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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. His blaming of radio personalities and bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented it. He needs to step up and start apologizing to the families of the victims instead of spinning this event to serve his own political...

This document is circulating, purportedly showing Jared Loughner is a registered Republican. There are two reasons why the document is faked, and one official proclamation that undermines it: TUCSON is spelled TUSCON. People who live in a city do not mispell it's name. If you go to the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission website and put in the address listed on this “registration” it comes up in Senator District 26. This fraud voter reg says District 27. (Hat tip, Brytani) Chris Roads, Pima County Registrar of Voters, declares that Jared Loughner is registered as an independent. First registered in 2006. http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_78272a23-fe75-5bee-ba38-f8171cda3fb7.html...

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Megyn Kelly just did an interview with John Green, the father of Christina, the little girl who was killed yesterday in Tuscon. It was a remarkable interview and if you didn't get a chance to see it, someone will probably have it up on youtube later. What was SO striking to me was his attitude. He said it would be wrong to have "more controls" because of this- that Christina wouldn't haven't wanted that. He said what's great is how free we are in America. He said random things have and will always happen. He said he has the love...

How pathetic that the left as a matter of genetic prediposition must blame someone for the bad things that happen to themselves individually or their collective movement. The left has always had a problem with the acceptance of personal reponsiblity and it has never been more evident than The blood had not dried from the horrific shootings in Tuscon before the like of Paul Krugman, dKos, Rep Linda Lopez, and a host of others including Fox began to subtly and not so subtly brand the shooter as a right wing tea partier or at least motivated by said. Absolutely no...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday, the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff's office confirms. The 40-year-old Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. At least three other people, including members of her staff, were injured. Giffords was transported to University Medical Center in Tucson. Her condition was not immediately known. Giffords was talking to...

According to a new report from the Arizona Republic, the Tucson Unified School District is adopting a two-tiered race-based system of administering discipline to all its students: one for African-Americans and Hispanics, and one for everyone else. Mr. Doug McEachern of the Arizona Republic reported on a startling policy adopted by the Tucson Unified School District that appears to create a discriminatory disciplinary system, one based not on which student committed what offense, but whether the student is a member of a recognized minority group. Despite Mr. McEachern's disturbing perspective of the school district's new policy, his report wasn't entirely...

Thousands attend tea party protest in ABQ A vocal crowd of over a thousand people gathered near Montgomery and Louisiana Boulevard in Albuquerque Wednesday to protest the federal government's spending habits. Retired teacher Yvonne Estrada gave up her bowling night to join thousands of other New Mexicans Wednesday who turned out to voice their concerns about the economy and the federal government's spending habits. Estrada says she's worried about where America is headed. She joined a march of several hundred people along a busy Albuquerque street during rush hour. Her sign read, "I am not your ATM." Estrada says she...

Besides the hype over the Super Bowl game itself, many local viewers are reacting over an incident that happened during the local television broadcast of the game. For viewers of Comcast's standard definition cable signal, the final minutes of the game were interrupted by a thirty-second video clip showing pornography. We contacted KVOA, the channel carrying today's super-bowl. A representative from the KVOA Newsroom said "It was a comcast issue, not KVOA. KVOA had nothing to do with it." Our phone calls to the KVOA News Director were not returned. We also called Comcast and Kelle Maslyn, the Corporate Affairs...

The federal government has mapped out a few places that could be targets for a major terrorist attack. NORAD, in Colorado Springs, Colo., for one. The West Wing of the White House. Or another New York City landmark. But the director of an organization that analyzes the country's level of disaster response offers up one more — Tucson's elementary schools. In his new book "Americans at Risk," Irwin Redlener blasts what he calls a slow emergency response by the government to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and last year's Hurricane Katrina. He lists five worst-case scenarios to further illustrate...

Well, this is not what I expected, but at National Guard Drill this weekend, I expected to receive orders to deploy to New Orleans, LA in support of Operation Katrina relief (yes, Arkansas National Guard is still there), or to Iraq/Afghanistan since I didn't go with the 142nd FA this month. But instead, I received orders to active duty for many months to Fort Huachuca, Arizona.I was needing advice on the SE area of Arizona, specifically, Sierra Vista, Tuscon, Bigsby, etc.I spent all day with ATF getting my Class III firearms ready to go to be stored at the company...

Antiquity unearthed Downtown Lindsay A. Miller / Arizona Daily Star Desert Archaeology crew member Jennifer Sandretto fields a question from Tucson resident John Cushman about the excavation site at a triplex on Court Avenue Downtown. Lying beneath the triplex is a pit house dating back 2,000 years, which predates the Hohokam Indians by centuries. The triplex is destined to become a museum in the Presidio Historic Park, a Rio Nuevo project Downtown. The shallow trenches and holes in the dirt, roped off in the back yard of an old adobe row house Downtown, seem at first like nothing more than...

I have been searching & searching this site for any information on a rally here in Arizona, but haven't found anything. If anyone out there has any information, please let me know. THANKS!!