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Candice E. Jackson, Esq. JACKSON & SHOEMAKER, INC. A Professional Law Corporation 1411 Fifth St., Suite 400 Santa Monica, CA 90401 Tel. (310) 917-2621 Fax (310) 917-2622 Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick to Tour Clinton Library Women assaulted by former president to visit library to raise awareness of treatment of women and challenge Bill and Hillary Clinton’s carefully sculpted legacy. Los Angeles, CA (October 12, 2005) – Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey will visit the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum later this month to draw attention to the former president’s treatment of women. They will be accompanied on...

A Houston-based veterans group plans to stage rallies Saturday to protest children's books at Montgomery County libraries that they say contain explicit material. Jim Cabaniss, president of American Veterans in Domestic Defense, says the group has a list of 70 books that it believes are inappropriate. It contends the books contain pornographic pictures or promote homosexuality. ''Our purpose is to deal with the excessive smut and pornography in the children sections of the library," said The Woodlands resident. A few of the titles on the group's list include It's Perfectly Normal, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Plastic...

School Library Book Raises Porn Questions POSTED: 3:14 pm CDT October 5, 2005 UPDATED: 4:58 pm CDT October 5, 2005 GRANBURY, Texas -- A book on a Granbury middle school shelf recently ignited a controversy because of what at least one grandparent believes to be pornographic content. Carol Sanders said she was shocked to find out her 13- and 10-year granddaughters read "Detour for Emmy." The book tells the story of a 15-year-old girl who becomes pregnant. Sanders said the descriptions of sexual relationships were graphic and crossed the line into pornography. "It's something that I don't like reading myself....

<p>SAO GONCALO, Brazil — Carlos Leite can barely read a word, but books revolutionized his life.</p> <p>Two years ago, he was doing construction work for a man who was about to toss out six thick, red encyclopedias. Leite asked whether he could have them instead. Thus a dream was born.</p>

Oak Lawn Public Library Patrons Say "No" to Playboy Magazine 9/30/2005 8:04:00 AM By SafeLibraries.org Oak Lawn, IL - Safe Libraries announced the results of its survey confirm that patrons are opposed to the subscription to Playboy magazine by the Oak Lawn Public Library. The survey was conducted by an independent social research firm at the village's Fall on the Green festival during September 9-11, 2005. It was initiated in response to the approval of the subscription's retention solely by the members of the Oak Lawn Public Library board of trustees on June 21, 2005. The board members contended that...

I need freepers' help on the following: Last month I noticed the library displaying a book in the youth section about Social/Political activism. I flipped through it and it was only filled with liberal/left-wing topics (peace marches, animal rights, etc). Here's the book:It's Your World--If You Don't Like It, Change It : Activism for Teenagers (Mikki Halpin) I figured I would give them another month to see if they put up a conservative or reasonable neutral book. This month we have:Generation React (Danny Seo) Yet another left wing rag. I ran a few keyword and subject searches on the library...

President Clinton's charitable foundation went nearly $38.5 million into debt last year to cover the costs of building and endowing the former president's new library in Arkansas, according to a recent financial report. The borrowing took place despite $57.7 million in donations Mr. Clinton secured in 2004, an increase of 30% from the prior year, the new figures show.

Libraries and schools throughout the country are ready once again to observe Banned Books Week. It's that special time each year when some in the library profession point an accusing finger at parents, especially Christians or conservatives who might dare to question the value or appropriateness of certain materials available to youth. For 25 years since its inception, Banned Books Week has been warning America: "Beware of the ignorance and repression of censors! They will deprive us all of valuable knowledge and freedom." Setting aside any danger that the government might ban valuable materials, which is not happening in any...

In its typical scare tactic way, the ACLU is fighting the Patriot Act over a librarian's name to be released over activities the FBI has found worthy of investigating. The ACLU is trying to take the FBI's efforts to protect Americans from terrorists and turn it into a terror itself. They want you to feel like the FBI knows when you check out a book from the local library. If a Connecticut librarian's name is let out of the bag, terrorists might use that and other information to piece together how the FBI is trying to thwart their activity. That's...

Library decides to keep gay publications Associated Press UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio - A suburban Columbus library has decided to keep two free periodicals catering to gays despite pressure to remove the publications that some opponents decried as lewd and obscene. Library trustees unanimously voted to keep Outlook Weekly and Gay People's Chronicle on shelves, but decided to move the publications to an area of the library where they would not be easily accessible by children. Opponents shouted down library officials and read passages from the publications that they claimed were offensive during a public discussion at the library Tuesday. Some...

