ABC Interviews Friend of Giffords Shooter and Ignores Her Claim He Was a Liberal

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...

Jared Lee Loughner Was Caught Up in a World of Dreams
As the new Congress begins, as Americans hope for new passion from legislators who until now seemingly moved only by partisan and personal interests, a terrible shooting has taken place. The world was shocked as the trusting and sweet Congresswoman from Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, was shot by a young would-be assassin. While meeting with her constituents in a "Congress on Your Corner" gathering, the lawmaker was shot at point-blank range. The crowd, many of them seniors, some only shoppers, r...

LIVEBLOG: Jared Lougnher Arraignment
Jared Loughner is due to be arraigned today before a magistrate in Phoenix  at 4pm ET. You can read the Complaint filed against Loughner in Federal Court yesterday here: Federal Complaint Filed Against Jared Lee Loughner He is being charged with the the Murder of Judge John Rell and Giffords Staffer Gabriel Zimmerman, as well as the shooting of Gifford and her staffers Ron Barber and Pamela Simon.  The Complaint says that they were all “engaged in performance of official duties” ...

Loughner's family blockades Tucscon home
Family members of the accused-gunman Jared Lee Loughner have blockaded the entrance to their Tucson home with plywood, preventing FBI agents from entering, the Arizona Republic reports. ...

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...

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...

Blood libelous Leftwing could learn from Obama's response to shooting
The vitriolic, hate-filled, and blood-libelous false charges against Conservatives by Leftwing Bloggers, pundits, and Mainstream Media sources are now well-known.  The blame-game began as soon as the shooter pulled the trigger. But the blood-libelous Leftwing could learn something from Barack Obama's response to the Tuscon shooting. In his prepared remarks on Saturday evening, Obama delivered what was perhaps the most transparently sincere statement of his entire political life.  There...

Disgusting Media Determined to Pin Shooting on Palin Despite the Fact That Liberal Killer Was Targeting Giffords Since 2007
The state-run leftist media is determined to take Sarah Palin down after the tragedy in Tucson this past weekend. The democrat-media complex wants to pin the shootings on Palin and the Tea Party despite that fact that the young leftist killer had been targeting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords since 2007. They won’t be happy until she’s dead and gone. Within an hour of Saturday’s tragic shooting in Arizona, the Twittersphere had quickly seized on a map put out by Sarah Palin’s po...

James Clyburn: Congress should get special treatment from TSA
The Hill reports that Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC) thinks that members of Congress should be given special treatment by TSA at airports. He is quoted as saying "“I really believe that that is the place where we feel the most ill at ease, is going through airports." Well now , Congressman, do you think that any other Amricans feel that way? Welcome to our world. Congressman Clyburn has been in state and Federal Government positions since 1971, and one supposes that by the 40th year of s...

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 ...

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): ...

Dont think of an elephant: Giffords, ghouls and gimmicks
On Saturday, Jared Loughner attempted to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). He killed a Federal Judge, a nine-year-old girl and four others, and injured many more. Their fates were still unknown when political ghouls leapt from their muck to blame Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and other assorted elements of the right. Doug Mataconis and Gabriel Malor identify some of the more prominent ghouls and respond to them, so I need not do so at length. Notably, the most prominent ghouls reek wit...

Daily Caller Expoits A Tragedy By Calling Out The Left For Exploiting A Tragedy
Tucker Carlson ’s The Daily Caller is featuring a piece called “Exploiting a Tragedy,” but the Twitter headline “Exploiting a tragedy: Lefties love a crisis” more closely illustrates the unintentionally ironic, self-contradictory nature of the op-ed, co-authored by Carlson and Neil Patel . Aside from eating its own tail, though, the piece makes several other glaring missteps, including a poorly thought-out comment about Gun Control, and a yellow assertion about Gab...

