So, my 9 year old step-daughter has enrolled in a summer reading program thru the local county public library. She loves it because she gets little "badges" each 2 weeks if she has read X number of books.

She's a little behind in reading, so anything that helps get her enthusiasm up about reading, we are all for it.

This past weekend, we go into the closest branch to enroll her in the program and get books for her to start.

She browses the fiction section and picks up a bunch of books and is ready to go... she's 9 and the fiction section makes more sense for her. I want to see what's in the non-fiction section since it has animals, outer space/planets, US history, etc. so I told her to wait a bit...

then my blood began to boil...

So the books are stacked normally, edge out so you can read the title. However, since this is a small library with less resources (I guess) and a lot of space for books, they have a special spot for every section of shelves for books to be facing front-out... these are supposedly "Staff picks"...

In the biographic section, the "staff pick" facing outwards was "Hillary Clinton, do what's right"... next to it face up was another Hillary book.

In the "photographic" section, there was "The Obama Administration, a pictorial history"

Lastly, and most egregiously, in the "US History/US Politics" section, the front facing "staff pick" was "The US Constitution, the holes and faults".

I picked up the last one, blood boiling, and looked at the authors. The female author was listed from Harvard and previously authored the "Hillary Clinton: Do what's Right" book.

If this was a private company, like say Barnes and Noble or something (do they still exist?), they can put up whatever they want...

However, this was a PUBLIC library, funded by taxes in MY COUNTY...

Now, childish I know, but I replaced all of the "staff picks" with a few choice books of my own, nothing controversial (one was "Christmastime in Colonial Virginia" or something, another one was "The US Constitution"). I know they won't stay, but at least I tried...

And no, no Trump presidential books ANYWHERE! Obviously not in the "staff picks" but I couldn't find ANY book referencing Trump, not in the US History/Politics NOR in the photographic section.

I ALMOST wore my Trump t-shirt that day, but I didn't.

Anyway, just a rant, maybe this belongs in the rant section, but I was just astonished.

BTW, I didn't write down the actual names, but paraphrased... I'm sure if someone WANTS to see the actual books, you can google them or search on Amazon.

James

Being the crusty old curmudgeon that I've become, I'd have pursued the source of that outrage. It's actions like this that has split this country in half. I can't imagine a conservative doing something like that in a public tax funded institution.

Jim

I think I would have put The one about the holes in the constitution in the bottom of the trash can in the men’s room

Lots of librarians are GDCs. I’m kind of surprised you weren’t already aware of that, and the fact that they make an effort to primarily keep books on hand that further the liberal agenda. Some years ago, I took my nephew, who had become interested in WW2, to a branch library in Colorado Springs. I suggested he check out “Here Is Your War” by the beloved war correspondent Ernie Pyle, which I read and enjoyed as an elementary school student. The branch we were in didn’t have a copy, so I asked the librarian to see if there was another branch they could get it from. She told us there wasn’t a copy to be had in any of the Colorado Springs Public Library System. I guess they thought it somehow aggrandized war and violence and stuff, which is dirty and bad if you’re a liberal.

Fortunately, libraries are basically obsolete, because of the internet. They can shut them all down, as far as I’m concerned, if they’re just going to be used as mouthpieces for democrats/socialists/communists.

Sneaky bastards those liberals are. When my daughter was eight, she told me that Ruth Bader Ginsberg was the first female Supreme Court Justice. Naturally, my spidey sense went ding for a couple of reasons. One my daughter is smart, but being only eight years old I was shocked she could name a Supreme Court Justice. Two, I was relatively certain that Sandra Day O'Connor was the first female Supreme Court Justice. I immediately assumed this was something she was told in school and was all set to set them straight the next morning, but no. She said she read it in a book she received from her aunt. I asked her to show it to me and sure enough, I Dissent! Ruth Bader Ginsberg Makes Her Mark, has infiltrated my house. I was and still am livid.