Obama: 'Such a Senseless and Terrible Act of Violence Has No Place in a Free Society'

Obama Calls for Moment of Silence to Mark Tucson Shooting
Yahoo! Buzz President Barack Obama urged Americans to observe a moment of silence Monday at 11 a.m. EST for those the Victims of the shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., that gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords , killed six and left 13 others injured. The president also signed a proclamation calling for flags to be flown at half-staff, and the White House announced he is postponing a trip Tuesday to Schenectady, N.Y., where he was to visit a General Election energy division facility. “Tom...

Probe examines possible link to anti-govt group
WASHINGTON (AP) — An official familiar with the Arizona shooting investigation says local authorities are looking at a possible connection between Jared Loughner and an online group known for its anti-government Rhetoric. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation, says this is one of several motives that local authorities are pursuing in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. The anti-government organization American Renaissance is con...

Authorities: 2nd man cleared in Giffords shooting
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona authorities say a second man has been cleared of any involvement in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shooting. Pima County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Ogan said Sunday that the man, a suspected accomplice in the shooting Saturday, was not involved. The office has said a man possibly associated with the suspect who was near the scene was being sought. The man, who was photographed by a security camera, was described as white with dark hair and 40 to 45 years old. Five t...

Obama Calls For Moment Of Silence
(NewsCore) - President Barack Obama Sunday called for a national moment of silence at 11 am ET Monday to honor the Victims of the Tucson shootings and also signed a proclamation calling for flags to be flown at half-staff at federal sites until Jan. 14. The White House said the president will observe the moment of silence with staff on the South Lawn. In his statement Sunday, he said it would be be “a time for us to come together as a nation in prayer or reflection, keeping the Victims and...

Arizona Shooting Victims Include 9-Year-Old Born On 9/11
Victim Christina-Taylor Green Six people were killed and 14 others were injured yesterday after a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people at a political meet-and-greet outside an Arizona Supermarket. Among those killed were several septuagenarians, Arizona's top Federal Judge, a political aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and a 9-year-old girl who was born on September 11, 2001. The 9-year-old, Christina-Taylor Green, was the granddaughter of former Mets and Yankees manager Dallas Green. She wa...

Aide: Giffords is 'sort of alert'
Speaking on a rare Bipartisan telephone briefing, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ Chief of Staff Pia Carusone described Giffords’ state as “sort of alert,” in the wake of the attempted Assassination, which claimed the lives of six people, including federal District Court Judge John M. Roll and Giffords’ outreach director, Gabe Zimmerman. Carusone said Sunday that her boss is “sort of alert” when she is “taken off medicine” and that “when the...

Congresswoman fights for life after shooting
Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was fighting for her life on Sunday following a shooting rampage that left at least six people, including a nine-year-old girl and a Federal Judge dead. Ms Giffords, a 40-year-old member of the House of Representatives who first took office in 2007, was shot in the head at close range while attending a public event called “Congress on your Corner”, at a Supermarket in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday. EDITOR’S CHOICE Congresswoman fights for life a

Obama calls for moment of silence to honor victims Monday
President Obama called for a moment of silence on Monday to remember the Victims of the Arizona shooting in which six were killed and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). “Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern standard time, I call on Americans to observe a moment of silence to honor the innocent Victims of the senseless tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, including those still fighting for their lives," Obama said in a statement Sunday. RELATED ARTICLES House postpones healthcare vote...

"Can someone tell me why Sarah Palin is not in Jail?"
I want to piggyback onto Locutisprime's post where he had this (and much more) to say about yesterday's tragic events: The smoke had barely cleared and the dust barely settled before the liberal banshees were attributing yesterday's shooting in Arizona to their political enemies. And by this morning and by Monday at the latest, there is absolutely no telling the level of vitriol that this incident will have brought forth from the radical wing of the Democrat party and their friends in main str...

President Calls for Moment of Silence Monday at 11:00am ET, 8:00am Pacific
President Obama calls on all Americans for moment of silence Monday morning at 11 a.m. ET (8:00am Pacific) in honor of Victims in the Arizona shooting. “Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern standard time, I call on Americans to observe a moment of silence to honor the innocent Victims of the senseless tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, including those still fighting for their lives.  It will be a time for us to come together as a nation in prayer or reflection, keeping the Victims and their famili...

Obama Orders U.S. Flags Lowered, Moment Of Silence For Tucson
The American Flag flies at half-mast on the U.S. Capitol in Washington Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. President Obama ordered all U.S. flags on government buildings and properties lowered to half mast out of respect for the Victims of Saturday's shootings in Tucson. The White House also called for the observance of a moment of silence at 11 am EST Monday, "to honor the innocent Victims of the senseless tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, including those still fighting for their lives." The White House also postp...

Keith Olbermann on Arizona Shooting: ‘Violence Has No Place in Democracy’
From Olby: "Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our Democracy, and I apologize for and repudiate any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence. Because for whatever else each of us may be, we all are Americans." Good try, I must say, although the overwhelming bulk of the "special comment" blamed the right, despite the fact that the shooter was a Conspiracy theorist and atheist progressive and that Giffords was targeted by Democrats and Dai...

Surgeons say Giffords showing positive signs
TUCSON, Ariz. — Doctors treating wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords provided an optimistic update Sunday about her chances for survival, saying they are "very, very encouraged" by her ability to respond to simple commands along with their success in controlling her bleeding. The FBI said Law Enforcement could bring charges against the gunman as early as Sunday, and House Speaker John Boehner said normal House business this week has been postponed in the aftermath of the shooting. Surgeons s...

