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Jared Lee Loughner in Court Today; Moment of Silence for Victims at 11 a.m.
Loughner, in a yearbook photo ​• A moment of silence will be held by President Obama today at 11 a.m. for the Victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is due in court this afternoon. He faces five federal charges -- "the attempted Assassination of a member of Congress and the killing or attempted killing of four other federal employees," along with additional state charges. Judy Clarke, who represented the Unabomber, has been recommended as his attorney. [The H...

Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Jared Lee Loughner facing five charges
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords fights for her life as gunman kills six at Shopping Mall in Arizona....

Pair describes taking down suspect in Arizona shooting
Dr. Steven Rayle, helped hold the Arizona gunman down and Patricia Maisch, grabbed the magazine cartridge. The two were among others who risked their lives in the face of danger after suspect Jared Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire in a Safeway in Tuscon, Arizona. They spoke to CNN's Kiran Chetry about their harrowing experience. "You just react," Maisch said about approaching the gunman. "You just do it." Watch American Morning weekdays 6am to 9am ET. For the latest fr...

"He Is One Of Those Whose Picture You See On The News, After He Has Come Into Class With An Automatic Weapon"
Email Sent! You have successfully emailed the post. One thing that seems clear about Jared Lee Loughner, the apparent shooter behind the Arizona massacre, is that he is not one of those people where people can say "nobody saw this coming." A classmate of his explicitly saw this coming. "We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me. He is one of those whose picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon. Everyone interv...

David Wynn Miller
The single weirdest, most straight-up nutso thing about John Lee Loughner’s worldview as expressed on YouTube seemed to me to be the stuff about how the government is exercising control over people’s minds via its control of grammar. That, I thought, is a political theory nobody would embrace. And yet the ace reporters at The New York Times found someone who does: This is similar to the position of David Wynn Miller, 62, a former tool-and-die welder from Milwaukee who describes him...

AZ Sheriff: Vitriolic remarks may have some responsibility in shooting
Stumble This! An Arizona sheriff responsible for investigating the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 18 others isn't backing down from assigning some responsibility to vitriolic remarks by public figures. Appearing on ABC News Monday, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik stood by earlier remarks that "vitriolic statements" made on radio and TV created a dangerous climate in Arizona that inspired 22-year-old Jared Loughner, the man accused of shooting Giffords. "You've been very busy...

Odd package closes Metro station near US Capitol
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Suspicious Package is disrupting commuters headed to the Capitol. The Capitol South Metro station on the blue and orange lines is closed. Capitol Police are tightly controlling where people can walk outside the station Monday morning. Riders trying to leave the station were initially redirected to the Federal Center Southwest and Eastern Market stations. Other passengers were later allowed to leave by taking an elevator and exiting about a block from the entrance where ...

Frightening, Twisted Shrine in Ariz. Killer's Yard
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 sitting atop a pot filled with shriveled oranges. 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...

Bill Kristol Says Liberals Attempts to Blame Palin For Giffords Shooting Akin to McCarthyism
More like a modern-day Lynching. A conservative pundit on Monday ripped liberals who have suggested that Sarah Palin is to blame for the shooting tragedy in Arizona. He said there is no proof that Jared Loughner, the suspect, was a fan of Palin or went to her website, which had labeled Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and other Democrats a political target last year; it was illustrated with a graphic of crosshairs that has triggered a political debate. Federal authorities on Sunday filed Murder...

In praise of connecting the mouth to the brain before using
"American Journalists know how to be exquisitely sensitive when they want to be. As the Washington Examiner’s Byron York pointed out on Sunday, after Major Nidal Hasan shot up Fort Hood while shouting “Allahu Akhbar!” the press was full of cautions about not drawing premature conclusions about a connection to Islamist Terrorism. “Where,” asked Mr. York, “was that caution after the shootings in Arizona?" — Wall Street Journal Initiating violence against government

Why Was Giffords Targeted?
Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged would-be assassin of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Leaving aside whether broader currents in American political discourse influenced Jared Lee Loughner’s attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s life, what exactly were the direct, proximate motivations behind Loughton’s decision to shoot Giffords in the head and then open fire on the crowd at her “Congress on Your Corner” event Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, killing six and wounding nearly two d...

New Evidence Jared Loughner Was Not Political....Just Psycho
The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has brought out all of the political cheap shots, with many on the left continuing to blame the incident on Talk Radio, Fox News, Sarah Palin and in the case of Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, GOP members of Congress rejection of the Obama agenda. However, the more the media and police find out about Jared Loughner the shooter the more we learn that he had to political agenda he was a very disturbed psycho. USA Today, reported that Loughner's teache...

Kristol: Palin Critics Practicing McCarthyism
Conservatives are circling their wagons around Sarah Palin and other incendiary figures on the right in the wake of Saturday's Shooting Spree in Arizona. The latest is Weekly Standard editor, and Palinisto Bill Kristol, who said that Palin's critics are practicing "McCarthyism." On C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" Monday morning, Kristol claimed there's no evidence to suggest that shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner is an acolyte of Palin's. "The attempt to exploit this tragedy is distasteful," K...

