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LIVE AT FIVE – 1.10.10

TOP NEWS Giffords’ Survival A Testament To The Mystery Of Brain Injury “The belief is if you get shot in the head, you’re dead, but it isn’t like that,” agreed the University of Miami’s Ross Bullock, chief of neurotrauma at Jackson Memorial Hospital. “Every patient is an individual and more so with a gunshot than […]

A Very Special Comment

My 12-year-old son delivers a reply to someone with a gigantic ego and a miniscule audience: Here’s the script: Saturday’s shootings in Tucson, Arizona were hateful and tragic, the senseless and desperate deeds of a demented man. All decent Americans mourn the lives lost and irreparably damaged by this atrocious act of insane violence. Yet another act of […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Once More, With Feeling!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, and Loyal Readers of The Other McCain, it’s time once again for Rule 5 Sunday, which unbelievably enough is actually appearing on Sunday for the second week in a row! Who’d’a thunk it? Perhaps the Culture Warrior, who graced our inbox with a link to the lovely […]

A Thought Concerning The False Lefty Propaganda

by Smitty Lefty commenters were boring in their predictable attempt to manage the dots in the Arizona shooting and connect them in politically convenient ways. Instead of getting all bent out of shape, the way the Usual Suspects want you to, instead, consider offering detailed, sincere forgiveness. We should both pray for recovery for the […]

FMJRA 2.0: Not Now John

I’ve got to get on with this. Arizona Shooter ‘Seems to Be Someone Desperately Needing Mental Health Care’ That Mr. Guy Blatherings Wolves In Sheeps Clothing Rhetorican AmSpecBlog Fausta’s Blog WyBlog TrogloPundit Eternity Matters DaTechguy Republican Redefined The Snooper Report Republican Redefined Noisy Room Best. Republican. Scandal. EVAH! UPDATE: Is ‘Lurid’ Photo a Hoax? Instapundit […]

‘Unbalanced People … Respond to the Vitriol That Comes Out of Certain Mouths’

Yeah, that’s what Sheriff Dupnik said, and here’s CNN video: William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has the documents from the criminal charges filed against Jared Loughner. But obviously, Sheriff Dupnik has a point. And I think we know who, more than anyone else in America, is responsible for unloading unspeakably hateful “vitriol” into the minds of […]

The South Rises Again (in Sudan)

A referendum begins, and voters in South Sudan are expected to approve their independence from Khartoum: Joy marked the faces of South Sudanese citizens as they waited in long lines at polling stations throughout this dusty boomtown that, come July, is likely to be the world’s newest capital. In Juba, many residents rose before dawn to […]

Text of Memo From the Department of Homeland Security on Arizona Shooting

This is the DHS memo, sent via e-mail at about 6 p.m. Eastern yesterday, regarding the mass murder in Tucson: “The investigation has been taken over by the FBI, and is being run through the Tucson Command Post. Here’s what can be confirmed at this time (1800 hrs)… * Gabrielle Giffords Is in ICU. * […]

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