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Kids' Books
Townhall.com ^ | April 13, 2022 | John Stossel

Posted on 04/13/2022 2:42:59 AM PDT by Kaslin

Bookstores now sell only certain kinds of children's books.

"Go into Barnes & Noble," says Bethany Mandel in my new video, "and you will be met with a wall of biographies. Probably 27 different books about former Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Great. A ton about Kamala Harris. Great."

But where are the biographies on conservatives? There weren't any.

She found lots on people like Hillary Clinton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Carson, but not one on conservatives like Margaret Thatcher or Amy Coney Barrett.

"It's time to bring those books to the market because Lord knows the publishing industry won't," says Mandel.

So, she created Heroes of Liberty, a company that will publish books on conservatives like Barrett, Ronald Reagan and Thomas Sowell.

"You're indoctrinating kids just like the left does," I tell her.

"That's a very fair question," she responds. "My answer is, read the books!"

Her top seller is her biography of Sowell, who overcame adversity to become a famous economist.

When Sowell's family moved to New York, his new teachers put him in a lower grade because they assumed that he couldn't compete. Sowell went to see the principal.

"He didn't play the victim. He stood up for himself," says Mandel. "He said, 'I will prove to you that I'm capable of doing fourth grade math.'" The principal actually listened and gave him a test. When Sowell aced it, the principal told the teachers, "Take this young man to fourth grade, where he belongs!"

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1 posted on 04/13/2022 2:42:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Are all the kids biographies now people from the last 10 years?


2 posted on 04/13/2022 3:24:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Kaslin

Parents need to resume the role they left to these pukes who fail


3 posted on 04/13/2022 3:47:48 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

I think it’s pretty well established that the books are one of the ways that politicians take bribes. You don’t hand them $10k in a suitcase: you order $10k worth of their latest memoir via a shell company.


4 posted on 04/13/2022 3:48:23 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady

There is no doubt in my mind. I wished I could afford to send them some money but I honestly can’t.


5 posted on 04/13/2022 3:50:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

When Costco sells books by a conservative, the price tag is applied so it covers the face of the author.


6 posted on 04/13/2022 4:15:59 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: ArtDodger

We don’t have Costco here, so I would not know. Although it seems to me there was one here of them here in 1983. I remember loving shopping there.


7 posted on 04/13/2022 4:26:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: nickcarraway

I did find a kids’ biography of Mother Teresa for sale in a local bookstore recently. She died more than 10 years ago.


8 posted on 04/13/2022 6:36:48 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin
This one is on the shelf at my local Target:


9 posted on 04/13/2022 9:21:37 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: real saxophonist

Ewww. Lionizing the evil gnome.


10 posted on 04/13/2022 9:23:31 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: ArtDodger
When Costco sells books by a conservative, the price tag is applied so it covers the face of the author.

That figures. They were notorious mask nazis during the mandates.

I haven’t gone to a Costco in years (I used to like Costco and had a membership) and I probably never will again.

11 posted on 04/13/2022 9:26:29 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: Kaslin

For my grandkids books to read, my daughter will only shop at used book stores, they will only choose books that were published pre-WOKE.


12 posted on 04/13/2022 9:31:56 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News")
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