Bummer: Pima County Attorney muzzles Supercop
MSNBC hardest hit. I fully expect the “Free Clarence Dupnik” movement to start in 3 … 2 … 1 … The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has suddenly turned off the flow of information in the January 8th...
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Tomorrow. “Gabrielle Giffords on Thursday felt the sunshine on her face for the first time since she was shot, as doctors prepared her to leave behind the Arizona hospital where she dazzled them with...
View ArticleVideo: Giffords flown to Houston for evaluation and rehab
Long road to travel. Gabrielle Giffords continues to make remarkable progress after surviving an assassination attempt by a lunatic in Tucson. In less than two weeks since being shot in the head at...
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Sneak preview. “President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans...
View ArticleUN official pushes 9/11 Trutherism
Another good reason for cutting off funds? The big joke? Richard Falk deconstructs the 9/11 attacks and the Tucson shooting, apparently feeling both are part of his portfolio as United Nations Special...
View ArticleLawrence O’Donnell’s ratings up 50% over Olbermann’s on first night
Trading up. Yeah, yeah, he got a bump because it was his debut at 8 p.m. and people were curious. And yet, this isn’t the first time that O’D has outperformed Kayo in that slot. Remember what happened...
View ArticleWow: Obama’s planning a special speech on gun control, claims Chris Matthews
Uh oh. This isn’t Tingles talking out of his rear, I don’t think. He was at the White House for lunch today with Obama along with a few other journalists to receive some advance spin about tonight’s...
View ArticleDemocrat tries to boot Giffords from committee assignment
Outrage. According to the Daily Caller’s Chris Moody, California Democrat Loretta Sanchez proposed yanking fellow Rep. Gabrielle Giffords off of the House Armed Services Committee after being at least...
View ArticleGood news: Sharron Angle not ruling out presidential run
What could go wrong? Sure, she couldn’t beat the face of the Democratic caucus in a hugely Republican year even with a gigantic war chest. And yeah, her comment about “Second Amendment remedies” was...
View ArticleHey, this would be a great time to grab some guns
If not now, when? Never let a good crisis go to waste. I’ve lost track of the number of articles I’ve written at Hot Air warning against the loss of gun rights following rampages by maniacs, but this...
View ArticleCivility in discourse on display at Koch protest
V for hypocrisy. Remember how the Left claimed that incivility in discourse on the Right caused the shootings in Tucson that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded, along with more...
View ArticleGabrielle Gifford’s Husband Expresses Newfound Faith
Faith and comfort. Gabrielle Gifford’s husband Mark Kelly spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday. In his brief speech he expressed his own turn to faith to support him during the most...
View ArticleYikes: Kyl to retire; Update: Bigger plans?; Update: Flake not ruling out a run
Vacancy. The bad news: He’s only 68 and this would have been an easy hold. As it is, Democrats will take a crack at it in hopes of offsetting losses by vulnerable midwestern Blue Dogs like Nelson,...
View ArticleFlake to run for Arizona Senate; Update: Club for Growth endorses Flake
Those dismayed by the surprise announcement of Jon Kyl’s retirement from the Senate may have reason to cheer after all. Jeff Flake, who conducted a quixotic fight against Congressional pork for years...
View ArticleBingaman retires, Napolitano out in 2012 Senate contests
Double dose of Democratic despair? First, the bad news for Democrats. Another seat that they hoped to defend with a relatively moderate incumbent will instead go open in a state that has grown more...
View ArticleDem Congressman tells unions that they “need to get out on the streets and...
Civility. Gee, I seem to recall when violent rhetoric was the bane of political rhetoric, at least when the Left was shrieking about the latent, seething violence of Tea Party activists and Sarah...
View ArticleBreaking: Attack on soldiers in Frankfurt bus, 2 dead; Update: Air Force, not...
Kosovar gunman? Conflicting reports have come from Frankfurt, Germany this morning about an attack on a bus filled with American soldiers by a lone gunman. Both the BBC and the AP report that two...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
WTF Waldo. When a Democratic President has lost Ruth Marcus, then something’s amiss. Barack Obama didn’t lose the Washington Post’s liberal columnist because he’s been too conservative, or too liberal,...
View ArticleKoran-burning pastor says murders of UN staff aren’t his fault
He's right, too. Terry Jones burned a Koran, and an Afghan mob killed at least seven UN personnel. Connected? Surely, but that hardly makes Jones responsible for murder, he told ABC News in a...
View ArticleAudio: Hey, remember when Debbie Wasserman-Schultz decided she was going to...
Hypocrisy. You probably don’t remember. It happened a long time ago, in a different political era. By which, of course, I mean “January.” That was when her friend Gabby Giffords got shot and she and...
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