The Anti-Democratic Streak of ‘Banned
Books Week’
Posted By: Mercedes44, 10/9/2025 7:30:50 AM
It’s Banned Books Week, the celebration of blue-haired librarians cosplaying as champions of the First Amendment against evil conservatives who dare question the appropriateness of sexually explicit, pro-trans literature for five-year-olds. To summarize some of the silliness ably highlighted by NR’s Vahaken Mouradian on the subject: No “Banned Book” in America is actually banned; we still have an operative First Amendment, and every book on the American Library Association’s list of the top ten “Challenged Books” of 2024 is readily available on Amazon or at thousands of libraries and bookstores throughout the country.
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It’s Banned Books Week, the celebration of blue-haired librarians cosplaying as champions of the First Amendment against evil conservatives who dare question the appropriateness of sexually explicit, pro-trans literature for five-year-olds. To summarize some of the silliness ably highlighted by NR’s Vahaken Mouradian on the subject: No “Banned Book” in America is actually banned; we still have an operative First Amendment, and every book on the American Library Association’s list of the top ten “Challenged Books” of 2024 is readily available on Amazon or at thousands of libraries and bookstores throughout the country.
European Union Ambassador to the United States Jovita Neliupšienė told Breitbart News exclusively in a lengthy interview last week that relations between Europe and the United States are going the “right direction” under the leadership of U.S. President Donald Trump and E.U. Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen. I think that they are going the very right direction because we had a meeting of Commission President Von der Leyen and President Trump in Scotland, in D.C., and on the margins of the NATO summit as well,” Neliupšienė said in the interview at the headquarters of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States in downtown Washington last week.
Whiplash: CA County Imposes COVID Mask
Mandate Just Days After Newsom Signed
'No Masks for ICE' Law 8 replies
Mandate Just Days After Newsom Signed
'No Masks for ICE' Law 8 replies
California has long been known for its counter-culture, its zaniness, its "otherness." But in recent decades, that reputation has grown sinister; it’s no longer about The Beach Boys, surfing culture, “Beverly Hills Cop,” or even The Eagles. For the last 15 years or so, give or take, it’s become more about hard-core left-wing politics, societal decline, socialism, and during the COVID years, even totalitarianism as the power structure in the Golden State enacted the most freedom-stripping measures of virtually any state. Now, unsurprisingly, the state’s brain trust seems to be in some sort of schizophrenic blender,
Appeals Court Lifts Judge’s Order Blocking
Trump From Mobilizing Oregon National
Guard Troops 16 replies
Trump From Mobilizing Oregon National
Guard Troops 16 replies
A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a judge’s order blocking President Trump from federalizing Oregon National Guard Troops.
On Saturday, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, blocked President Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland.
Judge Immergut issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and blasted President Trump’s decision to deploy troops.
The TRO will expire on October 18. The judge warned that Trump’s justification to deploy troops to Portland may send the country into a constitutional crisis.
On Sunday, President Trump called up hundreds of California National Guard Troops to Portland to circumvent the judge’s order blocking Oregon National Guard Troop deployment.
Political experts who watched the debate were divided on how the candidates fared on stage, but all of them told The Post that Mikie Sherrill had much sharper attacks than in the first debate.
"B-" for both candidates, said Dan Cassino, a politics professor and executive director of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Poll.
“This was more acrimonious than we've seen in the past,” Cassino explained. “They both hit their talking points. Did what they set out to do. Nobody landed a real knockout blow or a huge viral moment that's going to define this debate.”
“This was very much a draw.”
Trump expects Israeli hostages to be released
Monday after admin brokered breakthrough
peace deal 13 replies
Monday after admin brokered breakthrough
peace deal 13 replies
President Trump said Wednesday that he expects Hamas to release all remaining Israeli hostages on Monday, following a breakthrough peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian terror group.
“The big thing is hostages are going to be released probably, our time, would be, probably Monday,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity, in an interview hours after he announced both Hamas and Israel had agreed to the first phase of his 20-point plan for peace in the Middle East.
“They’re in a terrible situation there,” Trump said of the 48 hostages believed to be in Gaza, more than half of which are thought to be dead.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul retains just a five percentage point lead against potential 2026 Republican challenger Elise Stefanik — and loses that advantage when likely voters first hear about both candidates’ records, according to a new internal poll.