The Blood of Eden
Pollock's "The Deep" I caught sight of my reflection I caught it in the window I saw the darkness in my heart I saw the signs of my undoing They had been there from the start So many American bodies are sprayed with blood, their own, their lover’s, their mother’s and father’s, their brother’s and sister’s. Oh we are so certain of our innocence, but we are a nation tattooed in crimson, eyes to belly, with Jackson Pollock’s The Deep. We called it a N...

Palin Staffer: Giffords Attack Nothing to Do With Ex-Governor
Calling it "obscene" and "appauling" political hotsheetA Staffer for Sarah Palin is defending the conservative politician against attacks blaming Palin and the Tea Party movement for the horrifying Arizona shooting yesterday that left six people dead and Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition. "We have nothing whatsoever to do with this," Palin aide Rebecca Mansour said in an interview with radio host Tammy Bruce, a Palin supporter. There's no evidence 22-year-old acc...

Breeding Men Who Riot
James Delingpole of the London Telegraph does not mince words: “The Arizona shootings were like Kwanzaa come early for America’s liberal fascists:” How sick do you have to be to start making political capital out of the killing of six people including a nine-year old girl, long before anyone has the remotest clue what the murderer’s motives were, or his political affiliations, or his state of mind? Not sick at all, to judge by the response of so many US Tweeters in the imme...

Arizona Shooting: Photo Of Possible Second Suspect Released
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has released a photograph of a man they believe may be associated with Jared Lee Loughner: “He is described as a Caucasian male, approximately 40-50 years old, dark hair and was last seen wearing Blue Jeans and a dark blue jacket.” TUCSON, Ariz. — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remained hospitalized Sunday as investigators sought to understand what motivated a gunman to carry out an Assassination attempt on the Democratic lawmaker in a rampag...

Giffords Responsive, Following Commands
Looks like she’s able to communicate non-verbally, and that’s actually pretty incredible considering the circumstances. From NY Times: TUCSON — Representative Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat who was gravely wounded in a shooting rampage, remained in critical condition on Sunday but has been able to respond to simple commands, and her doctors described themselves as “cautiously optimistic.” [...] “Overall this is about as good as it’s going to get,”

Boehner Postpones Abortion, Health Care Votes After Giffords Shooting
Speaker John Boehner, the pro-life Republican who heads the House of Representatives, has postponed votes originally planned for next week on repealing the ObamaCare Health Care law and stopping funding of the pro-abortion group Planned Parenthood. Boehner put off the legislative agenda Congress had planned for next week following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona who supports legalized Abortion. Giffords was shot at a community event in her Arizona...

Sen. Paul Offers Diagnosis for Accused Shooter
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that, based on Internet writings attributed to a 22-year-old accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), he believes Jared Lee Loughner is a paranoid schizophrenic. Paul has a medical degree from Duke University. However, he was trained as an ophthalmologist and not a Psychiatrist. Paranoid schizophrenia is a Mental Disorder. “I looked at some of the writings of this young man, and from a medical point of view there’s a lot to suggest par...

Alan Grayson On Giffords Shooting
"I know nothing about the man who shot Gabby, and what was going through his mind when he did this. But I will tell you this - if he shot Gabby out of hatred, then it wasn't Gabby he was shooting, but rather some cartoon version of her, drawn by her political opposition. Because there is no way - NO WAY - that anyone who really knows Gabby could hate her or hurt her. She is a kind, gentle soul." - Former Rep. Alan Grayson, via Press Release. Labels: Alan Grayson, Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, T...

WAYNE ROOT: The Gabrielle Giffords Tragedy
The Gabrielle Giffords Tragedy: How Liberal Media Distorted the Message and Lynched the Tea Party As Americans and simply decent human beings, all of us should be shocked and saddened by Saturday’s tragedy in Tucson, Arizona. Nineteen shot. Six are dead — including a Federal Judge and an innocent nine-year-old girl. And a talented United States Congresswoman lies in a coma after being shot in the head. This is about tragedy and humanity. This isn’t about politics. There is...

Moment Of Silence
Statement just out from President Obama: "Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern standard time, I call on Americans to observe a moment of silence to honor the innocent Victims of the senseless tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, including those still fighting for their lives. It will be a time for us to come together as a nation in prayer or reflection, keeping the Victims and their families closely at heart." Obama will observe the moment of silence with staff on the South Lawn, according to the White Hou...

Truth and Liberty and Freedom: The Journey Of My American Odyssey As An American In This Great American Land Of Ours. Also. Free
If you’re like me, you are very excited that Tim “Black Hole of Charisma” Pawlenty has a new book coming out that, aw shucks, may or may not be a harbinger of his inevitable failed run for the presidency. An Evangelical Christian who has been an outspoken voice for the GOP, Pawlenty sat down exclusively with “Nightline’s” Terry Moran to talk about running for president in 2012, his chief potential rival Sarah Palin and President George W. Bush’s legacy...

APNewsBreak: Pawlenty memoir highlights faith
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Tim Pawlenty, trying to carve out a national identity as he tilts toward a Presidential Campaign, sculpts an image as a faith-based politician in a memoir infused with Bible verses and the flavor of his blue-collar upbringing. The former Minnesota Governor is out with "Courage to Stand: An American Story," a 301-page Autobiography that concludes with a stinging critique of President Barack Obama and a glimpse at what can be viewed as a 2012 platform. "If I ca...