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Introducing ... Gingrich's NoMoreObamacare.com
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, Fox News HOST: You have a website NoMoreObamacare.com, aiding in efforts to Repeal the national Health Care. What is going to happen in the House? I assume they are going to vote to repeal. Does it have some sort of power or impetus does it do something? GINGRICH: It is more than symbolic. Passing by a substantial margin the Repeal of ObamaCare is a very important first step. We have now over 100,000 signatures and they are growing every day. Our goal is to target the 23 Demo...

Loughner Friend: "World Was His Antagonist"
Like this Story? Share it: (CBS) Some of Jared Loughner's oldest friends describe the accused Tucson shooter as a normal teenager until the age of 19, when they began to see a change in his behavior they believed was Mental Illness. He became harder to relate to and then Loughner ended their friendship by accusing them of not caring about him. "I think that anyone who did not connect to his lines of thinking he had disdain for," says Tyler Conway in his first interview, one of the friends, who ...

"Back in the 1960s, who'd have imagined that a septuagenarian white sheriff from Arizona with a hostility to free speech would o
Let's talk about Clarence Dupnik. Dupnik made multiple statements drawing connections between conservative "Rhetoric" and Saturday's crime.... At a time when most politicians were behaving responsibly, why was Sheriff Dupnik speaking with a reckless disregard for the truth...?... The Arizona Republic reported Wednesday that Dupnik's department was "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 w...

Treating the Mentally Ill.
The Giffords shooting has raised a lot of questions about how we treat the mentally ill. The alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner , exhibited signs we would recognize immediately as constituting a Mental Illness, but appears to never have been treated and was able to get his hands on a gun. That's led to calls for a lot of different action, from concerns over why Pima Community College, where he attended classes, didn't mandate that he seek care despite expelling him for his odd behavior, to call...

Will Democrat Doug Schoen Follow His Own Advice And Tell Fox News To Tamp Down Rhetorical Excess?
Fox News Democrat Doug Schoen appeared on America Live yesterday (1/1/3/11) to discuss whether or not President Obama’s Tucson Memorial Speech would end the “blame game,” as FoxNews.com put it. I doubt any of our readers would have trouble guessing who Fox News is blaming for the “blame game.” Schoen, who always seems more eager to cozy up to Conservatives than he is to advocate for Democrats, has not only overlooked Glenn Beck’s over-the-top Rhetoric, Schoen ...

Arizona Shooting Suspect Jared Loughner Posed in Pictures in Red G-String with Glock, Say Police
Source: CBS News Police say Jared Loughner, the suspect in the Arizona shooting rampage that left six dead and over a dozen wounded including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, posed in photos with a Glock 9mm while wearing a red g-string, according to a report. Walgreens turned the photos over to police, according to a police source that spoke to CBS News. Police say Loughner had dropped the photos off to be developed. The New York Times reports that according to police, in some photos Loughner is hold...

Death Threats Against Palin Caught on Youtube
Death threats against former Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin have spiked on the Social Networking site Twitter ever since the January 8 Tucson Shooting Spree. An individual who goes by the Nom de Web of "trackerkan" screen captured a rather large number of "tweets" that either advocated the Murder of Palin, or wished violence upon her in different situations, such as hoping she'd commit Suicide. "Listen. I don’t want much from Sarah Palin. I just want her to admit pa...

Former Classmate Of Rep. Giffords Shares Personal Memories
Since last weekend’s deadly shooting in Arizona that claimed six lives, and left 14 wounded - including a vibrant, young Congresswoman - people have been trying to understand how something so heinous, so senseless could happen. It appeared that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was specifically targeted by the gunman, prompting some to surmise the attack was politically motivated. That touched off a national debate about the tenor of Rhetoric in this country and whether it has ...

Heather Robinson: Mental Illness, Not Politics, Was Likely Cause of Loughner's Rampage
By Heather Robinson and Jennifer Ginsberg, MSW It is becoming increasingly clear that the Killing Spree of Jared Loughner, who claimed the lives of six and injured 14, including beloved Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was not fueled by political ideology; rather, it was the result of severe, chronic, and untreated Mental Illness. Our society protects Civil Liberties. For good reason, individuals cannot be forcibly held in mental facilities unless they voluntarily agree, or are deeme...

Involuntary Treatment Laws
I agree with the earlier commentators' descriptions of what quality campus Mental Health systems should do--namely, provide campus-wide outreach via education; facilitate rapid access to care; establish intervention mechanisms that keep track of Students at risk; and coordinate with the local Mental Health authorities for Students who need those services. In Arizona, an interested party can petition the court for mental evaluation of a person. But two critical points remain. First, what ac...

Fear-Mongering and the Mentally Ill
Jared Loughner deserves no sympathy. The same cannot be said about the 2.4 million adult schizophrenics in America or the roughly 55 million other adults with Mental Illness. In the wake of mass killings there is always the danger of a fear-fueled backlash against the innocent—remember the Sikhs attacked after 9/11? Amid generalizations and misstatements of fact, there is now a danger of such a backlash against the 25% of American adults with diagnosable Mental Illness. My friend Joe Klein...

