Aaron Klein Hides Facts On AZ Shooter's Book List

Big News Events Make Blatherers of Us All
The New Yorker, reputedly one of America's smartest magazines, exemplifies (and not always in a bad way) some of the incoherence created amongst the chattering (and, alas, governing) classes with big news events that seems to DEMAND REACTION!! and yet are at the same time either too impossibly overdetermined or too obvious--like the decision by one deluded ass to open fire on a crowd--for there to be much fresh, interesting, or relevant to say, or do. First, George Packer takes one tack. Of cou...

In Tucson: 'Before they tighten up the state laws, I'm buying more guns'
Trade was roaring at the gun counter of the Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson on Sunday afternoon, where roughly 30 types of shotguns competed for shelf space with 100 pistols, 50 rifles and enough ammunition to fuel more than one decent shootout at the nearby the OK Corral. Just a day had passed since Jared Lee Loughner allegedly launched a deadly Shooting Spree using a gun purchased from the very same store, but patrons were undeterred. Richard Tucker and his eight-year-old daughter, Emily, sp...

'Before they tighten up the state laws, I'm buying more guns'
Trade was roaring at the gun counter of the Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson on Sunday afternoon, where roughly 30 types of shotguns competed for shelf space with 100 pistols, 50 rifles and enough ammunition to fuel more than one decent shootout at the nearby the OK Corral. Just a day had passed since Jared Lee Loughner allegedly launched a deadly Shooting Spree using a gun purchased from the very same store, but patrons were undeterred. Richard Tucker and his eight-year-old daughter, Emily, sp...

JTA: Is Loughner's mother Jewish?
Is Jared Loughner's mother Jewish, JTA's Ron Kampeas wonders, based on the statement that she is by Loughner's friend Bryce Tierney in an interview with Mother Jones Monday. Ron writes: "Now we get this from Mother Jones. Nick Baumann interviews Bryce Tierney a friend of Jared's who recalls the alleged shooter's first encounter with Giffords, in 2007 -- and then explains why Jared might have listed Mein Kampf as a 'favorite book': Tierney ...

Redstate: Outspoken Sheriff Accused Of Dismissing Loughner Death Threats
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff's Office was informed, his deputies assured the Victims that he was being well managed by the Mental Health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Th...

End Game
The Tucson Murders: "Disturbed 22-year-old loner Jared Lee Loughner was held without bail Monday after being charged with murder and (Read more...) ...

Jared Loughner, Mental Health and the Law
I know enough to know what I don't know, and then I turn to the experts. Prof. Mark Heyrman has taught at The University of Chicago Law School's Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic since 1978, where he supervises Students in litigation and legislative advocacy on behalf of persons with Mental Illness, and teaches a course on Law and the Mental Health System. Among his accomplishments is that in the late 1980s he served as Executive Director of the Governor's Commission to Revise the Mental Health ...

Sheriff Knew About Death Threats By Suspect...
The FBI is investigating whether the man is the same person who posted a rambling Internet manifesto accusing the government of mind control and demanding a new currency. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, of Tucson, was taken into Custody moments after the shooting at a political meeting held by Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords in a Supermarket Parking Lot. Six people died and Giffords had a critical head wound. [ID:nN08246649] Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, where the shooting happene...

Judges: Kuwaiti-born man due damages in arrest
HONOLULU (AP) — A Federal Court has ruled in favor of a Kuwaiti-born Honolulu man who claims he was arrested based on unjustified suspicions of Terrorism. Lawyers in the case say the city of Honolulu will likely owe Mansour Arekat and his attorney hundreds of thousands of dollars. Arekat was arrested in 2003 without a warrant under a state Mental Health law allowing people to be taken into Custody if they’re deemed to be imminently dangerous, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Mon...

Two Wannabe Political Pundits in One
Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin, August 19, 2010: By implying Dr. Laura was silenced by “Constitutional obstructionists,” [Palin] employs the methodology of the Big Lie, defined in Mein Kampf as an untruth so colossal that “no one would believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin, January 8th, 2011: Sarah Palin rummages online frantically erasing her rabble-rousing Tweets like a Stalinist trimming non-persons out of photos

Searching for answers to Tuscon tragedy
Image via CrunchBase IBD: From New York newspaper columnists to an Illinois senator, the liberal left is blaming the Tea Party and conservative stars for the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman. How about blaming the Communist and Nazi-loving shooter? It didn't take long for New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to blame the Tea Party and Sarah Palin for the shooting outside a Tucson Supermarket that seriously injured Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords and left six others, including a 9-year-old,...

The Arizona Blame Games
I figure I’d throw my hat into the Tucson attack discussion ring while the conversation is fresh. Predictably, Democrats and Republicans, liberals and Conservatives, Truthers and non-truthers, and all other political enemies are pointing fingers at one another, attempting to assign blame for the six dead people and the many injured (including Congresswoman Giffords) to entire political parties and movements. While no one should be surprised at this, I still find myself woefully amused by ...

