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Weather.... Published: 1/15/2011  A time for national soul-
searching or …  Talk radio did not critically wound Congressman
Gabrielle Giffords and murder six other people during the
shooting rampage in Tucson. Neither did the National Rifle
Association, the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, or any of the other
persons and institutions whose names we've heard mentioned in
the aftermath of the killings.  Jared Lee Loughner, the young
man accused of the massacre, is owed the presumption of
innocence no less than any other criminal suspect. But if he is
found competent and guilty, then he - and he alone - will bear
responsibility for his actions, and will have to pay the price
for them.  That doesn't mean, though, that the rest of us
shouldn't reflect on the horror in Tucson - and, as President
Obama proposed last week, honor the victims by striving to be
better people, individually and collectively.  Two issues - the
vitriolic partisan polarization of our politica