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BRYAN PRESTON: Clicking through images of Jared Lee Loughners backyard skull shrine, linked fro
BRYAN PRESTON: “Clicking through images of Jared Lee Loughner’s backyard skull shrine, linked from Drudge. I’m not seeing a Gadsden flag.” ...

What would cause a young person to snap?
This weekend's Tucson Shooting Spree, which killed six people and wounded 14 others, has left many people wondering what was going on in the mind of the suspected gunman. It is too early to know if Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is struggling with Mental Health, but experts say it is not uncommon for people in his age group to experience their first serious episode of Mental Illness. (None of the experts in this story were involved in this case.) MORE: Shooting stirs debate over political Rhetoric SUSP...

Jared Lee Loughner: what is known about Tucson, Arizona, shooting suspect
Jared Lee Loughner is refusing to tell investigators anything about a motive for the Tucson, Arizona, shooting, but he appears to be a familiar character in American life: a disturbed outsider with a gun....

Get your story straight, MEPS.
I'll have more to say about the tragedy in Tuscon that killed a 10 year-old girl, a Federal Judge, several others, and critically wounded U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ-8) over the weekend. But in the mean time I think DoD needs to figure out which story they are going with. This: In one of a handful of anti-religious, anti-government videos on Loughner's YouTube page, he says "every United States Military recruit at MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) in Phoenix is rece...

Russ Belville: Arizona Shooter Loughner Used Marijuana... So What?
As you may know by now, in a tragic act of insane violence, Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords was targeted for Assassination, but survived the point-blank gunshot allegedly fired by Jared Lee Loughner, a 22-year-old man whose rambling Internet paranoia calls his sanity into question.  Loughner also allegedly fired into the crowd, killing a 9-year-old girl (born on 9/11/2001, incidentally), a federal Circuit Court judge, a Giffords Staffer, and three others, and wounding several more.  All of us at...

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? ...

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The Tragedy of the Arizona Shooting
The Tragedy of the Arizona Shooting Monday, 01/10/2011 - 1:47 pm by Mike Konczal | Post a Comment There are many ways to look at it, but all say disturbing things about the country. This weekend’s tragic shooting at a Safeway district meeting in which United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was seriously hurt and a dozen more injured and a District Court judge John Roll, a nine-year-old girl born on September 11th, and a congressional aide were killed has left us all stunned. Her...

Monday's most intriguing people
The federal public defender known for handling high-profile cases has been appointed to represent Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old charged with Murder and attempted Assassination of a member of Congress in the Tucson shootings that killed six and wounded 14, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Clarke defended "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and assisted in the case of confessed al Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui. Clarke has a Private Practice but works with the Federal Death Penalt...

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 ...

Rep. Giffords still critical after deadly shooting spree
TUCSON — Shooting suspect Jared Loughner is scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon charged with two counts of Murder and three counts of Attempted Murder in Saturday's Mass Shooting that left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords clinging to life. Doctors were breathing a "collective sigh of relief" Monday about Giffords, who was critically injured during what authorities called the targeted attempt on her life by a gunman. Six people died in the attack. "No change is good and we have no cha...

AZ shooting suspect not cooperating, sheriff says (& lawyer who defended McVeigh has taken his case)
Source: MSNBC TUCSON, Ariz. — A 22-year-old man charged with trying to assassinate a U.S. congresswoman in a Shooting Spree that left six people dead has remained silent and has not been cooperating with the investigation, according to a sheriff. Jared Loughner, described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in paranoia and deep distrust of government, was due to make his first court appearance Monday at 4 p.m. ET. =snip= Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, where the shootings occur...

Sheriff: Loughner Not Cooperating
NBC News reports: A 22-year-old man charged with trying to assassinate a U.S. congresswoman in a Shooting Spree that left six people dead has remained silent and has not been cooperating with the investigation, according to a sheriff. Jared Loughner, described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in paranoia and deep distrust of government, was due to make his first court appearance Monday at 4 p.m. ET. At 11 a.m. ET, President Obama led the nation in a moment of silence to remember t...

What Does Jared Lee Loughner Believe?
This March 2010 photo shows a man identified as Jared L. Loughner at the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, Ariz. Jared Lee Loughner, the young man who allegedly shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and killed six others in Tucson on Saturday, would seem to defy easy categorization. Yet the evidence does provide clues into the mind of a man who even the staunchest partisans should be able to agree held muddled politics far outside the mainstream. It seems clear based on Loughner's YouTu...

