Gary Bauer
Gary Bauer: Ft. Hood Suspect Was ‘Sleeper’ Agent
Add another conservative activist to the ranks of people blaming the Ft. Hood massacre on Islam. Here’s Gary Bauer, in his end-of-day email sent to supporters, arguing that while some Muslims are all well and good, “there are also ’sleeper cells’ or ’sleeper individuals’ who are jihadist ticking time bombs inside our own ranks.”
Whole letter [...]
NY-23: Conservatives Struggle to Find an Anti-Pelosi Angle
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — On a conference call with some of the conservative leaders who’d backed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s upstart campaign in NY-23, I asked for a response to an uncomfortable argument about the results. Hoffman and the outside groups who backed him tried very hard to link Democrat Bill Owens to Speaker [...]
Gary Bauer: Obama’s Speech to Children Is an ‘Unprecedented’ Abuse of Power
Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in his daily email that the president’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren is an example of the White House “using its power in unprecedented ways.” Parents, writes Bauer, should “sit in” on their [...]
Gary Bauer: Palin Won a Battle in the Culture Wars
Conservative activist Gary Bauer pens an interesting column for Human Events that casts Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) feud with David Letterman (remember that? It was before the Iranian election) as a victory for conservatives in the culture wars.
Letterman has enjoyed a temporary ratings boost, but there’s deeper meaning in the incident. The cultural left lampoons [...]
Anti-Abortion Groups Dodge Fallout From Tiller Murder
Anti-abortion activists recall Clinton-era consequences to rise in abortion clinic violence.
Would Jesus Authorize Torture?
Yes, according to one famous conservative Christian.
The Associated Press asks prominent evangelicals and leaders of the religious right if Jesus would condone torture. Some evangelicals say every life is sacred and torture is not peaceful and therefore incongruent with Christian teachings. But religious right leader Gary Bauer says that while Jesus wouldn’t torture, he would [...]
Specter Switch Gives Conservatives Second Thoughts About ‘RINO’ Hunting
But, Gary Bauer argues, “Republicans in name only can be important in the Senate.”
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