GUILFORD-Betsy Thomason clearly shows that she has no idea what book banning is.
In her letter, Betsy claims that as the former owner of Everyone's Books, I refused to display books by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and refused to order them if requested, and when we held an event to discuss book banning, she accused us of being book banners. These statements are untrue for three reasons:
1. We did special-order single copies of the book, which was full of lies and innuendo about the crimes of Anthony Fauci.
2. What we refused to do was either stock the book, because of the above, or order the large bulk order that one organization in Windham requested. I didn't feel I wanted to increase sales of this book that I consider pretty offensive.
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Nancy Braus, until recently an independent bookseller, is a longtime activist who contributes often to these pages. Kudos to Shenna Bellows! The secretary of state in Maine has done what every Republican would have done in the current situation, were the shoe on the other foot. If the Republicans had the opportunity to disqualify a candidate they consider an immediate threat to the survival of the world, there would be no restraint. When Bellows used her power to disqualify Donald...
Nancy Braus, until recently an independent bookseller, is a longtime activist who contributes often to these pages. So we now have a House of Representatives with a large majority, in passing a resolution on Dec. 5, willing to back the totally bogus and dangerous statement "anti-Zionism is antisemitism." Reading the list of Democrats who voted in favor, it includes some who are thought of as progressives, such as Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.). Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.), who...