Today's American Minute

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."

Hospitals & Healthcare began with Christian Charity - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 09, 2024 • Healthcare & Hospitals Pioneered Christian Charity - American Minute with Bill Federer

In this era, the wealthy had doctors visit them at their homes, but the poor were primarily cared for at Catholic hospitals. By 1789, there were 6,000 Sisters of Charity running 426 hospitals in France. They also ran hospitals in countries across Europe, such as Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Silesia.

The Rare Event of Solar Eclipse Paths Crossing - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 05, 2024

NASA Goddard programmer Ernest T. Wright mapped the paths of every total solar eclipse for the past 5,000 years, 11,898 of them, and found that for a total solar eclipse to cross the same place twice only happens once every 366 years.

He is Risen! "I know my Redeemer liveth" - American Minute with Bill Federer

March 31, 2024 • He is Risen! "I know my Redeemer liveth"

George Washington's tomb is engraved with the Scripture, John 11:25, where Jesus told Martha: "I am the Resurrection and the Life; sayeth the Lord. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die."