vitriol and how it mi...

Before RFK Jr. blames right-wing for murder, he should apologize for his own life-endangering rhetoric
You knew this was coming. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a treasure trove of inanity, whether he's shilling for brutal dictators like Hugo Chavez, blaming Reagan for 9/11, or wrongly arguing childhood Vaccines are responsible for Autism even as whooping cough, measles, mumps and other preventable and deadly childhood afflictions come roaring back. (The scientific evidence behind RFK Jr.'s concerns about vaccination was just revealed to be a total Fraud, for what that's worth.) So here he is weighing i...