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Supreme Court Smacks Down Birther Queen
Post Date: 2011-01-10 11:27:22 by Brian S
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High court turns away appeal from 'birther' leader WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a lawyer who has been in the forefront of the challenge to President Barack Obama's citizenship. The high court on Monday did not comment in refusing to hear the appeal filed by California lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz. She was contesting a $20,000 fine for filing what a federal judge determined was a frivolous lawsuit. The suit was filed on behalf of Army Capt. Connie Rhodes, who sought to avoid deployment to Iraq by claiming Obama wasn't born in the United States and thus, is ineligible to be president and commander in chief.
Rand Paul Headstomper Just the Latest Violent Right-Winger: 17 More Instances of Recent Violence by Conservatives
Post Date: 2011-01-10 10:34:29 by Ferret Mike
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A woman whose head was deliberately stomped is only the most recent outbreak of violence in a sickening trend. Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition 33; As media outlets have reported, a MoveOn.org worker who attempted to approach Paul at an October 26 rally in Lexington, Kentucky was attacked, apparently by Paul supporters. The woman was thrown to the ground and then stepped on, causing her head to be smashed into the pavement. According to MoveOn.org, the victim was diagnosed with a concussion at a local hospital. The attack on the MoveOn worker was the latest in a string of violence and threats against progressives. 1. White powder and swastikas were mailed to Rep. ...
Tea Party Group Blames 'Leftist' for Giffords Shooting [Tea party activists told to spin the leftist angle]
Post Date: 2011-01-10 10:24:53 by Ferret Mike
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Garance Franke-Ruta - Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at The Atlantic and oversees politics coverage for TheAtlantic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @thegarance. All PostsEmail Franke-Ruta Share « Previous Politics | Next Politics » Email Print Tea Party Group Blames 'Leftist' for Giffords Shooting By Garance Franke-Ruta Jan 9 2011, 1:49 PM ET 373 Showing no sign of tamping down on divisive political rhetoric in the wake of the shooting of 20 people that left six dead in Tuscon Saturday, the Tea Party Nation group e-mailed its members Sunday warning them they would be called upon to fight leftists in the days ahead and defend their movement. TPN founder Judson ...
Was Gunman in Deadly Arizona Shootings Influenced By White-Supremacist Extremist Group?
Post Date: 2011-01-10 09:56:54 by Ferret Mike
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As Congresswoman Giffords Lies in Medically-Induced Coma, Homeland Security Memo Says Alleged Gunman Who Killed Six and Wounded 14 Outside Tucson Supermarket May Have Been Influenced By Newsletter Published By 'White Nationalist' Think Tank; Federal Judge Killed in Rampage Got Death Threats in 2009 Immigration Lawsuit A KILLER WITH A CAUSE? -- Jared Lee Loughner, shown in this 2006 photo from the yearbook of his high school, faces at least five federal charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with Saturday's shooting rampage outside a Tucson, Arizona supermarket that killed six people and wounded 14 others, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords ...
Jared Loughner, Alleged Shooter in Gabrielle Giffords Attack, Described by Classmate as "Left-Wing Pothead"
Post Date: 2011-01-10 02:48:47 by Capitalist Eric
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Jared Loughner is described as a "left-wing political radical." A classmate of the man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning describes him as "left wing" and a "pot head" in a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon. Caitie Parker did not immediately respond to our request for an interview, but her "tweets" in the hours after the shooting paint a picture of Jared Loughner as a substance-abusing loner who had met Giffords before the shooting. She says, Loughner described the congresswoman as "stupid and unintelligent." We've confirmed that Parker and Loughner went to school together at Mountain View High ...
