An audit of the Texas's spending of $600m in homeland security funds found numerous irregularities including the purchase of a trailer to take lawn mowers to lawn mower drag races. Read the depressing, but predictable, story here.

Here in GA, the Rome News-Tribune reports (1/5; sorry no link) that Floyd County commissioners are considering spending "$120,000 for half the cost of an armored SWAT truck to share with the city [of Rome]. Homeland-security grant money could be available for the purchase."