Sarah Palin to Appear on Hannity Monday

A Climate of Slander
Jan 24, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 18 • By THE SCRAPBOOK Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Liberal pundits suffered a psychotic break last week, metaphorically speaking, of course. When a gunman opened fire on Representative -Gabrielle Giffords and a crowd that had gathered to hear her speak in Tucson, they were certain that Conservatives must, somehow, be to blame. So the liberal intelligentsia rushed to erect a gallows in the public square (metaphorically speaking, a...

The Arizona Tragedy and the American Reaction
The story dominating American conversation this week is the tragedy in Tucson, Arizona. In shock, after a mentally troubled assassin named Jared Lee Loughner shoots a round from his 9mm Glock through the brain of beloved Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and then turns his weapon on the crowd and kills 6 bystanders while wounding 13 others — America mourns. Giffords is alive today and fighting for her life, the extent of the damage caused by her wound still unknown. There are positive signs...

Police describe accused Arizona gunman's night
By Tim Gaynor and Brad Poole TUCSON, Arizona | Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:45pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Jared Lee Loughner, charged with killing six people and trying to assassinate a U.S. congresswoman in Arizona, checked into a motel, bought bullets and had photographs developed on the night before the shooting, police said on Friday. The New York Times said the roll of film had "multiple photos" of the 22-year-old college dropout posing in red G-string underwear with a Glock semi-automatic ...

After Tucson shootings, Sarah Palin isn't retreating, she's reloading (The Christian Science Monitor)
Say one thing for Sarah Palin: She heeds her own advice. Coming only days after Ms. Palin was drawn into the Arizona shooting drama, news that the former Alaska Governor and potential presidential aspirant will headline a gun-friendly hunting convention Jan. 29 fits her famous stump phrase: "Don't retreat, reload." It is a philosophy that defines Palin as a political figure and also points to how closely her own public persona echoes that of the American gun culture she promotes....

The Progressive Smear Machine Blames the Right Again
Check Michelle's post, "Blame Righty: A Condensed History": On Monday, as The Progressive smear machine worked overtime to pin the horrific Tucson massacre on Conservatives and to squelch political opposition by targeting Tea Party/limited-government Rhetoric, I published “The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010.” Today’s column provides another primer for the Amnesia-wracked blamestream media on just how widespread the Blame Righty me...

Lessons from a witch hunt
I shouldn’t even feel the need to write this, but alas I must.  Apart from the lessons from the tragedy in Tucson, there needs to be a retrospective of the reactions and the lessons that we can glean from it. A primary lesson is that of media reaction in and around Washington.  CNN in particular is guilty on this one.  They are emblematic of the wider problem.  Within hours of the shooting, CNN reporters began inserting the fact that Rep. Giffords was one of Sarah Palin...

There's a New Sheriff in Politics
The Thread is an in-depth look at how major news and controversies are being debated across the online spectrum. Tags: blogs, Internet, Media, tuscon shooting In his Speech in Tucson Wednesday night, President Obama called on Americans to expand their “moral imaginations” and “remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.” Well, never hurts to aim high. For now, at least, the president seems to have put an end to the...

Federal judge remembered as a fair jurist
A hearse carrying the remains of U.S. District Judge John Roll arrives at the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church before his Funeral on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. One day after mourning a bubbly 9-year-old slain during the attempted Assassination of a congresswoman, residents and fellow jurists gathered Friday at the same Tucson church to remember the Federal Judge. Judge John Roll, the federal jurist slain in the Arizona shooting rampage, was known for presiding over tough Immigration ...

Metaphors Don't Kill People; People Kill People
metaphor: a figure of Speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our god.” Sticks and stones might break my bones but words will never hurt me. ~Nursery rhyme The recent tragedy in Arizona managed to unleash the pundits on both sides of the aisle. In this world where there must be a root cause for every wrinkle in the landscape and every calamity that befalls us, eve...

The Tucson Massacres The Hall Of Shame: Liberals Who Used Tragedy To Smear The Right
G.I. Wood Shop Inc. Mrs. Peel Oh…My Valve! V The K’s Caption This! An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later. The massacre in Tucson was a horrendous tragedy. Everyone in the country, of every ideological stripe, should have been allowed to mourn the Victims’ deaths and injuries without the imposition of having to defend people who had nothing at all to do with it. But where normal people saw tragedy, the Far Left saw opportunity. They  jumped at th...

Bill Maher: 'Because We Don't Have Government Healthcare, That's One Reason Why a Crazy Person Gets a Gun'
CBS Touts Dem Congresswoman Using Daughter to Pin Shooting on Rhetoric: 'Mommy, Are You Going to Get Shot?' More and more, the idea that Bill Maher has his own television show to advance his insane theories should be worrisome to right-thinking Americans. Chrystia Freeland, Reuters: I'm from Alberta. I’m from Alberta. Calgary has a Muslim mayor. My Dad does have guns, but we have universal healthcare. And Canada is heaven for the Elizabeth Warrens of the world because it has...

Bill Maher: 'Because We Don't Have Government Healthcare, That's One Reason Why a Crazy Person Gets a Gun'
CBS Touts Dem Congresswoman Using Daughter to Pin Shooting on Rhetoric: 'Mommy, Are You Going to Get Shot?' More and more, the idea that Bill Maher has his own television show to advance his insane theories should be worrisome to right-thinking Americans. Chrystia Freeland, Reuters: I'm from Alberta. I’m from Alberta. Calgary has a Muslim mayor. My Dad does have guns, but we have universal healthcare. And Canada is heaven for the Elizabeth Warrens of the world because it has...

