Today's American Minute

Captain James Lawrence "Don't Give Up the Ship!" & Captain Oliver Hazard Perry "We have met the enemy, and they are ours!" - American Minute with Bill Federer

May 03, 2024 • and they are ours!" - American Minute with Bill Federer • Captain James Lawrence "Don't Give Up the Ship!" & Captain Oliver Hazard Perry "We have met the enemy

The wind suddenly changed directions. Two British ships, HMS Detroit and HMS Queen Charlotte, attempted to maneuver and turn about, but in the process collided and became entangled, sitting helplessly in the water. Perry sailed broadside directly across the British line, firing every cannon continuously. After 15 minutes, the smoke cleared to reveal that all of Barclay's ships had been disabled. This was the first time in history that an entire British naval squadron had been disabled at one time.

National Days of Prayer - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 26, 2024 • "Awful calamity ... may be but a punishment ... for our presumptuous sins" • National Day of Prayer: "We have forgotten God..." Lincoln

Lincoln stated "Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

Christian Nationalism? - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 19, 2024 • Christian Nationalism?

Nationalism is the opposite of globalism; nationalism depends on the nation; and “Christian nationalism” used to be called “Christian patriotism,” and past Presidents, Democrat and Republican, encouraged it.

Patriots' Day: Lexington & Concord, and the Right to Keep & Bear Arms "To Disarm the People is the Best Way to Enslave Them"-George Mason - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 17, 2024 • and the Right to Keep & Bear Arms "To Disarm the People is the Best Way to Enslave Them"-George Mason • Lexington & Concord

Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul to Algiers and France, wrote in Advice to the Privileged Orders in the Several States of Europe, Resulting from the Necessity and Propriety of a General Revolution in the Principle of Government (1792, 1956, p. 46): "The foundation of everything is ... that the people will form an equal representative government ... that the people will be universally armed ... A people that legislate for themselves ought to be in the habit of protecting themselves."

Income Tax: Civil War Emergency, Supreme Court declared unconstitutional "Class legislation...leads inevitably to oppression"; Woodrow Wilson made permanent, FDR expanded - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 10, 2024 • & FDR expanded • Income Tax: Civil War Emergency • Supreme Court declared unconstitutional "Class legislation...leads inevitably to oppression and abuses"; Woodrow Wilson made permanent

Kennedy stated January 17, 1963: "Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government."