Stefanik trails behind Hochul, 48% to 43%, on an initial ballot but narrowly beats the incumbent Democrat, 46.4% to 45.9%, when voters leaning toward voting in the 2026 race hear about the governor endorsing New York City mayoral frontrunner and socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, the poll found, among other issues.
Authorities are investigating a claim by a Maine resident who said she found 250 unmarked absentee ballots in an Amazon package delivered to her home last week, ahead of the state’s November 4 elections.
“To any bad actor involved, you will be caught, and you will be punished,” Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows declared during a press conference Monday.Bellows added that law enforcement in Maine and the FBI are investigating the incident.
“We have received regular updates on the progress of the investigation,” Bellows said. “I have full confidence that law enforcement will determine who is responsible, and any bad actor will be held accountable.”
California’s Largest School District
Bucks Dems, Adopts Ban on Trans Athletes
in Girls’ Sports 9 replies
Bucks Dems, Adopts Ban on Trans Athletes
in Girls’ Sports 9 replies
The Kern High School District, which serves approximately 40,000 students in Bakersfield, voted 3-2 in favor of a resolution that would bring the district into compliance with the Trump administration’s Title IX rules, which ban males who identify as females from participating in girls’ sports.But the resolution also puts the district at odds with the state’s far-left Democrat-led legislature and radical Governor Gavin Newsom.
Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education President Sonja Shaw wrote the resolution.
“I authored this resolution to be the voice of our communities — to stand with our girls and protect the truth that should’ve never been silenced. Boys are boys.
The White House on Tuesday warned that federal bureaucrats who have been forced not to work, due to the Democrat shutdown, are not guaranteed to receive back pay.If the White House were to move on the legal analysis, it would up the ante on Senate Democrats to end the weeklong shutdown by denying back pay to as many as 750,000 federal workers after the shutdown.A memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget argued that the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act (GEFTA), a bill Trump signed during his first term in office,
The entire world knew Joe Biden was corrupt and conflicted.
Now, finally, those in the know are beginning to speak out.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev told reporters former US President Joe Biden “provoked the war in Ukraine to cover up his family’s corruption.”
Kirill added, “The truth is coming out and justice must follow.”Kirill Dmitriev is the chief of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund since 2011, was appointed in February as Putin’s special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation.
Some of us are old (and gray) enough to remember when the "media" was on paper, backed up by three television networks - if you were lucky enough to live in an area where you could get all three from your roof-mounted television aerial. Those days are long gone, what with the rise of the internet and the alternative media, a sample of which you are reading right now.
But the big three television networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, are still around. They are now part of what some of us call the "legacy media," but may also be quite honestly called the "liberal media," for their long-term, well-established leftist slant.
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Every Senate Democrat Stands By Jay Jones
After He Fantasized About Assassinating Republican 25 replies
After He Fantasized About Assassinating Republican 25 replies
In response to a Federalist inquiry, not a single Democrat U.S. Senator called for the Virginia Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones to drop out of the race in light of his text messages fantasizing about assassinating Republican Todd Gilbert.
“Put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time,” Jones wrote, after running a hypothetical about how to allocate two bullets among Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. The 2022 text messages were first reported by National Review on Friday. According to a source cited by the outlet, Jones also “suggested he wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her own child die-
The entire world knew Joe Biden was corrupt and conflicted.
Now, finally, those in the know are beginning to speak out.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev told reporters former US President Joe Biden “provoked the war in Ukraine to cover up his family’s corruption.”
Kirill added, “The truth is coming out and justice must follow.”Kirill Dmitriev is the chief of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund since 2011, was appointed in February as Putin’s special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation.
FBI corruption probe picked up evidence
Bill Clinton paid through backdoor, GOP
senator says 20 replies
Bill Clinton paid through backdoor, GOP
senator says 20 replies
As part of a political corruption probe, the FBI obtained evidence that former President Bill Clinton was being paid through a backdoor arrangement with an allied consultant, according to a 2017 document released Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Chuck Grassley.
The Iowa Republican senator raised the issue in a hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi and questioned whether the FBI and Justice Department fully investigated the findings.
On Oct. 9, 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Also on this date:
In 1910, a coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado left 56 miners dead.
