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What to do next?
The Saturday shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and assassinations of Judge Roll and Christina Green, among others, has left many people looking for answers. Finger pointing has been rampant, with some on the left saying it was the fault of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and the Tea Party. Some on the right have noticed that Jared Loughner was a fan of the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, and assumed he was part of the left. As details emerge, he seems to be a mentally ill young man who ...

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 ...

Rush Limbaugh: What if shooter were named Muhammad?
PALM BEACH, Fla. – With waves of media stories suggesting possible causes for the Tucson, Ariz., shooting ranging from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to hateful Speech on Talk Radio and the Internet, Rush Limbaugh is now posing a new question. "Just ask yourself this. If the shooter had been a 22-year-old named Muhammad, would we be hearing that Muslim Talk Radio and the Muslim Internet blamed for it?" the top-rated host asked today. "No, we'd have been told that we can't blame Muslims fo...

The Left Never Wastes a Tragedy
Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com The Left never stands so tall as when it stands upon dead bodies. Whether it is Bill Clinton blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on Rush Limbaugh, Democratic mayors suing gun manufacturers after school shootings in Arkansas and Colorado, Democrats turning Senator Paul Wellstone’s memorial into a campaign rally, or Cindy Sheehan vastly overstaying her 15 minutes of fame, the Left never lets a tragedy pass without blaming it on its political enemies and pushing ...

The rapid slide of Palin
Since the Right Wing, and especially the Tea Party, have been the Epicenter of political anger, they can expect much tougher coverage--even though Loughner had no apparent connection to the Tea Party and had a reading list (Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf [my bad, wrote that pre-coffee]) as far to the left as other of his positions (gold standard, hatred of government) were to the right. And of course it's pointless to try and read too much into a lunatic's politics, anyway. It will b...

The shame and hypocrisy of CNN
Yesterday’s horrific and senseless shooting of more than a dozen people in Tucson, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, provided a look into the biases of much of the American Media — and it was not just an ugly sight, but a shamefully hypocritical peek as well, as Byron York points out.  In the last public mass-murder shooting fourteen months ago at Fort Hood, the media spent the first few hours scolding anyone who suggested that it might be an act of terror or that Major...

Punching Back Twice As Hard Against Charges of Dangerous Conservative Rhetoric
What do the following quotes have in common? “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard.” “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry. I’m angry.” “I want you to argue with them and get in their faces.” “I’m itching for a fight.” “Fight for it!” “We’re gonna punish our enemies.” “Our job is, keep our boot on [t

Palin narrative disintegrates: Arizona shooter obsessed with Giffirds since at least 2007
The meme that Palin is somehow responsible for the Arizona shooting was a totally false canard from the getgo, and those whose first response to the shooting was to even think of Sarah Palin are in need of serious psychological intervention. Besides, shooter Jared Loughner is a left-wing wacko who's favorite book is Communist Manifesto. His favorite YouTube video is of the American Flag being burned. But facts, of course, never stop the momentum of liberal derangement. But the 'Palin is respon...

Tucson Revisited
Over a hundred comments and counting! Many are well-argued, including a lot of the dissents, and make me want to argue back. Some are nasty enough to give my original post a sort of roundabout boost. But who knew that so many Conservatives read The New Yorker? I hope they stay subscribers. I’ll group my answers and after-thoughts under several topics that come up frequently in the thread. Marx wasn’t Hitler! I paired them, in the shorthand of blogging, as influences on Loughner (he c...

What David Frum Needed To Say After The Giffords Shooting
David Frum takes Sarah Palin to task for not being more public in her reaction to the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords, not being sufficiently empathetic, and not grasping the scope (no pun intended) of the accusations against her: "Palin failed to appreciate the question being posed to her. That question was not: “Are you culpable for the shooting?” The question was: “Having put this unfortunate image on the record, can you respond to the shooting in a way that demonstrates...

GOP senator urges media not to talk about Palin's violent rhetoric
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) urged CNN's Candy Crowley Sunday not to mention Fox News' Sarah Palin in connection with the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). In a Sunday interview, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) noted that public figures have used violent Rhetoric against Giffords, something Palin has done. "Those of us in public life and the Journalists who cover this should be thoughtful in response to this and try to bring down the rhetoric, which I'm afraid has become pervasive in the dis...

House Dem To Introduce Bill Banning Speech About Congressmen That Could Be Perceived As Threatening
The Hill: Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce Legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress. Brady told CNN that he wants federal lawmakers and officials to have the same protections against threat currently provided to the president. His call comes one day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot, along with 19 other people, at a ...

