Dupnik's Report: Yeah, Loughner Did Make Death Threats

In Wake of Tucson Tragedy, What's Sarah Palin's Next Move?
Sarah Palin and her campaign website targeting Congressional Democrats. (Credit: CBS/AP) In the wake of Saturday's tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona - in which six were killed and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 13 others were injured - Sarah Palin has maintained a relatively low profile. After expressing her "sincere condolences" to the shooting's Victims and their families via Facebook on Saturday, Palin has made only one other statement to the press: an e-mail to Glenn Beck, which ...

Arizona Lawmaker In Palin's 'Crosshairs' Says Blame Game Is Not Helpful (VIDEO)
Arizona Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick, who like Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was targeted by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said in an interview Tuesday that "the blame game is not helpful right now." Still, former Rep. Kirkpatrick said that being featured on Palin's list of 20 districts -- complete with a map of what a Palin aide called "surveyor marks" -- "was especially disconcerting for our families." "Well, you know, it was angry and mean-spirited campaign in many ways and I think it's real...

Democrats set sights on Palin to scapegoat for Gifford's shooting
Before they learned the name of the perpetrator, before the blood had even begun to dry on the pavement in Tucson, Leftists across the country took to the air to blame the Arizona shooting on Sarah Palin and the Conservative media.  They claimed the assassin was incited by combatant Rhetoric and images, the props that all politicians and talking heads have used.  In their rush to use the Victims of this tragedy, Leftists washed their hands in a child’s blood to make cheap politic...

Liberal Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik blames Rush Limbaugh, but may have ignored death threats
Jan 8 (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.According to this report, there were a lot of Death Threats and Sheriff Clarence Dupnik mostly ignored them. 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 Sh...

Zandar's Thought Of The Day
Pima County Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik dared to voice the opinion that eliminationist Rhetoric from the right is a problem in this country. How do the eliminationists respond? 48 hours later, the right is holding Dupnik responsible for the shooting. Hot Air: Any cop can tell you whodunnit but it takes a supercop to tell you What It All Means about our political culture. A nagging question: Should supercop maybe have figured out that Loughner was a menace before he gunned down six people out...

Did Sheriff Dupnik know about Jared Loughner?
The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident. His blaming of radio personalities and Bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented it. He needs to step up and start apologizing to the families of the Victims instead of spinning this event to serve his own political agenda. Jared Loughner, pronounced by the Sheriff ...

Sen. Manchin Wouldn't Run Gun Ad Again
Back in October, we highlighted then-Gov. Joe Manchin's NRA-sponsored campaign ad, in which he took his gun and shot a hole through piece of paper labeled "Cap and Trade Bill." The Charleston Gazette reports that, asked if he would put out a similar ad in light of the tragedy in Tucson, Manchin replied, "I can't say that we would, I really can't." The shot was a metaphor, Manchin said Monday, symbolizing his opposition to cap-and-trade and his determination to work hard to make the changes in Wa...

Sherriff Clarence RIGHT WING VITRIOL Dupnik mightve shit the mattress
Here’s the lead investigator for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, describing what he thinks caused the shooting. ‘When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government,’ Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told a news conference. ‘The anger, the hatred, the Bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous.  ‘And, unfortunately, Arizona ...

Sheriff in Giffords case lashes out about politics
(01-10) 15:25 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was thrust into the spotlight to face a nation demanding answers in the aftermath of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. He didn't mince words. The rampage, he said, grew in part from extreme political Rhetoric, Bigotry and hatred, especially in his home state of Arizona. Dupnik said he was angry and heartbroken over the tragedy, and was simply speaking his mind as an American, not a Law Enforcement official. But ...

Did Dupnik miss the red flags on Loughner?
Any cop can tell you whodunnit but it takes a supercop to tell you What It All Means about our political culture. A nagging question: Should supercop maybe have figured out that Loughner was a menace before he gunned down six people outside a Safeway? Remember, this is a guy who was so palpably disturbed that more than one of his classmates told their Professor that they feared for their lives. He had five separate run-ins with the Campus Police at his community college, and as Moe Lane helpfu...

Did Dupnik dismiss Loughner threat?
I have a rule of thumb: if I write a post on a topic, and I get either Hate Mail or hate posts about it, then I’m onto something. Well, yesterday I wrote a post on Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s rather strange tactical decision to imply that the Chinese were behind Jared Loughner’s attempted Assassination of Giffords*, and I got both.  Apparently, the Left was not too happy at my suggestion that Sheriff Dupnik’s re-election chances have taken a fatal hit; which was perh

The Approval Rate of Governor Chris Christie
The Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind released a poll showing that the approval rate of Governor Chris Christie is high. The poll depicts that 53 percent of the Voting Age Population said that they support the governor’s decisions and policies. At the same time, only 36 percent do not support Governor Christie.  Peter Woolly, the poll director, said that the “Voters are focused on finances." He further claimed that the "Voters didn’t get a tax hike at the s...

Dem Ex-Rep. Calling For 'Civility' Once Said Florida's Gov Should Be Shot
A Democrat now prominently calling for "civility and respect" in American political discourse may want to go back to October and heed his own advice. In an op-ed published by The New York Times yesterday, former Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), who served in the House of Representatives from 1985 through 2010, wrote about lawmakers' security in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in Tucson, Arizona last weekend. In the piece, titled "Why Politicians Need to Stay Out in the Op...

