Someone might want to get Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff a map of New York City. ABC News reports that the Department of Homeland Security has hacked the budget for New York City to defend itself by 40 percent because it, um, "has no national monuments or icons."

The Statue of Liberty. The Empire State Building. The United Nations. The Chrysler Building. Wall Street. Times Square. Yankee Stadium. Carnegie Hall. The Brooklyn Bridge. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Radio City Music Hall. The Gugenheim. Central Park. The bulk of the publishing industry. Hell, Ground Zero.

You can just imagine how DHS must consider Los Angeles. They'd probably like to paint targets over the movie studios.

Meanwhile, Louisville, hardly anyone's idea of a prime terrorist target, but conveniently the home of Hal Rogers, who chairs a Homeland Security Appropriations subcommittee - got almost $9 million. And New Jersey, home state of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, received a 79 percent increase in funding.