Paltrow, Bush cousins victims in Arizona shooting

Paltrow, Bush cousins victims in Arizona shooting
FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2010 file photo, actress Gwyneth Paltrow attends the 44th Annual Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tenn. Gwyneth Paltrow is a cousin of the congresswoman who was wounded in Saturday's shooting that killed six people in Arizona. Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is the first cousin of director Bruce Paltrow, who is the late father of "Country Strong" actress Gwyneth Paltrow. "One Tree Hill" actress Sophia Bush also has a connection to the shooting. According to a Us Wee...

Paltrow, Bush cousins victims in Arizona shooting
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow is a cousin of the congresswoman who was wounded in Saturday’s shooting that killed six people in Arizona. Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is the first cousin of director Bruce Paltrow, who is the late father of “Country Strong” actress Gwyneth Paltrow. “One Tree Hill” actress Sophia Bush also has a connection to the shooting. According to a Us Weekly report, Bush is the second cousin of Christina Green, the 9-year-old who...

9-year-old Ariz. victim related to TV star
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Actress Sophia Bush says Christina Green, the 9-year-old shot and killed in Saturday's shooting rampage in Arizona, was her second cousin. Christina was one of six people killed in the shootings at a political event hosted by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. Also killed was Federal Judge John Roll. GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting Fourteen people -- including Giffords, who was shot in the head and critically injured -- were hurt in the shoo...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords And Gwyneth Paltrow Cousins: Report
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, shot Saturday, allegedly by 22-year old Jared Lee Loughner, is related to actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Entertainment Tonight reports. The show's website reports that Paltrow and Giffords are cousins, but have not met. Paltrow released a statement on Sunday, saying, "Although I have never had the pleasure of meeting congresswoman Giffords, my thoughts and prayers are with her and her family as well as the other Victims of this horrible act of senseless violence." Giffords i...

John McCain Cuts Trip To Latin America Short To Attend Memorial Of Arizona Shooting Victims
Senator John McCain is cutting his congressional fact-finding trip across Latin America short in order to attend a memorial service for those killed in the Tuscon, Arizona shooting that occurred this past weekend, Fox News is reporting. McCain - along with his wife, Cindy McCain - are planning to attend a service to be held on the University of Arizona campus. Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva , also of Arizona, has planned to attend tomorrow’s service as well, as will President B...

Democrats that are politicizing Arizona tragedy have ulterior motives
The tragic shootings in Arizona on Saturday that left a nine-year-old girl dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords severely wounded should have been a time to put politics aside and honor the Victims. Instead, many people on the left are capitalizing on this opportunity to blame Conservatives and the lack of Gun Control as contributing the tragedy. Let’s take Democratic Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for example. Instead of giving a fact-based Press Conference Sa...

Sen. McCain cutting trip short to attend Memorial service in Tucson
According to ABC News’, Matthew Jaffe, Sen. John McCain is cutting short a Congressional trip to Latin America to return to his home state of Arizona for Wednesday’s memorial service for the Victims of last weekend’s Tucson shooting. McCain and his wife Cindy will both attend the memorial service, according to the senator’s spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan. McCain left last Friday with Sen. John Barrasso on a week-long trip to Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Panama and Mexico, but no...

McCain cuts trip short to head back to Ariz.
TUCSON -- Sen. John McCain will cut short his week-long congressional trip though South America in order to attend Wednesday's memorial service here, his spokesperson has confirmed to Politico. President Barack Obama is heading to the memorial service on Wednesday as well. McCain is in the middle of five-country swing through Latin America -- with stops in Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Panama. But the senior senator from Arizona plans to attend the service honoring the Victims of what pe...

House unveils resolution honoring Giffords, others
The text of the resolution honoring Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) and others who were killed or injured in Tucson, AZ on Saturday has been released. The resolution also honors those who acted bravely to subdue the gunman. GOP aides say the resolution was constructed in a Bipartisan manner with special input from Giffords' office. The expectation is that Speaker John Boehner will bring the resolution to the floor on Wednesday soon after the House is gaveled into session at 10:00 am ET. The resolut...

McCain to return from overseas trip to attend memorial service
Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) will return from a congressional delegation trip to attend a memorial service for the Victims of a Shooting Spree in his home state that resulted in the wounding of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D).  Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for McCain, told The Hill he is cutting his trip short to go to the memorial in Tucson, Ariz., where the shooting took place. McCain is traveling in South America with his Senate GOP colleague Tom Barrasso (Wyo.) The two were scheduled to vi...

Congresswoman Says 'Job-Killing' Is Hate Speech
Following Saturday's tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, which led to the death of six people and the serious injury of 20 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, echoed the growing call for a more civil political discourse by challenging Republicans to change the name of their Health Care Repeal Legislation: "The bill, titled the ‘Repeal the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act,' was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it...

Gun control debate follows Arizona shooting
The National Rifle Association and Gun Rights advocates are trying to counter a new push for Gun Control in light of the Arizona shootings. The National Review is already taking issue with claims that had the federal assault-weapons ban not been allowed to expire in 2004, the shooter in Arizona would not have been able to buy the 31-round ammunition magazine for his gun. Not true, says the National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson. Under the old ban, Williamson said the 9mm Glock 19 pistol tha...

Arizona leaders play blame-game, but get it wrong
While investigators continue to investigate the tragic shooting that took place in Tucson last Saturday, leaders in Arizona have eagerly jumped on the main stream media’s overblown, detrimental, blame- game wagon. Only hours after the shooting took place, Pima County Sheriff, Clarence Dupnik argued that the “vitriol” of the Country's harshly polarized political climate was partly to blame, arguing that “unbalanced individuals are uniquely "susceptible" to vitriol.” ...

