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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)

Thursday, September 25, 2014

AG Holder Leaving | ISIS Subway Plot | Attack On Christianity | Jeb Bush's Tin Ear | Immigration | Border Security

Gary Bauer
by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Holder Hangs It Up - Attorney General Eric Holder submitted his letter of resignation to the White House today. While he made history by being the first black attorney general, he was also a lightening rod for controversy.

NPR reports that by stonewalling the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious, Holder became the first attorney general in history to be held in contempt of Congress. By the way, a judge ruled this week that Holder must disclose the information that House Republicans have been demanding.

Holder sued states for enacting popular voter ID laws, but dropped the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers.

He refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, and encouraged state attorneys general to ignore laws they didn't like.

He harassed Arizona's Sheriff Joe but came up empty handed.

He insulted Americans by saying we were a "nation of cowards" when it came to race.

He threatened the rights of reporters and even nuns, while turning a blind eye to abuses at the IRS.

Not surprisingly, a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that only 15% of Americans had a positive view of Eric Holder. America deserves betters.

ISIS Subway Plot Stopped? - Speaking to reporters at the United Nations this morning, Iraq's new prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, announced that an ISIS cell plotting to bomb subway systems in America and Paris had been broken up. Here are his remarks:


"Today, while I'm here I'm receiving accurate reports from Baghdad that there were arrests of a few elements and there were networks from inside Iraq to have attacks -- on metros of Paris and [the] U.S. They are not Iraqis. Some of them are French, some of them are Americans. But they are in Iraq."This chilling news only underscores the reality we are facing: Jihadists, motivated by their faith, are plotting to bring more death and destruction to our shores.

The Left's Attack On Christianity Continues - Radical Islam isn't the only threat to Judeo-Christian civilization. Radical secularism is also at war with our cherished values. The latest example comes from a charter school system in Temecula, California.

According to the Pacific Justice Institute, a parent discovered that a public charter school library was "purging" books. One of those books was "The Hiding Place," Corrie ten Boom's autobiography.

Ten Boom was a Dutch Christian whose family hid many Jews from the Nazis. Corrie and her sister, Betsie, were sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Betsie died there on December 16, 1944. Corrie was released days later.

Why would a book like that be banned from the school library? The parent was reportedly told by a library attendant that "the library has been instructed to remove all books with a Christian message, authored by Christians, or published by a Christian publishing company."

That would mean that classics such as C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia" and J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" would also be banned.

Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, fired off a cease-and-desist letter to the district's superintendent. The response was unbelievable.

"We do not purchase sectarian educational materials and do not allow sectarian materials on our state-authorized lending shelves," wrote Superintendent Kathleen Hermsmeyer.

"Are they going to ban the sermons or speeches of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? What about the Declaration of Independence that invokes the laws of nature and nature's God?" Dacus asked.

I'm willing to bet that this same school system has "Heather Has Two Mommies" and "King & King" on its shelves. But books about Christians protecting Jews are too controversial.

My friends, the culture war for the heart and soul of America is real. This is your country too. Fight for it!

Share this message with your pastor. Urge them to speak up. Make sure all your like-minded friends, family members and co-workers are registered to vote.

We are 40 days away from an election that could have tremendous consequences for our country and our values. Make your voice heard. Make your vote count!

Jeb's Tin Ear - Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush continues to send signals that he is likely to run for the White House in 2016. But my eyebrows were raised when I read this morning that he went to North Carolina to campaign for Thom Tillis, the state's GOP Senate candidate, who is having trouble breaking through.

No doubt the Tillis campaign was eagerly awaiting Bush's visit, hoping for a burst of momentum. And what does Jeb do? He brings up Common Core and comprehensive immigration reform -- two issues unpopular with the GOP base. As a result, Tillis was forced to distance himself from his guest.

The argument constantly made for Bush is "He can win." That's what they said about McCain and Romney, too. Could Bush attract more Hispanic votes? Maybe. Perhaps that could put a couple of states in play. But if he runs on a platform of some kind of a quasi-amnesty, he will demoralize the base and hand states to Hillary Clinton.

Instead of playing ethnic politics, the Republican Party should be doing a lot more to court a natural constituency -- working class, blue collar voters who don't buy the Democrats social radicalism and certainly do not want to compete with cheap immigrant labor.

Speaking Of Immigration - The Weekly Standard reports that the Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector has put out a bid for 40,000 emergency Mylar blankets. Those are the shiny, tin-foil-looking blankets that are very good at trapping heat.

It seems the Border Patrol is in a bit of a hurry. The bid is only open for three days and the winner must produce the first 20,000 blankets in 30 days. What's the rush? More unaccompanied minors from Central America are headed for the border. Evidently, 40,000 of them.

Don't believe the White House spin that the crisis on the border is over because the flow of children is down. Obama isn't doing anything meaningful to secure the border. The drop in border crossings is temporary and it's largely due to the weather.

It is too risky to cross the desert in the hot summer months. As soon as the weather turns cooler, the rush is on. Border Patrol officials know this, and that is why the emergency request for blankets was issued.

But do not lose sight of the big picture -- and it's not about the kids. The real crisis is the fact that our border is so insecure that tens of thousands of people can cross it. We're lucky that the vast majority are just kids. But it is utterly foolish -- especially in this current global environment -- to trust our national security to mere luck!

Border security IS national security.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families

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