Coming out  —  I came to Yale as a freshman in the fall of 2010 with two big uncertainties hanging over my head: whether my dad would get elected to the Senate in November, and whether I'd ever work up the courage to come out of the closet.  —  I made some good friends that first semester …

Exclusive: Congressional Ethics Probe Adds to Michele Bachmann's Political Woes  —  Add the Office of Congressional Ethics to the long list of probes and lawsuits that may be the only enduring legacy of Bachmann's presidential face-plant.  John Avlon exclusively reports. … Michele Bachmann.

Racist Hate Group To Conduct Nighttime Patrols On College Campus  —  A racist hate group at Towson University has announced plans to conduct its own nighttime police patrols on campus.  —  Founded last year, the White Student Union has stirred significant controversy already.

Supreme Court's Favorable Rating Still at Historic Low  —  Few Conservatives View the Roberts Court as Conservative  —  OVERVIEW  —  As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on two same-sex marriage cases, and with several other high-profile cases on its docket …

Defining “Victory”  —  I've written as much as anyone you'll find about how historically anomalous it that the Republican Party keeps responding to presidential election defeats by moving farther from the political mainstream.  But that doesn't mean I necessarily agree with The Moderate Voice's Joe Gandelman …

Slyer Than Fox  —  To MSNBC president Phil Griffi, news is war.  And not one of those fancy modern wars fought by drones and computer hackers, either.  “We are in a knife fight for every viewer,” he says often, and: “We are on the battleground.”  So, this winter, as Blizzard Nemo was bearing …

Spotify Plans To Take On Netflix And HBO With Streaming Video Service  —  Spotify, the on-demand music service, is planning a major change.  —  According to two sources briefed on the company's plans, Spotify intends to become an on-demand music and video service - one that would invest …

Bondage pol was hard-ly working  —  Jersey Dem's kinky office e-mails to spank-me stalker  —  A powerful New Jersey Democrat who's being touted as the party's next state chairman has an insatiable lust for bondage, oral sex and spanking, secret e-mails obtained by The Post reveal.

NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Government has right to ‘infringe on your freedom’  —  New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday: Sometimes government does know best.  And in those cases, Americans should just cede their rights.  —  “I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom …

Mississippi politician and grandmother, 53, ‘kills herself’ at home of former lawmaker  — State Rep Jessica Upshaw, 53, is found dead in home of former Rep Clint Rotenberry of a single gunshot wound to the head  —  Authorities in Mississippi are investigating after a state lawmaker …

Senate banking chair Johnson to announce retirement  —  (Reuters) - Senator Tim Johnson, the Democratic chairman of the powerful banking committee, does not plan to run for re-election when his current term ends in 2014, two sources familiar with the matter and a Capitol Hill staffer said on Monday.

Anthony Lewis, Who Transformed Coverage of the Supreme Court, Dies at 85  —  Anthony Lewis, a former New York Times reporter and columnist whose work won two Pulitzer Prizes and transformed American legal journalism, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.

EXCLUSIVE: SASHA, MALIA OBAMA VACATION AT BAHAMAS' ‘ATLANTIS’ RESORT  —  Sasha and Malia Obama are quietly vacationing at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, Breitbart News has learned.  —  A source tipped Breitbart News off to the First Daughters' spring vacation, which was not publicly announced or reported.

Long Night at Today  —  And for this he wakes up at 4 a.m.?  —  T  —  he knife springs open with a satisfying snap.  —  Matt Lauer, the co-host of the Today show, turns it over in his hand, marveling at the blade.  —  “Come to papa!” he says.  —  Sitting at his glass-topped desk …

Sheboygan man's video game history helps him stay in U.S.  —  By Georgia Pabst of the Journal Sentinel  —  Jose Muñoz loves to play video games, but he never thought they would be a game changer in his life.  —  Like so many other undocumented youth, Muñoz came to the States …

Bill Clinton backs Wendy Greuel in L.A. mayoral race  —  Former President Bill Clinton on Monday endorsed Wendy Greuel for Los Angeles mayor, saying the city controller's proven track record makes her the right candidate to confront the city's problems.  —  “In her many years of public service …

Paul Ryan's disappearing act  —  He seems to have fallen entirely off the radar of early state Republicans.  Democrats bring up his name with more zeal than his own party.  And his footprint at CPAC was so faint that his being an afterthought was itself an afterthought.  —  What the heck has happened to Paul Ryan?

NRG Skirts Utilities Taking Solar Panels to U.S. Rooftop  —  NRG Energy Inc. (NRG), the biggest power provider to U.S. utilities, has become a renegade in the $370 billion energy-distribution industry by providing electricity directly to consumers.  —  Bypassing its utility clients …

Connecticut senators blast NRA robocalls to Newtown residents  —  The NRA “has stooped to a new low” in its anti-gun-control efforts at the site of last year's mass shooting.  —  Connecticut's U.S. senators on Tuesday admonished the National Rifle Association for robocalls to residents of Newtown …