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- While on active duty, Tech. Sgt. Jim Callahan wished that there was a way his wife and children could see and hear his voice, even though he was deployed thousands of miles away. Now retired and working as a computer systems analyst at the base library, Mr. Callahan and the rest of the library staff are working to ensure that families of deployed Airmen here have a way to see and hear their deployed loved one by means of a video service, no matter how far apart they are separated. Titled “Goodnight Son,...

The University of Texas System today unveiled a proposal to host President George W. Bush's library and museum that suggests three possible sites, one in Austin and two in Dallas. The local site would be the UT-Brackenridge tract along Lake Austin Boulevard, just west of MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1). The other sites are a downtown property in Dallas and the campus of UT-Dallas. UT System officials also proposed a secondary site at UT-San Antonio to serve as a high-security conference center for world leaders and scholars. Donald Evans, a former commerce secretary, and Marvin Bush, the president's brother, sought the...

Nothing lasts forever. Just ask Ozymandias, or Nate Fisher. Only the wind inhabits the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde in Colorado, birds and vines the pyramids of the Maya. Sand and silence have swallowed the clamors of frankincense traders and camels in the old desert center of Ubar. Troy was buried for centuries before it was uncovered. Parts of the Great Library of Alexandria, center of learning in the ancient world, might be sleeping with the fishes, off Egypt's coast in the Mediterranean. "Cities rise and fall depending on what made them go in the first place," said Peirce Lewis,...

There’s a new organization in town — Parents Protecting the Minds of Children. Fayetteville parent Laurie Taylor, who has been waging an ongoing campaign to restrict student access to sexually explicit books in school libraries, announced the formation of the group at a public meeting she organized Thursday evening. About 60 to 70 people, mostly in support of Taylor, attended. This summer, Taylor released the titles of 54 books in Fayetteville school libraries that she wanted reviewed because of questionable content. She followed that up by filing a formal complaint Aug. 2 against the book "Push" by author Sapphire....

On a rainy Saturday, Miereya Gomez thumbed through a book while her two young sons carried comic books to their father in the children's section of this city's Central Public Library. "We come here mostly for the kids, for books and movies - educational and entertainment - in Spanish and English," Ms. Gomez said. As the Spanish-speaking population has grown in the United States, libraries have tried to keep pace by stocking up on books, magazines and movies in Spanish. In some places, however, critics say taxpayer money should not be spent on a population that can include illegal immigrants...

MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti, Irina Andreyeva) - Mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov said Friday at the opening of a library-foundation dedicated to the post-Bolshevik emigration, Russkoye Zarubezhye (Russia Abroad), that it could partly redeem "the guilt [the nation bears] to those who left our country." The library-foundation was established on the initiative of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1995 by the Moscow authorities with the Solzhenitsyn Public Foundation and the YMCA-Press, a Russian publishing house in Paris set up by Professor Nikita Struve. The library has more than 1,500 memoirs written by Russian emigres, the archives of Grand...

A controversial Patriot Act clause allowing the U.S. government to demand information about library patrons' borrowing habits is being challenged in federal court for the first time by a library. The lawsuit was filed against U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut by an unnamed library and the American Civil Liberties Union. The suit -- filed on August 9 and made public by the ACLU on Thursday -- calls the FBI's order to produce library records "unconstitutional on its face" and said a gag order preventing public...

An F-14 Tomcat fighter jet was set in place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Monday in ceremonies marking an important milestone in construction of the Air Force One Pavilion, which is expected to open in the fall. Addressing a crowd of hundreds of guests, Rear Adm. David J. Venlet said the Air Force One exhibit and others at the library and museum tell the story of President Reagan's legacy. "It does a great job of highlighting the military's impact in the defense of freedom," said Venlet, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for action in the Gulf...

"Banishment" from a Public Library? August 20, 2005 I recently received a letter from a local Public Library that was not unexpected. Over the years I have sought to educate the public with regard to the murder of the preborn. Public libraries are a great place to disperse information. In most Public Libraries you can find books with graphic nudity, perversion, introductions to the sodomite lifestyle and the like. The American Library Association will let most anything pass as "good literature" and they raise their voice against "censorship" if ever a "prudish" individual questions a selection in the collection of...

Contrary to an Associated Press report on Friday, plans to build a Clinton scandal museum in Little Rock, Arkansas have not been abandoned, according to one of the project's organizers. "The Counter Clinton Library is alive and well and about to launch a major new direct mail campaign this September to 400,000 prospective donors," former Congressman John Leboutillier tells NewsMax. The erroneous report was based on an interview with one of the group's partners, who announced he was "giving up" on the project. But Leboutillier says other project organizers out-voted him and still plan to proceed full speed ahead. Initial...