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The geniuses in higher education made dinner into a “queer” issue. Be sure to swing through Berkeley to discuss “Queering Agriculture.”

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is benefiting from a union led recall that was supposed to end his career. Instead, it built his national donor base.

New York City’s Chinatown is bursting with populists, and they’re busting out their support for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Vanity Fair reports.

The Super Bowl is known as much for its ads as for its football. This year, those ads seemed oddly disconnected from the sporting event.

Laura Ingraham warns senators: if “Sessions doesn’t approve immigration plans, we don’t approve your immigration plans, we don’t approve your immigration plans.”

As the Senate considers whether to take up a House-passed bill that aims to roll back President Obama’s executive amnesty for illegal aliens, lawmakers might want to check with their constituents.

Mitt Romney is back. If he runs in 2016, he’s already warming up by attacking Democrat front runner Hillary Clinton.

Sen. Rand Paul tells Breitbart News he hopes Senate Democrats have struck an inadvertent blow for property rights. Oh, and he’ll make a decision about whether to run for president this spring.

The President of the union that represents some 12,000 United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) employees says his organization opposes an immigration reform bill proposed by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX).

The most interesting aspect of the State of the Union address is that the president gets to take credit for, well, anything he wants to.

The State of the Union, published before delivery on Medium.com.

The modern State of the Union address isn’t intended to make news. By the time it happens, the White House has leaked every newsworthy proposal. And as if a prime time speech, covered by all the major networks, with the entire Congress as his backdrop wasn’t enough, there’s another theatrical aspect: The guests in the First Lady’s box.

A Maryland family faces a date with Montgomery County Child Protective Services next week, after the parents allowed their children to attempt to walk home from a park one mile away. The children ended up getting a ride half of the way home, after they were intercepted by police.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz recently took the gavel as head of the House Oversight Committee. One of the first things he did, news reports say, is remove portraits of previous chairmen from the walls of the committee hearing room. That includes the portrait of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who chaired the committee through December.

According to a Gravis Marketing poll of some 500 Iowa Republicans, Mitt Romney leads the field a year ahead of that state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. The 2012 GOP nominee earns 21 percent. The next candidate is also a familiar face with a familiar name. Jeb Bush, a former two-term Florida governor, picked up 14 percent. Scott Walker, governor of neighboring Wisconsin, took third among candidates. He picked up 10 percent.

President Obama never misses an opportunity to tout official figures that make it look as though there’s a recovery underway. Yet the fact that Americans don’t feel the economic recovery that’s supposedly happening is a big problem for Washington’s governing class.

With the holiday season behind us, many Americans are vowing to eat better and get in shape. And the federal government is, as it is in so many other ways, only too happy to help. The White House has unveiled Debra Eschmeyer, co-founder of the group FoodCorps, as executive director of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” program. The title of senior policy adviser for nutrition policy has also been bestowed upon Eschmeyer.

Dr. Carson is not only fascinating, but he’s extremely busy these days. Since he retired as a surgeon in 2013, he has become a best-selling author and an in-demand speaker. His travel schedule keeps him on the road far more often than he was when teaching at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

John Boehner was reelected with 216 votes, he needed 205.

When the House of Representatives votes to select new leadership on Tuesday, Speaker John Boehner is expected to retain his post. But his support seems weak.

Rep. Louis Gohmert is directly taking on House Speaker John Boehner. With Gohmert’s announcement, there are at least five GOP House members who will vote against Boehner on Tuesday. Republican Reps. Paul Gosar (AZ), Ted Yoho (FL), Jim Bridenstine (OK) and Thomas Massie (KY) have also called for new leadership. Gohmert is the second man to put his name forward as a possible replacement for Boehner; Yoho has done so as well.

Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona says he will vote against retaining John Boehner as Speaker of the House. Gosar is the fourth Republican member of Congress to declare he’ll vote against Boehner on Tuesday. Reps. Ted Yoho (FL), Jim Bridenstine (OK) and Thomas Massie (KY) have also called for new leadership. Yoho went so far as to offer himself as a possible substitute to Boehner.

Jeb Bush is beginning 2015 unemployed.

The former Florida governor has resigned from each of his corporate and nonprofit board memberships. He also left his own education foundation. An aide to the Republican emailed the resignation news to The Washington Post late Wednesday.

In recent years, the wife and daughter of former Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) were paid roughly $100,000 by “Born Fighting PAC,” a committee Webb chaired while in Congress.

The climate, as everyone knows, is simply too large and fluid to be controlled by a single machine. Still, you don’t have to go all the way to Pakistan to find people who think that Americans are controlling the weather.

In a just-released Zogby poll of likely Republican primary voters, the leader is “Other/Not Sure,” at 19 percent.

A union official in New York is calling on a judge to step down after she released a gang member without bail on Monday. That suspect faces seven years behind bars after allegedly posting a threat on his Facebook page to kill police.

A Florida woman could be facing charges in the New Year after trashing a Satanic holiday exhibition in the state capitol.

Career State Department diplomats didn’t want to give Estefanía Isaías permission to come to the U.S. from Ecuador, but she’s here anyway, after the Obama administration intervened on her behalf. She’s not the first member of her family to enjoy

A modern American president lives in a bubble of security, mostly shielded from the rest of the country. But that doesn’t protect the Obamas from racism, the First Lady says in an exclusive interview with People magazine. “During that wonderfully