Suspect in Arizona shooting held without bail

Adolf Hitler responsible for Arizona shooting?
While Victims of the Tucson shooting still lied in the Parking Lot, propagandists on the left started to lay the ground work in an attempt to spin the horrific incident into a rightwing self-fulfilling prophesy.  With no regard for the truth, a broad spectrum of liberals jumped on the political vitriol bandwagon attempting to connect Conservatives from Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh to the shooting.  However, to date the only information gleaned from the investigation indicate the discov...

Arizona Shooting: Boxer Calls For Tougher Federal Gun Laws
Los Angeles Times: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on Tuesday called for tougher federal Gun Laws, including banning large ammunition clips and federal regulations on Concealed Weapons permits, in the wake of the shooting rampage in Tucson that killed six and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) gravely wounded. Boxer, appearing at a Press Conference in Riverside, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation also should keep track of seriously mentally ill people with a history of vio...

Suspect in Arizona Shooting Held Without Bail
PHOENIX— The nation got its first look on Monday at the 22-year-old loner accused of trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Jared Loughner, head shaved, a cut above the right temple and his hands cuffed, scanned a packed courtroom and sat down. His attorney, who defended Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, whispered to him. The judge asked Loughner if he understood that he could get life in Prison — or the death penalty — for ...

Bill Proposed To Keep Protesters From Demonstrating At Funerals Of Arizona Shooting Victims
On the heels of the Arizona shooting that left six people - including a 9-year-old girl and a U.S. District Court judge - dead comes plans for a new bill that could effectively keep Protesters from demonstrating during or near Funerals and other such memorial services for the deceased. According to AZDailySun.com, legislators from both the right and the left have gathered enough votes to deem it illegal to “picket within 300 feet of any home, cemetery, Funeral Home or house of ...

Obama to offer thoughts and prayers to Tucson victims
President Obama has been out of public sight today, thinking about what he wants to say Wednesday night in memory of the Arizona Shooting Victims. The president and First Lady Michelle Obama will attend "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America," a service to be held at the University of Arizona Basketball arena. The service is scheduled to run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Tucson time (8-10 p.m. in the east). "The President thought it was important to visit the Tucson community since this tragedy touch...

Arizona shooting suspect could face death penalty
The 22-year-old loner accused of trying to assassinate a US congresswoman and killing six others, appeared in court, his head shaved, a cut on his right temple and in handcuffs. He stared vacantly at a packed courtroom and sat down to listen to whispered instructions from his attorney. Representative Gabrielle Giffords lay about a 100 miles away in an intensive care unit, gravely wounded after being shot through the head but able to give a thumbs-up sign that doctors found as a reason to hope....

Shot US politician can now breathe on her own
Gabrielle Giffords with her husband, NASA Astronaut Mark Kelly. Photo: AP The Arizona politician shot in the head in an attack that killed six in Tucson remains in critical condition but is now capable of breathing on her own, doctors said. "She's holding her own," said Michael Lemole, the head neurosurgeon who operated on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, adding on Tuesday that she was still responding to simple commands, a key sign for her recovery prospects. "In fact, she's able to generate h...

Halperin to Conservatives: Turn the Other Cheek
During a discussion on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Tuesday, the panel conceded that Conservatives and Tea Party Activists were unfairly scapegoated in the wake of Jared Lee Loughner's Shooting Spree in Tucson, Ariz., which killed six and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life after a gunshot wound to the head. Mark Halperin of Time just thinks Conservatives shouldn't bother defending themselves, so as to avoid further political escalation. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for t...

Adam Kissel: UC Berkeley Chancellor Blames Arizona Shooting on 'Hateful Speech'
Yesterday morning, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau e-mailed the campus community with regard to the horrendous Mass Shooting in Arizona that killed a Federal Judge, a 9-year-old girl, and several others while gravely injuring Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the apparent target of the attack. Like many others in the News Media and on blogs and Twitter, Birgeneau chose to put the blame for the shooting on the "climate" of Speech in Arizona, while lamenting what he sees as similar problems at...

Arizona shooting: Loughner 'may not be able to plead insanity'
Jared Lee Loughner may find it difficult to plea insanity due to messages he left before his alleged Shooting Spree....

Arizona shooting: Jared Loughner was urged to seek help
Jared Loughner was told he appeared schizophrenic and should "seek help before you hurt yourself or others" six months before his alleged Shooting Spree....

Neighbor: Parents of Shooting Suspect Devastated and Guilt Ridden
Crying nonstop since Saturday Associated PressPHOENIX - The parents of the suspect in Saturday's Shooting Spree in Tucscon are devastated and guilt-ridden, a neighbor said. Jared Loughner, 22, appeared in court Monday on federal charges that he tried to assassinate U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed a Federal Judge. He is also accused of killing five others and wounding or injuring 13 others. Loughner's parents, Randy and Amy Loughner, are devastated, according to neighbor Wayne Smit...

Neighbor Says Arizona Suspect's Parents Blame Selves
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 By Staff, Associated Press Phoenix (AP) - A neighbor says the parents of the suspect in Saturday's Shooting Spree in Tucson are devastated and guilt-ridden. Jared Loughner appeared in court Monday on federal charges that he tried to assassinate U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed a Federal Judge. He is also accused of killing five others and wounding or injuring 13 others. Wayne Smith, who lives across the street from the family, said Randy and Amy Loughner bla...

