PHOENIX – U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is breathing under her own power and generally “holding her own” in her third day of recovery from a near-fatal gunshot wound, doctors said Tuesday.
PHOENIX– Jared Loughner, the suspect in the Tucson, Arizona shooting rampage that left six dead, is being held without bail and has been assigned Judy Clarke, a lawyer who defended Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Timothy McVeigh, as his attorney. PICTURES: Arizona Shooting Victims Loughner entered the courtroom Monday handcuffed and wearing a tan inmate uniform. […]
// http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47331.html Tucson — Speaking on a rare bipartisan telephone briefing, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ chief of staff Pia Carusone described the Arizona Demcorat’s state as “sort of alert,” in the wake of the attempted assassination, which claimed the lives of six people, including federal District Court Judge John M. Roll and Giffords’ outreach director, Gabe […]
WASHINGTON — Some of the most pointed comments in the wake of Saturday’s tragic shooting in Arizona regarding the dangers of vitriolic political discourse have come from Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who said his state has “become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.” As a consequence of speaking out, Dupnik is now coming under […]
Arizona — Across the political spectrum, the first reactions to the news of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting Saturday were horror and grief. For many in the tea party movement, another reaction quickly followed: Don’t try blaming this on us, too. The populist conservative movement – which exploded across the political landscape in 2009 in angry […]
Arizona — The man accused of the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was charged Sunday afternoon with federal crimes that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted. Prosecutors charged Jared Lee Loughner, 22, with five counts — killing federal government employees, attempting to assassinate a member of Congress and attempting to kill […]
Arizona –Shortly after news broke that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) had been shot at a congressional event in her district, observers began noting that she had, during the campaign, literally been Sarah Palin’s target. But a Palin aide is now explaining that it was all a misunderstanding: the infamous image was never meant to evoke […]
Arizona –Very few people survive being shot in the head at close range, but all indications are that Gabrielle Giffords is one of the lucky few. Doctors are cautiously optimistic about her condition, but are reluctant to speculate on her recovery. The swift response of people on the scene – emergency workers and medical staff […]
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 […]
Tucson — Six people were killed and 14 others were injured yesterday after a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people at a political meet-and-greet outside an Arizona supermarket. Among those killed were several septuagenarians, Arizona’s top federal judge, a political aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and a 9-year-old girl who was born on […]
