This morning, I heard someone on NPR say that Sarah Palin was lying about her support for special needs children by citing the fact that she supposedly cut funding for special needs programs while governor of Alaska. Considering that many of Pain’s comments have been proven truthy at best, I was inclined to believe this.

However, I just read this column in Ed Week that demonstrates how Palin actually increased funding for special needs children and that the media’s accusation stems from a misreading of the Alaskan budget. Chalk it up to my own neuroses, but I felt kind of bad for believing the false information and decided to share the real deal with Crucial Minutiae.