Jared Lee Loughner's statements tied to conspiracy theory
Post Date: 2011-01-09 16:09:51 by go65
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ared Lee Loughner’s rants about grammar and mind control track closely to the writings of a conspiracy theorist who believes that is how the government controls the populace, one leading group says – and the man tells POLITICO he agrees with some of Loughner’s statements. The far-right activist, David Wynn Miller, said in a telephone interview that he didn’t know Loughner, but agreed with his statement in a YouTube video that “the government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar.” “Absolutely I would agree with it,” said Miller, 62, a former tool-and-die maker from Milwaukee who claims 1 billion ...
Surgeons Say Giffords Showing Positive Signs
Post Date: 2011-01-09 14:41:30 by Brian S
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(01-09) 10:36 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- Doctors treating wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords provided an optimistic update Sunday about her chances for survival, saying they are "very, very encouraged" by her ability to respond to simple commands along with their success in controlling her bleeding. The FBI said law enforcement could bring charges against the gunman as early as Sunday, and House Speaker John Boehner said normal House business this week has been postponed in the aftermath of the shooting. Surgeons said a bullet went through Giffords' head on the left side of the brain, but she is still able to respond nonverbally to commands such as squeezing a hand or showing ...
Report: DHS Says Shooting Suspect 'Possibly Linked' To Anti-Semitic Group
Post Date: 2011-01-09 13:39:27 by Brian S
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Fox News reported Sunday morning that an internal Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by the network indicated that suspect Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is "possibly linked" to an anti-Semitic, white supremacist group. The DHS memo called the group American Renaissance "anti-government, anti-immigration, anti-ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government), anti-Semitic." The information reportedly came as Loughner's computer and personal effects were searched in the shooting investigation. The group's leader told Fox that they had no record of Loughner being on the subscriber list or attending events. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D), who attends a Reform synagogue ...
Mother of 9-year-old: 'Stop the hatred'
Post Date: 2011-01-09 12:38:00 by Skip Intro
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Mother of 9-year-old: 'Stop the hatred' Roxanna Green, the mother of the 9-year-old killed during the mass shooting in Arizona on Saturday, has implored the country to "stop the violence, stop the hatred" that led to her daughter's violent death. In an emotional interview Sunday morning on MSNBC, Green spoke about how her daughter had been born on Sept. 11, 2001 and had been featured in a book called "Faces of Hope." Less than 24 hours after Christina Green died, her mother asked for people not to forget her daughter, the youngest victim in the shooting rampage. "I just want her memory to live on, she's a face of hope, a face of change," ...
Healthcare vote postponed due to shooting: Cantor
Post Date: 2011-01-08 23:25:47 by Ferret Mike
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(Reuters) - The House of Representatives will postpone next week's vote to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare reform legislation due to the shooting of Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, House Republican Leader Eric Cantor said on Saturday. "All legislation currently scheduled to be considered by the House of Representatives next week is being postponed so that we can take whatever actions may be necessary in light of today's tragedy," Cantor said in a prepared statement. Giffords had received threats for her support of the healthcare reform bill and her office in Tucson was vandalized after the measure passed Congress last March. Repeal of the ...
Sarah Palin Criticized Over Gabrielle Giffords Presence on "Target List"
Post Date: 2011-01-08 23:12:03 by Ferret Mike
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We do not yet know what prompted 22-year-old accused gunman Jared Loughner to allegedly shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and others, including a child and federal judge who died from their wounds. But critics of Sarah Palin have already drawn a link between the shooting and the fact that the former Alaska governor put Giffords on a "target list" of lawmakers Palin wanted to see unseated in the midterm elections. In March, Palin released a map featuring 20 House Democrats that used crosshairs images to show their districts. (You can see it here.) Critics suggested at the time that she was inciting violence by using the crosshairs imagery and for later writing on Twitter ...
Police seeking second man in Arizona shooting - sheriff
Post Date: 2011-01-08 21:55:41 by Skip Intro
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TUCSON, Ariz. Jan 8 (Reuters) - The suspected gunman in the Arizona shooting has "a troubled past" and used a semi-automatic pistol in the spree that killed six people and wounded 13 on Saturday, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said. The sheriff told a news conference that authorities are seeking a second male in connection with the shooting in Tucson that seriously wounded U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Poster Comment:Oh-oh.
