I shared some thoughts yesterday about Nate Silver’s departure from the Times, with particular attention to how the Ezra Klein, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Nate Silver model, for lack of a better word, is now becoming so key for newspapers trying to make a successful digital transition. As I wrote, this is in many ways how major media has domesticated blogging (and I do not necessarily mean that in a negative way). Read More

As the Mayans predicted, when Ken Cuccinelli’s crusade against sodomy collided with the ladies from The View the world would end. After the fold … Read More

Poll shows massive racial, partisan divide on Zimmerman verdict.

Obama in Senegal.

Jack Hunter has now resigned as Sen. Rand Paul’s senior aide. But here are some more of his greatest hits. As recently as 2009 he wrote the following things comparing Abraham Lincoln to Adolph Hitler … Read More

Scarborough blasts Hannity over Trayvon ‘pot’ remark. Watch.

At 4 PM this afternoon, we’ll be hosting a TPMPrime Live Chat with Orville Schell and John Delury, to discuss their new book “Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century“. Get your questions in now and join us at 4 PM.

Ohio pro-gun group launches fundraising drive to buy George Zimmerman a new weapon.

Brian Beutler on why some major labor unions are suddenly up at arms about Obamacare.

As you probably know by now, Nate Silver is leaving the NYTimes for ESPN/ABCNews. So why’d he leave? There’s a very interesting discussion about it in today’s Playbook put out by Politico’s Mike Allen. Read More