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Chatty Huffington Escorted Off Jet by Authorities
Lefty newshound Arianna Huffington was a bit too liberal -- with her BlackBerry use -- aboard a commercial jet to La Guardia over the weekend, authorities say. Huffington, 60 -- a noted author and columnist who runs the online Huffington Post -- was about to take off from Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, when she defied the United Airlines captain's command for passengers to turn off their electronic devices, prompting an angry man to get up from his seat in Protest of her continued chatting an...

Tucson Victim "Outraged" Giffords Was Shot
Eric Fuller, wounded during attack in Tucson on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, on "The Early Show" Jan. 11, 2011 (CBS) (CBS) Eric Fuller was shot in Tucson Ariz. Saturday during the rampage Jared Loughner is accused of carrying out. It left six people dead and 13 wounded. Fuller, 63, a Military Veteran, former limo driver and avid Tennis player, is a strong supporter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot through the brain. He cut a Tennis game short Saturday so he could hear her speak, only to ...

Arizona tragedy casts pall over stunned nation
The nation’s capital lumbered to work in a pall Monday, somber from the Congress to the White House, as official Washington absorbed an Assassination attempt against one of its own. Giving voice to the grief, President Barack Obama conceded that everyone was still in shock. By the end of the long day, Obama had secured plans to travel on Wednesday to Tucson, Ariz., to speak at a memorial service for the Victims of the deadly attack. White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said First Lady Michel...

Shock, anger and finger-pointing in Washington
On opposite sides of the political spectrum, President Barack Obama and new House Speaker John Boehner suddenly face the same challenge: rise above the anger, suspicion and hostility of their liberal and conservative bases to help a rattled nation deal with the deadly outburst of violence in Arizona. But what comes after the easy moment of silence? For now, both men are stepping past the question of what role, if any, the vitriol of the past election campaign played in Saturday’s shooting ...

Dr. Harold Koplewicz: Arizona Shooting: Treating Mental Illness Before it Kills
In the Mass Shooting in Arizona Saturday there were heroes who prevented even more bloodshed. We need heroes to intervene before lives are lost. The three people who wrestled Jared Loughner to the ground and disarmed him outside a Supermarket in Tucson are being hailed as heroes, and rightly so. They prevented further loss of life at the hands of the 22-year-old, who had, in little more than an instant, killed six people and wounded more than a dozen others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords....

Dorgan, Bennett Decamp for K Street
Two recent ex-Senators, Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Bob Bennett (R-Utah), are setting up shop at the law and lobbying firm Arent Fox. Not a Subscriber? To continue reading, sign up for a free trial. Rep. Sue Myrick waits to write a sympathy note in condolence books on Jan. 10 in the Cannon Rotunda. The books are for the 20 Victims of a deadly shooting in Arizona. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was targeted and critically wounded in the Jan. 8 attack, and six people were killed. Whether you're looking f...

The left stoops to new low with Arizona shooting
Despite the fact that the alleged shooter in Saturday’s massacre in Tucson appears to have no particular Party Affiliation, and police have found the Communist Manifesto and some sort of crude alter complete with skull and candles in Jared Loughner’s backyard…the leftwing media continues to blame this horrific event on the likes of Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. The liberal blame game began shortly after Loughner was taken into Custody, with Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik&...

Tactics backfire, Palin caught in her own cross-hairs
Sarah Palin ... has become both ubiquitous and isolated. Photo: AFP UNDER criticism that her political Rhetoric had helped create a climate for political violence, Sarah Palin addressed the issue in Trademark Fashion: with an email to the conservative commentator Glenn Beck. ''Our Children will not have peace if politicos just capitalise on this to succeed in portraying anyone as inciting terror and violence,'' she wrote to Beck in the email he read on radio. By managing her image almost exclusi...

Town and Country aldermen vote to censure one of their own
LAURIE SKRIVAN Deer appear in a field along Serendipity Lane at dusk early evening in Town and Country. Laurie Skrivan TOWN AND COUNTRY • For Alderman David Karney, the penalty for an anonymous e-mail telling a fellow alderman he 'should be shot" was public humiliation. Karney even voted to censure himself. "I should have known better," he said. Karney admits an e-mail with the threatening language came from his home computer. But he denies sending it himself. Karney says he met with abou...

After Shootings, Obama to Deliver Speech on Tolerance
Obama is likely to deliver a Speech about tolerance, a theme that could also be featured in his State of the Union address on Jan. 25. However, with liberals and Conservatives assuming their assigned battle stations over whether Gun Laws and partisan Rhetoric are to blame, the White House is Undecided about the exact message the president will send. It is not clear whether ideology motivated the alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, and Obama's advisers may conclude it unwise for the president to lec...

It's On: Pawlenty Jabs Palin Over 'Crosshairs'
Possible Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty took a jab at Sarah Palin, saying he wouldn't have used gun crosshairs to target Rep Gabrielle Giffords and others. "I wouldn't have done it," the former Minnesota Governor told The New York Times on Monday when asked if he would have created a map like the one posted last year on Sarah PAC's website showing crosshairs on lawmakers who supported Health Care reform. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance,...

HealthWatch: Rep. Giffords And Brain Injury
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (AP) NEW YORK (CBS 2) - It has been almost three days since Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head in Arizona. Tuesday Morning she remained in critical condition at a Hospital in Tucson. Dr. Max Gomez reports on how she was able to survive such a devastating injury and what will determine how much function she may recover. Giffords is heading into the most critical time in her recovery, when her brain will usually reach its maximum swelling after the ...