Dupnik: Giffords Gunman Might Have Accomplice
Post Date: 2011-01-08 20:57:44 by Brian S
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Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Saturday evening that the man linked to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others might have an accomplice. "We are not convinced he acted alone," Dupnik said at a news conference. Dupnik said investigators have reason to believe the 22-year-old suspect whom he would not name came to the scene with someone else. "We have photos," Dupnik said of the gunman's companion. Nate T. Gray, of the FBI, referred to bringing "those responsible" to justice. Six people have now died in the attack, said Gray, who is in charge of the FBI office in Phoenix. Five people died at the scene and a 9-year-old girl died at a ...
RICHARD EDMONDSON: THE TEA PARTY’S EMERGING ZIONIST FACE
Post Date: 2011-01-08 20:56:27 by Ferret Mike
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From sounding warnings about ‘terror babies’ to deploring human sympathy for ‘underdogs,’ the Tea Party lurches into Zionist ideology When the Tea Party appeared as a national phenomenon early in 2009, the chief preoccupation was with domestic matters, its disparate groups and members rallying around such traditionally conservative concerns as big government, “socialized medicine,” and the like. There was a strong populist streak (or at least that’s how the media portrayed it), and outrage was expressed over Obama’s multi-billion dollar stimulus package, along with genuinely-felt sentiments, put forth here and there, that Washington was ...
Sarah Palin Criticized Over Gabrielle Giffords Presence on "Target List"
Post Date: 2011-01-08 20:39:31 by Brian S
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We do not yet know what prompted 22-year-old accused gunman Jared Loughner to allegedly shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and others, including a child and federal judge who died from their wounds. But critics of Sarah Palin have already drawn a link between the shooting and the fact that the former Alaska governor put Giffords on a "target list" of lawmakers Palin wanted to see unseated in the midterm elections. In March, Palin released a map featuring 20 House Democrats that used crosshairs images to show their districts. (You can see it here.) Critics suggested at the time that she was inciting violence by using the crosshairs imagery and for later writing on Twitter to ...
Are the Deficits Forever? [Pat Buchanan]
Post Date: 2011-01-08 19:13:01 by Capitalist Eric
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"The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose," said Woodrow Wilson in his first inaugural. "No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic Party." As with Wilson's Democrats in 1913, so it is with the Republican Party today. It has been called to power for the "large and definite purpose" of halting the growth of government and putting the nation's fiscal house in order. Whether it can succeed is another matter. While a visitor to Capitol Hill the day the gavel was passed from Nancy Pelosi to John Boehner could not miss the confident enthusiasm of ...
Cradles and Safety Nets
Post Date: 2011-01-08 18:46:27 by Capitalist Eric
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Rock a bye baby in the treetop, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all. I have never understood the setting of this nursery rhyme. What is a cradle doing in a treetop? Why is a baby in it? This nursery rhyme is more appropriate today than ever before in Western history. Politicians around the world have passed laws that offer free cradles. "Put your child in a government-funded cradle high in a tree at no risk. Your child can enjoy the rocking of the cradle for hours. Put wind power to work for you free of charge! This frees up time for you." Politicians know that the hand that rocks the ...
U.S. District Judge John Roll faced death threats in 2009
Post Date: 2011-01-08 18:15:26 by Skip Intro
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The killing of U.S. District Judge John M. Roll comes two years after he received death threats while he presided over a $32 million civil-rights lawsuit filed by illegal immigrants against an Arizona rancher. When Roll ruled the case could go forward, U.S. Marshal David Gonzales said in 2009 that talk-radio shows cranked up the controversy and spurred audiences into making threats. In one afternoon, Roll logged more than 200 phone calls. Callers threatened the judge and his family. They posted personal information about Roll online. "They said, 'We should kill him. He should be dead,'" Gonzales said. In an interview with The Arizona Republic in mid-2009, Roll, who ...
