Bio Sheds Light on Palin's 'Secret Pregnancy'

Wasillan releasing tell-all memoir

(NEWSER) - There's no love lost between the Johnston and Palin clans, and Levi's new tell-all memoir is set to keep the feud going. In Deer In the Headlights, to be released later this month, Johnston claims that Bristol became pregnant with his child to get even with her mother for Sarah's pregnancy with Trig, reports the New York Daily News . He says Bristol, then 17, believed that she, not her politician mother, should be having babies. More»

(NEWSER) - Levi Johnston is poised to strike it big with a book about the Palins and a possible feature film role alongside an ex–Miss Oregon, he tells New York. His hulking bodyguard/publicist, Tank Jones, says Levi is still shopping the book. As for Levi's rumored TV effort, it won't be a reality show after all. “It will be a docudrama or something similar," Levi says. "I think the whole reality-show thing is played out.” More»

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin continues to inadvertently make pro-choice arguments as she campaigns for a ban on abortion, Ruth Marcus writes in the Washington Post. After revealing that she twice considered aborting son Trig, Palin said “I do understand what these women, what these girls go through in that thought process.” Of course, “if it were up to Palin,” Marcus writes, “women would have no thought process to go through.” More»

'Grief, shame, and guilt' spur attacks on Republican candidate

(NEWSER) - The attacks lobbed at Sarah Palin have less to do with the candidate herself and more with the shame, guilt, and grief of the post-abortion community, the co-founder of an anti-abortion group writes in the National Review. Kevin Burke says Palin inspires such vitriol because she chose to have a baby with Down Syndrome, exposing the “painful wound in our culture.” More»

Bristol Palin's ex 'so excited,' sources tell TMZ

(NEWSER) - If this perfectly-timed gossip item is a scheme by Levi Johnston to take attention away from Sarah Palin's Today stint , it's kind of brilliant: TMZ reports this morning that Bristol Palin's babydaddy got another girl pregnant. This time around, it's 20-year-old Sunny Oglesby who will reportedly be having Johnston's baby; the Wasilla teacher and the one-time Playgirl model have been dating for a little more than a year and she's supposedly less than three months along. Sources say Johnston is "so excited" about the baby, particularly because he claims the Palins have blocked him from having a relationship with son Tripp. More»