Remembering Arizona's Victims

9-Year-Old Girl Is Youngest Victim of Arizona Massacre
Christina Taylor Green, who was slain in Saturday's shooting at a political rally hosted by Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was born on Sept. 11, 2001. Her father John Green said, "She was born and she left us in very tragic moments in United States history." See photos of the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting in Arizona. Take the poll: Is Political Rhetoric to Blame for Arizona Shooting? Follow the money in Congress. ...

Obama calls victims' families in Arizona
President Obama is calling the families of Victims from Saturday's Mass Shooting in Arizona, and will continue to do so throughout the week, the White House said. "The President is assuring them that all is being done to try and get to the bottom of this," said a White House statement. "He is offering his full support and thoughts and prayers on behalf of himself, Michelle and the entire nation." Obama is also speaking with lawmakers, and receiving updates on the shooting that left six people d...

Knights of Columbus Mourns Death of Judge John Roll in Arizona Shooting
The Knights of Columbus, a prominent Catholic group know for its pro-life work, is today mourning the death of one of the Victims of the Arizona shooting Saturday. In addition to the death of Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Judge John Roll, who was nominated by former President George Bush, was killed along with four other people. Roll, who was the chief judge for the District of Arizona, was a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus, and was a charter member of a Knights council in ...

Breaking...Loughner conducted bizarre, Satanic rituals
Breaking news this morning provides further insight into the mind of Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter in the Tuscon massacre. Reports indicate that Loughner was engaged in Satanic rituals, according to the New York Daily News. A sinister shrine reveals a chilling occult dimension in the mind of the deranged gunman accused of shooting a member of Congress and 19 others. Hidden within a camouflage tent behind Jared Lee Loughner's home sits an alarming altar with a skull sitti...

Glenn Reynolds: The Real Victims of the Arizona Mass Shooting are Conservatives
courtesy of Teh Sadly In today’s Wall Street Journal, Putz says that people like Gabrielle Gifford’s husband Mark Kelly, in denouncing the “angry Rhetoric” on the right — are dishonest and indecent. To paraphrase Justice Cardozo (“proof of negligence in the air, so to speak, will not do”), there is no such thing as responsibility in the air. Those who try to connect Sarah Palin and other political figures with whom they disagree to the shootings in Ari...

Doctors: Giffords "Holding Her Own"
In this March, 2010 photo provided by the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Giffords poses for a photo. (AP) Erica Hill spoke to Dr. Michael Lemole, chief of Neurosurgery at University Medical Center and one of Congresswoman Giffords' surgeons. C.J. Karamargin, Communications Director for Rep. Giffords, talks to Erica Hill about the congresswoman's condition and the other Staffers who were shot. Dr. Jennifer Ashton spoke with Erica Hill in Tucson, Ariz on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' brain wounds ...

Tea partiers balk at blame
Phoenix — Tea Party Activists were solemn but defiant at a rally Monday at the Arizona Capitol marking the opening of the new legislative session. Rally organizer Greg Western led a moment of silence, then read the names of the six Victims killed in Saturday’s massacre, in which Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) survived being shot in the head. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset “It’s a day that I will never, ever forget, kind of like the Challenger [space] inciden...

Hinojosa voices support for bill that curbs threatening speech against lawmakers
Chris Moody is a political reporter for the Daily Caller from San Diego, California. Before joining the Daily Caller, Moody was the Manager of New Media at a think tank in Washington DC, a freelance writer and a commercial Fisherman in Alaska. He is currently a graduate Student at Johns Hopkins University and lives in downtown Washington DC. Texas Democrat Rep. Rubén Hinojosa said Monday that he is open to joining Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Robert Brady in support of a bill to curb Speech t...

A Moment of Silence (VIDEO) led by President Obama
President Barack Obama led a moment of silence on Monday morning for a saddened, shocked nation that was subjected to an attempted Assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords .  The Assassination attempt resulted in the Murder of 6 individuals and the injury of 14 others.  At 11:00AM, the President and First Lady Michelle Obama entered the south lawn of the White House, stood side-by-side with hands clasped in front of them, heads down, and eyes closed for one minut...

Holding Giffordss Hands
“It sounds simple to raise fingers and squeeze hands,” a neurosurgeon told a reporter for the Times, who’d asked about Gabrielle Giffords. But it isn’t, the doctor said; it’s a complicated thing, and implies a good deal about the state your brain is in. Moving your fingers to a certain part of a pistol and squeezing the trigger; hearing someone ask you to hold on and hold tighter, and doing so. Giffords, thankfully, has begun to do the second of those, and is respon...

Giffords Intern Talks Tucson Tragedy
College junior Daniel Hernandez was just days on the job when the shooting took place. He rushed in to help Victims including Democratic Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. See photos of the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting in Arizona. Take the poll: Is Political Rhetoric to Blame for Arizona Shooting? Follow the money in Congress. ...

Utahs Chaffetz says hell carry his gun
US House Representative Jason Chaffetz-R, Utah says he plans to take advantage of his Concealed Weapons permit, and will carry his gun more often. He made the decision following the weekend shooting in Tucson that critically injured Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords-D, killed six and injured 13 others. Representative Giffords was shot in the head, but is reportedly "holding her own." Chaffetz says he has a Glock 23 and has carried the gun in Utah but has yet to do so in Washington DC. Ho...

