Fox News       sc     Utah puts 'Latino Day' on hold    Utah officials are backing off support of a Latino Day event at the state Capitol in anticipation of intense debate about immigration. -- The Salt Lake Tribune reports the state's ethnic affairs office sent an e-mail Wednesday saying it also considered budget reductions in its decision...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner     Calls for new gun laws receive cool reception from cops    In the aftermath of the Arizona massacre in front of a Tucson Safeway supermarket on January 8 -- a shooting spree that left six dead and nine wounded including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords -- politicians, gun-control activists and many members of the media are demanding stricter gun control laws...

Tom McLaughlin -- Family Security Matters     Propaganda vs. evidence    ..."Sheriff Dupnik blamed former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and others for stirring up the shooter," I explained. "Dupnik accused Palin of saying 'We have people like Gabby Giffords in the crosshairs.' Actually, Palin didn't say that, but had published a map of the US showing congressional districts where Democrats like Giffords were targeted for defeat at the polls on election day..."

Eric Kampmann -- WorldNetDaily.com      Sheriff Dupnik's inconvenient truth    Of all the politically charged claims made from the terrible shootings in Tucson, perhaps the most obscene comes from the man charged with investigating the crime. The broad-sweeping indictments Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has continually made – blaming public discourse, the media and talk radio – now look absurd, distracting, even self-serving...

Matt Towery -- Southern Political Report     Hey liberals, will John Lennon straighten you out?    We've already heard or read nearly everything that can be said or written about the shooting tragedy in Tucson, Ariz. this past week -- and about the left-of-center's effort to politicize it. -- Let's turn history around on the more liberal side of the media and government. Let's cite another example of a well-known "liberal" -- as self-defined by his song lyrics...

Associated Press     Sheriff in Giffords case lashes out about politics    Tucson -- Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was thrust into the spotlight to face a nation demanding answers in the aftermath of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. He didn't mince words. -- The rampage, he said, grew in part from extreme political rhetoric, bigotry and hatred, especially in his home state of Arizona...

Coming Up JANUARY 19 6 PM ET -- Woodstock, GA - D.A. King -- Sen. Jack Murphy -- Others Republican Women of Cherokee County

Dallas Morning News       Deported former Frisco student says he plans to return to U.S.     Saad Nabeel has decided to come home -- whether it's legal or not. -- The former Frisco student, whose deportation to Bangladesh in 2009 spurred an outcry, has vowed to return by his 20th birthday next week. -- Nabeel said encounters with police and his family's political ties left him feeling too vulnerable to live in Bangladesh...

Kurt Nimmo -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas      Attempt by Obama operatives to turn memorial into political rally backfires On Wednesday night in Tucson, Arizona, Obama and the Democrats disrespected the dead and turned a memorial into a cheap and tawdry political rally for the re-election campaign of Barry Obama. -- A few of the usual pundits and observers noticed the obvious attempt to gain political mileage out of the dead and wounded by the Obama machine... [See Gabrielle Giffords shot]

Jim Willie -- Financial Sense      Long shadows cast over U.S. economy    Numerous are the threats to the US Economy and US financial structures. Many are hidden threats, subtle challenges to undermine increasingly fragile support systems, planks, and cables that hold the system together. The year 2011 will be when the system breaks in open visible fashion, when the explanations that justify it sound silly and baseless, when the entire bond world endures major crashes...

Daisy Hernandez -- National Public Radio      NPR reporter happy that the Tucson gunman was a "gringo"    ..."It's safe to say there was a collective sigh of brown relief when the Tucson killer turned out to be a gringo. Had the shooter been Latino, media pundits wouldn't be discussing the impact of nasty politics on a young man this week -- they'd be demanding an even more stringent anti-immigrant policy..." [Related video]

Bloomberg     Stocks decline as jobless claims data overshadow earnings optimism    U.S. stocks fell, pulling benchmark indexes down from two-year highs, as a bigger-than-forecast increase in jobless claims tempered optimism about fourth- quarter earnings reports. -- Merck & Co. slid 6.7 percent, the biggest drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as a trial for a blood-thinner drug was halted... [How's all this 'hope and change' working out for you?]

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Underground drug operation found at Border Patrol agent's home    During a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, in San Diego, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath told the court that when authorities raided the home of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Marcos Gerardo Manzano Jr., they discovered an underground bunker in his backyard. Inside that bunker, they found 61 grams of methamphetamine, and packaging paraphernalia...

Rasmussen Reports      Most say stricter gun laws would not help prevent shootings    Most Americans say stronger gun control laws are not the answer to the shootings last weekend of a U.S. congresswoman and the killing of six others. -- A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, taken Monday and Tuesday nights, finds that only 29% of Adults think stricter gun control laws would help prevent shootings like the one in Arizona... [See Gun Grabber Watch]

Brent Bozell -- News Busters      Liberal sickos exploit a rampage    Imagine the Saturday morning of congressional aide Mark Kimble. Kimble told of going to a Safeway for a typical meet-and-greet event with his boss, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Kimble said he went into the store for coffee, and as he came out, Giffords was talking to a couple about Medicare and reimbursements...

