Person Of Interest In Gifford Shooting Was Loughner's Taxi Driver

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 ...

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...

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...

U.S. cites evidence of assassination plot
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Piece by piece, details of the weekend rampage in Tucson are beginning to emerge: The heartbreaking tales of people slain on a sun-splashed morning, the courage of those who overpowered the gunman and the state of mind of the suspect, a young man who the authorities say had plotted for weeks, and perhaps longer, to assassinate a member of Congress. As the full scope of the tragedy sank in Sunday, it also had rekindled a national conversation, sparked by the outspoken sheriff of...

Person Of Interest Cleared
The sheriff in Tucson just confirmed during an interview with Fox News that the second person sought in connection with the Giffords shooting "turned out to be a Cab Driver who went into the Safeway with [Jared Loughner] because he needed change to pay for the cab." More soon ... ...

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...

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...

Police clear "person of interest" in Tucson rampage
PHOENIX | Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:14am EST PHOENIX (Reuters) - Authorities cleared a man they had sought in connection with Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson in which a U.S. congresswoman was seriously wounded and six people were slain, the FBI said on Sunday. The Pima County Sheriff's Department had said on Saturday that it was seeking to identify a white man wearing Blue Jeans and a dark blue jacket who was at the scene of the shooting. But the FBI said they have since cleared the man. Polic...

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...

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

Pascrell, Paterson mayor continue to politicize Giffords shooting
Representative Bill Pascrell (D-NJ-8) and other politicians in and from Paterson, NJ, continued to try to score political points in a Press Conference in Paterson this morning. Pascrell, according to Max Pizarro of PolitickerNJ.com and Steve Strunsky of The Star-Ledger (Newark), appeared at a gathering of clerics and politicians at Paterson's Hamilton Club at about 11:00 a.m. The gathering began with a moment of silence for the Victims of yesterday's Mass Shooting in a grocery-store Parking Lot ...

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...

Sheriff Who Suggested Talk Shows May Have Incited Attack Was Asked by Fellow Democrats to Apologize for 'Inflammatory' Remarks o
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Terence P. Jeffrey Arizona's Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - Arizona’s Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who on Saturday suggested radio and television Talk Shows were somehow responsible for inciting a man who may be mentally disturbed to kill six people and wound 13 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), once blamed policymakers for violence in his county because they had stopped institutionali

Arizona rampage renews questions about gun screenings
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 buying the gun he is accused of using in the attack. "The trou...

Stop Blaming the Tea Party for the Arizona Tragedy
After the attempted car bombing in Times Square last year, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg publicly speculated that the attack had been carried out by "somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health-care bill or something." At the Nation, columnist Robert Dreyfuss wrote that "a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government Far Right" was probably behind the bombing. Countless others in the left-wing blogosphere joined the "blame the Tea Party" chorus-unt...

Climate of Hate?: Murdered Judge Was w/ Giffords About Illegal Alien Prob
The most notable thing about Saturday’s Safeway massacre, aside from the lives tragically lost, is the plethora of hypocrites and blame-gamer attention whores who’ve predictably crawled out from under their rocks. As I noted Saturday evening, ABC News and the other Mainstream Media outlets wasted no time blaming Saturday’s Safeway massacre by Jared Lee Loughner on supporters of Arizona’s Immigration law and secure borders .  And you’ve seen the rest of the left...

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 ...

Ailes Calls Attempts to Blame Fox 'BS', Says He Instructed News Staff to 'Tone it Down'
Fox News chief Roger Ailes spoke with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons on the latter’s GlobalGrind web site, and gave some. . . direct . . .comments on the rush by some to blame the Tucson shooting on the likes of Fox News (warning: language): Roger Ailes:   They knew about this guy (Jared Lee Loughner).  The education system knew about this guy…they kicked him out of school and told him until he gets a letter saying he’s not going to kill anybody, he can’t co...

"Fox & Friends" Now Scapegoating Sheriff Clarence Dupnik?
After having interviewed, Pima County Sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, Brian Kilmeade hosted an interview with FOX fave Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeau, who makes frequent appearances, on Fox, to complain about how the Obama administration is being negligent with regard to the border. It appears that the Right Wing isn't happy about Dupnik's commentary about the "vitriol" in Arizona and Babeau's appearance could be part of some "damage control" on the part of FOX to deny what is, clearly, a harsh reality o...

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. ...

Arizona Massacre Prompts Political 'Cheap Shots'
When Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords collapsed outside the Safeway in Tucson Saturday morning, felled by a hail of bullets that killed six and wounded another 13 innocent people that had come to see her, some were quick to claim that the carnage was the product not merely of the tortured mind and trigger-happy fingers of the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner. Rather, many on the American Left said the horror could be traced to the malign influence of American Conservatives; members...

Polls suggest gun control unlikely to be a campaign issue
With some Democratic lawmakers calling for stricter gun-control measures in the wake of Saturday's shooting in Arizona, polling suggests it's unlikely to morph into a campaign issue for 2012.  Across the board, polling from the past several years shows that support for stricter gun-control laws has declined, even after Mass Shootings like the one that occurred on the campus of Virginia Tech in the spring of 2007, which killed 32 people. Saturday's shooting killed at least six people and criti...

Dupnik's Report: Yeah, Loughner Did Make Death Threats
I had left a question mark about this element of the charge. But as commenters, and Moe Lane, tell me, Dupnik himself confessed that Loughner had made Death Threats. He didn't say against whom, but I have a pretty good guess that Gabrielle Giffords was one of the targets. So... of course this is Sarah Palin's fault. Did you know when Sarah Palin resigned the governorship she immediately assumed the position of Acting Sheriff of Pima County? It's true; it's right there in the Alaska Constitution...

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,...

Getting Shot Not Enough To Get Workers Comp Assistance
Suspect Shawn Peace Livery Cab Driver Trevor Bell has been in the Hospital for over a month now after being shot in the neck and left for dead by a passenger on December 3rd. The suspected shooter, 22-year-old Shawn Peace, was caught on video fighting with Bell, and stole about $100 as he fled. But now Bell may be facing the loss of his livelihood; New York State Workers’ Compensation Board reportedly did not approve his claim for assistance with car loan payments, saying "the claimed in...