Krauthammer Diagnoses Loughner
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 gravely wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Saturday's bloody spree outside a .....

Obama White House also deals with tragedy at home
A White House already shaken by Saturday's shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., received another shock yesterday in an e-mail from acting Chief of Staff Pete Rouse: It is with great sadness that I share with you some news about our White House family. Dan Turton's wife, Ashley, died this morning at their home in Washington. Many of you have worked with both of them during their careers on Capitol Hill, and they exemplify the definition of public servants. We are making every resource a...

Accused gunman warned of brainwashing
Honouring the Arizona Victims ... Barack and Michelle Obama after observing a minute's silence with staff on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday. Photo: AFP Tucson: Online political ramblings of the man charged with the killings in Tucson bear a strong resemblance to the ideas of an extreme right-wing Conspiracy theorist who believes the US government uses grammar to control people's minds. The director of the centre's intelligence unit, Mark Potok, said Mr Loughner's YouTube rant that '...

Media Knew Killer Probably Wasnt Politically Motivated
Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com The Left has gone out of its way to blame Saturday’s tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on anyone to the Right of the Mensheviks. Among the first to pile on the blood Libel was New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who pinned the shooting on an alleged conservative “climate of hate.” Most of us countered that the murderer, Jared Lee Loughner, clearly seemed mentally ill, addicted to mind-altering drugs, or perhaps the Victim of ...

Belarus boy in custody tug-of-war
A woman in Belarus is battling to prevent the authorities taking custody of her infant grandson, whose parents are jailed opposition Activists. His parents, Andrei Sannikov and Irina Khalip, were arrested after an opposition rally on 19 December at which police clashed with Protesters. Observers have said President Alexander Lukashenko's re-election was flawed. Police arrested hundreds of people including opposition Candidates in the capital Minsk after the election. Many are still being he...

Student jailed over violent demo
A Student who admitted throwing a fire extinguisher from the roof of a Central London building during the Student Fees Protests has been jailed. Edward Woollard, 18, from Southampton, was among Protesters who broke into 30 Millbank and emerged on the roof during the demonstration on 10 November. He was jailed for 32 months after admitting committing violent disorder at an earlier hearing. Sixty-six people were arrested following the violent protests....

At least 5 dead in Abidjan clashes: Reuters witness
ABIDJAN | Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:12am EST ABIDJAN (Reuters) - At least five people were killed in clashes between supporters of Ivory Coast's presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara and forces loyal to Incumbent Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan on Tuesday, a Reuters reporter saw. Two bodies of Protesters and three police lay in the streets, all with gunshot wounds, after the Protests in the predominantly pro-Ouattara neighborhood of Abobo, as hundreds of police backed with armored vehicles and machine g...

The rise of the street left
Demonstrators outside Millbank Tower, in Westminster (Photo: PA) Riots, Flashmobs, strikes and demonstrations. The temperature in British politics is certainly going up. I’m starting to wonder if we are seeing the birth of a whole new kind of politics - the “street left.” Radical new Protest groups are acting together with a new generation of hard-left trade union leaders, plus the support of traditional hard-left parties like the SWP. It started with the Student riots. What did yo

24 Dead in Tunisia Clashes; US Ambassador Called In
Some 24 persons have been killed in clashes between Protesters and government security forces in Tunisia. The government has closed schools and universities “indefinitely” as a way of demobilizing youthful protesters. The Arabic press is reporting that Tunisia has called the US ambassador on the mat, and has called back its own ambassador in Washington, to Protest statements by US officials that were critical of the regime’s actions and called for adherence to Human Rights norm...

Kazakh police seize pro-democracy protesters
Pro-democracy Protesters have been seized in Kazakhstan, as a campaign to keep Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president, in power for another decade without Elections claimed the support of more than half the country's voters....

The Face of Hate
Photo:A Molotov Cocktail explodes in front of the San Francisco Chronicle offices during a leftist anti-war rally In light of the Democrat party and the media (but I repeat myself) spouting the talking points that Sarah Palin and Tea Party members have used inflammatory language, thus inspiring the Arizona killer on Saturday, I just thought I'd offer up a few reminders of who really tries to inspire violence (thanks to Nicole): -Chris Matthews fantasizing on air about seeing Ru...

Trial of British climate protesters collapses (AP)
LONDON – The tattooed Environmentalist, known to fellow Activists as "Flash" because of his supply of ready money, had a secret — he was an undercover policeman who had spent years infiltrating the movement. At some point, Constable Mark Kennedy had second thoughts about his mission. British prosecutors on Monday dropped charges against six environmental Protesters after their lawyer said Kennedy had offered to help the accused. Activists and politicians called for an investigation...

Pima County GOP Chair Opposes Anti-Westboro Law
TUCSON, AZ -- The leader of the county Republican party here says he's inclined to oppose the State Legislature's efforts to prevent the Westboro Baptist Church from capitalizing on Saturday's shootings at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) by staging Protests outside the Funeral of the shootings youngest Victim, nine year-old Christine Green. But that doesn't mean he's prepared to let the Protests go unhindered. Brian Miller, chair of the Pima County GOP, says the nascent ...