It’s all good fun until someone gets shot.

Today’s In The States includes Tennesse, Virginia, Kentucky, California, Arizona, Illinois, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Massachusetts and features a lot of action on the Blue America “Standing Up For The Public Option” ActBlue page.

From a Washington Post story on insane eliminationist talk radio nut Hal Turner’s attempt to claim that the First Amendment protects speech like “These Judges deserve to be killed,” even when it’s immediately followed by the posting of said judges’ photographs and a truck-bomb barrier map of their courthouse:

No searing or witty points here, just passing thoughts about health care in America from a personal point of view.

Max Baucus today reaffirmed his commitment to have a “bipartisan” bill. Since Republicans will never sign off on a public plan, that’s not-so-subtle code for “no public plan.” And any time anyone says that, including President Obama, that is in fact what they’re saying.

So, for the thousands of us who attended Netroots Nation last week, Bill O’Reilly, intrepid reporter that he is, has figured out that we “don’t much like America.” He really ought to fire his producers for not getting footage of our opening ceremony bayat oath to Usama bin Laden. Just a huge oversight.

There is something of value when elites tell you the truth, even while they’re insulting you, telling your the positions you hold were designed to be given way to placate conservadems.

Critics who called out the NBC poll for excising the word “choice” from its question about a public option for health insurance will be happier by next month’s survey, which will ask the question both with and without that key element.

Many of you will remember that I cut my activist teeth calling right-wing talk radio for my website, CallingAllWingnuts. I’d suffer through busy signals, long hold times and hosts with a quick finger when it came to hanging up on or muting me.

One of those hosts was Joe Thomas of WCHV in Charlottesville, VA.

When Chris Christie said, months ago, that he’s “got a group of AUSAs sitting in Newark,” he probably wasn’t expecting we would learn he has an “ongoing financial relationship” with one of those very same AUSAs.