The Note: Arizona Aftermath: What Will And Wont Change In Washington?

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...

Az Sheriff Blames Rush Limbaugh
The Arizona sheriff investigating the Tucson shooting that left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded had harsh words today for those engaging in political Rhetoric, calling conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh "irresponsible" for continuing the vitriol. 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 worship. Read more... We invi...

Moonbat Sheriff Dupnik Attacks Rush Limbaugh for Using Irresponsible Vitriol
(ABC News) — The Arizona sheriff investigating the Tucson shooting that left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded had harsh words today for those engaging in political Rhetoric, calling conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh “irresponsible” for continuing the vitriol. “The kind of rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh, in my judgment he is irresponsible, uses partial information, sometimes wrong information,” Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupni...

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...

Tragedy in Arizona
Gabrielle Giffords was doing what members of Congress do every week: She was home in Tucson to meet with her constituents. Today, Giffords lies in critical condition in a Tucson Hospital after one of those constituents opened fire with a semiautomatic Handgun. Six people died in the attack; 14 were injured. The madness at the Tucson shopping center Saturday morning raises old and troubling questions about gun violence in America and threatens a treasured American tradition: the right of the pe...

Tea Party Chair recalls the hate speech she endured during her own campaign
Article sent to [email protected] (read the full thing here): ORLANDO – One of the first things that Peg Dunmire thought of when she heard about the tragic shootings in Tucson, Arizona that critically injured a local congresswoman was the final day of her own campaign for Congress last November. On that single day, Dunmire and her staff and supporters watched uncomfortably as four men followed them from one event to the next. It was Election Day, and Dunmire 

Tea party group fundraises off of Giffords shootings
Stay classy, Tea Party: Tea Party Express raising money in aftermath of Arizona shooting The Tea Party Express, a California-based conservative political action committee, sent out a letter to supporters Monday requesting donations in reaction to Saturday’s shooting at a political event in Tucson, Arizona that claimed six lives. “It is quite clear that liberals are trying to exploit this shooting for their own political benefit, and they used deception and dishonesty to try and sme...

The Lefts Misfire
Attempts by America’s liberal establishment to turn the shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords into a indictment of right-wing fanaticism (and of the Tea Party movement in particular) appear to be backfiring badly. For starters, the facts that have emerged so far regarding Jared Lee Loughner - the alleged perpetrator of the Tucson killing spree - suggest that he lacked sufficient mental clarity to have formed anything resembling a rational ideology. On top of t...

The narrative of the hateful left
The Murder of six people, the shooting of twelve more, including Congresswoman Giffords, and the politization of the incident: Andrew Klavan writes about The Hateful Left Where incendiary political Rhetoric truly resides in America Indeed, the Left’s hysterical response to all who disagree with it—that they are Racist or sexist or “phobic” or somehow reminiscent of Hitler—has become so predictable that satirists, from the Libertarian Greg Gutfeld to the liberal Jon Stewart, h

Official: Obama to travel to Arizona on Wednesday
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and government employees observe a moment of silence on South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, to honor those who were killed and injured in the shooting in Tucson, Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., is in critical condition after being shot in the head. A senior administration official says President Barack Obama will travel to Arizona on Wednesday to attend a memorial service for the Victims of last weekend's...

Paul Krugman's totalitarian temptation
Was President Obama encouraging Murder during his 2008 campaign when he said, "If they bring a knife ... we bring a gun"? Was he encouraging political violence when he said more recently of the new Republican House majority that "we are going to have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill"? Of course not. Similarly, former Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski was speaking allegorically in October when he said Florida Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Rick Scott should "be lined...

Shock and silence: US honours shooting victims
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama observe a 'moment of silence' on the South Lawn at the White House to honor Victims of the Tucson shooting. Photo: AFP SOMBRE chimes rang out across a frosty Washington today, plunging America into a moment of silence, and President Barack Obama voiced a nation's shock over an Arizona shooting rampage. Mourners gathered at the White House, at the US Capitol, and at a Hospital in the southwestern state where lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords, the pri...

To Understand Assassination Threat, Look Beyond Tucson
Word of the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords outside a Tucson Supermarket, which left her in critical condition after a bullet passed through her brain, had barely broken before speculation erupted on the motivations of the man accused of shooting her and killing six others, Jared Lee Loughner, 22. Was Mr. Loughner a conservative or a liberal? What did he think of the Tea Party? How serious was his degree of mental illness? What role, if any, did heated political rhet...

Obama to travel to Tucson...
President Barack Obama will travel to Tucson, Ariz., on Wednesday to honor the six people slain by a gunman last Saturday in a Shooting Spree that gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to an administration official. Obama, who ordered a national moment of silence in memory of those killed by shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner at Giffords' "Congress on the Corner" event at a Tucson Shopping Mall, plans to attend some kind of memorial service, the person said. Details are ...