Ariz. Congresswoman Giffords shot; Dad: 'Entire tea party' her enemy [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-01-08 16:10:39 by Skip Intro
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Ariz. Congresswoman Giffords shot; Dad: 'Entire tea party' her enemy Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was clinging to life after a gunman shot her in the head in front of an Arizona grocery store where she was holding a public event, authorities said. The three-term Democrat, who might have been shot at point blank range, was airlifted to University Medical Center in Tuscon where she was undergoing surgery, Reuters reported. Nine others, including a child, also seriously injured in the bloody shooting spree were also being treated there, according to reports. President Barack Obama said some are dead and Giffords was "gravely wounded." He called the shooting ...
AP Sources: Ariz. Gunman ID'ed As Jared Laughner
Post Date: 2011-01-08 16:00:56 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- People familiar with the investigation tell The Associated Press that the gunman held in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and others has been identified as Jared Laughner. Little information is known immediately about Laughner - such as his background or a possible motive in the attack. U.S. officials who provided his name to the AP spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release it publicly.
Political Hacks Waste No Time In Shamelessly Exploiting Giffords Shooting To Demonize Political Oppositon
Post Date: 2011-01-08 15:31:33 by Capitalist Eric
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Political hacks have wasted little time in exploiting the tragic shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to demonize their political opposition despite the gunman’s motivation being completely unknown at this time. Huffington Post has already blamed the shooting on second amendment activists who held a meeting last year to discuss ways of politically defeating Giffords. Before it’s even been confirmed that Giffords is dead, neo-lib statists are already shamelessly milking the shocking events for political gain. Our forum members also report that CNN’s David Fitsimmons is using the shooting to demonize “fringe” politics. More updates to this ...
Congresswoman, 6 Others, Killed By Gunman
Post Date: 2011-01-08 14:22:12 by Brian S
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday, the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff's office confirms. The 40-year-old Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. At least three other people, including members of her staff, were injured. Giffords was transported to University Medical Center in Tucson. Giffords was talking to a couple when the suspect ran up and fired indiscriminately from about four feet away, Michaels said. ...
BREAKING: U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head outside a grocery store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday.
Post Date: 2011-01-08 13:47:11 by Capitalist Eric
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U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head outside a grocery store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday. The Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a "Congress on Your Corner" event at the Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. At least nine other people, including members of her staff, were hurt. Giffords was transported to University Medical Center in Tucson. Her condition was not immediately known. Giffords was talking to a couple when the suspect ran up firing indiscriminately and ...
BP Cleanup A 'Cover-Up,' Louisiana Says, Pointing To Oil
Post Date: 2011-01-08 12:39:31 by Brian S
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Federal and Louisiana officials got into a heated argument Friday over the cleanup of oiled marshes during a tour of an area that remains fouled 8½ months after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. State and Plaquemines Parish officials took reporters on a boat tour of Barataria Bay, pointing out an area where oil continues to eat away at marshes and protective boom is either absent or has been gobbled up by the oil. The heavily saturated area that reporters saw was 30 feet to 100 feet wide in sections. No cleanup workers were there when reporters toured the area. The marshes are critical to the Louisiana coast because they protect the shore from hurricanes ...
"It is the most monumental insanity"
Post Date: 2011-01-07 22:27:02 by go65
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Conservative historian Bruce Bartlett explains why Tea Party thinking on national debt ceiling is "idiotic" Bruce Bartlett is a historian whose résumé includes stints as a domestic policy advisor during the Reagan administration and a Treasury official under George H.W. Bush. He is also the author of the 2006 blockbuster "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy." For years, Bartlett has been passionately calling attention to Republican fiscal irresponsibility, and now that the fight over whether to raise the debt ceiling -- and prevent the U.S. government from defaulting on its debts -- is promising to be one of 20 ...
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