Suspected Giffords Shooter Leaves Internet Trail (VIDEO)

Sheriff says gunman acted alone in AZ shooting
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona authorities say the gunman accused of shooting an Arizona congresswoman and killing six others acted alone. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik says Sunday that there is no evidence that anybody besides 22-year-old suspect Jared Loughner (LAWF’-ner) was involved. Authorities earlier cleared a suspected accomplice, a Cab Driver, of involvement. Dupnik says the cab driver walked into the Tucson Safeway store with Loughner because the driver didn’t hav...

Giffords shooter shows pattern of psychiatric derangement; no clear political affiliation
Of all the senseless acts of violence we've seen over the years, today's shooting at a Gabrielle Giffords public event in Tucson really strikes home. I spent time in the company of "Gabby" Giffords and met many members of her staff during her first run for Congress. I saw her as a "balanced" representative (a former Republican turned Democrat who still, for example, supported Second Amendment rights) who I thought could bring some new energy into Washington, which seems to perpetually suffer fr...

Loughner to Face Five Charges
From the Associated Press: Federal Prosecutors brought charges Sunday against the gunman accused of carrying out an Assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people at a political event in Arizona. Investigators said they carried out a search warrant at Jared Loughner’s home and seized an envelope from a safe with messages such as “I planned ahead,” “My assassination” and the name “Giffords” next to what appears to be the man...

Follow Latest News at Political Arizona
Follow all the latest news on the Tucson Mass Shooting and condition of Congressman Gabrielle Giffords at Political Arizona....

Pelosi Leads Moment of Silence for Shooting Victims
Nancy Pelosi led a moment of silence Saturday, for the Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the head earlier that day. At a planned event in San Francisco, Pelosi said Giffords is a "brilliant and patriotic American," according to the Associated Press. Giffords was hospitalized after being shot at a public event in Tucson, Arizona. The congresswoman is in critical condition after undergoing surgery Sunday morning. Doctors are optimistic for her survival, stating th...

Kevin Powell: Arizona Is America
I say this because Arizona is not the problem. We the people are the problem. That is, we Americans who think it is cool to engage in Rhetoric, political or otherwise, that encourages division, ugliness, hatred, and violence, directly or indirectly. Over the past several years, we've witnessed this madness via certain Television Networks, TV and radio Talk Shows, the Internet, and various rallies and Protests: a climate of hatred and, yes, violence, which has been boiling with a quickness in...

Arizona shooting suspect charged with murder
WASHINGTON | Sun Jan 9, 2011 4:30pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Sunday charged Jared Lee Loughner, the man suspected of killing six people and wounding a congresswoman in Arizona, with five criminal counts, including attempted Assassination. Loughner, 22, faces one count of attempted assassination of a member of Congress; two counts of killing an officer of the United States; and two counts of attempted killing of an officer of the United States. The charges were filed in ...

Docs: US Attorney charges alleged gunman
A U.S. attorney in Arizona charged Jared Lee Loughner with five counts on Sunday, including Murder and attempted Assassination. The complaint is here. An accompanying release is up here. According to the complaint, federal investigators found a letter in a safe of Loughner's thanking him for attending a “Congress on Your Corner” event hosted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in 2007, alongside an envelope with handwritten notes that read “I planned ahead,” “my assassinat...

Giffords' brain benefits from benign route of bullet
By Peter Henderson TUCSON, Ariz | Sun Jan 9, 2011 4:36pm EST TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords suffered what her doctors on Sunday called a "devastating wound" to her brain in a point-blank shooting, but the bullet's relatively benign trajectory bodes well for her recovery. For doctors at the University Medical Center in Tucson, the fact that the bullet did not cross from one hemisphere to the other nor through the center of the brain was crucial to Giffords' brain "pr...

Giffords' brain benefits from benign route of bullet
TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords suffered what her doctors on Sunday called a "devastating wound" to her brain in a point-blank shooting, but the bullet's relatively benign trajectory bodes well for her recovery. For doctors at the University Medical Center in Tucson, the fact that the bullet did not cross from one hemisphere to the other nor through the center of the brain was crucial to Giffords' brain "preservation" before her two-hour surgery on Saturday. "Because o...

Shooting could tame tough political rhetoric
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON | Sun Jan 9, 2011 4:39pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Protesters parade an altered photo of President Barack Obama sporting an Adolf Hitler-like mustache. A Candidate for the Senate muses about gun "remedies" if Election Results don't go the right way. Members of Congress are spat on and taunted with racial epithets before casting votes for a Healthcare Reform bill. Welcome to politics American-style. For the past few years, some public officeholders and pundits have...

Arizona tragedy gives Congress a moment to pause
WASHINGTON (AP) — The shooting rampage in Arizona seems to have created a reset moment for confrontational politics, as lawmakers reflect on the repercussions of the overheated Rhetoric traded on the airwaves and on the Campaign Trail. Members of Congress from both parties called Sunday for civility over belligerence as the House temporarily shelved the contentious debate over repealing the Health Care law and lawmakers paused to contemplate the tragedy. Critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle G...

