D.C. insurance commissioner fired a day after questioning Obamacare fix  —  A day after he questioned President Obama's decision to unwind a major tenet of the health-care law and said the nation's capital might not go along, D.C. insurance commissioner William P. White was fired.

Dispute Over Gay Marriage Erupts in Cheney Family  —  Mary Cheney, a daughter of the former vice president, and her wife, Heather Poe, sharply criticized on Sunday a comment by by Ms. Cheney's sister, Liz Cheney, a candidate for the Senate in Wyoming, that they disagreed on the issue of same-sex marriage.

Pelosi defends Obamacare claims, can't predict effect on Dems in midterms  —  Washington (CNN) - House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday neither she nor President Barack Obama misled the American people when they said, during the run-up to the passage of Obamacare, that people could keep their health insurance plans.

Louisiana Republican Who Backs Obamacare's Medicaid Provision Wins Seat Over Party Favorite  —  Campaign ad for Rep.-Elect Vance McAllister (R)  —  Louisiana voters elected Republican Vance McAllister in a runoff to fill the state's vacant Fifth District U.S. House seat on Saturday.

Arne Duncan: ‘White suburban moms’ upset that Common Core shows their kids aren't ‘brilliant’  —  U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from …

Scott Walker: Next GOP presidential nominee must be a governor  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says Republicans must pick a governor or a former governor as its presidential nominee in 2016 to maintain a proper outsider ethos.  —  “I think its got to be an outsider, I think both the presidential …

Doris Lessing, Novelist Who Won 2007 Nobel, Is Dead at 94  —  Doris Lessing, the uninhibited and outspoken novelist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature for a lifetime of writing that shattered convention, both social and artistic, died on Sunday at her home in London.  She was 94.

Woodward: Obamacare not Watergate, but it ‘is going to get worse’  —  President Barack Obama's mishandling of the Affordable Care Act rollout has been incompetent, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said, but it doesn't rise to past president-dooming scandals.

Fast-moving storm, tornadoes threaten in U.S. Midwest  —  (Reuters) - A fast-moving storm system that produced at least one tornado in Illinois threatened some 53 million people across 10 Midwestern states on Sunday, U.S. weather officials said.  —  “A confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado” …

The Three Burials of Obamacare  —  THE first time Obamacare seemed finished, doomed, doornail-dead, the voters of Massachusetts played the would-be executioner.  In January 2010, they sent a pickup-driving Republican to the Senate to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, apparently depriving the health care bill …

Martin O'Malley Takes “Believe” Campaign To The Presidential Stage  —  In a speech to New Hampshire Democrats, the possible presidential hopeful turns his Baltimore campaign into a national argument.  But for Warren and Clinton supporters, the focus isn't O'Malley.  —  AFP / Getty Images

Four years ago, GOP showed exactly what was false about Obama's keep-your-coverage promise  —  It is now painfully evident to millions of Americans that President Obama's promise that they could keep their current health coverage under Obamacare wasn't true.