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Obamas Speech May Have Undercut Prosecution for Judges Murder
Josh Gerstein, Politico It may have been inadvertent, but a passage in President Barack Obama’s Speech to a memorial service it Tucson Wednesday night could undercut a criminal charge Federal Prosecutors have leveled at suspect Jared Loughner for the death of U.S. District Court Judge John Roll in a shooting rampage Saturday. “Judge Roll was recommended for the federal bench by John McCain 20 years ago, appointed by President George H.W. Bush, and rose to become Arizona’s chi...

Barack Obama calls for 'new era of civility' in Tucson speech
US President Barack Obama offered the American nation's condolences to Victims of the Arizona shootings at a memorial service on Wednesday night. • President Barack Obama with wife Michelle at the memorial service. Picture: Getty He also called on Americans to learn from the Tucson tragedy - in which six people were killed and more than a dozen injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, 40, by gunman Jared Lee Loughner, 22. The president said if lessons were drawn from the lives o...

Obama speech undercuts federal charge for judge's murder
It may have been inadvertent, but a passage in President Barack Obama's Speech to a memorial service it Tucson Wednesday night could undercut a criminal charge Federal Prosecutors have leveled at suspect Jared Loughner for the death of U.S. District Court Judge John Roll in a shooting rampage Saturday. "Judge Roll was recommended for the federal bench by John McCain 20 years ago, appointed by President George H.W. Bush, and rose to become Arizona's chief Federal Judge," Obama told th...

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This piece, titled "Obama Speech Undercuts Federal Charge For Judges Murder," contradicts itself: “Judge Roll was recommended for the federal bench by John McCain 20 years ago, appointed by President George H.W. Bush, and rose to become Arizona’s chief Federal Judge,” Obama told the crowd at the University of Arizona. Roll’s “colleagues described him as the hardest-working judge within the Ninth Circuit. He was on his way back from attending mass, as he did every da

Mrs. Obama talks tolerance in open letter to parents
First Lady Michelle Obama on Thursday urged parents to teach their Children tolerance in response to the deadly Tucson Shooting Spree that touched off debate about political Rhetoric. Mrs. Obama, who joined her husband at a memorial service for the Victims Wednesday, issued an Open Letter to parents. Children are struggling, she said, to make sense of Saturday's shooting that killed six and left 14 injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. "We can teach them the value of tolerance -...

Obama Speech May Have Undercut Federal Charges For Killing Of Judge Roll
Undoubtedly an honest mistake, but the way Obama characterized Federal Judge John Roll’s appearance at Rep. Gabrielle Gifford’s campaign event may undercut the federal charges filed against his murderer Jarred Loughren: It may have been inadvertent, but a passage in President Barack Obama’s Speech to a memorial service it Tucson Wednesday night could undercut a criminal charge Federal Prosecutors have leveled at suspect Jared Loughner for the death of U.S. District Court Judge ...

Obama praised for leadership after U.S. shooting
Sheldon Alberts, Washington Correspondent, Postmedia News · Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 TUCSON, Arizona — John Jewell did not vote for Barack Obama — and he never voted for Gabrielle Giffords either, for that matter. But as the 59-year-old Tucsonan paid silent tribute to Ms. Giffords on Thursday outside the Hospital where the Arizona congresswoman is recovering from her gunshot wound, he had a message for his president: Well done. On the day after Mr. Obama rallied Americans to beg...

Pres. Obama's Speech Undercuts Federal Charge for Judge's Murder
It may have been inadvertent, but a passage in President Barack Obama's Speech to a memorial service in Tucson Wednesday night could undercut a criminal charge Federal Prosecutors have leveled at suspect Jared Loughner for the death of U.S. District Court Judge John Roll in a shooting rampage Saturday. 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, express...

Did Obama Speech Undercut Federal Case Against Loughner? (No.)
At last night's memorial service for the fallen Victims in Saturday's tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, President Barack Obama spoke at length about the lives led by Jared Lee Loughner's victims, and shone a light on the extraordinary men and women who performed acts of valor during and after the event. But did Obama accidentally torpedo part of the federal case against Loughner? According to Josh Gerstein, concern troll, he totally did! "Obama Speech undercuts federal charge for judge's Murder," is...

A 9-year-old's death hits home for Obama
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is not known for showing a surplus of emotion in public, but toward the end of his Speech at the University of Arizona on Wednesday night, he paused for 50 seconds and appeared to gather himself. The audience was on its feet. Obama had just laid down a stark and powerful gauntlet, challenging the country to live up to the expectations of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, whose death Saturday was an emotional punch to the gut for so many people across the co...

Federal Judge on Arizona: Im Sure All Judges Are . . . Distracted
Yahoo! Buzz U.S. District Judge John Roll (pictured) was not, it seems, the intended Victim of the shooter during Saturday’s massacre. But you’ve got to think that the incident caused a Federal Judge or two to lose a little sleep mulling thoughts of just how safe they actually are. Writing over at the Atlantic (hat tip: Above the Law), Andrew Cohen says that “the Tucson massacre has raised legitimate questions about judicial protection and security.” Over the weekend, Coh...

Media meme o the day: Obamas speech was much more presidential than Palins
This is a useful way to wrap up (hopefully) the coverage of Our National Conversation On Rhetoric as it’s a stark example of how easily the Propaganda about Palin’s culpability in the shootings was accepted as a political fact of life. There are two ways a reporter could address yesterday’s oratorical bookends by her and Obama. One: “Hey, isn’t it insane that Palin had to give this Speech? People don’t normally have to point out that they’re not respon...

