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MACDONALD: Firing Them Isn’t Enough.

December 27, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The Left’s war against children took a tiny hit recently when a North Carolina County took an unusual step. The Library board had just dismissed concerns from parents and taxpayers about an inappropriate book in the children’s section. In Randolph County, North Carolina, the public library’s board of trustees voted to keep a child grooming … Read more

MACDONALD: SCOTUS Rejects Appeal to Keep Naughty Books on Library Shelves

December 12, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Fifth Circuit Ruling Stands – Government cannot censor speech, but it has no First Amendment obligation to provide it. The US Supreme and Circuit Courts have already answered a question that, by extension, applies to many First Amendment challenges. Mostly progressive plaintiffs continue to argue that defunding NPR or rejecting some titles that are then … Read more

NE TAKE: A Book was BANNED in My Neighborhood! (Not Really)

December 6, 2025 The New England Take

And it was massively inappropriate for kids… This week on the NE Take, A. J. breaks down the “issue” of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” being removed from Merrimack Valley High School curriculum and how it is great that it happened. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, … Read more

MACDONALD: When They/Them Call You a “Book Banner!”

November 2, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The groomers and pedophiles have been allowed to spool out more than enough rhetorical rope… I started a research project last month, during which I suffered through the intolerable nonsense of a series of websites listing banned books in the United States. I won’t share the links because the internet age affords you tools to … Read more

MacDonald: Fifth Circuit Kicks the Left’s “Book Ban” Narrative To The Curb

June 1, 2025 Steve MacDonald

You can buy it in a bookstore. You can order it online and have it delivered the next day. You can even get a digital copy right now. If, however, a taxpayer or a parent believes the content of a book is age-inappropriate and ought not be included in a library collection accessible to children, … Read more

Another Deluded Democrat Narrative Mule

December 23, 2024December 23, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The fallout from the withdrawal of Mindy Atwood for State Librarian continues to amuse. I think I made the points that needed making yesterday here (If Book Banning Is Bad, Why Can You Do It?) and here (Actually, Libraries Are The Problem), but when proglodytes give you low-hanging fruit…you make jam out of them. InDepth … Read more

If Book Banning Is Bad, Why Can You Do It?

December 20, 2024December 20, 2024 Steve MacDonald

We can proudly claim to be the tip of the spear in the movement to stop the nomination of Melinda “Mindy” Atwood. Stephen Scaer launched it on November 29th with his post, “Tell NH Executive Council to Reject Radical State Librarian Nominee.” Others followed, which is the point. The tip is useless without a shaft … Read more

Tell NH Executive Council to Reject Radical State Librarian Nominee

November 29, 2024November 29, 2024 Stephen Scaer

Melinda “Mindy” Atwood, nominated for the position of New Hampshire state librarian by Gov. Chris Sununu, pushes the book ban myth, the American Library Association’s (ALA) weapon used to silence and humiliate anyone who objects to materials that sexualize children and push their radical agenda. Related: Our Libraries Queer Children In October 2023, Assistant State … Read more

Who’s Banning Books Now?

June 20, 2024 Rob Roper

The legislature passed just this year S.220 – An act relating to Vermont’s public libraries. The ostensible need for the law was summed up by the WCAX headline, “Vermont Senate advances bill to discourage book banning.” This was, in great part, a reaction by our legislators to parents around the country objecting to highly sexualized materials … Read more

Our Libraries Queer Children

April 6, 2024 Stephen Scaer

Publisher’s Weekly praises “Grandad’s Pride,” a children’s book for ages 4-8, available at local libraries, for how its “Bustling, bright-hued images with a rainbow motif” portrays various “gender expressions,” including men in bondage costumes with codpieces and a bearded woman with mastectomy scars.

Anti-Book Banning Dems Have a Huge Problem: Biden White House Pressured Amazon to Ban Books

February 7, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Democrats (mostly) have been arguing that removing age-inappropriate “books” from schools is book banning. They can’t shut up about it, but anyone can get these books with a few clicks electronically (for the groomer in a hurry) or in print in a handful of days. But the idea of “banning books” has a visceral feel.

Night Cap: Mom, They Banned My Book!

November 15, 2023 Ian Underwood

I’m proud to be a new member of a distinguished club: Authors from Indiana who have had a book banned by a public library. Other members include Theodore Dreiser, Kurt Vonnegut, and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

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Who’s Banning Whom? – The Hypocrisy of Being Called a “Book Banner”

November 19, 2024September 16, 2023 Arlene Quaratiello

Kirk Cameron’s recently published children’s book, Pride Comes Before the Fall, is a charming story about the dangers inherent in being overly prideful rather than humble. While some detractors have labeled this book by the former child TV star as “anti-gay” because of its message about pride, Cameron prefers to call it “pro-humility.”

Dover, New Hampshire, Bans Book Banning™ … Or Something

June 19, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The Dover City Council “overwhelmingly” approved a resolution last week. It denounces partisan political and “unconstitutional” book banning™, which is amusing given that Dover is run by political partisans that hate the US Constitution.

Unbanning the Banning of Banning books

June 13, 2023 Ian Underwood

Illinois just passed a law banning the banning of books in libraries. Actually, the state can’t really do that. What it can do is withhold state funding from libraries that restrict or ban materials because of ‘partisan or doctrinal’ disapproval.

We Are Not Saying You Can’t Get The Jab™ if You Want It

February 18, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The politicized Left does this thing where they take your objection to something and pretend it’s absolute. They do that because that is how they operate, and they assume we’re like them. Not so.

If Keeping “Porn” Out of School and Public Libraries Is Banning Books, Then ….

May 9, 2023January 1, 2023 Auntie Vaquser

People claiming to be adults and not groomers are defending the use of adult-oriented material (porn) directed at kids in public schools, public libraries, and perhaps even classrooms. If you suggest they are not age-appropriate, they label you a book banner. First, F!!! You. Second?

The Truth Leaks Out: Dolls and Trucks Are for Everyone

August 18, 2022 Beth Scaer

I have been attending the Nashua Public Library trustees’ meetings and talking to them about my serious concerns about picture books the library has made available to young children which try to convince them that how well they fit a gender stereotype is what makes them a boy or girl. You can read about two of those books here.

Remove an Inappropriate Book from the School Library OR Cause Trauma to a Girl Who was Raped?

April 6, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

There is an ongoing debate about whether or not to remove books with graphic sexual content from the school library. I believe that if you can’t read it out loud at a School Board Meeting, it probably shouldn’t be in the school library.