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– Arch-fascist would-be media mogul, trustafarian and familiy values maven Richard Mellon Scaife’s second wife, with whom he cheated on his first, has now caught him cheating on her and is therefore now going to hose him down in what may be a record-breaking divorce settlement. (Hat tip to Avedon Carol at The Sideshow.) As Charles points out over at my home blog Mercury Rising (shameless bloghussying alert!), the IRS might be interested to know just how Mr. Scaife was using all that trust-fund money to prop up his bogus rag ($20 to $30 million per year since he founded it in 1992).

– Here’s Bilerico on the auspicious entry of Alan Keyes into the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. Would that Steve Gilliard were still around to blog this. If anything could bring Gilly back from the dead, it would be the chance to blog Keyes’ campaign.

– Speaking of Steve Gilliard, here’s an oldie-but-goodie from him on the odd habit righties have of posing as lefties and then saying really nasty garbage. Those of us who’ve hung out in the comments section at Eschaton know this phenomenon well.

– The Wege points out this bit of obscene Philistinism-laced jackbootery concerning the refusal of Bush’s Heimatsicherheithausamt to allow yet another world-renowed artist into the country: “Ms. Ghuman said that officers tore up her H-1B visa, which was valid through May 2008, defaced her British passport, and seemed suspicious of everything from her music cassettes to the fact that she had listed Welsh as a language she speaks. A redacted government report about the episode obtained by her lawyer under the Freedom of Information Act erroneously described her as ‘Hispanic’.” [...] “They told me I was nobody, I was nowhere and I had no rights,” she said. “For the first time, I understood what the deprivation of liberty means.”

– Here’s a little forgotten tidbit that is sure to irritate those who would have you burning incense to Bush’s sockpuppet Petraeus (or “BetrayUs” as he’s known to his men in Iraq) or any other general, simply because of the stars on his helmet:

In the early 1960s, America’s top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.

The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba’s then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.

America’s top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: “We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba,” and, “casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.”

What stopped them from doing this? A horrified JFK told them to go pound salt instead.

So what neglected news has you in a tither (a tizzy and a dither combined) tonight?

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