You decide: horror movie poster or dog whistle call to action from Randall Terry to every nutball with access to God only knows what.

Just take a look at the poster to the left of Terry’s “Anti-Sotomayor Tour” and tell me there isn’t an irresponsible undercurrent of violent thought running through it.

Obama says he’ll veto the Intelligence Authorization if ends the dysfunctional Gang of Eight briefing system.

Blanche Lincoln has been spending a lot of time thinking about health care reform, and about that ad ActBlue plans to start running in Arkansas asking why she’s against a public plan forcing insurance companies to shape up or lose market share.

So she’s moving, not to another state, but to another point of view.

It must be really quite frustrating for George Soros to see the academic reception given to Nassim Nicholas Taleb. After spending the thirty years since the publication of “The Alchemy of Finance” trying, respectfully and politely, to get academic economists and philosophers to take his ideas seriously to no avail, the success of “The Black Swan” indicates that he had the wrong approach all along. As Taleb has shown, academics are fundamentally masochists and the way to get
their attention is to roundly abuse them, and tell them they’re idiots who don’t know what they’re talking about. “The Crash of 2008″ is for the most part still far too polite to mainstream economics (apart from a couple of deliciously acid remarks about the status-insecurity of social science academics), but by the end of it, the evidence assembled about insights missed, predictions screwed up and disaster which could and should have been averted but weren’t, is just as damning as Taleb’s findings about financial risk management.

Maybe the Veep reads FDL.

Yesterday we asked people to call their representative and let them know that they should stand up to Rahm Emanuel and demand “no triggers” in the House Democratic Caucus meeting last night.

And it worked!

Keep on whipping!

The calls are working, so we need to keep the pressure on.

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Healthcare as we know it is a serious burden on the national economy. Partisans on both sides of the debate agree no that. But what is the real cost of healthcare reform? And is congress willing to make the necessary changes to fundamentally overhaul the system? Dean Baker, Reed Abelson, and Teresa Ghilarducci on the economics of healthcare reform.

Some people are ruled by courage and justice, and some are ruled by fear and petty personal ambition. See if you can tell which is which between Sen. Lindsey Graham and Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld.

…“If someone is acquitted, then, as we do today, we should release him,” Vandeveld says.

The media continue to rely almost exclusively on economists whose major qualifications are that they missed the housing bubble and then underestimated the severity of the downturn.