Only in America
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has invited families fleeing from violence in Central America to come live in his city, where the murder rate is up 38 percent from a year ago. More than 240 people have been killed this year, mostly in shootings.



How Your Taxes Are Spent
The Commerce Department's inspector general's office discovered that dozens of employees at an agency that handles appeals of patent applications had so little work to do they spent time surfing the Internet, exercising, watching TV and doing laundry. All the while they were collecting more than $4.3 million in salaries and -- get this -- about $700,000 in performance bonuses.

"The only people I know who seem willing, who seem gutsy enough to fight, are the Poles, and the rest of the Europeans are a bunch of weenies." - Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.