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Editorial: What Biden can do about the border crisis
March 16, 2021
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Migrant children and teenagers waiting to be processed near Midland, Texas, this week.Eli Hartman/Associated Press
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took a break from reading Dr. Seuss to visit the U.S.-Mexico border Monday, but he was still speaking in the simplistic terms of children’s literature. During an appearance with other lawmakers in El Paso, McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, attempted to brand the latest surge of migrants the “Biden border crisis.”
McCarthy was right in one respect: The border is President Biden’s problem now. His administration is struggling to handle the influx of migrants arriving there, particularly the children among them, as competently and humanely as it should. But the idea that Biden created or even exacerbated the problem is as fictitious as “Green Eggs and Ham.”

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Senator Ted Cruz raised more than $125,000 selling signed copies of "Green Eggs and Ham."
Cruz said he was autographing the books to fight back against the "cancel culture mob."
"Lefties are losing their minds," he said on Twitter. 
A donation site run by Ted Cruz was raising money by selling copies of "Green Eggs and Ham," which were signed by the senator. 
"Lefties are losing their minds that I'm signing & sending copies of Green Eggs and Ham to anyone who donates $60 or more," the Texas senator said on Twitter late Friday. "We've raised $125k in just 24 hours!"

Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–91) wrote and illustrated more than sixty books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. By the time of his death, his books had sold more than six hundred million copies and had been translated into more than twenty languages.
Geisel was a graduate of Dartmouth with graduate studies at Oxford. His work received two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. For decades, Read Across America Day has celebrated his birthday while encouraging children to read. Like millions of others, I read Dr. Seuss’ books as a child and then read them to our children. 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tough as it was for Democrats, passing President Joe Biden’s...

Which, again: All of this was put in place back in October of 2020, before
Green Eggs And Ham had even become a fundamental conservative text. But the all-seeing, all-glowering eye of the COM has no concern for your linear understanding of time, mortals. The disclaimers were part of a wave of streaming services coming to terms with the racially insensitive legacies of older materials, a modern iteration of the “What do we do with
Gone With The Wind?” issue that’s dogged film critique for decades. (Or the “What to do with sitcom blackface?” issue that’s dogged network TV comedies since, uh, way back in the late-2000s.) None of it’s new, and most of it feels pretty reasonable, in so far as parents might, in fact, want to talk to their kids before showing them something like the racist stereotypes on display in

NEW YORK (AP) — Oh, the books that sold last week by Dr. Seuss.

As Americans wait on vaccinations and COVID-19 relief, the top House Republican mocked liberals with a reading of "Green Eggs and Ham."

It is ironic that conservatives have come to Dr. Seuss’ rescue. It is unlikely that he would have wanted to sit down and have a beer with any of the right-wingers who are out there defending the bigotry depicted in some of his children’s books. Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss as we know him, was a staunch liberal. He once worked as a political cartoonist for a left-leaning New York ...

Colin McEnroe: Green eggs and ham all over face of those who misread Dr. Seuss decision
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Books by Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, including “On Beyond Zebra!” and “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street,” will no longer be printed due to accusations of racist and insensitive imagery. The other titles are “If I Ran the Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”Scott Olson / Getty Images
Everybody calm down.
Dr. Seuss is not being canceled, and his books are not being banned. If I had a little more energy, I’d put that in anapestic tetrameter.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed into law on Friday a measure...

Kevin McCarthy ‘Green Eggs And Ham’ Reading Slammed, ‘That's Not Creepy’
03/06/21 AT 10:05 AM
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy may have been aiming to make it clear he was against the decision by the estate of Dr. Seuss to no longer publish six of his books that contained racist imagery, but his way of handling it was quickly slammed on social media after he posted a video of himself reading “Green Eggs And Ham.”
McCarthy (R-California), took to Twitter with his support of the beloved children’s author, after six titles were pulled by his estate because the images in them were deemed as racist, with the estate claiming the portrayals of people in them as “hurtful and wrong.” In his Tweet, which included a video of him reading the famous story, McCarthy showed his support for the books and encouraged his supporters to re-tweet his post if they agreed.

