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Subject: American Library Association

  • Have you impugned your local librarian today?

    Those wascally wabble wousers at Dissent the Blog, your duly elected South Orange County Community College District watchdogs, have posted for our listenting pleasure a snippet from a recent Board of Disgustees meeting where (Dis)Trustee Don Wagner calls the American Library Association, based on his own sterling research, a "bunch of liberal busybodies." The set up: During that portion of the meeting where Bored Members sleepwalk through consent-worthy items like adding more disinfectant biscu

    February 6, 2006
  • "Libertarian" not Libertarian on Library

    Our pals at Dissent the Blog have a new post today following up on South Orange County Community College District trustee Don Wagner, at the board's January meeting, leading a vote to remove the American Library Association from its list of memberships. Wagner called the ALA "liberal busybodies" for opposing filters on library computers and essentially un-American for opposing portions of the Patriot Act. DtB resurrected the Wagner item because of a recent New York Times story reporting that not

    June 1, 2006
  • Fast Times at Foothill High

    August 23, 2001
  • Filtering Flip-Flop?

    October 5, 2000
  • Letters

    June 29, 2000
  • Shut Up, Again

    March 5, 1998
  • Don Wagner Kicks Off Assembly Bid With a Little Help From His Far-Out, Far-Right Friends

    Don Wagner, in charge.​Irvine's Don Wagner, the hard-core conservative president of the South Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees, kicks off his bid for state Assembly this evening with the help from one of the other hard-core conservatives on the college board's dais, "Chairman Emeritus of the Orange County Republican Party Central Committee" Tom Fuentes.Wagner hopes to win the GOP nomination for the 2010 race for the Assembly seat currently filled by Chuck DeVore (R-Ir

    September 30, 2009
  • Book Banning Rears its Head in Huntington Beach

    ​Aren't we all past this stuff? The Register's Annie Burris reports that last night's Huntington Beach city council meeting saw a former Westminster school district trustee reading aloud a graphic child-rape scene from Maya Angelou's autobiographical I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Judy Ahrens performed the reading and was joined in her effort by Ocean View School District Trustee John Briscoe. The point was to gross-out everyone to the point where the book could be banned from school librari

    October 20, 2009