JOHN KING: Obama At Odds With Himself On Immigration.

BEST SUPER BOWL COMMENT, ON FACEBOOK: “At least Philip Seymour Hoffman didn’t have to watch this.”

MICKEY KAUS: Boehner’s Bad Date With Amnesty.

It sure looks like Speaker Boehner had a Bad Date with Amnesty on Thursday, according to Jonathan Strong’s reporting at Breitbart. (“[T]he dozens of GOP lawmakers who spoke were at least 80-20 against bringing a bill to the floor this year.”) But the WSJ is buying the claim of the GOP leadership and its aides that the immigration “principles” were “largely accepted.” … Do not disrupt the planned narrative! .. .

Meanwhile, Politico‘s Mike Allen is writing press releases for Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us. … Hope you get the ads, Mike! … Zuckerberg’s fake conservative front group, “Americans for a Conservative Direction,” says it has launched a $750,000 campaign to make it look like the House leadership’s legalization push is really tough, tough, tough. The Zuckerberg video implies, falsely, that the gist of the Boehner proposal is to legalize only “DREAMers” (“a chance at the American dream for those brought here as children”) as opposed to all the 11 million undocumented immigrants.** …

National Review ’s Eliana Johnson reports that mainstream GOP congressperson’s are mocking the GOP leadership legalization proposals in private emails. “[T]hese aren’t guys like Steve King but guys like (Raul) Labrador and (Tom) Cotton and (Mick) Mulvaney.”

Stay tuned.

THOUGHTS ON GROUNDHOG DAY: What made Rita worthy of Phil’s effort?

R.I.P., PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN.

I’ll always remember him as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous.

Plus, from Dave Swindle: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s 10 Immortal Film Performances.

THE MALE-FEMALE “WAGE GAP” AND the choice of college majors. “If working with people is considered a plus, such that job-seekers accept lower pay to have that kind of work, is there a problem? What if job-seekers tended to feel it was bad to have to work with others and avoided these jobs? The pay would go up. I think what we’re seeing is that working with people is more likely to be a plus among women, and there are a lot of female job-seekers bidding the price down. You might say this is acceptable because it’s not intentional discrimination against women; it’s just everyone making individual personal choices, and a neutral market producing this effect. Those who still see a problem and want us to care should find a way to say it still matters, because the skewed preferences of women are leading to a disparate impact. I just wish they’d say that clearly and be accurate about the facts and not continually prod people to feel that there are nefarious employers deliberately short-changing women.”

Well, without someone to demonize, it’s no use as a Democratic talking point.

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ED DRISCOLL: I Approve of this Krony Capitalism. More here.

LOW VITAMIN D: Dangerous In Pregnancy? “Using preserved blood samples of pregnant women, researchers have found that low vitamin D levels are associated with an increased risk for severe preeclampsia, a serious and sometimes fatal disorder of pregnancy.”

BRYAN PRESTON: Why Would Someone in Colorado Keep Buying Weed Illegally? “Big brother is watching, dude.”

BILL STRAUB ON MYRA: Obama’s ‘Action’ on Retirement Accounts Fails to Anger or Impress.

Republicans have had practically nothing to say about the initiative even though it was executed via executive order, a process that GOP lawmakers maintain Obama uses to excess in general defiance of the Constitution. But the new program has failed to draw objections from lawmakers.

Even without the Republican denouncement, myRA has attracted only tepid enthusiasm from organizations that might normally be expected to hail a new benefit for future retirees.

Not quite sure how Obama has the authority to do this.

YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN POP CULTURE, but pop culture is interested in you.

YOUR KNOWLEDGE IS NOT APPROVED BY THE STATE: California Cracks Down on Hacker Boot Camps.

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A VICTORY AGAINST SEXISM: Responding to Critics, Gynecology Board Reverses Ban on Treating Male Patients.

A WHILE BACK, I mentioned Audra Coldiron’s book, Gallop-A-Doodle. I liked it. Here’s a blog-review.

FASTER, PLEASE: Novel stem cell technique shows promise for bone repair.

THOUGHTS ON auto racing and death.

TALKING WITH DEAN KAMEN ABOUT MOBILE ROBOTICS.