Insanity Nation
First, toldja so: Newsmax declares “Shooter Linked to Left Wing Politics.” Yes, by Newsmax. Apparently it was reported the young man accused of shooting owns copies of The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, which of course (in the minds of righties, who cannot figure out why Hitler was a right-wing psychopath, not a left-wing one) proves he’s a leftie. Anyway, the more I hear about the shooter, the more it appears he was deeply disturbed, possibly psychotic. I am not qualif...

Suspect in AZ Shooting Identified
Suspect is identified as either Jared Laughner or Jared Loughner or Jared Lee Loughner. His MySpace site has been taken down but here are a few photos and a YouTube: ...

Will's Links
From Will at The Other News: Hospital: Rep. Giffords expected to recover from Tucson shooting that killed six including a child and Federal Judge Tucson - The surgeon who operated on Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said he was "optimistic" she would recover from being shot in the head by a man with a semi-automatic weapon outside a Grocery Store.Six others at the congressional outreach event did not. Federal Law Enforcement sources said that John M. Roll, the senior U.S. District j...

Congresswoman fights for life after shooting
Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was fighting for her life on Sunday following a shooting rampage that left at least six people, including a nine-year-old girl and a Federal Judge dead. Ms Giffords, a 40-year-old member of the House of Representatives who first took office in 2007, was shot in the head at close range while attending a public event called “Congress on your Corner”, at a Supermarket in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday. EDITOR’S CHOICE Congresswoman fights for life a

UT Congressman: Security Away from Capitol Hill is a "Mixed Bag"
In the wake of the tragic shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) many of her colleagues in Congress are reevaluating their security policies. Speaking a day after the incident, Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told Fox News he's concerned about his safety, especially when his work takes him off Capitol Hill. Chaffetz described Capitol police as doing an "exceptional job, we are told [the U.S. Capitol] is a top Terrorist target and there is adequate security." But back i...

Thumbnail sketches of victims in Tucson shooting
Named Arizona’s chief Federal Judge in 2006, U.S. District Judge John M. Roll won acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who had pushed to beef up the court’s strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-related cases. Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. He previously served as a state trial judge and as a judge on the midlevel Arizona Court of appeals, and as a county and state prosecutor. Bishop Gerald Kicanas o...

Father on Daughter's Death in Tucson Shooting
John Green "feels lots of anger" after losing his 9-year-old daughter Christina to a shooting in Tuscon, Ariz that took the lives of five other people and injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. 911 tapes released record witnesses helping injured Victims in the Tucson shooting that killed six people and injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. 911 tapes released record many witnesses calling in to report the Tucson shooting that killed six people and injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. ...

Alleged Tucson Shooter Faces Federal Charges
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III at the Pima County Sheriff's Office Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011 in Tucson, Ariz. Law Enforcement officials said Sunday afternoon they now thought it less likely that the individual in a who image was captured by a security camera at the Tucson shopping center was connected to the shootings of 20 people which left six people dead and a congresswoman seriously wounded. "We do not have any belief at this time that that individual was a participant in the shooting," said ...

Alexander & Goldman Show to discuss shooting of Gabrielle Giffords tonight
Join us tonight on our Phoenix Radio Show, the Alexander & Goldman Show tonight as we discuss the shooting of Arizona’s Democrat Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords earlier today. We’ll be giving live updates and analysis of this tragic event here in Arizona. While Giffords has been given an optimistic chance of recovery, Federal Court Judge John Roll, a Bush-appointee, and at least one other person have been reported dead. The shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, lists The Communist Manife...

Jared Lee Loughner Youtube channel
Jared Lee Loughner YouTube channel The AP released the name earlier of Jared Laughner was the suspect in the Gabriel Giffords shooting earlier today in Tucson, Arizona. However, a youtube channel belonging to someone named Jared Lee Loughner has been discovered. According to the youtube channel, Jared Lee Loughner is from Tucson. So we will see if this is the proper spelling of the shooter’s name. Right now, we still assume the AP report and spelling of Laughner is the proper version. ...

Rand Paul has absolutely no imagination.
Quoth the Buddha: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Fox News Sunday today that the Mass Shootings in Arizona yesterday are "unrelated" to Arizona's Gun Laws: "The weapons don't kill people, it's the individual that kills people." ...

Some interesting shooting-related links | Michael Tomasky
I just wrote my big take on the shooting for tomorrow's newspaper. I assume it will be posted here this afternoon some time US time. Rebecca Traister wrote a fine piece at Salon on Giffords. Michele Goldberg had an interesting-as-usual take at the Tablet. Ditto Adele Stan at Alternet (she closely chronicles the right, and frankly I don't know how she can stand doing it). Max Blumenthal has a wonderful piece, also in Salon, about the slain judge, who seems a man of great distinction. Max once t...

Jared Lee Loughners video rant
This is the video rant posted by Jared Lee Loughner, the would be assassin who gravely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords....