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.

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 …

Michael Douglas: oral sex caused my cancer  —  Actor reveals to the Guardian that HPV, transmitted through oral sex, was responsible for his throat cancer  —  James Ball: is Douglas right about cunnilingus cancer link?  —  The Basic Instinct star Michael Douglas has revealed that his throat cancer …

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.

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.

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).

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.

Obama aide Jarrett defends the administration's handling of the IRS troubles, phone records searches  —  Before delivering the keynote speech at Wellesley College's 135th commencement Friday, Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, defended the administration's handling of its recent troubles …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …