Issa dismisses Carney as a ‘paid liar’  —  The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee blasted White House press secretary Jay Carney on Sunday, calling him a “paid liar” who is not being truthful about the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service.

Goodlatte: House Judiciary ‘very concerned’ about possible Holder perjury  —  The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Sunday said the panel is “very concerned” about the possibility Attorney General Eric Holder committed perjury by testifying under oath that he was not aware of an investigation of a Fox News reporter.

Michael Douglas: oral sex caused my cancer  —  Actor reveals to the Guardian that HPV, transmitted through oral sex, was responsible for his throat cancer  —  The Basic Instinct star Michael Douglas has revealed that his throat cancer was apparently caused by performing oral sex.

What's Happening In Turkey?  —  As some longtime readers know, I'm a turkophile.  So I've been extremely eager to get a grip on just what's going on there over the last 48 hours (quick version: massive street protests in Istanbul, perhaps spreading to other parts of the country).

Obama was pushed by Clintons into endorsement of Hillary in 2016: book  —  President Obama made a secret deal to support Hillary Clinton when she runs for president in 2016, campaign sources say, payback for the support her husband gave him in 2012.  —  Bill Clinton's animosity toward Obama is legendary.

Mitt Romney Inc.: The White House That Never Was  —  In the months before the 2012 election, a group of high-powered consultants and political operatives prepared a secret report for candidate Mitt Romney, explaining how he should take over and restructure the federal government should he win the presidency.

China's Economic Empire  —  HONG KONG — THE combination of a strong, rising China and economic stagnation in Europe and America is making the West increasingly uncomfortable.  While China is not taking over the world militarily, it seems to be steadily taking it over commercially.

Sunni-Shiite Violence Flares in Mideast in Wake of Syria War  —  BAGHDAD — Renewed sectarian killing has brought the highest death toll in Iraq in five years.  Young Iraqi scholars at a Shiite Muslim seminary volunteer to fight Sunnis in Syria.  Far to the west, in Lebanon …

McCain: Assad now holds ‘upper hand’  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said expectations that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would negotiate a diplomatic solution to the country's civil war at an upcoming summit are “ludicrous,” and warned that the strong man now held the “upper hand” in that nation's three-year civil.

Massachusetts Senate race called ‘toss up’: Could GOP surprise again?  —  The Cook Political Report has announced it's shifting its prediction for the Massachusetts Senate race from ‘leaning Democrat’ to ‘toss up.’ In 2010, Republican Scott Brown won a similar special election.  —  BOSTON

Tony Blair says murder of Lee Rigby PROVES ‘there is a problem within Islam’  —  Tony Blair today makes his most powerful political intervention since leaving Downing Street by launching an outspoken attack on ‘the problem within Islam’.  —  The former Prime Minister addresses the shocking killing …

Jean Stapleton, Who Played Archie Bunker's Better Angel, Dies at 90  —  Jean Stapleton, the character actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series “All in the Family” made her, along with Mary Tyler Moore and Bea Arthur …