How the mental health system failed Jared Loughner, despite Arizonas lenient commitment standard (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller MSNBC's Chris Matthews is the left's version of a 'birther,' says Pat Buchanan Congressman's wife sentenced to jail for Tax Fraud Giffords making miraculous recovery, can move arms and legs Military commission prepares to recommend that women be allowed in combat roles TheDC on TV: Jamie Weinstein discusses Health Care on the RT's 'Big Picture with Thom Hartmann' As Americans grapple with the implications of Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, which ki...

Hundreds come out for Ariz. girl's funeral (AP)
TUCSON, Ariz. – The family of the youngest Victim of the mass shooting in Arizona held hands and paused in a moment of silence Thursday under the large American Flag recovered from Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks, and later escorted the 9-year-old's small brown casket into the church as little girls about her age cried. Several hundred other mourners, many in white T-shirts, lined a road near the church to show support. Christina Taylor Green was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and featured i...

Investigators look over bag suspect may have carried
TUCSON — Authorities are examining a black bag containing 9mm ammunition they believe was discarded by the suspect in the Assassination attempt on a congresswoman. Pima County Sheriff's deputies, working with the FBI to gather evidence from the shooting Saturday, said they believe a black diaper bag found Thursday morning by someone walking a dog was used by Jared Loughner, 22, who faces federal Murder and assault charges. The bag was found near the Loughners' suburban home, Sheriff's Deput...

Could AZ Shooter Have Been Stopped? Foxs Megyn Kelly Asks OReilly: Where Were The Parents?
Fox’s Megyn Kelly sat down with Bill O’Reilly to talk about the red flags and-possibly-missed signals that might’ve landed the Arizona shooter into police custody or a Mental Health facility before Saturday’s nightmarish Shooting Spree. Kelly outlined the low-level run-ins with police that suspect Jared Loughner is known to have had in the months ahead of the shootings, but concludes that minor drug arrests would not have aroused much suspicion-perhaps...

Students' rights weighed as colleges try to assess threats
A growing majority of colleges nationwide are keeping tabs on Students through "threat assessment teams" charged with identifying dangerous students, causing debate to erupt over how much power the schools should have as they try to flag disturbing behavior. Two states — Virginia and Illinois — now legally require such teams and 80% of colleges nationwide have started them since the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech that left 32 people dead. At Pima Community College in Arizona, a Behav...

9-year-old AZ shooting victim laid to rest
Stumble This! Tucson, Arizona - The youngest Victim of the Tucson shootings was laid to rest Thursday, after Barack Obama hailed the 9-year-old girl as an inspiration to US politicians to heal their poisonous divisions. Christina Taylor Green, who was among six people killed by a misfit gunman last Saturday, has become the heart-breaking public face of the attacks which unleashed a wave of soul-searching about America's political culture. Hundreds of people lined the streets as her small ...

Limbaugh's 'Straight Shooter' Tucson Billboard is Removed
Even gun metaphors need a rest now and again. In the wake of the Tucson, Ariz., shooting at an event hosted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Talk Radio host Rush Limbaugh has been emphatic in his assertion that he and other right-wing political figures in no way contributed to the mindset of suspected gunman Jared Loughner. But an unfortunate billboard advertising Limbaugh's show has given his critics some ammunition of their own. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to into...

Ariz. Shooting Trial Set to Become Long
(FOXNews.com) - As Tucson residents seek closure to Saturday's Mass Shooting with a series of Vigils, memorials and Funeral services, a new and likely painful chapter opens this month with a legal trial that could last another year or more, FOXNews.com reported Thursday. Early signals out of the courtroom in Phoenix suggest the case will be marked by a breathtaking number of motions as defense attorney Judy Clarke seeks to spare her client, accused shooter Jared Lee Loughner, 22, from the death ...

Mrs. Obama talks tolerance in open letter to parents (AFP)
WASHINGTON (AFP) – First Lady Michelle Obama on Thursday urged parents to teach their Children tolerance in response to the deadly Tucson Shooting Spree that touched off debate about political Rhetoric. Mrs. Obama, who joined her husband at a memorial service for the Victims Wednesday, issued an Open Letter to parents. Children are struggling, she said, to make sense of Saturday's shooting that killed six and left 14 injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. "We can t...

AlaskaDispatch.com: Guns culturally separate Alaskans from rest of U.S.
One thing most Alaskans know is that guns are tools. Many in the 49th state still live close to the land. They use guns to feed themselves by killing animals for food, and they use guns to defend themselves against Grizzly Bears that would like to make them food. Confession here: I once used a Handgun to shoot a grizzly bear off my leg after making the unfortunate discovery that not all grizzly charges are bluffs. Whether the gun saved my life or simply prevented the bear from ripping me up ev...

NASA names backup for wounded Giffords' husband
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday named a backup commander for the last scheduled Space Shuttle mission as a possible substitute for Mark Kelly, the Astronaut-husband of the Arizona congresswoman wounded in a shooting rampage last weekend. Rick Sturckow will train as backup commander for the Space Shuttle Endeavor, which is due to make its final launch on April 19 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, though Kelly remains designated mission command for the time being, NASA sai...

Michelle Obama sees lessons after Arizona shooting
Mrs. Obama joined her husband, President Barack Obama, at a memorial service in Tucson on Wednesday for the Victims of Saturday's attack outside a Supermarket, where a gunman killed six people and critically wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Obama said Children would struggle with questions about what such an event says about the world. "The questions my daughters have asked are the same ones that many of your Children will have - and they don't lend themselves to easy answers," the fi...

The Youngest Victim Is Laid To Rest
Arizona Republic: TUCSON - The family of the youngest Victim of the mass shooting in Arizona held hands and paused in a moment of silence Thursday under the large American Flag recovered from Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks, and later escorted the 9-year-old’s small brown casket into the church as little girls about her age cried. Several hundred other mourners, many in white T-shirts, lined a road near the church to show support. Christina Taylor Green was born on Sept. 11, 200...