Loughner shoots Palin and Angles political careers to death
It may be weeks, months or perhaps never that we find out what really motivated 22 year-old  Jared Lee Loughner to purchase a 9 mm gun with an extended clip and Murder real people in what he calls “conscience dreaming” [sic]. While he is being assessed, should we wonder why Sarah Palin removed her “crosshairs map” hours after six people were slaughtered and fourteen wounded in a spate of violence?      While a person as deranged as Loughner c...

Blood Libel
The drumbeat of blaming Conservatives for causing the Tucson shooting seems that it will never cease.   No evidence has yet been presented that Jared Lee Loughner had ever heard of Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh, let alone was provoked by their words. Yet the rush to conclusions proceeds completely uninhibited by any evidentiary requirement.  It seems sufficient for some to presume that Conservatives = guns/violence, therefore, Conservatives are to blame for any violent attack using a firearm. ...

Paul Krugmans totalitarian temptation
Found via Protein Wisdom Washington Examiner: Jared Loughner, the gunman charged with wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and murdering six others in Tucson on Saturday, held bizarre beliefs about “conscious dreaming” and government mind control imposed through English grammar. No serious person would connect his belief system to a mainstream political ideology. But then there’s New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. He places the blood Libel of blame for the Tucson murders square

Thank Goodness, Julian Assange Has Weighed in on Tucson
And he recommends we prosecute Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Mike Huckabee(?!) for “incitement.” A Wikileaks Press Release warns: “treat incitement seriously or expect more Gabrielle Gifford killing sprees.” “We call on US authorities and others to protect the Rule of Law by aggressively prosecuting these and similar incitements to kill. A civil nation of laws can not have prominent members of society constantly calling for the Murder and Assassination of oth...

"You can't outsmart crazy"
By Edward Copeland With those words, Jon Stewart gave another eloquent Speech at the beginning of Monday night's Daily Show, dispensing with humor to address Saturday's horrific events in Tucson. With each passing hour and day since alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner opened fire on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, critically injuring her, killing six and wounding 14 others, it becomes clearer that this 22-year-old man was not a political partisan but someone who was severely mentally ill. With Arizona...

State agency recovers millions for Michigan consumers
The Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR) recovered more than $27 million for Michigan consumers in 2010, the agency announced today. The OFIR has recovered more than $143 million since the agency’s creation in 2000. In 2010, $19 million of the consumer recoveries involved banking and Mortgage issues. The remaining $8 million involved insurance and securities matters. The 2010 recoveries resulted from more than 3,000 complaints resolved by OFIR during the year. OFIR consumer ...

Breaking: Straus elected Speaker of the TX House
The Tea Party rebellion seems to be dead on the House floor as the moderate republican Representative Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) retained his position as Speaker after being the sole Candidate.  After weeks of republican infighting, Representative Ken Paxton (R-McKinney) withdrew his nomination on the House Floor which cleared a Second Term for the San Antonio Republican.  Rep. Joe Straus was elected speaker, 132 for, 15 against, 2 present not voting (Representatives Hughes and Issac)....

Arizona's Anti-Westboro Baptist Bill Modeled After Ohio Legislation
TUCSON, AZ -- The Arizona State Legislature's plan to limit the ability of members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church to Protest the Funerals of Victims of the Mass Shooting over the weekend is gathering overwhelming Bipartisan support. State Legislators said that Arizona's bill will be modeled after an Ohio bill that was upheld by federal courts. The Westboro Baptist Church announced shortly after the Mass Shooting that killed six individuals and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (...

Congresswoman Giffords Has No Right to Look This Good
That's according to Dr. Michael Lemole Jr., chief of Neurosurgery at University Medical Center. He also says Giffords is breathing on her own now. [CNN] Filed Under: crazy in Arizona , Gabrielle Giffords, michael lemole jr. ...

President Obama Starts to Prep Speech Ahead of Arizona Memorial
President Obama has started forming the remarks he will give Wednesday night during a memorial service for the Victims of the Arizona tragedy. "The president began working on his Speech last night, and he is thinking through what he wants to say. He will devote most of his remarks to memorializing the victims," a senior administration official tells Fox News' Mike Emanuel. The University of Arizona is finalizing the details ahead service that will honor the Victims of Saturday's shooting that ki...

NASA still shooting for late February launch of space shuttle Discovery
NASA officials said Tuesday that they aim to have Space Shuttle Discovery ready in time for a late February launch — a move that could end months of waiting for the orbiter's final flight. Discovery was scheduled to launch in early November, but the flight was postponed after technicians found cracks in support beams that stabilize the shuttle's 15-story external fuel tank. Since then, technicians have fixed five broken beams. NASA officials said workers at Kennedy Space Center were on t...

King, Bloomberg Team Up to Call for New Gun Control Law
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Rep. Pete King, one of the few pro-gun control Republicans in the House of Representatives, today introduced new Legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government official. Bloomberg, a staunch Gun Control advocate, and Rep. King appeared together at a Press Conference in New York City just days after a gunman killed six people and wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords during a political event in Tuscon. More than a dozen people...