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On My Mind

Our Conservative Ideals

by Andy Spackman

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The Case for Textbooks

by Krista McDonald and John Burke

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The Faces of Circulation

by Toccara Porter

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Troublesome Textbooks

By Bonnie Imler

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Killjoy Was Here

By Thomas Washington

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How the World Sees Us

Glenn, Glenn, Glenn. The library isn’t free! It’s paid for with tax money! Free public libraries are the result of the progressive movement to communally share books. The first public library was the Boston Public Library in 1854. Its statement of purpose: Every citizen has the right to access community-owned resources. Community-owned? That sounds just like communists. You’re a communist!



Comedian Jon Stewart, responding to television host Glenn Beck’s February 19 Conservative Political Action Committee keynote in which Beck asserted that he educated himself for free at the library, The Daily Show, February 22.

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