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The City of San Francisco seems unable to manage its $6.6 billion budget.  How the heck does San Antonio make it on $885 million?  (Just for a quickie comparison, San Francisco has a population of 808,976 compared to San Antonio’s 1,351,305). Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

The thrill is gone: Tip from Michelle Malkin. Read more

Teddy Roosevelt had to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.  Norman Borlaug had to save a quarter of a billion people from famine.  Even Al Gore had to make a movie.  Barack Obama just had to show up. "Mr. Obama took office less than 10 days before the Feb. 1 deadline for Nobel Prize Read more

is right here. Tip from Jonah Goldberg at the Corner. Read more

Tip from the Winds of Change. Read more

If the economy is turning around, what’s with all these empty ships? Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

ObamaKennedyKare will not require everyone to have a microchip implanted.  Dang!  What a great rumor, right out of the X-Files. Read more

Diageo PLC, the British makers of Captain Morgan rum, have finessed a $2.7 billion subsidy out of US for relocating a plant to the Virgin Islands. So now we have Government Rum! Tip from The Corner. Read more

Playing his only race card, bumbling New York Governor David Patterson says, "Part of what I feel is that one very successful minority is permissible, but when you see too many success stories, then some people get nervous." Tip from the Drudge Report. Read more

This guy is all wee weed up. Update (22 August).  This is what you sound like when you’re all wee weed up.  And White House mouthpiece Robert Gibbs explains that the President was just calling his critics bedwetters.  Oh, that’ll change a lot of minds, sure it will. Read more