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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

Morning Update: Ideas for Joe Biden’s Presidential “Library”

December 15, 2025 The Morning Update

Today, on the Morning Update, Joe Biden” is having trouble raising money for a Presidential Library, but if he gets one, as tiny as it will likely be, I have some suggestions for titles to put on the shelves. Links: Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, … Read more

Smith: The Future of Nashua’s Library

July 29, 2025 Julie Smith

God bless our library watchdogs, like Beth Scaer, Cindy Bennett, and Arlene Quaratiello, just to name a few who have written multiple Grok pieces on libraries. I’ve tagged them in quite a few of my own library articles, but a hat tip to Beth for bringing a near future public comment opportunity to my attention. … Read more

Harrington: NH Students Are Finally Safer

July 27, 2025 Betsy Harrington

AGE INAPPROPRIATE BOOKS ARE REMOVED FROM THE SORA STUDENT ONLINE LIBRARY Recently, age-inappropriate library books were removed from New Hampshire’s Sora Student Online Library App. New Hampshire schools that use the SORA Library App share a catalog called “The Shared NH Collection”. The collection has been heavily criticized by parents who have found dozens of … Read more

Parental Rights and Public Libraries

January 23, 2025 Arlene Quaratiello

The cartoon aardvark Arthur sang in one memorable episode, “Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card.” Unfortunately, obtaining your children’s library records IS very hard when they have a library card; in fact, it is against the law in New Hampshire and most other states! This law needs to be changed, and … Read more

I Went to the Gilford School Board Meeting Last Night and Gave Them a Present – They Were Not Amused.

September 13, 2022 Skip

New School Year. A new set of meetings. And I went to it. While not the main topic and reason why I attended was for a redo of Policy JBAB (Transgender and Non-Conforming Students NonBinary), it is now, yet again, an issue. Sidenote: And this is the problem with Wokeness – almost every day, the … Read more

Public Library Is at It Again: More White Supremacy and Unconscious Bias Baloney.

September 8, 2021 Op-Ed

As many of the community are aware, the Wilmot Public Library is again hosting a workshop promulgating racist ideology that has, with the passage of House Bill 2 in July, become unlawful to promote in the library’s capacity as a public/quasi-public entity.

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Is Your Local Public Library Promoting Racism?

July 27, 2021 Op-Ed

“White privilege. White fear. White guilt. Ingrained, systemic racism is being revealed and yet many have been unable or unwilling to talk about it. The conversations need to start now. “

Nashua: ID Is Needed to Reactivate My Library Card, but Not to Vote?

July 7, 2021 Op-Ed

Last week I went into the Nashua library to see some reference material. I walked in free-faced and was not given a hard time though they have a doorman at a desk with a box of single-use masks and a hand sanitizer pump. Of course, there was plexiglass everywhere.

Drag Queens Refuse to do Future Events at Library that Featured Anti-Drag Feminist

November 3, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The social constructs on the left have a habit of becoming anti-choice or anti-speech advocates. Their ideology demands it. So, while men dressing up as ugly clownish caricatures of women is okay, an actual woman who says drag queens are real women is bad.

Brookline Library Employee Defends Allowing Adult Sex Performers to Read to Children

July 13, 2021September 12, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Brookline Public Library employee Keith Thompson is defending library use of tax dollars. He says locals are out to defund the library because of “one program.” What program?

Drag Queen Story Hour… Does it Reflect Your Values?

September 9, 2019
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Extreme left ideology, as embodied by Drag Queen Story Hour, is being promoted. There is a group trying to see that it comes to every city and town library. My first question to you is: Why is this even a thing? Please, think about this seriously. What we learn first, we learn best and it … Read more

Conway Library Trustee Meeting Tonight – Opportunity to Talk About Scheduled Drag Queen Story Hour

June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The Conway Public Library Board of Trustees has a meeting tonight. It’s at 15 Greenwood Ave in the Library Meeting Room beginning at 5 pm. If you have concerns or comments about the upcoming Drag Queen Storytime event, this would be the opportunity to voice them.

Modern Book Burning: Liberal Targets ‘Whiteness’ To Remove Books from American Library Collections

April 18, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Knowledge is power unless the ‘knowledge’ continues “to promote and proliferate whiteness with their very existence and the fact that they are physically taking up space in our libraries.” No, we’re not talking about some neo-Nazi screed. This is about cleansing Western Literature.

Did Nashua’s Drag Queen Teen Time Have People Planted in the Audience to Ask “Questions?”

February 4, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The Nashua Pubic Library (that’s not a typo) recently expanded its horizons by giving children a chance to meet, listen to, and question a professional Drag Queen. The Conservative Tribune has a story about another Drag Queen Storytime event planned in Philadelphia with some interesting revelations.