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9:00 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 …
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The Cholla Jumps:
Jared Loughner is a product of Sheriff Dupnik's office  —  This is the report that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has been dreading since the tragic event on Saturday January 8.  —  The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident.
Arizona Republic:
Family of suspect in Giffords shooting blocked access to house  —  FBI agents working on the Gabrielle Giffords shooing encountered trouble gaining entry to the suspect's family home Monday morning.  —  Family members of Jared Loughner apparently had put on 4-by-4 double-thick plywood …
Arizona Republic:
Suspect in Giffords shooting smirks in court appearance  —  Jared Loughner, the Tucson man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others Saturday, appeared in federal court Monday afternoon with a smirk on his lips and a red strawberry bruise on the right side of his forehead.
Discussion: The Hill
Sarah Netter / ABCNEWS:
Ariz. Sheriff Tours Crime Scene, Blasts Limbaugh  —  Sheriff Clarence Dupnik tell ABC News' Diane Sawyer Gunman Fired ‘As Fast As He Was Capable’  —  The Arizona sheriff investigating the Tucson shooting that left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded had harsh words today …
Discussion: Pat Dollard and JammieWearingFool
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 …
Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
Shameless: Jim Hoft Falls For Fake Facebook Profile In Attempt …
Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:
DeLay lawyers argue over punishment  —  UPDATED: Travis County prosecutors argued that Tom DeLay should go to prison today.  —  “He needs to go to prison, your Honor, and he needs to go today,” said prosecutor Steven Brand.  —  Brand said the judge could send a message that no one is above the law.
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Juan A. Lozano / Associated Press:
Judge sentences Tom DeLay to 3 years in prison  —  AUSTIN, Texas — A judge ordered former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to serve three years in prison Monday for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.  —  The sentence comes after a jury …
Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:
DeLay sentenced to 3 years in prison
David Frum / FrumForum:
What Palin Needed to Say After Giffords' Shooting  —  The shooting in Arizona shocked the nation into grief - and presented Sarah Palin with an immediate political problem: her now-notorious gunsight map.  —  Palin scrubbed the map from her Palin PAC website, and then issued the following statement on her Facebook page:
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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.
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.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Tragedy marks turning point for Palin
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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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Feds arrest person suspected of threatening Sen. Bennet's Denver office  —  Authorities responded Monday to a threat against Sen. Michael Bennet's (D-Colo.) Denver office, Bennet's spokesman said.  —  The FBI and U.S. Capitol Police arrested an individual suspected of making a threat …
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Keith Coffman / Reuters:
Colorado man arrested for threats to senator's staff
Discussion: Politics Daily
John Ingold / Denver Post:
Man arrested in threats to Bennet staffers
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Government-created climate of fear  —  (updated below)  —  One of the more eye-opening events for me of 2010 occurred in March, when I first wrote about WikiLeaks and the war the Pentagon was waging on it (as evidenced by its classified 2008 report branding the website an enemy and planning how to destroy it).
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Los Angeles Times:
Soldier's inhumane imprisonment
Discussion: Balkinization
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.
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.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The charlatans' response to the Tucson tragedy  —  It would be merciful if, when tragedies such as Tucson's occur, there were a moratorium on sociology.  But respites from half-baked explanations, often serving political opportunism, are impossible because of a timeless human craving and a characteristic of many modern minds.
John Stanton / Roll Call:
Sen. Paul Offers Diagnosis for Accused Shooter  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that, based on Internet writings attributed to a 22-year-old accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), he believes Jared Lee Loughner is a paranoid schizophrenic.  —  Paul has a medical degree from Duke University.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Drawing The Line  —  I see that Senator Rand Paul has weighed in and declared that Jared Loughner was mentally ill (which, as far as I'm concerned, doesn't take a medical degree to see.)  But he also seems to think this means that the fact that he assassinated a Democratic congresswoman is irrelevant …
Mchapman / CNSNews:
Sheriff Who Suggested Talk Shows May Have Incited Attack Was Asked by Fellow Democrats to Apologize for ‘Inflammatory’ Remarks on Immigration  —  Sheriff Blamed Violence on Policymakers Who Stopped Institutionalizing the Mentally Ill; Advised Citizens to Get Guns to Protect Themselves
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Manchin comments on gun ad  —  Joe Manchin finds himself explaining that memorable ad in which he took a literal shot at the health care cap-and-trade legislation:  —  I've spent my whole career bringing people together, avoiding the rancor of partisan politics, and that will continue …
TMZ.com:
New Fears Over Sarah Palin's Stalker  —  A man who's been legally ordered to stay away from Sarah Palin is causing a new wave of concern in Alaska — after federal agents learned he plans to visit Sarah's home state in the very near future.  —  TMZ has learned ... 19-year-old Shawn Christy …
 
 
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Ezra Klein:
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Libertarianism and the Reliance Interests of People Who Depend …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Yochi J. Dreazen / NationalJournal.com:
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 Earlier Items: 
The Note:
Post-Tucson Tragedy, Sen. Joe Manchin Discusses Use of Gun Imagery in Campaign Ad
Discussion: The Hill, Ben Smith's Blog and Mediaite
City Journal:
The Hateful Left  —  Where incendiary political rhetoric truly resides in America
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
‘O’ author ‘has been in the room with Obama’
Discussion: Gawker
Yvonne Wenger / The Post and Courier, Charleston SC:
Clyburn: Words can be danger
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Rubio rejects running as Republicans' VP nominee
Roll Call:
Bitter Blue Dogs Ready to Cut Deals
Discussion: Don Surber and Scared Monkeys