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Chuck Todd: It's likely the shooter's reasoning won't ever fit into a tidy narrative of direct cause and effect.
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But his ramblings make clear he was concerned about a tyrannical government and the word tyranny drops easily from the lips of far too many of our politicians and high profile media figures, knowing full well it's just hyperbole designed to advance personal goals.
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And while I am reluctant to point fingers, it's clear that the blood is on the media's hands for failing to call out false accusati...
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"Sarah Palin is not to blame for shooting of Gabrielle Giffords; left-wing rhetoric just as vicious."
Ah, now you see why the accusations backfire (if I may dare to use that word): the occasion has been created for Conservatives to list every violent-sounding thing any liberals or lefties have ever said about anything.
Knock yourselves out.
If I may use the expression.
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After the violence in Arizona, a truce | Ryan Streeter
Tributes to Gabrielle Giffords outside her district office in Tucson, Arizona. Photograph: Kevin C Cox/Getty Images The psalmist writes (in Psalm 64): "Hide me from the Conspiracy of the wicked, from the plots of evildoers … They shoot from ambush at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear." I would go a step further and invoke the psalmist's use of "evildoers", a word the politically-motivated liked to chide George W Bush for using, but a word fairly straightforward to sc...
Lamestream Media Ties Shooting to Tea Party
“The shooter’s motivation is still unknown,” Katie Couric announced as she anchored Saturday’s CBS Evening News, but that didn’t deter CBS, nor CNN, NBC and ABC on Saturday night and into Sunday morning from forwarding attempts to blame Sarah Palin and, by implication, the Tea Party, for the Tucson 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 ...
Teleconnections Shoot your own foot
It is a sad day in America (and the world) when a lunatic in Arizona attempted to Murder dozens of people, killing six and hospitalizing others including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. If you pray, please pray for the Victims. It is even sadder when lunatics with agenda’s turn this into an anti-conservative political moment, taking gains from the nightmares of good people. This is exactly what has happened on leftist News Media, blogs and now — climate blogs. Fox ...
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In the aftermath of this weekend's Shooting Spree in Tucson, Arizona, leaving six dead and Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, a heap of criticism is being leveled at the right's queen of Controversy: Sarah Palin. The former Alaska Governor has been blasted for a map on her political action committee's website (since taken down) depicting gunsights over the districts of twenty lawmakers who voted for the Health Care Reform Bill. One such gunsight targeted Giffords'...
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Gitmo is Staying Open, No Matter What the Cost
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France: Sahel no longer safe after jihad attack
Hard to imagine that the Sahel was ever all that safe, but now the Jihad there is stepping up in intensity. "France: Sahel no longer safe after al Qaeda attack," by John Irish and Abdoulaye Massalaatchi for Reuters, January 9 (thanks to Ken):
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Basque separatists Eta declare permanent ceasefire
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Obama's Gitmo Melodrama
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Iran says it arrests Israeli "network of spies"
Tehran | Mon Jan 10, 2011 5:44am EST
Tehran (Reuters) - Iran has arrested a "network of spies" linked to Israel's Mossad intelligence service that was behind the Assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010, its state television reported Monday.
"The network of spies and Terrorists linked to ... Mossad was destroyed," state television quoted a statement issued by the intelligence ministry as saying. "The network was behind the Assassination of Masoud Ali-Mohammadi."
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ETA declares 'permanent' ceasefire
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Monday Open Thread
A hero from the Terrorist shooting in Arizona. Daniel Hernandez had been U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ intern for five days when she was shot Saturday outside Tucson. The junior at the University of Arizona was helping check people in at the “Congress on Your Corner” event when he heard gunfire. He was about 30 feet from the congresswoman. When the shots began, he ran toward them. “I don’t even know if the gunfire had stopped,” he said Saturday night as he kep...
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