Jeff Kass: Jared Loughner's Diagnosis
And the verdict is... schizophrenia. I thought it would be interesting to survey the various diagnoses to see what experts and others were saying. And I thought there would be a range of opinions, which might point up the futility of such an exercise, but also be a good starting point for comparative analysis. (Keeping in mind that snap judgement blogging isn't always the best place to start serious inquiries). But so far schizophrenia seems to be the most common diagnosis for Loughner, who st...

Tucson survivor: 'It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target'
We speak with Tucson shooting survivor Eric Fuller. A 63-year-old disabled Veteran, Fuller had campaigned for Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in her Reelection campaign and was at the Supermarket in Tucson on Saturday to meet with her. He was shot in the knee and also wounded in the back. "It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target," Fuller says. "Their wish for Second Amendment Activism has been fulfilled." Cue the right-wing waaaaaahmbulance. I wonde...

Which Diet Is Right for You?
Click here to see seven diets that work and if one is right for you! 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 ...

Kim Kardashian Bikini Tweeting
Kim Kardashian showed the world she wasn't afraid to flaunt her curves when she put a snap of herself in a very revealing Bikini on Twitter. 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....

Where the bullets fly --- and why
Where the bullets fly --- and why by digby Richard Florida has compiled some interesting information about gun violence. I don't know what it means, but it's food for thought: Let's start by looking at factors that are sometimes assumed to be associated with gun violence but statistically are not. It is commonly assumed that Mental Illness or stress levels trigger gun violence. But that's not borne out at the state level. We found no statistical association between gun deaths and mental illne...

Somali Muslim Militants Ban Soccer
Somali Islamist Militants this week imposed their puritan norms in areas over which they have recently gained control by outlawing the playing of Soccer or watching the game on television. The ban is reminiscent of a similar edict issued by Al Shabab Militants on the eve of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. 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, ...

Mexicans Fire Across Border at Texas Road Crew
Hudspeth County, Texas Sheriff Arvin West confirmed a Hudspeth County road crew came under fire Thursday morning from gunmen in Mexico. Sheriff West told ABC-7 that around 10:30 a.m, Thursday a road crew was repairing a part of Indian Hot Springs road, just east of Neely's crossing in Hudspeth County along the US-Mexico border when they came under gunfire from the Mexican side. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our live...

'Hannity' Monday Night: Palin's 1st Interview Since the Ariz. Shooting Tragedy
Don't miss 'Hannity' Monday night at 9 pm ET when Sarah Palin sits down for her first interview since the Arizona shooting tragedy. 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. Gabriel...

Napolitano Scraps Virtual Fence on Mexican Border
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration plans to pull the plug on the troubled "virtual fence" project that was meant to better guard stretches of the U.S. border with Mexico, a senior lawmaker said on Friday. The project, being run by Boeing Co, has cost about $1 billion so far and was meant to pull together video cameras, radar, sensors and other technologies to detect smugglers trying to cross the porous border. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to int...

Chris Christie: 'Ill Fight When It Matters'
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 ...

Political Discourse and the Tucson Shootings
Should the tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was gravely wounded in a Shooting Spree that left 14 injured and six dead, become a "teachable moment" about hate and polarization in American political discourse?  Yes—not because of the shooting but because of its aftermath. First there was the blame game on the left, with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and others jumping with indecent haste to pin the shootings on right-wing and Tea Party Rhetoric. In fact, the gun...

this should be the new nra motto
words don't incite guns to kill people. words incite people to kill people: "how many other demented people are out there? It looks like palin, beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target. their wish for Second Amendment Activism has been fulfilled—senseless hatred leading to Murder, lunatic fringe anarchism, subscribed to by John Boehner, mainstream rebels with vengeance for all, even nine-year-old girls." there was a little girl named christina green, nine years old, who is o...

Top 10 Most Ridiculous Attacks on Conservatives Following the AZ Shootings
This has been a hugely shameful week for sections of the American Left, who have exploited a horrific tragedy that claimed six lives, in order to advance political attacks upon some leading conservative politicians and media commentators, as well as an entire political movement in the form of the Tea Party. The vitriolic and hate-filled attacks have marked a low point for liberal media elites in America in the 21st century, even to the extent that President Obama himself, probably the most liber...

The Tragedy of Tuscon, An Integral Spiritual Perspective
We hear talk about Family Values and community responsibility. But seldom do we hear calls for the mentally disturbed to get help, take their meds, and check themselves into Hospitals if they're losing it. We seldom hear criticism of what the friends and family of the shooter might have done differently, had they been more awake. And when we look to the realm of the shooter's personal responsibility, as the conservative politicians do, we dismiss Jared Loughtner as "The Other," and not a pers...