Huffington Post      City bankruptcies will increase, Dimon warns    As cities across the nation face increasing budget strains, the vocal group of experts warning about municipal defaults has gained a powerful member: Jamie Dimon. -- The JP Morgan CEO said he expects to see more U.S. municipalities declare bankruptcy, Bloomberg News reports... [See "Hope & Change" Watch]

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Illegal alien pleads not guilty in fatal DUI crash    On January 3, Homero Garibay-Alvarez, 36, through a translator, pled not guilty in an Idaho courtroom to one count of felony vehicular manslaughter in the death of 23-year-old Samantha K. Leonard. On September 26, 2010, she was traveling with her husband, an airman stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base... [See Crime Watch]

Jim Hoft -- Gateway Pundit      Tea Party leader gets death threats after crackpot sheriff spews hooey  After blaming the tea party for the mass slaughter on Saturday one tea party leader is receiving death threats. The sheriff's office told Tucson tea party leader Trent Humphries to stay home. -- The Tucson Tea Party leader started receiving death threats since the shootings at the Safeway on Saturday... [Check this item on Sheriff Dupnik]

The Blaze      Gun-grabbing GOP Rep. will introduce new strict firearms law    A popular GOP congressman announced today that he will soon introduce gun control legislation that will make it illegal to carry a gun within 1,000 feet of a federal official. -- Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who has generally been supportive of gun control measures, announced the new legislation alongside strong anti-gun New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg... [See Gun Grabber Watch]

CNBC     Housing market slips into Depression territory    As the economy revs back to life, with signs of hiring on the horizon, the housing market is being left behind like Macaulay Culkin in "Home Alone." -- In the past few years, we've all been careful to choose our words carefully, not calling it a recession until it fit the technical definition and avoiding any inappropriate use of the "D" word -- Depression... [How's all this 'hope and change' working out for you?]

Paul Joseph Watson -- Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas      Political hacks still seek to exploit shootings before bodies are buried    Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and just for a change President Obama got was correct in his speech last night when he said that people should stop exploiting the Tucson tragedy as a political opportunity to point the finger. -- In Tucson to eulogize the victims of last weekend's tragic shooting, President Obama somberly called for an end to the political blame game... [See Gabrielle Giffords shot]

Saginaw (Mich.) News      Suspected illegal alien arrested after hit-and-run, injury crash  Two people were injured and another driver, whose [legal] residency is in question, is charged with fleeing the scene after two-vehicles collided on the Ely Highway near Johnson about 8:10 p.m. Tuesday in Gratiot County Tuesday, state police officials from the Ithaca Post say... [See Crime Watch]

WOKV -- Jacksonville, Fla.      Trouble in Tallahassee: AZ-style immigration law may not pass     It was one of the loudest and largest promises Governor Rick Scott made during his primary fight against former Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, but state lawmakers aren't so sure an Arizona-style immigration reform bill will work in Florida. -- Gov. Scott told WOKV Monday that he still supports the effort...

Chris Moody -- Daily Caller      D.C.'s top five most ridiculous reactions to the Arizona shooting  It's a well-worn mantra in politics to never let a crisis go to waste, so it comes as little surprise that public officials and the chattering class are wasting no time in dusting off some of their wilder ideas in the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona. -- With only a few days detached from the national tragedy, here's the list...

CBS News      Here's Your "Change": Illinois lawmakers approve 66% tax hike    By a single vote, Illinois lawmakers approved a 66 percent increase to the personal income tax overnight, and soon, your paycheck will be shrinking. -- But as CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, Democratic state lawmakers have said the tax hike is necessary to get the state's outstanding bills paid... [See "Hope & Change" Watch]

Amy Goodman -- Indypendent.org -- New York      Usual suspects swoon over Clarence Dupnik    ...Republican Gov. Jan Brewer gained national notoriety when she signed into law the controversial immigration bill SB 1070, which Dupnik fiercely opposed: "Every Hispanic in this country, especially in Arizona, must have awakened the next day to feel like they've been kicked in the teeth, like they are now second-class citizens, they have a target on their back..."

News Limited -- Sydney, NSW      Palin slams 'blood libel,' takes no blame for Arizona shooting     Sarah Palin has slammed charges that overheated political rhetoric contributed to a weekend shooting rampage in Arizona that left a US politician fighting for her life. -- In an online video, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate refused to take any blame for the massacre which killed six people...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Mexican drug cartels have made Juarez the world's deadliest city    Last year, the number of murders in the city which due to Mexico's drug war, has become synonymous with death, totaled 3,111. Juarez saw 2,643 murders in 2009, and 1,587 in 2008. -- Most of the violence can be attributed to the ongoing struggle between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels for control of the smuggling routes into the U.S...

Pittsburgh Post Gazette      Police visited suspect's home before Tucson shooting    The police were sent to the home where Jared L. Loughner lived with his family on more than one occasion before the attack here on Saturday that left a congresswoman fighting for her life and six others dead, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said on Tuesday...