A blast from the past. Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s first big star turn on the national stage, when she went on Hardball and called for investigations of then-candidate Barack Obama and Democratic members of Congress for anti-American views. Our episode of TPMTV from October 23rd 2008.

Here’s the first in our series from last August.

I recently showed you the rapidly rising number of TPM users who use Google’s ‘Chrome’ browser. Now one of the major statistics counting service says that Chrome is now the world’s second most used browser.

This article notes that Newt Gingrich’s policy menu and his recent resurgence seems disproportionately aimed at and built on seniors. To an extent, ‘old’ tracks with Tea Party (in broad demographic terms). And the fact that Newt is collecting together the anti-Mitt Tea Party is something we already know. But Newt’s seemingly geriatric coalition is another reason he’d be so toxic as a general election candidate. He’s activating the rumpiest part of the rump GOP. Read More

Google tells TPM: We have no association with Carrier IQ! That’s the tracking software that’s been found installed on what appears to be hundreds of millions of mobile phones worldwide.