Today's American Minute

Democrats vote to disarm Blacks, "No freedman, Negro, or mulatto shall carry or keep firearms or ammunition"-Mississippi Black Code 1865 - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 28, 2024 • "No freedman • 1865 • Democrats vote to disarm Blacks • Negro • or mulatto shall carry or keep firearms or ammunition"-Mississippi Black Code

Robert Cottrol, professor of law at George Washington University, stated: “Some of the earliest gun control legislation was in fact being aimed directly at black people ... After the Civil War the southern states ... Black Codes prohibited the newly freed black population from having weapons."

Theodore Roosevelt: Fighting New York Crime & Monopolies, defending Blacks & Jews, protesting Massacre of Armenians - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 23, 2024 • defending Blacks & Jews • Fighting Monopolies • freeing Cuba • Kurds & Armenians • Theodore Roosevelt: Police in New York • WWI & protesting Massacre of Syrians

Like the Biden Administration abandoned Afghanistan, Woodrow Wilson's Administration abandoned Armenians. Roosevelt wrote "Armenians, have been subjected to wrongs far greater than any that have been committed since the close of the Napoleonic Wars ... the wars of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane in Asia. Yet this government has not raised its hand to do anything to help the people who were wronged ... This course of national infamy ... began when the last Administration surrendered to the peace at-any-price people."

"Reverence for Life" - Albert Schweitzer, Medical Missionary to Gabon, West Africa - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 12, 2024 • Albert Schweitzer "Reverence for Life" - Medical Missionary to Africa - American Minute with Bill Federer

Dr. Albert Schweitzer wrote: "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

C.S. Lewis: "the most dejected & reluctant convert ... kicking, struggling ... darting ... for a chance to escape" - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 10, 2024 • C.S. Lewis - "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one--without signposts" - American Minute with Bill Federer

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... His death went unnoticed, as he died the same day John F. Kennedy was shot. His books are some of the most widely read in English literature, with over 200 million sold worldwide. Nearly 50 years after his death, his books continue to sell a million copies a year. His name was Clive Staples Lewis, born November 29, 1898. At age 19, he fought in the trenches in World War One. After the War, C.S. Lewis taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1925-54; and was professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge...

Colonial Pastors Who Influenced American Government - John Wise, Thomas Hooker, John Witherspoon: "A Republic must either preserve its Virtue or lose its Liberty" - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 04, 2024 • Colonial Clergymen John Wise • Thomas Hooker & John Witherspoon • who signed Declaration of Independence: "A Republic must either preserve its Virtue or lose its Liberty"

Calvin Coolidge stated: "In its main feature the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document ... Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch ... They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions ... Unless the faith of the American in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause ... If anyone wishes to deny their truth ... the only direction in which he can proceed ... is ... backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people ..