Mother of 9-Yr Old Victim Speaks

Friends mourn 9-year-old shooting victim
TUCSON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Classmates of Arizona Shooting Spree Victim Christina-Taylor Green observed a moment of silence Monday for their friend and the other victims. The Arizona Daily Star reported the Mesa Verde Elementary School Students walked into the schoolyard and stood in a circle for the memorial event. A nearby fence was adorned with teddy bears and roses in memory of the 9-year-old Shooting Victim who was one of six people killed when a gunman opened fire at a meet-and-greet event Sa...

US falls silent for shooting victims
PRESIDENT Barack Obama led a minute's silence yesterday for the Victims of this weekend's Arizona shooting in which six people died and 14 were wounded, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. • At the White House, the Obamas observe a minute's silence in memory of the Shooting Victims. Picture: AFP/Getty Mr Obama said Democratic Representative Giffords is "still fighting" after being shot in the head. In total, 19 people were shot in the attack; among the six killed were Arizona's chie...

Loughner Mug Shot and Registered Independent
Does he look scary or deranged looking or anything like that to you, one side of his face looks rather sinister? UPDATE: From WashingtonPost Suspected Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner registered as an independent voter in Arizona in the fall of 2006, according to the Pima County Registrar of Voters. Loughner registered to vote on Sept. 29, 2006, identifying himself as an independent. Records show he voted in the 2006 and 2008 Elections but is current listed as “inactive” on the st...

Colorado Dem rethinks some public events after Arizona shooting
Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) is mulling whether or not he should continue with a series of public meetings billed as "Government in the Grocery" events.  In light of Saturday's shooting in Arizona that killed six people and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in critical condition after being shot in the head, a spokeswoman for Perlmutter said the congressman is weighing changes to the constituent meetings he has held in Grocery Stores in his district since 2006.  "We are going to be talk...

WaPo: Loughner was a registered independent, didnt vote this year
For what it’s worth. A commenter in Headlines jokes, “Hey, isn’t Sarah Palin’s husband an independent?” Loughner registered to vote on Sept. 29, 2006, identifying himself as an independent. Records show he voted in the 2006 and 2008 Elections but is current listed as “inactive” on the state’s voter roles — meaning that he did not vote in November. The political affiliations of Loughner, who is being charged by state and federal authorities ...

Is The Left 'Inciting Hatred'?
Rev. Franklin Graham who was in Haiti at the time of the attack told Fox News: 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. Investigators today released this Mug Shot of Jared Lee Loughner, the guman accused of killing six individuals and g...

Whos on tonight, 1.11
Fox News “The O’Reilly Factor” : Brit Hume, Bernie Goldberg, Juan Williams and Mary Katharine Ham “Hannity” : S.E. Cupp, conservative commentator, columnist and author; Peter J. Johnson, Jr., Fox News legal analyst; James Taranto, editor of The Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com “On the Record with Greta van Susteren” : Gov. Jan Brewer; Griff Jenkins MSNBC “Hardball with Chris Matthews” : Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D...

Town and Country aldermen weigh censure tonight
TOWN AND COUNTRY • Alderman David Karney admits that an e-mail telling a fellow alderman he “should be shot” came from his home computer. But he denies sending it himself. Karney says he met with about six residents in his basement on Oct. 11 last year. The residents were angry over how Alderman Fred Meyland-Smith was championing the hiring of sharpshooters to kill deer. One of them got on a nearby desktop computer and fired off an e-mail to Meyland-Smith, Karney said. The e-ma...

House leaders announce prayer service
House leaders have announced plans for a Bipartisan congressional prayer service on Wednesday to mark the weekend shooting that left Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded and six others dead. Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi say in a letter to lawmakers it is important to gather together and pray for the health of Giffords, those who died in the attack and those who were wounded. Giffords was shot in the head on Saturday when a gunman opened fire with ...

Rand Paul not a psychiatrist, but plays one on TV
Remember Bill Frist and his video diagnosis of Terry Schiavo, a diagnosis that proved enormously wrong? There must be something about being a Republican Senator and medical doctor, because now Rand Paul has gotten in on the act. Via Steve Benen, Roll Call is reporting that the ophthalmologist has made his own diagnosis of the Arizona shooter, on Fox News, no less. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that, based on Internet writings attributed to a 22-year-old accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle G...

Mug Shot: Jared Loughner - Registered.....Independent
'Jared Lee Loughner was a registered independent, didn't vote in 2010 election By Chris Cillizza, WAPO Suspected Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner registered as an Independent Voter in Arizona in the fall of 2006, according to the Pima County Registrar of Voters. Loughner registered to vote on Sept. 29, 2006, identifying himself as an independent. Records show he voted in the 2006 and 2008 Elections but is current listed as "inactive" on the state's voter roles -- meanin...

Tea Party Express Raises Cash Over Arizona Shooting 'Smears'
The Tea Party Express, one of the movement's largest national groups, blasted out an email plea Monday afternoon asking their supporters to send money to defend them from liberals who are allegedly "assigning blame" to them and Sarah Palin for the shootings in Arizona over the weekend. "It is quite clear that liberals are trying to exploit this shooting for their own political benefit, and they used deception and dishonesty to try and smear all of us and our beliefs," the email read, according...

What Sarah Palin Should Have Said
Coming from David Frum, this advice carries a lot more force than if it were coming from, oh say, Firedoglake or Crooks and Liars, e.g. (emphasis is mine): The shooting in Arizona shocked the nation into grief - and presented Sarah Palin with an immediate political problem: her now-notorious gunsight map.Palin scrubbed the map from her Palin PAC website, and then issued the following statement on her Facebook page: My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords an...