Insanity Defense Difficult for Loughner
Jared Loughner's mugshot. (CBS) (AP) WASHINGTON - In an earlier time, the emerging portrait of a deeply troubled young man might have given Jared Loughner's lawyers the basis of an insanity defense. But John Hinckley's successful insanity claim after shooting President Ronald Reagan led Congress to raise the bar, making the task harder. The Justice Department has not said whether it will seek the death penalty against Loughner, the suspect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the dea...

Armed citizen helped stop Tuscon shooter
The Tucson shooting will doubtless prompt calls for new Gun Control measures in Georgia and across the country.  Arizona, like Georgia, offers citizens the rights to own and carry weapons legally.  Georgia requires a Firearms license, but a new law in Arizona allows residents who are over 21 years old to carry weapons without a permit. According to the Wall Street Journal, Joseph Zamudio was legally carrying a 9mm semiautomatic pistol at a Walgreen’s near the Safeway store where ...

Could Arizona shooting have been prevented?
WASHINGTON - Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old Arizona man charged with killing six people and injuring 12 others, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, clearly scared more than a few people. Instructors at his college, as well as friends and neighbors, have said they expressed concerns about Loughner’s behavior in the months before he opened fire at a gathering at a Tucson Shopping Mall on Saturday. Could Loughner have been stopped? Psychiatrists see several problems: a lack...

Guest Post: Wow. Is Sarah Palin Running the American Taliban?
This guest post comes from a fellow Philadelphian, as well as former classmate of mine. I originally read this post as a note she had dropped on Facebook, but when I read it I was immediately taken aback and had to make sure our readers had the opportunity to see this powerful piece. Diva Bleu writes with passion and creativity and her points are hard to ignore. I hope you all enjoy this piece as much as I did. This should ruffle some conservative, Extremist moose fur, and I don’t care at ...

The exploitive rhetoric of tragedy
Some see no problem with fueling a mass panic over our 'political discourse' and using the deadly actions of a twisted soul as an excuse to tell political opponents to shut up. After all, unlike Sarah Palin's absurdly infamous Facebook map with crosshairs on Congressional Districts that some pundits have blamed for the violence, we have some evidence — suspect Jared Lee Loughner's own words — that these books were a direct influence on him. And to listen to partisan ghouls such as Ke...

Jared Loughner Not Tied To Anti-Semetic American Renaissance Group, Either
In the aftermath of Saturday’s tragedy, the most wanted commodity in the political world seems to be a shred of recognizable political identity to attach to shooter Jared Loughner , and so far no major ideology- neither left nor right- has sufficed. The latest group to be dismissed as an influence in Loughner’s heinous acts is the previously accused group “American Renaissance,” described by the Department of Homeland Security as an “anti-semetic” ...

Al Sharpton has more bodies attributable to his speach than Sarah does
It is obviously not just me that is so shocked at the events of Saturday January 8th, oh and the violence against a member of Congress during a meet and greet is shocking too.  It has been just over 48 hours now and the speculation on who is to blame for the violence that rang out in a Tucson Grocery Store Parking Lot is still going strong.  And if you ask me most, if not all, of the speculated blame seems to be severely misdirected.  Even Keith Olbermann who tried so hard to do i...

Arizona Rep. Giffirds shot; What is Next for America
In incidents such as this, the lesser first seek to find blame.  This from Pima County Sheriff who quickly exploited the tragedy to advance an agenda against the Tea Party which the perpetrator had no affiliation.  National politicians who blamed the blogosphere and even Sarah Palin.  Politicians who blamed the Internet.  So few in this first 24 hours blame the perpetrator himself.  In a culture of entitlement and the absolution of personal responsibility, it is not a ma...

Birther Queen Rejected By Supremes
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a lawyer who has been in the forefront of the challenge to President Barack Obama's Citizenship. 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 worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. Investigators today released this Mug Shot of Jared ...

Giffords attack sparks gun control fight
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-L.I.) pushed to ban high-capacity gun clips on Monday in response to the Arizona shootings, but quickly got pushback from her Staten Island rookie colleague. McCarthy, whose husband was killed in the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre, noted her experience of "senseless gun violence firsthand" in drafting Legislation that would ban gun clips and magazines with more than 10 bullets. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-Staten Island), the newest member of the New York delegation, tol...

NBC News Guest: Obama Was Born For This Moment
This is your lefty ‘Obama butt-kissing' moment of the day. Politics Daily's Melinda Henneberger says that, in the wake of the tragedy that occurred this weekend when our country needs to heal, that Obama was born for this very moment: This is the moment that he was born for. He has campaigned on and talked all along about the need to take the Toxicity out of the discourse about how we have to be able to talk to each other without questioning one another's motivations. So I think this could...