memeorandum: Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Gunman linked to grammar ‘judge’ (Peter Walker/Guardian)

2:45 PM ET, January 10, 2011

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Nick Baumann / Mother Jones:

Exclusive: Loughner Friend Explains Alleged Gunman's Grudge Against Giffords — In a MoJo interview, the friend shares a message sent hours before the massacre. — Post Comment — At 2:00 a.m. on Saturday—about eight hours before he allegedly killed six people and wounded 14 …

NY Daily News:

Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Frightening, twisted shrine in Arizona killer Jared Lee Loughner's yard — A sinister shrine reveals a chilling occult dimension in the mind of the deranged gunman accused of shooting a member of Congress and 19 others. — Hidden within a camouflage tent behind …

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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:

Tragedy marks turning point for Palin — With a long list of enemies, a taste for incendiary rhetoric and responsibility for a campaign website graphic that placed gunsight logos on a map of targeted congressional districts, it didn't take long for Sarah Palin to get pulled into the orbit of Saturday's massacre in Tucson.

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New York Times:

Suspect's Odd Behavior Caused Growing Alarm — TUCSON — In a community college classroom here last June, on the first day of the term, the instructor in Jared L. Loughner's basic algebra class, Ben McGahee, posed what he thought was a simple arithmetic question to his students.

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Wall Street Journal:

Suspect Fixated on Giffords — Accused Gunman Went to Congresswoman's Event in 2007; ‘I Planned Ahead’ — TUCSON, Ariz.—Accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner appeared to have been long obsessed with U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. — A safe at Mr. Loughner's home contained a form letter …

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Christopher Beam / Slate:
Jared Lee Loughner's philosophy professor reflects on the shooting in Arizona.

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog

Associated Press:
Shooting suspect's nihilism rose with isolation

Josh Horwitz / The Huffington Post:
Tucson Shooting Shows True Face of NRA's “Second Amendment Remedies”

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Raw Story and Big Government

Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
A Portrait of a Disturbed Assailant

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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Jared Loughner's behavior recorded by college classmate in e-mails

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Michelle Malkin:

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010 — The Tucson massacre ghouls who are now trying to criminalize conservatism have forced our hand. — They need to be reminded. You need to be reminded. — Confront them. Don't be cowed into silence.

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Climate of Hate — When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen? — Put me in the latter category. I've had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since the final stages of the 2008campaign.

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The Right Scoop:

Glenn Beck reads email from Sarah Palin — This is probably the closest thing we'll get to hear from Sarah Palin this soon on this weekend's unfortunate events. Glenn Beck reads part of an email from Sarah Palin to him in light of the massive smear job the Left is perpetrating against her.

Discussion: Washington Post and Outside the Beltway

Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Wall Street Journal:

The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel — Those who purport to care about the tenor of political discourse don't help civil debate when they seize on any pretext to call their political opponents accomplices to murder. — Shortly after November's electoral defeat for the Democrats …

Keach Hagey / The Politico:

Sarah Palin to Glenn Beck: “I hate violence” — Sarah Palin reached out to Glenn Beck over the weekend, and Beck read some of their email exchange on his radio show this morning. — “Sarah, as you know, peace is always the answer. I know you are felling the same heat, if not much more on this,” Beck wrote.

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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:

The Arizona Shooting Is Not A Product Of Right-Wing Rage — Conservatives are furious that the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords is being pinned on them. Their indignation is justified. The mania of Giffords' would-be assassin may be slightly more right-wing than left-wing …

Discussion: Swampland, NewsBusters.org blogs, Brendan Nyhan and Big Government

Bob Cusack / The Hill:

Conservative pundit says criticism of Palin like ‘McCarthyism’ — A conservative pundit on Monday ripped liberals who have suggested that Sarah Palin is to blame for the shooting tragedy in Arizona. — During an appearance on C-SPAN's “Washington Journal,” Bill Kristol …

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Alex Pareene / Salon:
Watering the tree of liberty

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Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
“'I don't know what's in that nut's head. I would rather be safe than sorry'”

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, The Jawa Report and NationalJournal.com

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:
Sarah Palin Responds To AZ Shootings Through Glenn Beck …

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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Still In Arizona — Prof. Krugman, who types at the speed of hate …

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NY Daily News:
Cupp: The left's sick Palin blame game

Discussion: Althouse

Ryan Alessi / cn|2 Politics:

Giffords called for toning down ‘rhetoric and partisanship’ in email to Grayson on Friday — Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona said she wanted to promote ways to “tone our rhetoric and partisanship down” in a note she sent Friday to Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.

Discussion: The Hill, CNN, The Huffington Post and TPMDC

Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Arizona Shooting Suspect to Face Judge

Discussion: News Desk

Alex Leary / St. Petersburg Times:

Rubio: Not open to VP nod — Sen. Marco Rubio said this morning he is not open to the possibility of being a presidential running mate. — “The state of the Republican Party hasn't been that good, so maybe we do need you as a VP candidate,” Panama City radio host Burnie Thompson told him in an interview.

Discussion: Ballot Box, Hotline On Call and msnbc.com

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Rubio rejects running as Republicans' VP nominee

Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller and GOP 12

The Politico:

Ashley Turton, ex-Congressional aide, found dead in burning car — A veteran Congressional aide who worked most recently as a lobbyist and was married to White House legislative affairs senior official was found dead in her car Monday behind the couple's Capitol Hill home following a low-speed car crash and subsequent fire.

Discussion: Roll Call, Politics Daily, Fortune and Gawker

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:

Official: DHS has not determined any possible ties between Arizona shooter and right wing group — For the last 24 hours, the Web has been alive with speculation that the Arizona shooter has some sort of ties to a right-wing group called American Renaissance.

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Frank Newport / Gallup:

Within GOP, Huckabee Most Liked, Palin Best Known — Palin, Romney, and Gingrich trail Huckabee on Gallup's net favorable dimension — PRINCETON, NJ — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has the highest net favorable score among Republicans nationwide in a field of potential GOP candidates for 2012 …

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Monica Von Dobeneck / PennLive.com:

Dick Winters, of ‘Band of Brothers’ fame, dies — Dick Winters, the former World War II commander whose war story was told in the book and miniseries “Band of Brothers,” has died. — Dick Winters led a quiet life on his Fredericksburg farm and in his Hershey home until the book and miniseries …

Discussion: Post Mortem, Outside the Beltway and Shot in the Dark

NY Daily News:

Male model Renato Seabra charged with murder after confession in castration slay of Carlos Castro — A male model confessed Sunday to killing a gay journalist in a Times Square hotel - and gave cops a twisted explanation of why he sexually mutilated his victim, sources said.

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