The left use tragedy to attack conservatives
 On January 8, 2011 a tragic shooting near Tucson, Arizona occurred at a political Town Meeting held by United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Twenty people were shot, six of them fatally including a nine year old girl and a Federal Judge. This was a senseless massacre by a mad man. This should be a time for prayers and mourning for the Victims and families. Rather what we are getting are attacks on Conservatives, the Tea Party, guns, Fox News, Talk Radio and even Sarah Palin. Even...

Weekend rampage brings calls to cool rhetoric, add security for lawmakers
The Assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend prompted lawmakers on Sunday to blame, in part, the nation's political Rhetoric as overheated and also push such issues as congressional security and gun-control laws. "We need to stop, pause and reflect," Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, said just hours after leaders of the Republican-controlled House announced there will be no votes this week in the chamber, including one scheduled to Repeal the Health Care law. T...

Obama Will Be in Arizona for Memorial
(NewsCore) - President Barack Obama will head to Arizona Wednesday for a memorial service being held in honor of the Victims of a shooting rampage that killed six and wounded more than a dozen Saturday, including US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Fox News Channel reported. Obama earlier Monday thanked Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for his department’s efforts in the aftermath of the shooting. The president also rang two heroes from the scene of the shooting, Patricia Maisch and Ro...

Shooting tests US West love affair with guns
A billboard in Tucson, Arizona, invites residents to a gun show. Arizona ha... Months before she was shot in the head, US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords won a tight re-election battle vowing to be "moderate" -- including by staunchly backing the right to own guns. As she lies in critical condition, some are publicly questioning the gun-slinging culture of the American West where weapons at restaurants do not cause a second glance and opposition to guns is considered political Suicide. Jared ...

Lautenberg addresses gun control in wake of Arizona shootings
As more fallout continues after the shooting in Arizona, one senator raised the red flag on Gun Control. On Monday, U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced his plan to introduce Legislation banning high-capacity ammunition clips similar to the one used by Jared Lee Loughner this past Saturday when he killed six innocent bystanders and seriously wounded Arizona Represenative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ8). Senator Lautenberg is looking to bring forth a prohibition that was established in 1994 ...

Jared Lee Loughner - defense by mug shot?
Is he trying for an insanity defense with this Mug Shot? Judy Clarke has been appointed Jared Lee Loughner's federal public defender. She previously defended the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. (CNN): Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect accused of opening fire outside an Arizona Supermarket over the weekend, appeared calm and in control during his first court appearance Monday, but gave no indication as to how he would plead to the charges. The 22-year-old faces five federal counts connected to the Sa...

A shaved, shackled Jared Lee Loughner is ordered held; Jan. 14 hearing set
Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Gabrielle Giffords, makes his first appearance in Federal Court in Phoenix. A judge orders him held without bond....

Readers agree with me: Right wing off the hook in Arizona shootings
Since the summer of 2001, Drowning Pool’s thrashing metal anthem “Bodies” has been a ubiquitous Pop Culture presence. “Bodies” has been used on at least a half-dozen theatrical trailers for films such as “The Punisher,” “Friday the 13th: Jason X,” “Stop-Loss,” and “Daredevil.” It’s been utilized in Video Games, HBO’s “True Blood” and a number of pro wrestling events. When Red Sox closer Jonathan...

Redstate: Outspoken Sheriff Accused Of Dismissing Loughner Death Threats
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff's Office was informed, his deputies assured the Victims that he was being well managed by the Mental Health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Th...

Get Olbermann, Matthews, and Behar Their Sedatives. New Revelations Paint Picture of Jared Loughner as Being an Insane Left-Wing
Before tonight revelations from friends and acquaintances of Jared Loughner had already paint a picture quite counter to that of a conservative. Loughner was identified as being "very Left Wing," abused drugs, found humor in aborted fetuses (once proclaiming they could be fitted with Suicide vests as "baby bombers" according to one offended classmate), hated God and was a 9/11 Truther... all beliefs more consistent than the political left than right. Now we find that that Loughner was a vitrio...

Neighbor: Loughner's parents "in bad shape"
A neighbor, Wayne Smith, speaking on behalf of Jared Loughner’s parents Amy and Randy Loughner describes them as devastated, Tucson's news station KVOA reports: As to why their son allegedly gunned down 20 people Saturday, killing six: "They have no idea," Wayne Smith says. "They're as blind on it as we are." "They actually couldn't say much - they were crying too much," Smith says. "They can't talk with...

Look behind the eyesof Jared L. Loughner
22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner is in police custody, accused of opening fire into a crowd in Tucson, Ariz., killing six and critically wounding Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Loughner's YouTube and MySpace accounts give clues to his thoughts, but mostly contain disjointed, rambling diatribes about illiteracy, the government, mind control and "conscience dreaming." But what else is known about the background of Loughner? He lived with his parents – who have yet to speak to the ...

End Game
The Tucson Murders: "Disturbed 22-year-old loner Jared Lee Loughner was held without bail Monday after being charged with murder and attempted Assassination in Arizona," writes our Helen Kennedy. "Appearing in shackles, his head shaved, a calm Loughner looked impassively at the big crowd gathered to peer at him at the federal Courthouse in Phoenix. He had no family or friends in the courtroom." Kennedy: "As the nation observed a moment of silence for the 20 people shot ...