Calls for softer tone in politics gets cool reception
By Ed Stoddard DALLAS | Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:21pm EST DALLAS (Reuters) - Calls to reset the tone of politics in the aftermath of Saturday's shooting rampage in Arizona got short shrift on Talk Radio and elsewhere as left and right traded blame for the massacre. From the right, Bloggers and pundits labeled suspected shooter Jared Lee Loughner a "leftist" while critics of conservative super-star Sarah Palin accused her of creating a combustible political atmosphere with her behavior and Rhetoric....

Loughner makes his first public appearance after being charged over Tucson rampage
A mugshot of Jared Loughner released by Pima County Sheriff's Office. Jared Lee Loughner, accused of Murder and Attempted Murder of federal employees including US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, has appeared  in Federal Court in Phoenix and will continue to be held for future hearings. Loughner, 22, appeared before Magistrate Judge Lawrence Anderson on a five-count complaint that alleged he attempted to assassinate Giffords, who remains hospitalised in critical condition after Saturday's...

Fox News CEO Roger Ailes: Ive Told All Our Guys, Shut Up, Tone It Down
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes says he put the word out at Fox to “tone it down” and make arguments “intellectually” with less heated Rhetoric. “You don’t have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that.” But Ailes draws the line at any suggestion the passion of Fox News hosts had anything to do with the Shooting Spree in Arizona that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded: “That is just bullsh-,” he told Ru...

Iran: No Tight Jeans for You
Iran has enforced a stricter Islamic Dress Code at a number of universities including a ban on female Students wearing long nails, bright clothes and Tattoos, a local news agency reported on Monday. 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 Nati...

More Clyburn Asininity
This calls for the clown.  Ah, there he is. A top House Democrat said the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) should change how members of Congress are screened at airports. “I really believe that that is the place where we feel the most ill at ease, is going through airports,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who serves as assistant Minority Leader in the House, said on “Fox News Sunday.” Clyburn called for the Transportation Security Administration, which admin...

Delgation: Arizona shooting not a cause for beefed-up security
WASHINGTON-There was no extra security at the Milford Senior Center this morning when Rep. Rosa DeLauro spoke to a small crowd about the Republican effort to Repeal health reform. Similarly, Sen. Richard Blumenthal hasn't altered the arrangements for his two-week "listening tour" across Connecticut. And Rep. Chris Murphy hopes to hold one of his usual "Congress on Your Corner" events later this week. In the wake of the Arizona shooting rampage that targeted Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords o...

Jared Loughner Appears In Court, Giffords 'Still Fighting' (LIVE UPDATES)
PHOENIX — The nation got its first look on Monday at the 22-year-old loner accused of trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Jared Loughner, head shaved, a cut above the right temple and his hands cuffed, scanned a packed courtroom and sat down. His attorney, who defended Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mcveigh and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, whispered to him. (SCROLL DOWN FOR LIVE UPDATES) The judge asked Loughner if he understood that he could get life in Prison - or the death pen...

Fox News abruptly cuts away from Tucson vigil after mourner mentions Sarah Palin
© Fox News The Fox News Channel abruptly cut to commercial after a mourner attending a Tuscon, Arizona vigil for those killed in Saturday's shootings mentioned Fox employee Sarah Palin as one of the culprits behind a rising tide of violent Rhetoric in US politics and media. As they awaited the beginning of a Pima County Sheriff's Department Press Conference, Fox News host Shep Smith cued a live video from the vigil for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who sustained a bullet wound to the h...

Jared Loughner Not Tied To Anti-Semetic American Renaissance Group, Either
In the aftermath of Saturday’s tragedy, the most wanted commodity in the political world seems to be a shred of recognizable political identity to attach to shooter Jared Loughner , and so far no major ideology- neither left nor right- has sufficed. The latest group to be dismissed as an influence in Loughner’s heinous acts is the previously accused group “American Renaissance,” described by the Department of Homeland Security as an “anti-semetic” ...

Sheriff emerges as spokesman on political climate
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona sheriff helping to lead the investigation into the shooting rampage in Tucson has been thrust into the national political debate over his candid remarks about the shooting. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik on Saturday blamed the rampage in part on extreme political Rhetoric, Bigotry and hatred, especially in his home state of Arizona. Dupnik tells The Associated Press on Monday he was angry and heartbroken over the tragedy, and was simply speaking his mi...

Absolutely Everyone Thought This Kid Was Going On a Shooting Spree
The old cliche when a young man does a shooting ramapage is that nobody saw it coming. Nobody thought the kid they knew could do such a thing. Not the case with Jared Loughner. “Oh, finally. Was wondering when he was going to shoot a bunch of people.”—This is what the people who knew this kid the past few years are saying. But while this concerned some people, Arizona was never going to try to help him or anything. Personal responsibility! Fix your own Mental Health! Pew pew pe...

Congressional staffs weigh security concerns after Gabrielle Giffords shooting
District offices for members of Congress are sometimes in federal buildings or Courthouse complexes guarded by police officers. Most, however, serve the public in places that are easy targets for a shooter: a strip mall, a storefront, an Office Building. They are run by Staffers, many of them young, who encounter constituents far from the security cocoon of the member's Washington office. Many of these aides, including Gabriel Zimmerman , Rep. Gabrielle Giffords 's (D-Ariz.) community outreach ...