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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
CNN Host Corners Darrell Issa Over Claim That Obama Conspired To Target Tea Party — House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) claimed on Sunday that political officials in the Obama administration directed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents in Cincinnati …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, PoliticusUSA and The Raw Story
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Byron Tau / Politico:
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.
Catherine Shoard / Guardian:
Michael Douglas: oral sex caused my cancer — Actor reveals to the Guardian that HPV, transmitted through oral sex, was responsible for his throat cancer — Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus — James Ball: is Douglas right about cunnilingus cancer link?
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TMZ.com, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Hinterland Gazette, Joe. My. God. and Gawker
New York Times:
Goals to Fulfill and Foes to Foil Keep Holder Going — WASHINGTON — At the end of last year, with the election decided and the Obama administration in office for four more years, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. considered stepping down. He decided against it, in part because before he left …
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Doug Ross, Weasel Zippers, Ed Driscoll, Hot Air, Via Meadia, JustOneMinute, Right Wing News and Mediaite
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
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.
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The Moderate Voice, CNN, americanthinker.com and Politico
TIME:
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.
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The Impolitic, Yahoo! News, Lawyers, Guns & Money and No More Mister Nice Blog
Edward Klein / New York Post:
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.
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Gothamist, Conservatives4Palin, Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com, Israel Matzav and Jammie Wearing Fools
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
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.
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Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress:
Congresswoman Opposes Pay Equity Laws Because Women 'Don't Want The Decisions Made In Washington' — Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) offered an odd view on women's paycheck fairness and equity laws on Sunday, suggesting that federal legislation on workplace equity is condescending to women who are well-qualified for the workplace.
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Mediaite and The Raw Story
New York Times:
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.
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Chicago Boyz, Jared Bernstein and Daily Kos
Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
A Housing Solution Gone Awry — In the early 1970s, the architect and city planner Oscar Newman came forth with a book and theory called “Defensible Space,” which relied in part on data from New York City public housing to propose a set of design solutions to the mounting problems of urban living.
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Riehl World News
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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).
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Guardian and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
Police Retreat in Istanbul as Protests Expand Through Turkey
Police Retreat in Istanbul as Protests Expand Through Turkey
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Al Jazeera English, Gawker and Firedoglake
Russell Berman / The Hill:
RNC Chairman Priebus responds to Bob Dole, says GOP ‘open for repairs’ — The chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) proclaimed the party “open for repairs,” days after one of its elder statesmen said the GOP should be “closed for repairs” as it figures out how to win national elections.