Congresswoman Giffords breathing on her own, doctors say
Arizonans leave offerings at a shrine to Victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Brad Poole, Reuters · Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 TUCSON, Ariz. — U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is breathing on her own and doctors on Tuesday were hopeful about her recovery from a head wound suffered in an Arizona Shooting Spree that killed six people. Ms. Giffords, a popular 40-year-old Democrat, remained in critical condition at a Tucson Hospital but is “holding her own,” re...

Sophia Bush Talks About Cousin's Death in Tucson
NEW YORK (CBS) One of Sophia Bush's second cousins, 9-year-old Christina Green, was among those killed in the Tucson shooting rampage on Saturday. The "One Tree Hill" actress spoke about the tragedy during an appearance on "Chelsea Lately" Monday night. PICTURES: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords "It's been, I think, a lesson more than anything for me and for my family that life is incredibly short," she said about her cousin's death, according to ET Online. "I remember hearing when she was born and it's ...

Arizona shooting of Rep. Giffords brings gun control laws under scrutiny
Seven years ago, former President George W. Bush responded to Gun Rights special groups, and in 2004, allowed the 1994 assault weapons laws to expire. Critics of the gun law roll back suggest that it allowed Jared Loughner, 22, to kill six people at a political rally in Arizona on January 8, 2011. Sixteen others were wounded, including Arizona Democrat, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head. Out of tragedy often comes progress. But will Tea Party Republicans surrender their ...

Colbert On AZ Shooting: 'Did We Pick Someone To Blame Yet?' (VIDEO)
Stephen Colbert last night started out on a serious note, offering condolences to the families and friends of the Victims of Saturday's Mass Shooting that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords hospitalized in critical condition. "We, of course, send our thoughts and prayers," Colbert said. He then added that now is not the time to "lay blame or politicize" the tragedy, only to follow by showing a handful of highly politicized pundits reacting to the shooting. [TPM SLIDESHOW: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: On...

Unknown militant group emerges; targets birthers, GOP
(Paulding County, Georgia) - Paulding County Republicans and birthers need to be on guard due to an unknown group calling itself, Militant Association of Democrats who sent letters, placed phone calls as well as death threats that included the words GOP and birthers through a sniper scope to the American Patriot Foundation. Two anonymous letters sent to APF from Richmond, Va. place "GOP" and "Birthers" in the crosshairs of a rifle scope alongside the exhortation "Load 'em Up!" These letter...

Rep. Giffords can breathe on her own
Published: Jan. 11, 2011 at 1:18 PM Flowers for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her staff are left on the east front steps of the U.S. Capitol Jan.y 11, 2011. UPI/Kevin Dietsch Ariz. shooting followed history of tension TUCSON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is being kept on a ventilator at a Tucson Hospital even though she is able to breathe on her own, doctors said. Dr. G. Michael Lemole Jr., the neurosurgeon who operated on Giffords, D-Ariz., after she was shot Saturday, said the b...

Boehner asks Obama to Jan. 25 State of the Union (AP)
WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) has invited President Barack Obama to deliver the State of the Union Speech on Jan. 25 to a joint session of Congress. In a letter to Obama obtained by The Associated Press, Boehner mentions the Arizona shooting that left six dead and 14 injured. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was critically wounded. Boehner writes that in the wake of tragedy, "we must never waiver from our obligation." The address will be Obama's second State of the Union spee...

Gabrielle Giffords, Christina Green & The Place The American Dream Went To Die
Like flies to feces, the Extremists who have so debased the American political system in recent years are feasting mightily on the latest watershed event out Arizona — the place where the American Dream went to die. The irony, of course, is that this debasement continues apace because the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to free Speech, no matter how vile, while Congress and Obama Administration, cowed by the NRA, all but assure the kind of violence that leaves a congresswoman with ...

Neurosurgeon: Giffords 'able to generate her own breaths'
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s breathing tube is still in, but she is “able to generate her own breaths,” the Hospital treating her said Tuesday. “We've been able to back off on some of that sedation and, in fact, she's able to generate her own breaths,” Michael Lemole, a doctor at University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., told reporters. “She's breathing on her own. In fact, the only reason we keep the breathing tube in is to protect her airway to make sure sh...

'The Green Hornet' Premieres At Grauman's Chinese Theater
Actors Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, and Jay Chou hit the red carpet Monday evening for the premiere of their upcoming film, Columbia Pictures' The Green Hornet, at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Also in attendance were director Michele Gondry, producer Judd Apatow, actor Edward Furlong and One Tree Hill actress Sophia Bush among others. The Green Hornet, which was co-written by Rogen, opens in theaters nationwide on January 14, 2011. To see who arrived in style, check out photos from...

`True Grit' rides tall with $15M and No. 1 finish
LOS ANGELES (AP) - "True Grit" has seized the reins at the weekend Box Office with $15 million, taking the No. 1 spot and becoming the first Western to top the $100 million mark since the 1990s. The film starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon bumped off Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller's comedy "Little Fockers," which was No. 1 the previous two weekends. "Little Fockers" slipped to second with $13.8 million, raising its total to $124 million. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, "True Grit" lifted its...

Movie Review: Country Strong
I am not a big Country Music fan, but after seeing this movie, I can honestly say I liked the music, a lot.   Maybe because it wasn’t twanging out of an am radio in an old beat up pick up truck with the windows down.  A good sound system can make a difference. I live in a westerny town that loves rodeos, Country Music and professional bull riding.  I counted 4 cowboy hats in the theater.  The audience was female dominated and I suspect the few males in attenda