Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will spend most of the day on the Hill answering questions about the Benghazi attack. She is scheduled to testify to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee beginning at 9 a.m. ET.
You can watch the hearing here.
The (near) final results out of Israel this morning show Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition doing ever so slightly worse than last night’s exit polls predicted. If I’m reading the numbers correctly, the right got 60 Knesset seats and the center-left got 60 as well.
In bloc terms, it appears to be Center-Left (48), Right (42), Orthodox (18), Arab (12).
Since the launch of Prime late last year, TPM now has two commenting ecosystems. Keeping the public comments free of trolls and harassing behavior is a constant challenge. So to help us with the task and to keep the conversations on track and free of nonsense we’re now looking for a few volunteer community moderators.
What’s involved? Pretty simple. We’re a small operation. And our eyes can’t be everywhere at once. So if you’re a regular TPM Reader and already in the comments frequently just flagging us when something gets out of hand and zapping hate-speechy trolls when necessary. If you’re interested, please send us an email at talk (at) talkingpointsmemo.com and use the subject line: “Comment Moderator”.
On a separate note, we will likely in the not too distant future be moving to a system where all commenting will take place through a TPM registered account.
Over the years, I’ve shared data with you about the growing importance of mobile devices to a news site’s audience. For us, in recent years mobile has grown incrementally with punctuated jumps every year or so. We just had one (as I suspect other sites also have) between November and January. But setting aside all of mobile, 11% of all visits to TPM come from iPhones. Another 9% come from iPads.
Looked at from perspective of operating systems, 45.88% of TPM visits come from the Windows operating system (all flavors). 46.38% of visits come from Apple operating systems (OSX and iOS).
VA Gov candidate Cuccinelli compares his fight against contraception to Martin Luther King’s nonviolent struggle against segregation.
We all have dreams, just some weirder than others, I guess.
I’m still trying to get my head around the exact details. But today’s Israeli election does not seem to have gone as most anticipated. It’s not clear to me that the actual government or rather PM will be different. But everyone has been operating on the premise that the Israeli polity is locked on the right or center-right and just getting righter.
But the results didn’t bear that out. Read More
Al Franken’s numbers looking good for reelection in Minnesota next year.
A shooting has been reported at Lone Star College’s North Harris campus in Houston, Texas.
If you have a few moments today, definitely read this piece on The Citadel by TPM reporter Eric Lach. It’s the story of a planned survivalist, gun, ‘redoubt’ community out in Idaho. So on one level it’s garden variety Crazy, a whole community based around gun-ownership, frequent militia training and built in such a way to have various defensible structures (turrets, defensible walls) for like whenever the Black Helicopters or Obamacare bureaucrats of FEMA concentration camp folks show up. But at the same time, it’s got all these trappings of a planned community, for people who think like you do, who want to participate in civic and community events — plays, sporting events and all the rest. So a lot of what many people yearn for and some people actually go and find communities to do in — only in this case they want to stockpile guns, ban liberals and ‘marxists’, build up the turrets and defensive walls and militia drill nonstop for when the tyrants show up. Sort of like a lock-n-load, take it from my cold dead hands ashram. Read.