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.
To paraphrase so many people, when you say you’re not comparing President Obama to Hilter, that’s probably because you just compared President Obama to Hitler.
Republicans concede that Obama’s right and they’re wrong and things will be different this term.
Between the inauguration and the holiday, you may have missed what went down in the Virginia statehouse yesterday.