Expect tightened security

No major security changes for Ill. inauguration
SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois State Police plan to beef up security a bit when Gov. Pat Quinn and other state officials are sworn into office. Spokesman Scott Compton says there won't be any major changes in the aftermath of an Arizona Shooting Spree that left a member of Congress critically injured. But Compton says some additional officers will be present for Monday's ceremony. He says they will be visible to the public in an effort to discourage anyone who might be thinking about causing trouble....

Obama: US grieving, shocked over Ariz. rampage
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama said Monday the nation is still in shock over the shooting rampage in Arizona that left a Democratic congresswoman fighting for her life, but he commended the courage of the people on the scene who rushed to help, saying their actions reflect the "best of America." The president told reporters that Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others injured on Saturday are still fighting to recover. He said he anticipated some type of national memorial that wou...

Pakistani assassin pleads guilty
KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A Pakistani Police Officer pleaded guilty Monday to charges he murdered the Governor of Punjab Province over a law banning criticism of the Prophet Mohammed. Mumatz Qadri, 26, told a judge in Karachi he was angered by Gov. Salman Taseer's opposition to the law, which carries a death penalty, and shot him 26 times while Qadri was assigned to the governor's security detail. Qadri's lawyer told the judge he had acted alone and was not linked to any Militant group...

Report from the Hill
REPORT FROM THE HILL.... I traded emails today with a Capitol Hill Staffer with whom I speak regularly, and I think the aide's perspective is worth passing along. (I'm republishing the staffer's note in its entirety with permission.) To say hill staff is shook up after the weekend's events would be an understatement. We are family up here and I know I'm not the only who has already gotten requests from family to find another line of work. We have had this in the back of our minds for quite som...

Doctors: No Change In Giffords' Condition, Not Out Of The Woods Yet
Dr. Michael Lemole, left, chief of Neurosurgery, and Dr. Peter Rhee, trauma director, discuss Rep. Giffords' condition. (AP) NEXT » The medical team at University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson announced that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who was shot in the head on Saturday during an apparent Assassination attempt, remains in critical condition. Chief of neurosurgery Dr. Michael Lemole said, "At this phase in the game, no change is good, and we have no change," but added, "We're ...

Could Anything Have Stopped Loughner?
The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six and wounding of 13 others in Tucson is one of those American tragedies that threatens to be interpreted according to what one wants to believe. The shootings will be argued over and debated as more information comes forward, but what seems unavoidable is that the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, was a nutbar through and through, and there was no way he could have been deterred. Arizona’s curious (to Canadians) Gun Laws that ...

Massacre in Tucson A Sad Day for America: Salzburger Nachrichten, Austria
How responsible is right-wing Rhetoric for the Assassination attempt against Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords? According to columnist Thomas Spang of Austria’s Salzburger Nachrichten, where to pin the blame couldn’t be clearer. For the Salzburger Nachrichten, Thomas Spang writes in part: For months, the political right has been turning up the heat in the United States. In this poisoned atmosphere, a young man reaches for his gun. In the political discourse of the United ...

Obama: US grieving, shocked over Ariz. rampage (AP)
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Monday the nation is still in shock over the shooting rampage in Arizona that left a Democratic congresswoman fighting for her life, but he commended the courage of the people on the scene who rushed to help, saying their actions reflect the "best of America." The president told reporters that Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others injured on Saturday are still fighting to recover. He said he anticipated some type of national memorial that ...

Stop Blaming the Tea Party for the Arizona Tragedy
After the attempted car bombing in Times Square last year, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg publicly speculated that the attack had been carried out by "somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health-care bill or something." At the Nation, columnist Robert Dreyfuss wrote that "a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government Far Right" was probably behind the bombing. Countless others in the left-wing blogosphere joined the "blame the Tea Party" chorus-unt...

Barack and Michelle Obama presides over moment of silence for victims of Tucson shooting
Barack and Michelle Obama presides over moment of silence for Victims of Tucson shooting The President and First Lady observed a moment of silence following the tragic weekend shooting of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords. In all, 20 where shot, and six have died which included 9-year-old Christina Greene who was born on 9/11/2001. Judge John M. Roll, who was Chief US District Judge for Arizona, was also one of the six fatally shot on Saturday in Tuscon. ...

McCollum: Shootings Shouldnt Push People Away From Their Congressional Representatives
The shootings of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and nineteen others on Saturday in Tucson, Arizona has put some lawmakers on high alert and forced them to think twice about their comings and goings with the public. But since it is the public who voted them into office, and it is the public they represent in Washington, congressional members now find themselves caught in a conundrum; should they continue to interact with constituents or be carefully cautious of them?Rep. Betty McCollu...

Dupnik's Report: Yeah, Loughner Did Make Death Threats
I had left a question mark about this element of the charge. But as commenters, and Moe Lane, tell me, Dupnik himself confessed that Loughner had made Death Threats. He didn't say against whom, but I have a pretty good guess that Gabrielle Giffords was one of the targets. So... of course this is Sarah Palin's fault. Did you know when Sarah Palin resigned the governorship she immediately assumed the position of Acting Sheriff of Pima County? It's true; it's right there in the Alaska Constitution...

