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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
For a time this morning in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Benghazi, it looked like the coming and going of the November elections had taken most of the steam out of Republican senators and their conspiracy theories about Benghazi. Neither their hearts nor their spines seemed that into it. Easier to concoct these theories in the studios of Fox News than to try to score political points in the same room as an equal like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
But then Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rand Paul (R-KY) had their turns. They went after Clinton hard. You can watch the keys parts of her exchange with Johnson here and with Paul here.
Paul went as far as saying that had he been president he would have fired Clinton, while rattling off a few examples of State Department expenditures that he considers wasteful and frivolous. Read More
The House is about to vote on its debt limit bill, just a few minutes after Senate Democratic leaders held a press conference to rub salt in Republican wounds.
The thrust was more or less: “We’d like to thank Speaker Boehner for his extraordinary leadership in totally caving to us, and congratulate President Obama on his enormous victory over Republicans, and we look forward to passing the House bill right away.”
Mildly speaking, that won’t help the GOP’s whip count. Read More
After Democratic maneuvering to squeeze House Republicans, a temporary debt ceiling increase passed the House 285-144
Fox News ponders whether it’s OK to compare people to Nazis during the gun debate.