Suspect in attack on congresswoman faces 5 charges (AP)

Jared Loughner arraignment: Live tweeting the proceedings
The Post's David Nakamura is in Arizona and will be live tweeting on the arraignment of alleged shooter Jared Loughner. Loughner is scheduled to appear in Federal Court Monday at 4 p.m. ET. Loughner is charged with one count of attempted Assassination of member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the Federal Government and two counts of attempting to kill a federal employee. ...

Suspect in attack on congresswoman faces 5 charges
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Federal Prosecutors charged the suspect in shooting of Arizona congresswoman with attempted Assassination and four other charges. Jared Loughner is charged with one count of attempted Assassination of member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the Federal Government and two counts of attempting to killing a federal employee. Heather Williams, the first assistant federal public defender in Arizona, says the 22-year-old suspect doesn't yet have a lawyer, but th...

Despite violence, Rep. Shelley Berkley plans 'Congress on the Corner' event
Rep. Shelley Berkley will host a "Congress on the Corner" event Friday in Las Vegas to honor Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically shot last weekend at a similar event. "I'm not going to let any wing nut keep me from doing my job," Berkley said. Berkley invited constituents to meet with her from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday in her district office at 2340 Paseo del Prado, Suite D106. "To do less than that, to hide behind the walls of this office, is a huge mistake," Berkley said. Giffor...

Suspect in attack on congresswoman faces 5 charges
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Federal Prosecutors charged the suspect in shooting of Arizona congresswoman with attempted Assassination and four other charges. Jared Loughner is charged with one count of attempted Assassination of member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the Federal Government and two counts of attempting to killing a federal employee. Heather Williams, the first assistant federal public defender in Arizona, says the 22-year-old suspect doesn’t yet have a lawy...

Loughner: 'Social Outcast' With 'Indecipherable Beliefs'
What is this? As Jared Loughner's scheduled 4 p.m. ET court appearance draws near, here's some more of what's being reported about the 22-year-old community College Dropout who is accused of killing six people and wounding 14 others Saturday in a shooting rampage at a meet-and-greet in Tucson, Ariz., with Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: Also, the magazine writes, Tierney "describes Loughner as being obsessed with 'lucid dreaming' — that is, the idea that conscious dreams are an al...

Doctors: No Change In Giffords' Condition, Not Out Of The Woods Yet
Dr. Michael Lemole, left, chief of Neurosurgery, and Dr. Peter Rhee, trauma director, discuss Rep. Giffords' condition. (AP) NEXT » The medical team at University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson announced that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who was shot in the head on Saturday during an apparent Assassination attempt, remains in critical condition. Chief of neurosurgery Dr. Michael Lemole said, "At this phase in the game, no change is good, and we have no change," but added, "We're ...

Arizona rampage renews questions about gun screenings
Los Angeles (Reuters) - The deadly Shooting Spree in Tucson, Arizona, has renewed questions about a 13-year-old U.S. system that relies on personal Background Checks at the time of gun sales to keep Firearms out of the hands of mentally ill people. Despite ample evidence that the suspect in Saturday's rampage, Jared Lee Loughner, was engaged in bizarre, disruptive behavior well before the shooting, this did not stop him from legally buying the gun he is accused of using in the attack. "The trou...

Jared Loughner Faces Murder Charges Following Arizona Shooting
TUCSON, Ariz. — Federal Prosecutors charged the suspect in shooting of Arizona congresswoman with attempted Assassination and four other charges. Jared Loughner is charged with one count of attempted Assassination of member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the Federal Government and two counts of attempting to killing a federal employee. Heather Williams, the first assistant federal public defender in Arizona, says the 22-year-old suspect doesn't yet have a lawyer, but t...

Frightening, twisted shrine in Arizona killer Jared Lee Loughner's yard
Source: 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 sitting atop a pot filled with shriveled oranges. Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/01/10/201... ...

Arizona rampage renews questions about gun screenings
By Steve Gorman Los Angeles | Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:57pm EST Los Angeles (Reuters) - The deadly Shooting Spree in Tucson, Arizona, has renewed questions about a 13-year-old U.S. system that relies on personal Background Checks at the time of gun sales to keep Firearms out of the hands of mentally ill people. Despite ample evidence that the suspect in Saturday's rampage, Jared Lee Loughner, was engaged in bizarre, disruptive behavior well before the shooting, this did not stop him from legally bu...

Heroism on a Day of Horror
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. As Jared L. Loughner opened fire on Congressman Gabrielle Giffords and a small crowd of supporters, killing at least 6 and wounding many others, there appears to be at least three people who, in the face of horror, performed unimaginable heroic acts: Bill Badger, Daniel Hernandez, and Patricia Maisch. Instead of running away, Bill Badger, a former Army colonel, tackled the shooter, subduing Loughner and preventing him from hurting e...

Attempted incitement
If you weren’t on Twitter over the weekend, you’re smarter than me. The instant there were reports of a shooting in Arizona, the Left went ugly trying to pin it on the Tea Party. It was a wonder to behold. A giant steaming wonder. I couldn’t take much. After a while, even the pushback from our side began to feel a little opportunistic, so I just shut Twitter down for a while. This is part of a pattern since the rise of the Tea Party (helpfully recalled by Legal Insurrection): ...

