Re: the financial crisis, governments, greed and the free market.

A 17-year-old spent a night in jail last week after police arrested him for wearing low pants in Riviera Beach, southeast Florida.

The price to park your car for an hour in the Millennium Park Garage has risen 31 percent, to $17, since the garage was leased to Morgan Stanley in 2006. . . . The article also fails to mention the fact that taxes have not decreased. This means that you are not only paying the higher prices on the private property, but also continuing to pay the taxes you previously paid for the public amenities.

According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired.

Heath Ledger's character in The Dark Knight is truly evil, tearing down the good for being the good. Despite its overall darkness, the movie is genuine Romanticism, in a sense Ayn Rand would recognize.

Rather than leaving the protection of students and teachers in the hands of off-site police officers, the community of Harold, Texas will allow its teachers to carry concealed firearms to allow them to protect their own school.

When asked to defend his school board's plan to allow teachers to carry guns, the superintendent replied:

'When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that's when all of these shootings started. Why would you put it out there that a group of people can't defend themselves? That's like saying "sic em" to a dog,'