American Renaissance: Was Jared Lee Loughner tied to anti-immigrant group?

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...

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...

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 ...

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. ...

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...

Giffords shooting leads nation to introspection and political finger wagging
In the wake of the shooting in Arizona this weekend that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and that killed and injured more than 20 people, many pundits and politicians are pointing fingers. Others are hoping the incident will serve to ratchet down rancor. Yet emerging details make it clear the shooter wasn’t primarily motivated by politics, right or left. Jared Lee Loughner seems mainly to have been struggling with Mental Illness and was angry at being thrown out of Pima Communi...

Arizona's Eighth Congressional District Epitomized Over-The-Top Demonization Of Liberals
While it is critical to understand that Jared Loughner's Terrorist Attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and dozens of her constituents over the weekend was not directly caused by the words of her political opponents, the tragedy in Arizona presents an opportunity to examine the nature of our political discourse. Giffords' district, the Arizona Eighth, is a prime example of overheated Rhetoric. Her 2010 campaign was plagued by Vandalism and death threats from anonymous citizens, as well as hyperbol...

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... ...

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...

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....

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? ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

When politics stops (and how it never really does)
The attempted Assassination of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday has effectively ground partisan politics in Washington to a halt. The planned vote on the Repeal of the Health Care bill, which was scheduled for later this week, has been postponed. President Obama led the nation in a moment of silence this morning. And politicians from both sides have been filling the airwaves with calls to honor Giffords and the other Victims by toning down the political Rhetoric. And yet, for all of t...

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...

Shooting opens divide on inflamed rhetoric
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a town where politics never rests, the shooting of U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords quickly opened a sharp divide on the role of inflamed Rhetoric in the assault and on the proper response to its growth. The Arizona attack ignited a flood of finger-pointing and pontificating on the sometimes overheated state of U.S. political discourse, even as politicians largely vowed at least a temporary halt to the battle of words in Washington. The motives of suspect Jared Lee...

No explanation for why suspect's hearing was moved
More than two dozen reporters lined up outside a federal courtroom in downtown Phoenix Monday before a hearing for the man charged in Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson. Cameramen and photographers were stationed on corners, but there were no Protesters. Jared Loughner (LAWF'-nuhr) is accused of killing six people and wounding 14 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. No official explanation has been given for why the court hearing was moved, and Court Records didn't offer an explanation....

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...

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