Despite having "strong, better-than-average" incomes, American farmers will rely more heavily on federal aid in 2015. The U.S Department of Agriculture forecast shows the government will dole out $12.4 billion in federal aid to farmers this year, a five-year high.

"We need to be in a place where people feel free to express themselves and not to be intimidated by political correctness. It's  destroying our nation." -- Dr. Ben Carson, who was labeled an "extremist" by the Southern Poverty Law Center for his view that marriage should be reserved for a man and a woman exclusively.

How Your Taxes Are Spent
A special exhibit at the Library of Congress, timed for Valentine's Day, is devoted to promoting romance novels. The National Endowment of the Humanities spent $914,000 on this project to raise the profile of "bodice-rippers."