The Left Hypocritically Exploits Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' Shooting
Just hours after Saturday's tragic shooting incident in Tucson, Arizona, numerous news sources on the left from CNN to the Huffington Post were casting blame upon Sarah Palin, Tea Parties, and Second Amendment supporters. Hoping the shooter had right-leaning views, the Left immediately started portraying Jared Lee Loughner as a Right Wing nut. Even as information trickled in revealing Loughner had some left-leaning political views, the left ignored it and ran with their own spin, labeling hi...

Rationalizing the irrational
Oh, yes.  Politics will be spun, lies will pass straight-faced through the elite-owned media, and outrageous language will issue from those talking heads, cravenly kneeling at their masters' feet as they beg scraps from the table.  May their chains weigh lightly on their wrists as they obediently lick the hands that feed them. J.R. Dunn, consulting editor of American Thinker has a rational reaction to last Saturday’s Tuscon massacre:  "I have no intention of trying to draw a...

It's not Sarah Palin's Fault
Are we to now cleanse the language of all references to Firearms and their use, “lock, stock and barrel”? Should we “take aim” at all such word usage? Should we “keep our powder dry” to be ready for the next whacko’s atrocity?  Should we "set our sights" on passing the ridiculous proposed Legislation being introduced in Congress to outlaw the using of certain words when discussing members of that body?  Another terrible episode of violence...

Tea Party Leaders Strike Back at Left Over Giffords Incident
And “strike back” is the proper metaphor. Because on two occasions today, self-appointed leaders of the Tea Party movement quite literally lashed out at their political enemies over the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, in ways that show both a tendency toward painting their opponents in dehumanizing lights, and a good degree of guilt: Another Tea Party Leader is accusing the left of unfairly blaming the Tea Party for the Mass Shootings in Arizona, describing how “revolting and di...

Was the Tucson shooting a product of the Tea Party?
Georgians join the people of Arizona in condemning the senseless act of violence and mourning the Victims of the recent Tucson shooting.  Georgians also wonder what Jared Lee Loughner’s motive was.  Was he trying to make a political point or was he simply deranged? In the days since the shooting in Tucson, leftists have rushed to denounce the Murders as the result of radical right-wing Rhetoric.  Specifically, left-wing Bloggers on Politico.com cited a “Veteran Democra...

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...

Frederick: On The Arizona Shooting
Everyone in the world by now is aware that 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a public event in Arizona on Saturday morning. Additional background information will, of course, roll out over the next few days and weeks.  For now, I’ll share with you just a few details regarding threat assessment relating to public figure attacks and the initial aftermath from this attack. Witnesses say that Loughner simply attended Rep. Giffords’ public meet-a...

Irony Alert?
Words of supposed wisdom from Gary Hart: Gradually, over time, political Rhetoric used by politicians and the media has become more inflamatory. The degree to which violent words and phrases are considered commonplace is striking. Candidates are “targeted”. An opponent is “in the crosshairs”. Liberals have to be “eliminated”. Opponents are “enemies”. This kind of language eminates [sic] largely from those who claim to defend American Democracy ag...

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...

Difference of opinion is what makes the world go round
Posted by Guest Blogger Locutisprime. According to the Pima County sheriff, differences of opinion are what makes the world go round. Except of course when your opinion differs from his or other Liberal Democrats or the political talking points and politicians that he and they support. I have to agree. There are consequences to 'this type of behavior.' Of course, the type of behavior that this sheriff is alluding to, is any behavior (specifically Speech) that is contrary to the best wish...

Sarah Palin's Missed Presidential Moment
Yeah, okay, I’ll write about her. But really only because I want to quote Ta-Nehisi Coates: I would never put gun-sights on the districts of my political opponents. Should violence break out, I don’t even want to be in the conversation as a factor--contributing or causal. We may never know what caused Loughner to snap. But at night, I’d like the security of knowing that it could not have possibly been me. Perhaps Sarah Palin has that sense of security. I can’t know. It&...

Pima County Dem Chair: Time Will Prove Loughner To Be A Right-Winger
TUCSON, AZ -- Conservatives gloating about the biography of the suspected shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) will eat their words in the end, according to the chair of the Pima County Democratic Party. "Here's what I think you're going to find," Jeff Rogers told me in an interview today. "I think you're going to find that he was [a conservative]." [TPM SLIDESHOW: Dem Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot In Arizona] I met with Rogers in his downtown Tucson office this afternoon to discuss the ...

China may launch first-ever property tax in Q1
Shanghai/Beijing | Sun Jan 9, 2011 9:38pm EST Shanghai/Beijing (Reuters) - China is set to further clamp down on the country's buoyant Housing Market by imposing a long-debated Property Tax for the first time in the southwestern city of Chongqing, domestic media reported on Monday. Chongqing has "in principle" won approval from the Ministry of Finance and may introduce the Property Tax as early as this quarter, the China Securities Journal cited the city's government as saying. Analysts expec...