Jeb Quietly Eyeing 2016?
It seems to me that if someone as close to the Bush inner circle as Mark McKinnon is referring to Jeb as “45,” there’s a good chance that the GOP may see yet another Bush presidential run as early as 2016: The first Governor ever re-elected in Florida’s history, Jeb focused intensely on reform of education, the Budget process, civil service, and Health Care. These are issues that need to be addressed on the national level. He appeals to the establishment and the Tea Party m...

FLASHBACK: Do you remember the Halloween display Leftists put up in 2008 showing Governor Sarah Palin hanged from a rooftop?
Drudge Report yanked this story from the Memory Hole…where Leftists in California put up a “Halloween display” depicting Governor Sarah Palin hanging from a roof, execution style, her hands tied behind her back. I’ve told you repeatedly about a bar here in Boystown named Sidetrack (which actually happens to be one of the best Gay Bars in the world).  Its owners are great guys 95% of the time, but have a weird and twisted obsession against Governor Palin that also man...

Exclusive: Megyn Kelly Interviews Ariz. Shooter's Classmate
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. foxbusiness: Despite knowing better, we tend to buy high and sell low. But it might not be our fault. https://fxn.ws/dK1O4P washingtonpost: BREAKING: Judge sentences ex-House Majority Leader DeLay...

A Nation Reflects and Mourns Amid Calls for Unity
President Obama said that while the nation remains "grieving and in shock" over the shooting of 20 people in Arizona over the weekend, the courage shown by people who ran into the line of fire "speaks to the best of America." 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 ...

Arizona shooting: Don't blame Sarah Palin -- get public schools to discuss politics
Ever since Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Arizona Saturday, critics have been pointing fingers at Republicans for their nasty anti-government Rhetoric. They have a point. But the real problem is in our Public Schools, which have left millions of Americans unequipped to engage in rational politics....

Dad remembers slain aide as friendly, steady, kind
The father of a congressional aide killed in an attempt on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' life is remembering his son as someone good at connecting with people. Gabe Zimmerman had organized the outreach event at the Tucson, Ariz., Supermarket where he and five others were slain when a gunman opened fire on the congresswoman and the crowd. Ross Zimmerman told the Santa Cruz Sentinel that his son had worked with disturbed Children after graduating with an honors degree in sociology from the Univers...

Afternoon Open Thread
US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama observe a “moment of silence” on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 10, 2011 to honor the Victims of a shooting at an Arizona political event that left people six dead. Meanwhile, doctors were cautiously optimistic about the recovery of the shooter’s principal target, US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head by the would-be assassin. Good Afternoon. As you go through the re...

Disgusting Media Determined to Pin Shooting on Palin Despite the Fact That Liberal Killer Was Targeting Giffords Since 2007
The state-run leftist media is determined to take Sarah Palin down after the tragedy in Tucson this past weekend. The democrat-media complex wants to pin the shootings on Palin and the Tea Party despite that fact that the young leftist killer had been targeting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords since 2007. They won’t be happy until she’s dead and gone. Within an hour of Saturday’s tragic shooting in Arizona, the Twittersphere had quickly seized on a map put out by Sarah Palin’s po...

Chilling 9-1-1 Calls from Ariz. Rampage Released
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. pwire: Roger Ailes: "I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down... I hope the other side does that." https://pwire.at/fuzpdp We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is g...

Despite violence, Rep. Shelley Berkley plans 'Congress on the Corner' event
Rep. Shelley Berkley will host a "Congress on the Corner" event Friday in Las Vegas to honor Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically shot last weekend at a similar event. "I'm not going to let any wing nut keep me from doing my job," Berkley said. Berkley invited constituents to meet with her from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday in her district office at 2340 Paseo del Prado, Suite D106. "To do less than that, to hide behind the walls of this office, is a huge mistake," Berkley said. Giffor...

Loughner: 'Social Outcast' With 'Indecipherable Beliefs'
What is this? As Jared Loughner's scheduled 4 p.m. ET court appearance draws near, here's some more of what's being reported about the 22-year-old community College Dropout who is accused of killing six people and wounding 14 others Saturday in a shooting rampage at a meet-and-greet in Tucson, Ariz., with Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: Also, the magazine writes, Tierney "describes Loughner as being obsessed with 'lucid dreaming' — that is, the idea that conscious dreams are an al...

After Arizona Shooting, Group Pulls Advertising Campaign Targeting Kent Conrad, north dakota news
Ironically enough, as I type this an ad supporting Kent Conrad is playing on the radio right now (I’m on air with Scott Hennen), but the groups that are critical of Conrad have pulled their advertising out of respect to what’s going on in Arizona. It had been reported previously that an Iowa group critical of Conrad would begin running ads against him this week. A conservative group has shelved a planned ad campaign targeting Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad, pulling back from political a...

Engel Shocked By Attack on Friend, Says Heated Rhetoric and Crosshairs Doesnt Help Anything
After the swearing-in ceremony for state Comptroller Tom Dinapoli yesterday afternoon, Congressman Eliot Engel took a moment to reflect on the attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. "I'm shocked, (Read more...) ...