Top Items:

Daniel Hernandez, intern, stays by Gabrielle Giffords' side — UA student pulls her into lap, holds head to stop bleeding — Daniel Hernandez had been U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' intern for five days when she was shot Saturday outside Tucson. — The junior at the University of Arizona …
RELATED:


Giffords Called Responsive After Attack — TUCSON — Representative Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat who was gravely wounded in a shooting rampage, remained in critical condition on Sunday but has been able to respond to simple commands, and her doctors described themselves as “cautiously optimistic.”
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, TalkLeft, New York Times, CNN, Gothamist and Truthdig

Palin staffer calls using tragedy to score political points ‘obscene’ — The news was barely out today when social networks were erupting, blaming Sarah Palin and the tea party for inciting the 22-year-old alleged gunman who shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat from Arizona …


Daly: Gifford's blood is on Palin's hands — Sarah Palin should've known what she was doing when she put a target on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (below). Palin might as well have said, ‘Fire!’ — Here is what Sarah Palin said on the Facebook page where she depicted Gabrielle Giffords …


The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting. — The attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the killing of six innocents outside a Tucson Safeway has bolstered the ongoing argument that when speaking of things political …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Hullabaloo, pandagon.net, Sister Toldjah, Althouse, The Politico, Power Line, Caffeinated Thoughts and PostPartisan


Should We Blame Sarah Palin for Gabrielle Giffords' Shooting? — Already, people are pointing fingers at Sarah Palin and her “target map” for fostering the tragedy in Arizona—but Howard Kurtz says military terminology has been part of politics for ages. — I hate to say this, but the blame game is already under way.

The Media & The Shooter — “The tea party movement won in November.
Discussion:
Swampland, AmSpecBlog, USA Today, The Note, The Huffington Post and Politics Daily

A 'SURVEYOR'S SYMBOL'?.... On March 22, the day before the …
Discussion:
Balloon Juice

Violence and threats have no place in democracy
Discussion:
American Power, Mediaite, The Wire, Crooks and Liars and Washington Post


Alexander Refuses To Condemn Palin's Cross-Hairs Map, Urges Media …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, The Times-Tribune and Ben Smith's Blog

The shame — and hypocrisy — of CNN
Discussion:
FrumForum, The Jawa Report, Tim Blair, NewsBusters.org blogs, Fox Nation, Pajamas Media and The Right Scoop

Special Public Podcast: Intv w Rebecca Mansour
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, The Hill, Weigel, Outside the Beltway, Raw Story, Weasel Zippers, TPMDC, CBS News, Washington Post and Mediaite

A Turning Point in the Discourse, but in Which Direction?
Discussion:
Peter Daou, msnbc.com, The Politico, The Mahablog, Booman Tribune, CNN, Prairie Weather, Hullabaloo, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Guardian and Balloon Juice

Jared Loughner to be charged in Arizona shootings targeting Gabrielle Giffords
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Weasel Zippers, Sister Toldjah, The Confluence, msnbc.com and The Daily Caller

Lawmakers on Edge, Reassessing Security, After Gabrielle Giffords Shooting
Discussion:
The Politico, The Note and WRTV-TV

Palin aide defends imagery targeting Giffords
Discussion:
Fox Nation, GOOD and ImmigrationProf Blog

Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics
Discussion:
ABCNEWS, Big Government, Guardian, CNN, The Politico, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, HillBuzz.org, Crooks and Liars, The Monkey Cage, Outside the Beltway, Reuters, TPMDC, Commentary, Left Coast Rebel, The Gateway Pundit, Boston Herald, Associated Press, Power Line, Daily Kos, NewsBusters.org blogs, Gawker, Ezra Klein, Sky Dancing, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, USA Today, Taylor Marsh, MLive.com, The Moderate Voice, American Power and The Democratic Daily

DHS probing shooter's ties to fanatical group — The feds are reportedly probing whether shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner has ties to an anti-Semitic, anti-government hate group that has ads for tea party organizations on its website. — A Department of Homeland Security memo quoted …
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, The Gateway Pundit, The Other McCain, Towleroad News #gay, Balloon Juice and 24Ahead
RELATED:

It Doesn't Matter Why He Did It — Judging from his Internet postings, Jared Lee Loughner is a delusional young man whose inner political landscape is a swamp of dystopian novels, left- and right-wing tracts, conspiracy theories, and contempt for his fellow human beings.
Discussion:
Verum Serum, Political Byline, Washington Monthly and The Huffington Post


Arizona Suspect's Recent Acts Offer Hints of Alienation — WASHINGTON — Jared Lee Loughner had become increasingly erratic in recent months, so much so that others around him began to worry. — He had posted on his Myspace page at some point a photograph of a United States history textbook, on top of which he had placed a handgun.
Discussion:
ktla.com, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Guardian, Althouse, Politics Daily, The Other McCain, Gothamist, NewsBusters.org blogs, Raw Story, Ben Smith's Blog, msnbc.com, Jay Currie, Don Surber, The Wire, Boing Boing, Gawker, JustOneMinute, LewRockwell.com Blog, Arizona Republic and The Huffington Post, more at Mediagazer »

DHS Memo Suggests Shooter May Be Linked To Racist Organization — According to a law enforcement memo based on information provided by DHS and obtained by Fox News, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white racist organization …
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Talking Points Memo, Donklephant, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Michelle Malkin

Latest on shooting of Congresswoman Giffords...motivation: anti Semitic and she was the target — Below is a note from my FNC colleague Jennifer Griffin: (by the way, the fact that my blogs focus on Congresswoman Giffords in no way is meant to take away from the other victims and their families.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Verum Serum, Sipsey Street Irregulars, Israel Matzav, AMERICAblog News and The Politico

Arizona shooting suspect may be linked to anti-Semitic group — THE suspect being held over Saturday's shooting of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords may have links to anti-Semitic race hate group American Renaissance. — An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
Discussion:
Fox News, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Jawa Report, JammieWearingFool, Doug Ross, The Gateway Pundit and Liberal Values

Report: DHS says shooting suspect ‘possibly linked’ to anti-Semitic group
Discussion:
CBS News, The Politico and The Daily Caller


IS DAILY KOS INVOLVED IN ARIZONA MURDERS? …
Discussion:
American Thinker, The Gateway Pundit, iOwnTheWorld.com, Washington Post, The Atlantic Wire, zero hedge, USA Today, Atlas Shrugs, NewsBusters.org blogs, Wake up America, NO QUARTER, protein wisdom, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Boing Boing, Moonbattery, Doug Ross, Right Wing News and Weasel Zippers, more at Mediagazer »


9-Year-Old Victim Was a 9/11 Baby, a ‘Face of Hope’ — Christina Green was on the student council of her elementary school, so on Saturday her mother's friend thought she might enjoy seeing government in action — the local congresswoman meeting with constituents outside a supermarket near Christina's home.
Discussion:
National Review
RELATED:

Born, died between 2 tragedies
Discussion:
KVOA-TV, Gothamist, Crooks and Liars, KTAR.com, Suburban Guerrilla, AMERICAblog News and The Daily Caller

Jared Loughner's college instructor: I was worried he might have a gun in class — A community college instructor who taught Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner was so disturbed by the student's outbursts in class that he requested Loughner's removal from the course, he told the Washington Post in an interview Sunday.
Discussion:
ABCNEWS
RELATED:

Dupnik: Suspect is mentally unstable
Discussion:
Doug Ross, Politics Daily, Hit & Run and iOwnTheWorld.com

The Crazed Internet Rantings of Jared Loughner
Discussion:
Sipsey Street Irregulars and Outside the Beltway

Until Saturday's rampage against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords left her battling for her life and ended the lives of six others, Clarence Dupnik was not the most famous sheriff in Arizona. — But after a pull-no-punches news conference in which he linked the shooting in Tucson …
Discussion:
Politics Daily and Guardian
RELATED:

Sheriff Dupnik's criticism of political ‘vitriol’ resonates with public
Discussion:
Politics Daily, Tucson Weekly and Feministe

Shooting prompts legislation to protect lawmakers, officials — Washington (CNN) - Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pennsylvania, said he will introduce legislation making it a federal crime for a person to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a Member of Congress or federal official.
Discussion:
The Hill