Today's American Minute

Korean War "Freedom is Not Free": Democracy & Individual Capitalism versus Socialism & Global Capitalism - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 23, 2023 • Korean War "Freedom is Not Free": Socialism & Global Capitalists vs. Democracy & Individual Capitalism

With temperatures sometimes forty degrees below zero in the Korean mountains, and Washington politicians limiting the use of air power against the Communists, there were nearly 140,000 American casualties:

President Franklin Pierce, Antebellum Politics, and the Romanticism era Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 22, 2023 • and the Romanticism era Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne • Antebellum Politics • President Franklin Pierce

On March 4, 1853, as the 14th U.S. President, Franklin Pierce stated in his Inaugural Address: "It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling Providence."

Explorers Circumnavigate Globe--From Magellan & Drake to Space Shuttle - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 22, 2023 • Explorers Circumnavigate Globe--From Magellan & Drake to Space Shuttle

Magellan was hit by a bamboo spear, surrounded and then killed. Magellan's crew continued to sail the ship, Victoria, and finally made it back to Spain in September of 1522.

Faith of Famous Astronomers, and a church organist discovering a planet - Sir William Herschel - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 21, 2023 • and a church organist discovering a planet - Sir William Herschel • Faith of Famous Astronomers

Sir Isaac Newton constructed one of the first practical reflecting telescopes. He wrote in Principia, 1687: "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being ... All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'"

"America, America, God Shed His Grace On Thee ... from sea to shining sea" - All 50 States acknowledged God - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 21, 2023 • "America • God Shed His Grace On Thee ... from sea to shining sea" - All 50 States acknowledged God

President Ronald Reagan in meeting South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, November 14, 1983: "At the worship service Sunday morning with our soldiers ... less than a mile from one of the most tyrannical regimes on Earth ... a choir of little girls ... all orphans ... closing the service, singing "America, the Beautiful" in our language, was a spiritual experience."