Today's American Minute

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 15, 2025 • & 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."

Tariff History - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 13, 2025

In fact, the second bill signed by President George Washington was the Tariff Act of 1789, which imposed a 5 percent tariff on all imports.

Pastors in Politics during Revolution, and Constitution Signer Hugh Williamson - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 02, 2025 • Pastors in Politics during American Revolution: Hugh Williamson & other preachers

Baptist Pastor Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated:

“The church must be reminded that it is ... the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state ...

If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”

How Congress Can Limit Activist Judges - American Minute with Bill Federer

March 21, 2025

Phyllis Schlafly described in the book Judicial Tyranny: "Twentieth-century judges developed the notion that when they put on black robes, they became wiser than the rest of us and can reign supreme over the other branches of government …"

Who are the Houthis? - American Minute with Bill Federer

March 17, 2025

Fifteen percent of the world’s maritime traffic travels this route, but as the Yemen Houthis attack oil tankers, the only alternative route is to sail around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope adding an extra 2,000 miles to the trip. This consumes much more fuel and drastically increases the costs of products shipped.