Today's American Minute

South of the Border: Mexican Revolutions - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 31, 2025 • South of the Border: Mexico's Revolutions & How they pursued former Presidents & their supporters

Santa Anna had previously told the U.S. Minister to Mexico, Joel R. Poinsett, 1824: "A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are ... A despotism is the proper government for them."

Virginia's George Mason - Purpose of Bill of Rights is to Limit Government! - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 30, 2025 • Virginia's George Mason - Purpose of Bill of Rights is to Limit Government!

George Mason originally suggested the wording of the First Amendment be: "All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others."

Early Black Preachers: John Marrant, George Liele, Andrew Bryan, David George, Richard Allen, & Harry Hosier - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 27, 2025 • & Harry Hosier - American Minute with Bill Federer • Andrew Bryan • David George • George Liele • Notable Black Preachers: John Marrant • Richard Allen

Hosier's sermon "The Barren Fig Tree," preached in 1781, was the first sermon by a black preacher that was copied down and printed. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, exclaimed that Harry Hosier preached the greatest sermon he had ever heard.

General Douglas MacArthur "There is no substitute for victory!" - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 24, 2025 • "Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within ... infiltrated into positions of public trust" -General MacArthur; "Under no circumstances must Taiwan fall under Communist control"

"Communism ... has infiltrated into positions of public trust and responsibility -- into journalism, the press, the radio and the school. It seeks through covert manipulation of the civil power and the media of public information and education to pervert the truth, impair respect for moral values, suppress human freedom and representative government, and in the end destroy our faith in our religious teachings."

Inauguration History

January 19, 2025

LISTEN Inauguration History ... click here for video Originally, Presidential inaugurations were held on March 4th, unless that day fell on a Sunday, in which case, out of respect for the Lord's Day, it was moved to Monday, March 5th. This was the case with James Monroe in 1821, Zachary Taylor in 1849, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 and Woodrow Wilson in 1917. Unfortunately, there was a problem. The period between the elections in November, after harvests were taken in and before winter storms, and the spring, when politicians could take the long trip to the...