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Reason Magazine misleads about Jared Loughner (+AllahPundit, Glenn Reynolds) - 01/18/11

Reason Magazine offers the deceptive video "The Week in Stupid: Cable Pundits on the Gifford Shooting" (below). If you trust anything Reason tells you, keep reading. The video leads off with Zach Osler - a former friend of Jared Loughner - claiming that Loughner was apolitical. What Reason doesn't tell you is that Osler hadn't seen Loughner for two years. In fact, conveniently "forgetting" to...

Jared Loughner: anti-Bush, pro-small government? Intellectually dishonest Tea Party defenders - 01/17/11

... conservatives, or libertarians? (Gabrielle Giffords shooting) * Claims by Tea Party enablers that Pima Sheriff Dupnik could have stopped Loughner are false * Friend's claim that Loughner wasn't political is two years out of date * Loughner's "Genocide school" video * Jared Loughner's AboveTopSecret postings show no clear political slant * Arizona state Fusion Center uses Giffords shooting to...

Jared Loughner's "Genocide School" video (Pima Community College) - 01/15/11

... conservatives, or libertarians? (Gabrielle Giffords shooting) * Jared Loughner: anti-Bush, pro-small government? Intellectually dishonest Tea Party defenders * Claims by Tea Party enablers that Pima Sheriff Dupnik could have stopped Loughner are false * Friend's claim that Loughner wasn't political is two years out of date * Jared Loughner's AboveTopSecret postings show no clear political slant...

Did Pima County Sheriff Dupnik ignore Jared Loughner's warning signs before Gabrielle Giffords shooting? - 01/13/11

... immediately after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and several others by Jared Lee Loughner, Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik began politicizing the tragedy [1]. Part of that politicization was justified, part was not. Specifically, considering the role that an overly hostile political environment might have played in the tragedy and urging calm is acceptable, but naming specific...

Friend: Loughner wasn't political, not left or right (two years out of date; Zeitgeist) - 01/12/11

... Zach Osler - a former friend of Gabrielle Giffords shooter Jared Lee Loughner - said the following about Loughner (video below): He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right. However, in the same interview, Osler admits not having seen Loughner for two years. Obviously, a lot can happen in two...

Jared Loughner's AboveTopSecret postings (Gabrielle Giffords shooter) - 01/11/11

Jared Lee Loughner - shooter of Gabrielle Giffords - allegedly posted to the conspiracy forum AboveTopSecret.com using the handle erad3, and they've published the comments here. He created four threads and posted an additional 126 comments; none of them give an accurate picture of his political leanings or hint at what was to come. In almost all of the comments it's difficult to tell whether he...

Is Jared Lee Loughner linked to Tea Party, conservatives, or libertarians? (Gabrielle Giffords shooting) - 01/11/11

... movements play a role in the Gabrielle Giffords shooting? A. In cases like this it's necessary to separate *ideology* from *tactics*. There's very little chance that *ideology* had any role in the tragedy; Loughner probably wasn't motivated enough by his fringe libertarian ideas about gold-backed money to do what he did. However, the *tactics* of the teaparty movement might have played a role....

Glenn Reynolds denies Tea Party's history of intimidation (Giffords shooting, Loughner) - 01/09/11

... conservatives, or libertarians? (Gabrielle Giffords shooting) * Jared Loughner: anti-Bush, pro-small government? Intellectually dishonest Tea Party defenders * Claims by Tea Party enablers that Pima Sheriff Dupnik could have stopped Loughner are false * Loughner's "Genocide school" video * Friend's claim that Loughner wasn't political is two years out of date * Jared Loughner's AboveTopSecret...

DHS uses Giffords shooting to push loose borders political agenda (Jared Lee Loughner, American Renaissance) - 01/09/11

... sources are using the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords by Jared Lee Loughner as an opportunity to try to smear opponents of illegal immigration, focusing on the higher-level white racial separatist group American Renaissance (DHS memo at [1], report at [2]). Not only do they get that group's ideas wrong, but they mislead about what was in Loughner's videos and what appears to have been on his...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, several others shot; Palin, Tea Party candidate - 01/08/11

UPDATES BELOW Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and several others were shot earlier today and there are conflicting reports on whether she and others were killed. Per this: The gunman, who may have come from inside the Safeway, walked up and shot Gifford in the head first, "point blank". According to [an eyewitness, Steven Rayle], who is a former ER doctor, Gifford was able to move her hands after being...

How many Senate seats did the Tea Parties cost the Republicans? - 11/10/10

... Jesse Kelly, who lost to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), state Sen. Brad Zaun, who lost to Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa), and even state Rep. Raul Labrador, who beat Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho), all fared less well in their districts than other Republican candidates running for office in the state. Chris Cillizza includes the disclaimer that those races were higher-profile than the down-...

Federal agencies in effect join boycott over Arizona immigration law (Education, Border Patrol) - 06/24/10

... boycott against our state," (Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) said in a written statement. "Although I personally disagree with the immigration law, it came about because of growing frustration over the federal government's unwillingness to secure the border. The federal government's participation in this boycott only adds to that frustration." ...According to Giffords, the (Department of Education)...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords considers pushing H-1B increase even as millions of Americans without work - 10/27/09

Last year, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords introduced legislation that could double or triple the number of H1B visas; those are usually used by high tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, and many others to obtain lower-wage, pliable foreign workers. Now, despite the fact that millions of Americans are unemployed, Giffords is considering bringing her bill back. Per this October 21 post: The...

White House immigration meeting of amnesty all-stars: Obama, McCain, Graham, Cornyn, Gutierrez - 06/26/09

Yesterday, Barack Obama met with various members of Congress to discuss comprehensive immigration reform. His remarks are at [1], a list of attendees is at [2], and some quotes from attendees is at [3]. Nothing very important appears to have happened or been said. Note also that before the meeting, Rahm Emanuel said, "If the votes were there [for amnesty], you wouldn't need to have the meeting....

Obama budget ends SCAAP, just like Bush did (reimburses states for illegal alien incarceration) - 05/08/09

... Napolitano and Reps. John Spratt and Gabrielle Giffords (all Democrats) are here. Back to Obama's attempt to do the same thing, this quotes Sen. John Cornyn: "Forcing state governments to pick up the tab for federal government's failures doesn't save Texas taxpayers one dime." Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says Obama's actions are "outrageous" (link). Sen. Dianne Feinstein says this: "[Obama's...

Gabrielle Giffords' first immigration speech - 01/13/07

... plain English, BS-free version of Gabrielle Giffords' speeches. The plucky Arizona legislator beat Randy Graf in November, sparking the massive Graf/Hayworth canard, and one of her top goals is finally "solving" the immigration crisis. Here's my maiden attempt for "Gabby" (from the apparent transcript here): Mr. Speaker, we have made some major accomplishments this week, but one area that...

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