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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a Christian broadcaster she learned her husband was seeking a divorce in an email from his attorney. The revelation came in an interview released Tuesday with James Dobson, founder of the Family Talk Christian ministry. He said the interview had been conducted previously. Palin said she received an email June 19 from the attorney, almost three months before Todd Palin filed for divorce on his birthday in September. She described the filing that came shortly after their 31st wedding anniversary as devastating. “I thought I got shot,” she said. Palin...

Breitbart: “Let me say something a tad newsworthy to the president of the NAACP. You can go to hell. ... I have tapes…tape of racism and it’s an NAACP dinner. You want to play with fire? I have evidence of racism and it’s coming from the NAACP."

From a local feller writing for a declining circulation West Texas wannabe news organization that includes this guy in their stable of "columnists." I read it for the obits and sales. Otherwise useless.

WHO'S HOT.... 1. SEAN PENN Move over Jimmy Carter. The newest peacemaker and international conflict-solver has arrived. Actor Sean Penn, whose qualifications for peace brokering and making pronouncements on international relations include playing a stoned surfer in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, has landed in Iraq on an earnest fact-finding mission. Of course, why Sean thinks the Iraqis are going to give him the real story when they've failed to do so for United Nations weapons inspectors and international diplomats of every stripe is a mystery. After all, to Sean's chagrin, apparently no-one in Iraq even recognized the washed-up Hollywood...

WHO'S HOT.... 1. J.LO & BEN Oh, no. Do we have another Liz Taylor in the making? Twice-married Jennifer Lopez has confirmed that she and Hollywood male hottie Ben Affleck are engaged. The pair met last December while filming the upcoming gangster movie Gigli , in which they co-star. Their romance became notoriously public this fall when Jennifer was photographed sliding her hand, well, down Ben's pants. Now J.Lo has made it official, telling Primetime's Diane Sawyer that the couple are engaged to be married (as if sliding her hand down Affleck's pants wasn't official enough). Showing her usual journalistic...

WHO'S HOT.... 1. GORE VIDAL Well, we don't need any further evidence to confirm our previous suspicions that controversial ex-patriate American novelist Gore Vidal has lapsed into permanent senility. In an op-ed in Britain's Observer, Mr. Vidal launched what the Guardian has excitedly called "the most scathing attack to date on George W Bush's Presidency." In a first-person, rambling demonstration of the damage that senile dementia can do to a once brilliant mind, Mr. Vidal called for an investigation into the events of 9/11 to discover whether the Bush administration deliberately chose not to act on warnings of Al-Qaeda's plans....