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...

What Sarah Palin should have said about Tucson shooting
A makeshift memorial at the University Medical Center in Tucson for those killed and wounded during an attack on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords The shooting in Arizona shocked the U.S. into grief - and presented Sarah Palin with an immediate political problem: her now-notorious gunsight map. My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other Victims of today’s tragic shooting in Arizona.    On behalf of Todd and my family, we all p...

What would cause a young person to snap?
This weekend's Tucson Shooting Spree, which killed six people and wounded 14 others, has left many people wondering what was going on in the mind of the suspected gunman. It is too early to know if Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is struggling with Mental Health, but experts say it is not uncommon for people in his age group to experience their first serious episode of Mental Illness. (None of the experts in this story were involved in this case.) "It is a vulnerable age. These types of disorders have a...

Arizona Fallout Continues
There has been a lot of talk about Gun Control in the wake of Saturday’s Arizona shooting, but that isn’t tyhe only policy issue likely to be debated following the tragedy. Robert Bernstein, Executive Director of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, issued a statement this morning urging lawmakers not to look to “quick fixes” if it is determined - as it appears to be the case - that the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, is suffering from an untreated mental i...

Shooting revives gun control proposals in Congress
The shooting in Arizona that killed six people and injured 14 others — including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords — is reviving Legislation to impose tighter controls on guns and ammunition. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., is drafting Legislation in response to the shooting that would revive a now-expired ban on high-capacity ammunition clips, like the one reportedly used by the 22-year-old suspect to gun down a Federal Judge, a 9-year-old girl and others at Giffords’ “...

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...

Breitbart blogger cites made-up Facebook profile of Loughner as Obama supporter
The efforts of some to connect the alleged Tucson shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, to the Democratic Party led at least one prominent blogger to cite a fake Facebook profile.  Earlier today Jim Hoft, a blogger for Andrew Breitbart, published a post entitled "Whoops! This Changes Things- Loughner's Hero Was Barack Obama" (Screenshot seen here). The post argued that Loughner was inspired by Obama.  As evidence Hoft cited an Examiner.com post which ultimately cited a supposed Facebook profile...

Fidel Castro Has an Opinion on the Arizona Shooting
Photo: Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photo/Getty Images In a column entitled "An Atrocious Act," Cuba's former leader offered his take on Saturday's shooting. Castro condemned accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner's actions, writing: "Even those of us who don't share his (President Barack Obama's) political or philosophical ideas in the least sincerely hope that no Children, judges, congressmen or any U.S. citizen should die in such an absurd and unjustifiable way." But he also took the opportunity to tak...

Clyburn Calls for Reinstatement of Fairness Doctrine
Clyburn said he thinks vitriol in public discourse led to a 22-year-old suspect opening fire Saturday at an event Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords held for her constituents in Tucson, Ariz. Six people were killed and 14 others were injured, including Giffords. The shooting is cause for the country to rethink parameters on free Speech, Clyburn said from his office, just blocks from the South Carolina Statehouse. He wants standards put in place to guarantee balanced media coverage with a re...

Nonsensical Attempt to Tie Loughner to Conservatives Is Deliberate Strategy
To the extent Jared Loughner's psychotic views have any political coherence, they are decidedly Left Wing. Yet liberals have raised a deafening chorus attempting to blame Conservatives for the incomprehensible horrors he inflicted. This may be a reflexive reaction by truly unhinged moonbats like Hanoi Jane Fonda and Clarence Dupnik, who can be counted on to blame their ideological opponents for any and all misfortunes. But for others, it is part of a deliberate political strategy. Timothy McVeig...

Megyn Kelly Takes On Political Hack Sheriff Dupnik Over His Political Spin Agenda On jared Loughner Shooting
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik criticizes other of hate and vitriol and then does it himself … There is nothing more sick and pathetic, than to take advantage and trying to play politics with a terrible tragic event like a Mass Shooting with multiple Deaths. However, that did not stop Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik who, without any evidence, accused other for the gunman’s actions. SICK! However, Fox News Megyn Kelly took on the liberal biased Sheriff Dupnik on his comment...