You know how socialist billionaire Warren Buffett wrote that column last week where he said, "cut the coddling shit, government bros—I want to be taxed more," or something to that effect, and just about everybody tweeted it? Yeah, well, Charles Koch didn't like that column very much.

President Obama's strange deficit commission has released a draft of its recommendations a couple of weeks before deadline! It mostly suggests cutting future entitlement spending and reducing or eliminating various tax breaks. The reaction from lawmakers so far? Very noncommittal.

For the last four days, MUNI contractors worked around the clock replacing tracks at the corner of 30th/Church in San Francsico. It cost $3 million. Using a Canon A590, Ken Murphy made this incredible 12-minute time-lapse video of the construction.

According to a Congressional report, since 9/11 the "war on terrorism" has cost the U.S. some $1.15 trillion. Not to mention the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth amendments. But, eh, we weren't really using them anyway. [CNN]

CNBC's Rick Santelli, whose 2009 rant calling for a "tea party" to protest government spending produced exactly that, is goin' nuts again. "STOP SPENDING STOP SPENDING," he screams, while another guest mumbles about cutting the capital gains tax. These people...

Congress' "Cash for Clunkers" auto-industry revitalization program has exhausted its $1 billion budget in a week.