In 1962, Uganda won autonomy from British rule.In 1963, a mega-tsunami triggered by a landside at Vajont Dam in northern Italy destroyed villages and caused approximately 2,000 deaths.In 1967, Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture.
The most destructive inferno in Los Angeles history, which charred a devastating path through Pacific Palisades and Malibu in early January, was a rekindling fire that an Uber driver intentionally set days earlier near a popular hiking area, federal investigators alleged.
Authorities on Wednesday also announced the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, who is suspected of setting the initial fire on New Year’s Eve. Rinderknecht, of Florida, was charged with maliciously starting what eventually became the Palisades fire. Among the evidence that was collected from his digital devices was an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city, said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli.
Hamas has agreed to a peace deal pushed by President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza and return the hostages, two years after the terrorist network attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, sparking not only the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust, but a deadly war and a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday to make the announcement: "I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan. This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw
Appeals Court Lifts Judge’s Order Blocking
Trump From Mobilizing Oregon National
Guard Troops 16 replies
Trump From Mobilizing Oregon National
Guard Troops 16 replies
A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a judge’s order blocking President Trump from federalizing Oregon National Guard Troops.
On Saturday, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, blocked President Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland.
Judge Immergut issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and blasted President Trump’s decision to deploy troops.
The TRO will expire on October 18. The judge warned that Trump’s justification to deploy troops to Portland may send the country into a constitutional crisis.
On Sunday, President Trump called up hundreds of California National Guard Troops to Portland to circumvent the judge’s order blocking Oregon National Guard Troop deployment.
Deadly Palisades Fire set ‘maliciously’
by Florida firebug Jonathan Rinderknecht,
feds say 16 replies
by Florida firebug Jonathan Rinderknecht,
feds say 16 replies
A Florida firebug has been arrested for allegedly “maliciously” sparking the Palisades Fire — the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history — that left 12 dead and caused about $150 billion in damages earlier this year, the feds revealed Wednesday.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is accused of sparking January’s raging inferno that devastated more than 6,000 homes and buildings in the wealthy coastal enclave.
“Rinderknecht started a fire in Pacific Palisades on New Year’s Day — a blaze that eventually turned into one of the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history, causing death and widespread destruction,” Acting US Attorney Bill Essayli said.
Katie Porter threatened to walk out of an interview with a local CBS News affiliate after the reporter asked several follow-up questions about whether her support for Democrats’ congressional redistricting measure would alienate Republican voters.
The on-camera sitdown with Porter, a frontrunner in the gubernatorial race, grew confrontational after the reporter, Julie Watts, asked: “What do you say to the 40 percent of California voters — who you’ll need in order to win — who voted for Trump?”
Trump expects Israeli hostages to be released
Monday after admin brokered breakthrough
peace deal 13 replies
Monday after admin brokered breakthrough
peace deal 13 replies
President Trump said Wednesday that he expects Hamas to release all remaining Israeli hostages on Monday, following a breakthrough peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian terror group.
“The big thing is hostages are going to be released probably, our time, would be, probably Monday,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity, in an interview hours after he announced both Hamas and Israel had agreed to the first phase of his 20-point plan for peace in the Middle East.
“They’re in a terrible situation there,” Trump said of the 48 hostages believed to be in Gaza, more than half of which are thought to be dead.
On Tuesday, the second anniversary of the horrific Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that claimed 1,200 lives, terrorist sympathizers took to the streets to declare that the violence was not “enough.”
“We did not act enough! We did not act enough. Repeat after me, ‘We did not act enough.’ If we acted enough, the headline behind me would read, ‘Gaza has been liberated,’” one man yelled. “So our work is not done. We will show up, stronger than we did the first Oct. 7. Louder than we did the first Oct. 7 to make it clear that we are not going anywhere. We will keep fighting until Palestine is free,
Ex-FBI Director Comey pleads not guilty
to perjury, obstruction charges; trial
set for Jan. 5. 13 replies
to perjury, obstruction charges; trial
set for Jan. 5. 13 replies
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of lying to Congress five years ago. Comey, 64, also denied a charge of obstruction of justice tied to the long-running probe into alleged collusion between President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russian officials. His trial was set for Jan. 5, 2026, after a brief hearing. The two-page indictment handed up by a federal grand jury last month accuses Comey of lying during a Sept. 30, 2020, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing when he claimed he didn’t approve leaks