Federal Judges in Tucson Must Recuse Themselves From Shooting Case
U.S. District Judge Raner Collins ruled on Tuesday that Federal Judges assigned to Arizona’s Tucson division must recuse themselves from presiding over the prosecution of Jared Lee Loughner , the suspect in Saturday’s shooting rampage, Bloomberg reported. The ruling is connected with Ethics Rules that require judges to avoid the appearance of impropriety. Loughner’s lawyer, Judy Clarke , said on Monday that all Federal Prosecutors in Arizona should recuse themselves from the ca...

Tucson Shooting Reveals Return to 1990s Mindset in America
The public discussion again and again harkens back to the mid-1990s when the Oklahoma City bombing spurred the American elite to a lengthy discussion about the rise of radicals on the right. Reporters and analysts this week have endlessly reprised the arguments of 15 years ago. Will President Obama's memorial Speech at the University of Arizona evoke Bill Clinton's mix of sympathy and political accusation in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing? Is a toxic political climate to blame for se...

Obama Leads Moment of Silence after Shooting
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Lou Kesten, Associated Press In this March, 2010 photo provided by the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Giffords poses for a photo. Giffords was critically wounded during a shooting at a political event Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) Washington (AP) - A somber President Barack Obama led a moment of silence on Monday for a nation stunned by an attempted Assassination against an Arizona congresswoman that left...

Brewer: Arizona is a place of 'heroes'
Tucson, Ariz. — Gov. Jan Brewer made an impassioned defense of her state Tuesday in the same city where a local sheriff decried Arizona as a “mecca of intolerance and Bigotry.” “Since Saturday, all of us have read and heard a lot about the state of Arizona,” she said. “I want to speak to you about the Arizona I know, the place we saw again even on such an awful Saturday,” Brewer told nearly 700 civil and business leaders who had gathered for her Speech...

Tucson Shooting To Be Condemned By House
WASHINGTON — The House plans to vote Wednesday to condemn "in the strongest possible terms" the shootings in Arizona that killed six people and gravely wounded a congresswoman. The proposed resolution extends condolences to the Victims and their families, praises the emergency responders and expresses hopes that the injured will recover. The House originally had planned to vote Wednesday on the divisive question of repealing last year's overhaul of the nation's Health Care system. Democr...

Zev Yaroslavsky: A Time to Cool the Rhetoric
On Saturday morning, before she was shot, Gabrielle Giffords was performing one of her most vital duties as a public servant. She was meeting with the public. The Arizona congresswoman knew there were risks; last March, the windows of her office were shattered after her vote for Health Care reform. During her hotly contested campaign for Reelection, gun gimmicks and imagery abounded. On a map on Sarah Palin's political action committee's website, Giffords' district was among a number that had ...

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1. From the Baltimore Sun: If the cold keeps up, the Chesapeake Bay may freeze over. First time in 7 years. Which was 2004. Which was one of those Hottest Years Ever. Under tough luck, you stole the Browns rule… GOOD. 2. From the Associated Press: “The Food and Drug Administration, which has long maintained that the Supreme Court freed it from any authority to regulate drugs used in executions, has quietly helped Arizona and California obtain a quick overseas source of lethal sodiu...

Suspect in Arizona shootings appears in court
By David Schwartz PHOENIX, Arizona | Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:42pm EST PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - A troubled 22-year-old College Dropout made his first court appearance on Monday on five federal charges, including the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remained in critical condition with a bullet wound to the head. His hands manacled together, Jared Lee Loughner said understood the charges against him that stem from a Shooting Spree in Tucson on Saturday that left s...

Suspect in Arizona shootings appears in court
By David Schwartz PHOENIX, Arizona | Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:42pm EST PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - A troubled 22-year-old College Dropout made his first court appearance on Monday on five federal charges, including the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remained in critical condition with a bullet wound to the head. His hands manacled together, Jared Lee Loughner said understood the charges against him that stem from a Shooting Spree in Tucson on Saturday that left s...

The Note: 2012 Politics Gets Tangled In Arizona Shooting Aftermath
By MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER The place that Sarah Palin has occupied in the debate about civility in politics in the aftermath of Saturday’s shooting in Arizona that left six people dead has inevitably dragged other potential 2012 contenders into the discussion. One of the first to join the fray is former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whose long-planned book tour kicks off this week. Pawlenty weighed in on the swirling Controversy about the appropriateness of Palin’s use of rifle cro...

Suspect in Arizona shootings appears in court
PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - A troubled 22-year-old College Dropout made his first court appearance on Monday on five federal charges, including the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remained in critical condition with a bullet wound to the head. His hands manacled together, Jared Lee Loughner said understood the charges against him that stem from a Shooting Spree in Tucson on Saturday that left six people dead and 14 others wounded at an event Giffords hosted fo...

Congressional leaders lay blame for Tucson killing
Partisan representatives and their aides have slung Rhetoric over the circumstances that led to the Murder of 6, and the wounding of 14 more, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, last weekend.  While Obama assured the country that “the perpetrator of a heinous crime” would be brought to justice, Democrats and Republicans slumped into their comfort zone.  Most media outlets have concluded that Jared Loughner, the man who held the gun, is mentally unstable, yet politi...