Chart of the Day

Some perspective on the state of the debt-ridden union. Numbers from the Treasury Department.

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The Tribute Song: We Will Stand with Gov. Walker/ Not Just A Big Fancy Talker

Okay, so Scott Walker faces some challenges. A million Wisconsinites want to recall him, his former top aide is going to trial for embezzling money from a veterans group, and his campaign finance records show that while he's raised $4.5 million, alot of it looks pretty squirrely: Some big donors relied on a questionable legal loophole, and more than half came from out of state. But supporter Glen Shulfer wrote him a song! You gotta hear it.

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Tennessee Tea Party to Children: What Slaves?

Showing a marked aversity to anything remotely resembling reality, Tennessee Tea Party leaders have issued "demands" to state legislators that schools stop teaching - through "neglect and outright ill-will" - all that bad stuff about our fine Christian Founding Fathers like that maybe they owned slaves or killed Indians or did other icky things. This, after Texas did likewise for its almost five million students. Sigh. The truth shall set you free, but which one? "We seek to compel the teaching (of) the truth regarding the history of our nation and the nature of its government.”

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