“Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives said yesterday… At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China over these four years [of the Great Leap Forward]; the worldwide death toll of the Second World War was 55 million.” [Independent UK]

Okay, we’re starting to stretch here, but Politico has done what Politico does best: Dig up the dirt…

Kristin Murray, who left her position in the state party to serve as one of several campaign managers for O’Donnell during that [2008 Senate] race, said warning bells went off in June 2008 when the two were discussing cell phone plans.

“She told me that she thought Joe Biden tapped her phone line,” she said.

And now that we’ve switched your bait, let’s listen in on her surefire campaign plan:

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From the Stinque Department of Lady-Bits, here’s a palate cleanser of Penélope Cruz to refresh all of us (including the ladies) of the week’s worth of mental images of an anti-abstinence grifter Delaware teabagger. (Not to mention heartland conservative women on fire, which Nojo’s title inspired this post).

And since I’m all full-servicey, a little something something of Ms. Cruz’s esposo Javier Bardem is after the break:

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Citizens United, the people who bought you the Supreme Court, are launching a new movie next week that would make even Christine O’Donnell touch herself:

The first-ever film to tell the entire story of the conservative woman in her own words, “Fire from the Heartland” is a powerful statement about America at a crossroads and the women who have awakened to the crisis. With role models such as Clare Boothe Luce, Margaret Thatcher, and Phyllis Schlafly as inspiration, these women are the unintended consequence of the liberal feminist movement.

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Honestly, we could just blurb the last two lines, but this entire exchange from 2007 fascinates us…

O’DONNELL: Bill, if we — if we approach this complicated bioethic issue with our heads in the sand, the other end is in the air.

O’REILLY: My head isn’t in the sand, Christine. I have the biggest head in the world. There isn’t enough sand on the beach in Hawaii for my head to be in there.

O’DONNELL: My point is, we’re approaching this issue with the other end in the air.

O’REILLY: No, no, no. Hold it.

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Washington Times, 2005: “We’re doing a great disservice to our young people because the only protection is abstinence, as condoms have been proven fallible… The federal government should not be telling young people to use condoms… It’s also an insult to teenagers, reducing them to the level of a dog that can’t control its hormones.” [Political Correction]

“In an appearance on Fox in 2000, she exclaimed over the horrors of New York’s gay pride parade: ‘They’re getting away with nudity! They’re getting away with lasciviousness! They’re getting away with perversion!’” Oh, and her sis is a lezzie. [Daily Beast, via Sully]