Berkley plans meeting in response to shooting
Rep. Shelley Berkley is planning her own meeting with constituents as a response to the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman and 19 others in Tucson on Saturday. "The best tribute I could make to my friend Gabby is to hold my own Congress on the Corner event, and that will take place this coming Friday, 9 to 11, right here in this office," the Las Vegas Democrat said Monday morning, referring to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. "I think to do less than that, to hide behind these office walls, would be a...

Helpful Gun Group Has Solution: Force Gun Training On Congress!
If David Frum explanations for shootings aren’t dumb enough for you, the Arizona Citizens Defense League, a gun-rights group, has written up Legislation to end Assassination attempts directed at legislators: make “members of Congress and people who work for them” from Arizona undergo “Firearms training, using firearms confiscated by the state.” Sounds like fun! Thank God the fine assault weapons owners of Arizona have found a way to let crazed 22-year-olds shoot at ...

Ariz. Shooter Loughner Not Linked to Hate Groups
Source: CBS News The FBI continues to comb through computer files, notebooks, and phone records to learn more about Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner, but so far investigators have found no evidence that Loughner was connected to any hate groups or other fringe organizations, CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports. Sources tell Orr that Loughner was angry with the government and targeted Congresswoman Giffords because she "represented the government" in his eyes, but that his anger was a...

Could Anything Have Stopped Loughner?
The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six and wounding of 13 others in Tucson is one of those American tragedies that threatens to be interpreted according to what one wants to believe. The shootings will be argued over and debated as more information comes forward, but what seems unavoidable is that the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, was a nutbar through and through, and there was no way he could have been deterred. Arizona’s curious (to Canadians) Gun Laws that ...

Quote Unquote: Question from the Audience
Jared Lee Loughner's question to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at a rally of hers several years ago… "What is government if words have no meaning?" Yikes? ...

Did Dupnik dismiss Loughner threat?
I have a rule of thumb: if I write a post on a topic, and I get either Hate Mail or hate posts about it, then I’m onto something. Well, yesterday I wrote a post on Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s rather strange tactical decision to imply that the Chinese were behind Jared Loughner’s attempted Assassination of Giffords*, and I got both.  Apparently, the Left was not too happy at my suggestion that Sheriff Dupnik’s re-election chances have taken a fatal hit; which was perh

Suspect faces federal charges in Arizona attack
Source: AP TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Federal Prosecutors have filed charges against the supsect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Jared Loughner (LAWF'-ner) faces charges for trying to kill Giffords and for killing a Federal Judge and other federal employees. Invesigators say they seized evidence suggesting Loughner planned ahead. Invesigators said they carried out a search warrant at the suspect's home and seized an envelope from a safe with messages such as "I planned ahead," ''My assassi...

DHS Denies Loughner/American Renaissance Connection
Yesterday, I posted about a report from Fox News that indicated they had learned through an internal DHS memo, that the  DHS was investigating a possible link between shooter Jared Loughner and a group called American Renaissance.  Read about that here. Today, the DHS has denied that claim according to this article by Greg Sargent at the Washington Post: For the last 24 hours, the Web has been alive with speculation that the Arizona shooter has some sort of ties to a right-wing group called ...

How to Eliminate Inflammatory Right-Wing Rhetoric
I don’t have much to say about the recent Arizona shootings by madman Jared Loughner, except this: Many commentators almost as mad as Loughner have attempted to connect this lunatic’s actions to “inflammatory right-wing Rhetoric.” I won’t go into here the long list of inflammatory left-wing rhetoric (and actions) that spill over into open violence. (Michelle Malkin has a good summary — with detailed proof — if you’re interested.) Instead, I’ll make...

John Green, father of nine-year-old shooting victim: Tucson 'such a wonderful city.'
A voice of sanity emerges amid the swirl of blather, blame and bile in the aftermath of the shootings in Tuscon, Arizona. It is humbling that it is the voice of a man who has every reason to be bitter, angry, even insane with rage. John Green’s daughter Christina, nine, was killed by a lunatic called Jared Loughner. There are people falling over themselves to proclaim a “climate of hate” in America but Mr Green talks of how “our family” - his wife Roxanna, h...

Jared Loughner And The Sorry State Of Mental Health Care
There's a lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Arizona, but it isn't the one the media is talking about....

Arizona Shooter's College Professor Says She Called Police After Classroom Confrontation With Loughner Last Year
Says she saw warning signs, the Professor talks to CBS News cbsnews.com TUSCON -- Debbie Scheidemantel got to know Jared Loughner when he was a Student in her biology class at Tucson's Pima Community College last summer. The adjunct Professor says she once had to call police and have Loughner removed from her class. Scheidemantel shared her story exclusively on "The Early Show" with co-anchor Erica Hill. Scheidemantel said on September 23, Loughner was "very destructive" in class . She explai...

Jane Hamsher: Sarah Palin's Political Career May Already Be Over, But If It's Not, It Should Be
I automatically recoil at the suggestion that people should be held responsible for the actions of others, especially when it comes down to the influence they supposedly have on those they've never met. It's the kind of Lieberman-esque thinking that brought us the Culture Wars, the scapegoating of Video Games and a decade's worth of Ice-T demonization. As someone who did not emerge unscathed from that ignoble period in our history, I instinctively feel that the people who trade in those kinds ...