Wounded congresswoman regaining more physical function
By Brad Poole TUCSON, Arizona | Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:30pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords appears to be steadily regaining physical function and awareness six days after she was shot through the head by a gunman at close range, doctors said on Friday. Giffords, 40, is improving in her ability to follow simple voice commands, such as to raise her fingers or wiggle her toes and is opening her eyes more frequently, Dr. Michael Lemole told reporters at the Univ...

The Weekly Wrap
Today on the Dish, we followed Tunisia as its President dissolved the government, and a State of Emergency was declared. Larison stressed the importance of Tunisians deposing an autocrat on their own, without US intervention and Andrew debated Evgeny Morozov on how instrumentalTwitter was. We rounded up reax and reports from the ground in Tunisia here, here, and here, and the role of Wikipedia in the coup here and here. Sarah Palin said sorry seven times (last year), Limbaugh sunk to new lows,...

Palin will keynote Safari Club International convention
Sarah Palin plans to deliver the keynote address to the Safari Club International 2011 Convention, running January 26-29 in Reno, Nevada. It's important to note that Nevada is one of the key early presidential primary states. Safari Club International is an international organization composed of hunters and claims to be the world leader in protecting the freedom to hunt. SCI protects hunter's rights by actively lobbying on behalf of hunters at a state, provincial and federal level. They are comm...

Palin to speak at gun convention
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Safari Club International (SCI) gun convention on Jan. 29. According to the organization's Web site, the event is sold out. News of the Speech comes a little less than a week after the Mass Shooting in Tucson that left federal judge John Roll, 9-year old Christina Green and four others dead, and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 12 others wounded. A graphic featuring the image of crosshairs over Gifford...

It Did Not'
Jan 24, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 18 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. After a depressing week—a horrible shooting that killed 6 people and wounded 14 others, followed by days of demagoguery and idiocy surpassing even the normal standards of our power-without-responsibility punditocracy—recent days have brought encouraging news. The medical prognosis for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords seems more hopeful than had been thought likely. And the A...

Accuracy, Civility, and the Violent Fantasies of the Progressive Left
The problem here isn't really about "civility" or being nice, it's about accuracy and not treating your audience like you respect them . -- Matthew Yglesias Accuracy? On January 8th Yglesias was among the very first Progressives to allege Sarah Palin's responsibility for the shooting in Tucson. And by now the one thing we know with crystal clarity is that Jared Loughner acted alone, without a shred of incitement from the alleged "heated Rhetoric" of the political right. But read the whole thi...

Rampage prompts political maneuvering (AP)
WASHINGTON – Democrats, Republicans and independent groups across the ideological spectrum are seeking political profit from the shooting rampage that left six dead and Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wounded, often moderating their Rhetoric in pursuit of their goals. Often, but not always. Two days after shootings, the conservative Tea Party Express issued a Fundraising appeal that said accused gunman Jared Loughner's actions in the months leading to the shooting were "more consistent w...

Rampage prompts political maneuvering
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats, Republicans and independent groups across the ideological spectrum are seeking political profit from the shooting rampage that left six dead and Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wounded, often moderating their Rhetoric in pursuit of their goals. Often, but not always. Two days after shootings, the conservative Tea Party Express issued a Fundraising appeal that said accused gunman Jared Loughner’s actions in the months leading to the shooting were “mo...

Judge John Roll, killed in Tucson rampage, remembered as man of integrity
Tucson - At the U.S. Courthouse here Friday afternoon, the doors to the fifth-floor courtroom of Arizona Chief U.S. District Judge John M. Roll were locked. No one answered a buzzer to his office suite. The computer screens that ordinarily list cases were blank, and the hallways, usually bustling, were empty. This Story Police depict a busy, focused Loughner on morning of shooting The Tucson shooting timeline An ex-Weather Underground radical on the Tucson shootings and political violence The...

Is Help On the Way?
There’s still a lot we don’t know about the massacre in Arizona, but by now it’s quite clear that the alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, was mentally disturbed. In college, he was prone to surreal rants that unnerved classmates and teachers. While working at an Animal Shelter, he didn’t see why sick dogs needed to be kept away from healthy ones. Loughner’s friends were even aware of his weird obsession with Representative Gabrielle Giffords. (At one 2007 event, h...

GOP: Fanatics' bullets don't shape U.S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The United States' future won't be shaped by "the bullets of fanatics," Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said in his party's weekly address Saturday. Referring to last Saturday's Shooting Spree in Tucson that killed six people and injured 13 others, Flake said citizens shouldn't "let this inhumane act cow us," The Hill reported. Jared Loughner is accused of opening fire on an outdoor meeting hosted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. She remains hospitalized with a bullet w...

Bozell Column: No Tucson Lectures for 'Artists'
Within minutes of the news breaking that Jared Lee Loughner had killed six and wounded 12 in a rampage outside a Tucson safeway store, including a critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the news media immediately leapt to the conclusion that the harsh tone of our political discourse – led by conservative Talk Radio -- surely must be to blame. That narrative turned out to be hogwash, but another one has emerged during the investigation into Loughner’s psyche, yet virtually no one...

Obama: Time to tackle nation's challenges again (AP)
WASHINGTON – Citing "great challenges for us to solve," President Barack Obama is pledging to work with Democrats and Republicans in the aftermath of the Arizona shooting that killed six, grievously wounded a member of Congress and brought legislative debate to a virtual standstill. In his weekly radio and Internet address, the president moved to turn the page from the week of solemn observance for the dead and the Victims to the governing business ahead. "We carry on because we have to,...