Political cartoons exploit Arizona tragedy in effort to score crude political points
Amanda Carey is a political reporter at the Daily Caller. She previously worked for Robert Novak and Reason Magazine. Carey is a graduate of Clemson University in South Carolina. The partisan Rhetoric in the wake of the Arizona shooting was escalated to a new level Monday. Appearing at the WashingtonPost.com, two political cartoons sought to capitalize on the aftermath of the shooting that claimed numerous lives and critically injured Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to score political points. One,...

Will Marshall: Tucson: The Real Questions
We at The Progressive Policy Institute are heartsick over the senseless attack Saturday on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, which also claimed the lives of six people, including a nine-year-old girl. Not only is Gabby our friend, she is an exemplar of the pragmatic progressivism that puts country before party. We pray for her recovery, and grieve for those who will never recover from this rampage. As if this tragedy were not bad enough, some pundits have disgraced themselves by using it to score polit...

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 ...

Jared Loughner Now, Timothy McVeigh Then
In 1995, the Internet was still trying to get its sea legs; it was nowhere near the force it has become today in getting information to the public. On April 19th of that year, 168 people were killed in Oklahoma City and a man named Timothy Mcveigh was largely responsible. Then president Bill Clinton resurrected his presidency by painting McVeigh as a Right Wing Extremist. Imagine if the Internet of today had been available then. Would Clinton have been able to pull off such a despicable smear ca...

Sheriff seeking state murder charges against Loughner in Tucson shooting
Local authorities are asking the state to file Murder charges against Jared Loughner in Saturday's Mass Shooting in Tucson, Ariz., in addition to the federal counts he already faces. Capt. Chris Nanos of the Pima County Sheriff's department said Monday that deputies will recommend to the county attorney that Loughner be charged with at least four counts of Murder and additional counts of Attempted Murder or Aggravated Assault. The Murder charges would cover the four Victims who were not federal ...

Loughner's family stonewalling FBI
TUCSON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- People inside the Tucson home of Mass Shooting suspect Jared Loughner refused to let FBI agents inside Monday, The Arizona Republic reported. The newspaper said agents were seen banging on a plywood barricade about 12:25 p.m. and yelling "This is the FBI. Let us in." GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting The barricade was preventing access to the front porch of the home. The newspaper said FBI agents went behind the home and could be heard talking to some...

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...

The World is Full of Scary Freaks
Jared Loughner lived with his parents.  Where were they through his disturbed teen and young adult years?  Where were they while he stalked Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for three years?  What did they do to get him help when teachers, Students, counselors and administrators expressed their concern about his mental status?  Fellow College Students were afraid of him and kept diaries about him.  Friends say, and documents confirm,  he stalked Giffords for three yea...

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

BREAKING NEWS Jared Loughner Is a Muslim!
The news breaking today comes as a great shock to the MSM and has caused great consternation for the left-wing blogosphere - Jared Loughner is a Muslim. Asked for comment on the developing revelation, Obama said “now is the time to slow down and not get too irresponsible with the blame game.” Eric Holder added, “we must try to find out what Gabrielle Giffords did to deserve this and reach out and begin a meaningful dialogue that could lead to better understanding so tha...

US says NKoreas offer to talk is inadequate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department says North Korea’s offer to hold talks with South Korea falls short of what is needed to demonstrate that it is serious about seeking better relations. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Monday the North has entered what he called a “charm stage,” following a “provocative stage” last year that included an artillery attack on a South Korean island that killed four people. Crowley said the North’s offer...

Loughner's Politics: Chaos. Pure Chaos
The past 36 hours have been a constant circle of finger-pointing, denial, finger-pointing, and more denial with a heavy dose of false equivalence thrown in. Conservatives say Loughner's liberal; liberals say he's conservative. Neither one is true. At best, Jared Lee Loughner was an Anarchist in how he viewed his impact on the external world. And he was a man with a grudge. Mother Jones has an exclusive interview with a friend that confirms the hunch I've had all day. His politics had nothing to ...