BOSTON (AP) — Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on...

The banned Dr. Seuss books have rocketed up the Amazon best seller charts in Australia in the wake of six of his books being “cancelled”.

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The right has attached itself to the latest casualty of the cancel culture wars: Late children’s book author Dr. Seuss.
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On Tuesday, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the organization which owns the rights to the books and characters of Theodor Seuss Geisel—better known as Dr. Seuss—announced that it would no longer distribute or license a handful of Seuss books that include outdated racist caricatures and contradict their “mission” of “hope, inspiration, inclusion, and friendship.”
“[Dr. Seuss Enterprises], working with a panel of experts, including educators, reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of the following titles:

Oneida County Officer Reads to Vernon Kindergarteners
What was your favorite book as a child? Maybe you remember "Goodnight Moon" or the "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" series, or maybe you love the numerous classics by Dr. Seuss.
Kids at a Central New York elementary school recently got to celebrate some of their favorite books for National Read Across America Day, and even got a special virtual visit from a local officer.
Officer Morgan from the Oneida County Sheriff's Office Community Affairs Unit virtually visited Mrs. Sniezek's kindergarten class at W.A. Wettel Elementary School in Vernon on Tuesday. He took some time to talk with the kids and read a few books, including "Green Eggs and Ham," for the special day.

Insanity spasms often are brief. The damage these purges cause can last for generations. Think French Revolution. France is still looking for answers.

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Dr. Seuss Books Rocket Up Amazon Best-Selling Books Chart
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As of Tuesday afternoon, 13 of the top 20 best-selling books listed on Amazon in the U.S. were by Dr. Seuss.
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Among those were four of the books that Dr. Seuss Enterprises said it will stop publishing and licensing: “If I Ran the Zoo” (No. 6), “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” (No. 12), “On Beyond Zebra!” (No. 19) and “Scrambled Eggs Super!” (No. 14). The surge in sales reflected a desire by fans to get copies of the now-blacklisted books before they’re unavailable.

Laredo ISD participating in LIFE Fair, celebrating Read Across America Week
March 2, 2021
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Over 60 students from Cigarroa, Martin, and Nixon High Schools along with students from Cigarroa, Lamar, and Memorial Middle Schools entered art pieces for the 58th Annual Laredo International Fair & Exposition, “Show-and-Go Expo/
For the first week of March, LISD has updated its community calendar and laid out the week. This includes a number of vaccine clinics, the LIFE fair, board meetings and more.
On Tuesday, LISD vaccine clinics will be hosted throughout multiple elementary and middle schools for those that have registered with the city. The clinics will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and registrants are expected to show up on time for their appointments at their registered site.

Six Dr. Seuss Books Cease Publication for 'Hurtful and Wrong' Portrayals
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Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced this morning that they will stop publishing six of Dr. Seuss’ picture books amid accusations of racist imagery.
The company that seeks to preserve and protect the author’s works released a statement explaining that these six books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong. The titles being discontinued include “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “If I Ran the Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”

Dr. Seuss Enterprises says it will discontinue six of the late American author's works because they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong."

These are the greatest children's books of all time, right?

Dr. Seuss Books Rocket Up Amazon Best-Selling Books Chart
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As of Tuesday afternoon, 13 of the top 20 best-selling books listed on Amazon in the U.S. were by Dr. Seuss.
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Among those were four of the books that Dr. Seuss Enterprises said it will stop publishing and licensing: “If I Ran the Zoo” (No. 6), “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” (No. 12), “On Beyond Zebra!” (No. 19) and “Scrambled Eggs Super!” (No. 14). The surge in sales reflected a desire by fans to get copies of the now-blacklisted books before they’re unavailable.