Man Who Helped Tackle Arizona Shooter: 'Something Had To Be Done'
What is this? "Something had to be done," 71-year-old retired Army Col. Bill Badger told ABC-TV's Good Morning America today about his role in stopping the gunman who killed six people and wounded another 14 Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., at a community event held by Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. We posted earlier about 61-year-old Patricia Maisch, who grabbed an ammunition clip that the gunman was trying to get to. Now there's more about the heroes on the scene. Badger told GMA that another m...

Man Who Helped Tackle Arizona Shooter: 'Something Had To Be Done'
What is this? "Something had to be done," 71-year-old retired Army Col. Bill Badger told ABC-TV's Good Morning America today about his role in stopping the gunman who killed six people and wounded another 14 Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., at a community event held by Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. We posted earlier about 61-year-old Patricia Maisch, who grabbed an ammunition clip that the gunman was trying to get to. Now there's more about the heroes on the scene. Badger told GMA that another m...

Moment of silence honors Arizona victims
President Barack Obama led the country in a moment of silence for the Victims of the Arizona shootings on Monday, standing with First Lady Michelle Obama outside the White House as a bell tolled three times. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, hundreds of congressional staff members gathered at the same time, 11 a.m, on the east steps of the Capitol for their own tribute to the slain staff members of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and to Giffords herself, who remains in critical condition at a T...

We Can Not Fear Free and Open Debate
My family and I were shocked and saddened when we learned of the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, her staff and constituents. Gabrielle is a hard worker, a talented legislator and a genuinely dear person. She is universally liked in the House and every member who served with her feels deeply for her, her family and all those involved. We are praying for her recovery, the recovery of all those injured and comfort for the families of the fallen. This attack was an unspeakable act of violence a...

Eric Boehlert: The Right's Rising Tide of Violent Rhetoric
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords appears be the latest Victim of anti-government violence that has taken hold in America since 2009. It's a wave of violence that's cresting along with a tide of hateful, insurrectionist Rhetoric that far too many Conservatives refuse to condemn. Instead, the toxic talk is routinely defended as being nothing more than spirited debate. It's not. It's deadly. And until those in positions of power say so, the dangerous Rhetoric is likely to continue. Whether that Rhetoric ...

Obama: Rep. Giffords is still fighting and so are others who were shot in Arizona
Obama: Rep. Giffords is ’still fighting’ and so are others who were shot in Arizona WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama: Rep. Giffords is ’still fighting’ and so are others who were shot in Arizona....

President Obama hosts moment of silence for Tucson victims (Slideshow, Video)
Today President Obama hosted a moment of silence for the Victims of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona two days ago.  Six people were killed and 14 were injured at a public even hosted by United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ).  Members of the White House Staff gathered on the South Lawn, and members of Congress simultaneously gathered on the steps of the Capitol Building.  A slideshow of the moment of silence and video can be seen on the left.  I have included th...

Doctors: Giffords making progress, but 'not out of the woods'
Doctors for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) said the congresswoman is making good progress but that the next few days are critical. In a Press Conference aired Monday on MSNBC, University Medical Center Trauma and Critical Care Director Peter Rhee and UMC Chief of Neurosurgery Michael Lemole said signs were good so far concerning Giffords's recovery but that the next few days are important. Giffords, who was shot at close range in the head Saturday at a political event outside a grocery stor...

Giffords wrote of need to 'tone our rhetoric and partisanship down' on eve of shooting
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) wrote of the need to "tone our Rhetoric and Partisanship down" the day before having been shot. Giffords e-mailed outgoing Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson (R), who will become director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics, on Friday to offer congratulations on the new position, and urge him to use his new job to "promote centrism and moderation," according to a copy of the e-mail published by cn|2 Politics on Monday, and flagged by The Huffi...

Climate of Hate?: Murdered Judge Was w/ Giffords About Illegal Alien Prob
The most notable thing about Saturday’s Safeway massacre, aside from the lives tragically lost, is the plethora of hypocrites and blame-gamer attention whores who’ve predictably crawled out from under their rocks. As I noted Saturday evening, ABC News and the other Mainstream Media outlets wasted no time blaming Saturday’s Safeway massacre by Jared Lee Loughner on supporters of Arizona’s Immigration law and secure borders .  And you’ve seen the rest of the left...

Politicos Ben Smith gives credence to baseless SPLC comments on Tea Party connection in Arizona shooting
Matthew Boyle is a contributing reporter at The Daily Caller. In a column published late Sunday night, Politico’s Ben Smith quoted a Political Activist at the Southern Poverty Law Center as a source to link the weekend shooting in Arizona to mainstream Conservatism. SPLC’s Mark Potok told Smith that the connection is through Far Right-wing Activist David Wynn Miller. Miller is a former Milwaukee welder who has declared himself the “King of Hawaii.” He’s associated w...

Lawyers For 'Unabomber,' White Supremacist To Represent Jared Lee Loughner
The Federal Public Defender's Office on Monday requested that the court appoint Judy Clarke and Mark Fleming to represent Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect allegedly behind the Mass Shooting on Saturday that killed a Federal Judge and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). Clarke previously represented "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and assisted in the case of confessed al Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui. Fleming represented Aryan Brotherhood defendant Travis Dally in a federal capital mu...

Congresswomans condition stable; 8 hospitalized
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Doctors are breathing a sigh of relief as Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords reaches a second day since her surgery without increased swelling in her brain. Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Lemole of Tucson’s University Medical Center says Giffords is still responding to doctors and her condition is stable. Her brain remains swollen, but the pressure hasn’t increased. He says they’re much more optimistic. Of those injured in the deadly shooting Saturday in Tucso...