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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 […]
New York — BOBBY ROBINSON, whose tiny record shop on Harlem’s 125th St. spawned No. 1 national hits and made him an uptown patriarch for six decades, died yesterday. He was 93 and had been ill for several years – though he regularly went to work at his shop until it was forced to close […]
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 […]
Below are some of the videos we were able to dig up on Jared Lee Loughner, who attempted to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona this weekend, while killing six in the process and injuring many others. RELATED: Arizona Shootings
Instead of us filling out this post, we want to hear what you, our readers, think of this case and how it would be different if Jared Loughner was a Black man who killed six people and almost murdered a politician. So go straight into our comments and type in the words: “If Jared Loughner […]
Below is a gallery of the failed assassination attempt on the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, which ended with six people killed and numerous others injured. RELATED: Arizona Shootings
In the past year, the state of Arizona has become a hotbed of racism with the law enacted for immigrants to be stopped by law enforcement if suspected of being in the country illegally. The reputation doesn’t get any better for the state John McCain calls home. In 1992, Arizona became the last state to […]
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 […]
TUCSON– Prosecutors accused Jared Lee Loughner, a troubled 22-year-old college dropout, of five serious federal charges on Sunday, including the attempted assassination of a member of Congress, for his role in a shootout that left 20 people wounded, six of them fatally, on Saturday morning. Court documents filed in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix […]
Since President Obama was elected in 2008, the gun rhetoric we’ve seen pop up online in videos from Tea Party rallies and politicians revving up their base have been unmatched on an historical level. Yesterday, the comments of many Republican candidates at their rallies may have inspired Jared Loughner to nearly assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, […]
TUCSON, Ariz.—In high school, Jared Lee Loughner was a scrawny kid with a bushy mop of curly hair under the hood of a gray sweatshirt, a saxophone player at football games who jammed with a friend’s garage band.
Arizona — A Department of Homeland Security memo reveals that suspected Tucson shooter, Jared Loughner, is “possibly linked” to a white supremacist group. On Jan. 9, 2010, Fox News reported on a memo prepared by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about 22-year-old Jared Loughner, the suspect in custody for the Tucson shootings. According to […]
