• THREE MILLION.  Number of Americans who could lose unemployment benefits if Congress doesn’t get its shit together soon.
• $335 MILLION.  Amount paid by Bank of America to settle federal charges that its Countrywide Financial unit carried out discriminatory lending practices against African-Americans and Hispanics — in particular, charging higher fees to minorities than to whites who posed the same credit risk.
• 160.  Number of defecting soldiers, civilians and activists killed by soldiers loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on the eve of Arab League observers arriving in the Middle Eastern nation. 
• 95.  The percentage of “black males” in Washington, D.C. that Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul once wrote were “semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”  Paul has, in the past, not denied — and even disavowed — that he wrote such racist screeds: he now denies writing them entirely.
• EIGHT.  The number of U.S. soldiers charged in connection with the apparent suicide of Private Danny Chen in Afghanistan.