It shouldn’t require number crunchers to tell us this. But the CBO has provided a report to the debt ‘super committee’ that restoring full employment in itself would solve roughly 1/3 of our deficit problem.

Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has taken a mostly contrite path to redemption since being released from prison, but if the marketing materials for his new memoir — being published by the ultra-right-wing (unhinged even) World Net Daily — are any indication, he’s about to veer off into the purgatory of revisionism.

The President will hold a press conference at the White House at 11 a.m. ET.