Court rejects case of US baby sent to Mexico
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas woman who wants to sue the Federal Government for sending her U.S. citizen baby to Mexico with the child’s Illegal Immigrant father. Monica Castro’s daughter was a day from her first birthday when federal agents deported the father to Mexico and sent her with him. Three years would pass before Castro and the girl, both U.S. citizens who were born in Texas, were reunited. Castro sued the Federal Government o...

Updates on the Gabrielle Giffords shooting for January 10th, 2011 (Photos)
Two days ago a gunman opened fire at a public event hosted by United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ).  Giffords was shot in the head, but subsequently rushed to the Hospital and is still alive following surgery.  A doctor at the Hospital stated he was “very optimistic” on Giffords’ condition.  Six other people were killed from the shootings, including a nine year-old girl and United States Federal District Judge John M. Roll. Fourteen people were ...

Minnesotan DFLers call for civility in wake of Arizona shootings
At the inauguration ball celebrating newly elected Gov. Mark Dayton on Saturday night, DFL members of Minnesota’s congressional delegation weighed in on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the deaths of six people at a constituent meeting at a Tucson, Ariz., Grocery Store. The members sent their prayers to Giffords and the other Victims of alleged shooter Jared Loughner and called for civility in political Rhetoric. None blamed specific political movements or ideologies for the sho...

Lawyer Who Represented Unabomber, Moussaoui and McVeigh to Represent Jared Lee Loughner
She's got an extensive record of representing the most repulsive people knwo to mankind. What could go wrong?The federal public defender's office in Arizona said it planned to ask San Diego attorney Judy Clarke to represent the Arizona man who tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others during a shooting in Tucson Saturday. Clarke, a former federal public defender in San Diego, has extensive experience in several extremely high profile cases. Prosecutors charged 22-year ol...

Updates on the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords
Some recent developments in the Assassination attempt of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday that left six dead and fourteen wounded. First, Giffords condition: Gabrielle Giffords was able to respond to simple commands -- like squeezing her hand or showing two fingers -- after two hours of surgery Saturday night, but her injuries are very serious and she remains in critical condition, her doctors said Sunday. [...] The chief of Neurosurgery, Michael Lemole, said that he is "cautiously optimisti...

Ruth Cavin, editor of mysteries, dies at age 92
NEW YORK (AP) — Ruth Cavin, a longtime editor at St. Martin’s Press who worked on hundreds of mystery novels, has died. Her daughter Nora Cavin says her mother died Sunday morning at White Plains Hospital in New York. She was 92. Ruth Cavin had continued to work at St. Martin’s until diagnosed with Lung Cancer late last year. Her many authors included Laurie R. King, Charles Todd and Steve Hamilton. Sue Grafton once called her a “soul mother to mystery writers.” Cav...

On Loughner
I didn't have Internet for much of the weekend, and so I found out about the lamentable acts of Jared Loughner rather late. Perhaps that's a good thing. You've probably already seen this, but I think it's worth checking out James Fallows' initial thoughts and his follow-up. It's my sense that you guys will want to toss this around a bit. Here is your space. As for my own thoughts, there are mostly hazy and subject to revision as more information comes to light. They are as follows: 1.) I would n...

Friend speaks of Loughner
Must-read Nick Baumann interview with Jared Loughner's friend Bryce Tierney. It offers a long glimpse into Loughner's years-long on and off focus on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, his increasing nihilism and focus on an alternative reality, and how according to his friend, Loughner's paranoia grew more extreme after he quit drinking and drugs in 2008. Tierney, who first met Loughner in middle school, recalls that Loughner started to act strange aroun...

Ariz. Shooting Suspect to Appear in Court
The man accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and 19 others faces court Monday and the chance of the federal death penalty because federal workers like Judge John Roll were among his Victims. Rather than a politically-motivated vigilante, 22-year-old Jared Loughner seems to fit the profile of the crazed, obsessed lone gunman -- and in his case, an isolated, deluded, lonely gunman. "He was probably ostracized to a significant extent by other people and that means he's not going ...

Suspect kept dossier on politician and hid plans for assassination
Makeshift memorial ... outside Gabrielle Giffords' office. Photo: Getty Images THE man charged with murdering six people at a political gathering in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday appeared to have tracked his main target, keeping a dossier on the US congresswoman and plans for an Assassination in a safe at his home. Some who knew Jared Lee Loughner years ago had thought him on target for such an eventuality. ''We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me,''...

FBI shows Palin had nothing to do with it
Attention liberals, if you mentioned Sarah Palin in any commentary over the weekend or today about the shooting in Arizona, you owe her an Apology. You are wring. Plain and simple. No ifs, ands, or buts. Political Rhetoric and hyperbole had nothing to do with this national tragedy. Obsession did. And that obsession began long before Sarah Palin was selected as a vice Presidential Candidate. From the Wall Street Journal: TUCSON, Ariz. — Accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner appeared to have been ...

NOT FITTING THE NARRATIVE: Jared Loughner, Alleged Shooter in Gabrielle Giffords Attack, Described
NOT FITTING THE NARRATIVE: Jared Loughner, Alleged Shooter in Gabrielle Giffords Attack, Described by Classmate as “Left-Wing Pothead.” ...