Politics. On Point.

Starbucks customer favors U.S. Congresswoman If you didn't know any better, one might say this lovely lady pictured below looks a lot like former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle 'Gabby' Giffords . Giffords represented Arizona's 8th congressional district from 2007 until her resignation on January 25, 2012, after having survived an attack on her life when she was shot in a mall parking lot while speaking to a group of her constituents. We spotted the Giffords look-a-like (including the eyeglasses) while she was having coffee in a university Starbucks and immediately noticed the resemblance. Valerie meeting with friends at Starbucks. Photo/CD Brown. She told us her name is 'Valerie', and to our surprise said no one had ever told her she looked like Gabby Giffords. "A younger Hillary [Clinton], but not Giffords", she said. "Oh, you do look like her!", exclaimed one of the women in her party, after making the connection. We as...

Newton School Shooting Amasses Twenty-Six Victims . President Obama shared in the sorrowness felt across the country after Friday's horrendous Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of numerous small children in Newtown, Connecticut and ordered that official flags be flown at half mass. What happened with twenty year old Adam Lanza  to make him want to kill his mother, 20 children, 6 school officials, and then himself? A skeletal, ghostly Adam Lanza. Law enforcement officials said Lanza had four handguns on his person as he stormed the 600-student school and shot his victims at close range. There was also a rifle found in the car he drove to Sandy Hook. The shooting in Connecticut follows a trail of recent mass shootings that include:  A shopping mall in Oregon, a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, a movie theater in Aurora Colorado and countless, seemingly minor, yet just as significant, other day-to-day shootings.  Schools have increas...

First photos of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords have surfaced since she was shot in the head in a mass shooting in Tucson about five months ago. The photos appeared on her Facebook page (search Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) and were taken May 17th at TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital, the day after the launch of Endeavour and the day before she had her cranioplasty. This photo collage with Giffords before (r) and after her incident (l) was created by CD Brown for Politics.OnPoint. A statement from the photograher, P.K. Weis, says: “Any photographer in the country would have loved the opportunity to take these pictures and I was delighted to be asked. I’ve known Gabby for more than a decade and her staff asked me to do it because she wanted someone who was not a stranger – someone she would be comfortable around...." Giffords photo by photographer P.K. Weis.

Todd Palin, Sarah Palin's husband, involved in sex scandal with massage therapist. What is it with the Palin women and their men?   And just weeks before Valentine's Day, too. First, daughter Crystal's boyfriend/soon-to-be-hubby/no that's off/wait, it's on-again/no, off-again relationship with Levin Johnson, the father of her child, embarrasses the nation, now this. (Didn't he pose for Playgirl?) According to reports, The National Enquirer (to be fair, known for its ludacris scandals), reports that Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, is involved in a sex scandal involving an extramarital affair with a massage therapist who has been "busted for prostitution." Shailey Tripp, 36, was arrested in March of this year for running a brothel.  Police may have evidence from the raid of the house that could prove Sarah Palin's husband was, if nothing else, cheating.   The Palins, have denied previous allegations that either spo...

  **Update**  Beyond Our Greatest Hopes During remarks at Arizona University last evening President Obama gave the nation good news that Congresswoman Giffords opened her eyes. "I have just come from the University Medical Center, just a mile from here, where our friend Gabby courageously fights to recover even as we speak.  And I want to tell you, her husband, Mark is here and he allows me to share this with you: right after we went to visit, a few minutes after we left her room and some of her colleagues in Congress were in the room, Gabby opened her eyes for the first time. Gabby opened her eyes for the first time", exclaimed the president.   Giffords was last Saturday afternoon at a Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Arizona during one of her 'Congress on the Corner' events where she met with the community to discuss political issues of concern. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz recall their visit wit...