It is my opinion that the Detroit Free Press should be banned from the library. Furthermore, the stick that is used by libraries to hold the latest edition of the Detroit Free Press Newspaper, should instead be used to beat Mr. Pitts soundly about the head.

I didn't think that my interest in the Detroit Free Press could drop, but I'm proved wrong again.  Perhaps Governor Palin could hire the 0bama "Goon Squads" to enforce her will.

Comrades, I beg of you – do not resort to compulsory taxation. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.   -   Robert Heinlein

"Finally, on whether the governor tried to ban books, FactCheck.org points out:

"She (Palin) did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.""

Maybe The Governor was checking out the librarian to see if she would remove book from the shelf if asked to. If she was looking out for the citizens First Amendment Rights this would be a logical step.

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This is Detroit Free Press's version of Minority Report --"what if" Sarah had tried?  Oh my!

This is just another sick hit-piece...honestly, these people need help, and pronto -- PDS strikes again.

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Hey Pitts,

Are you on acid? What else is your excuse for the variable lag between reality and your bias. They'll hand out Pulitzers to any moron, eh?

You Twit! 

"Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers." -GKC

No one regularly reads Leonard Pitts who isn't already in the liberal tank.

He has absolutely no credibility. He isn't even preaching to the choir, the choir got up and left some time ago.

He is one of the least perceptive columnist syndicated today.

He is actually laughable with his ultra biased disjointed reasoning

Hmm... the Bible perhaps?

The Detroit Free Press is another one of those media outlets, like MSNBC, which no longer even pretends to be objective, at least for those who are paying attention.  The problem is there are still large numbers of the public that are not paying all that much attention, and so they are still easily influenced by the likes of the Free Press.  Without these liberal stalwarts, the Dem party might be in trouble.

Hint:

- "Hand Gun Self-Defense"

- "Why Abortion is Evil"

- "Hunting Techniques"

- "The Bible"

Someone needs to start a thread on this & investigate what BS they came up with now. Unreal.

AP Investigation: Palin got zoning aid, gifts :

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By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE, Associated Press Writer
Sun Sep 28, 11:58 AM ET

WASILLA, Alaska - Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows.

When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception — and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard.

She gladly accepted gifts from merchants: A free "awesome facial" she raved about in a thank-you note to a spa. The "absolutely gorgeous flowers" she received from a welding supply store. Even fresh salmon to take home.

She also stepped in to help friends or neighbors with City Hall dealings. She asked the City Council to add a friend to the list of speakers at a 2002 meeting — and then the friend got up and asked them to give his radio station advertising business.

That year, records show, she tried to help a neighbor and political contributor fighting City Hall over his small lakeside development. Palin wanted the city to refund some of the man's fees, but the city attorney told the mayor she didn't have the authority.

Palin claims she has more executive experience than her opponent and the two presidential candidates, but most of those years were spent running a city with a population of less than 7,000.

Some of her first actions after being elected mayor in 1996 raised possible ethical red flags: She cast the tie-breaking vote to propose a tax exemption on aircraft when her father-in-law owned one, and backed the city's repeal of all taxes a year later on planes, snow machines and other personal property. She also asked the council to consider looser rules for snow machine races. Palin and her husband, Todd, a champion racer, co-owned a snow machine store at the time.

Palin often told the City Council of her personal involvement in such issues, but that didn't stop her from pressing them, according to minutes of council meetings.

She sometimes followed a cautious path in the face of real or potential conflicts — for example, stepping away from the table in 1997 when the council considered a grant for the Iron Dog snow machine race in which her husband competes.

But mostly, like other Wasilla elected officials at the time, she took an active role on issues that directly affected and sometimes benefited her. Her efforts to clear the way for the $327,000 sale of the Palin family home on Lake Wasilla is an example.

Two months before Palin's tenure as mayor ended in 2002, she asked city planning officials to forgive zoning violations so she could sell her house. Palin had a buyer, but he wouldn't close the deal unless she persuaded the city to waive the violations with a code variance.

The Palins, who were finishing work on a new waterfront house on Lake Lucille about two miles away, asked the city for the variance. The request was opposed by one planning official and some neighbors.

"I would ask that the Wasilla Planning Commission apply the exact same rules in this situation that it would apply to other similar requests so that our community can see that being a public figure does not give anyone special benefits," urged neighbor Clyde Boyer Jr. in a 2002 note to the city.

The Palins' house was built by the original owner too close to the shoreline and too close to adjacent properties on each side, including a carport that stretched so far over it nearly connected the two houses.

The Palins didn't create the zoning problems, but they should have known about them when they bought the house, wrote Susan Lee, a code compliance officer with the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, in response to the Palins' request. The borough, similar to a county government, makes recommendations to the city, which has final say.

Lee, in recommending the city reject the request, noted that the exception was needed to resolve an "inconvenience" the Palins experienced while trying to sell their house. In 1989, another borough planner told a previous owner that a variance for the carport couldn't be approved because it didn't meet required conditions and was a potential fire hazard.

But in August 2002, Wasilla Planner Tim Krug approved a "shoreline setback exception" for the Palins' house being built too closely to the water. He sent an e-mail to the mayor saying he was drafting another variance for the side of the house built too close to the property line, but that he understood from her that the other side "will be corrected and the carport will be removed."

Krug asked Palin to let him know if he was wrong in his impression that the carport would be removed.

A few minutes later, the mayor e-mailed back: "Sounds good."

On Sept. 10, 2002, the seven-member Wasilla Planning Commission unanimously approved a variance for both sides of the property, with language covering "all existing structures." Less than a week later, the Palins signed a deed to sell the house to Henry Nosek.

The carport was never removed.

Nosek said Sarah Palin didn't do anything more than any other citizen would have done.

"I sincerely don't feel that Sarah used her position as mayor at the time to get that accomplished," said Nosek, who no longer lives in the home.

James Svara, professor of public affairs at Arizona State University and author of "The Ethics Primer for Public Administrators in Government and Nonprofit Organizations," suggested such behavior is part of small-town politics.

"Small towns are first-person politics, and if people are close, it's hard to separate one's own personal interest and one's own personal property from the work of the city," Svara said. The key questions from an ethics standpoint include whether the politician makes a potential conflict of interest known and removes himself or herself from actions related to it, he added.

"I think in a small town there is a greater likelihood that people will accept that you will pay careful attention to friends and neighbors," he said, adding that there may be some local gossip about it, but not a lot of public scrutiny. "At the national level, there will be far more people watching, there will be far more pressures to come forward to try to influence the outcome."

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Associated Press writer Sharon Theimer in Washington contributed to this report.

"Alinksky's Rules for Radicals?" "Das Kapital?" "The Communist Manifesto?' "Catcher in the Rye?' "The Story of O?" "Holy Blood, Holy Grail?" "The Tropic of Cancer?" "The DaVinci Code?"

The Roman Church has banned more books simply by refusing their Imperial "imprimatur" than any entity in history.

Sarah Palin would not ban any books because of her adherence to the 1st Amendment and the Constitution in general - unlike the Liberlaites that would ban "Huckleberry Finn" for it's politically incorrect contempoary coloquialisms.

I'm sure that the Liberals, if they could, would ban "Fahrenheit 451" if they were able. To close to home.