Today's American Minute

Joint Stock Companies financed English Exploration & the Founding of the Colony of Virginia - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 14, 2023 • and Enland's First Permanent Colony in America - American Minute with Bill Federer • Joint Stock Companies funded Europe's Age of Exploration

After the Reformation, Protestant countries formed the first "joint–stock" companies. A joint–stock company was much like modern-day crowd–sourcing or crowd–funding. Any individual could invest in a ship sailing to the Far East in search of spices, and when the ship returned, investors received a profit.

Veterans Day "In test & trial, we instinctively turn to God for courage"-Eisenhower - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 11, 2023 • Veterans Day "In time of test and trial • we instinctively turn to God for new courage and peace of mind"-Eisenhower - American Minute with Bill Federer

General Douglas MacArthur told West Point cadets, May 1962: "The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image ..."

Captain John Smith fought Turks - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 07, 2023

Six years before he came to America, Captain John Smith joined the Austrian forces and fought in the “Long War” against the Muslim Ottoman Turks invading Hungary.

Luther & Protestant Reformation's Political Repercussions on America's Founding - American Minute with Bill Federer

October 31, 2023 • Luther & the Protestant Reformation's Political Repercussions on America's Founding

British Statesman Edmund Burke addressed Parliament, 1775: "All Protestantism ... is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our Northern Colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion."

Sharia Law vs. U.S. Law: "Law of the Middle East is the antithesis of Western law" - American Minute with Bill Federer

October 27, 2023 • U.S. Law vs. Sharia Law - "The law of the Middle East is the antithesis of Western law" -Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson

"The law of the Middle East is the antithesis of Western law" -Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, 1955, Law in the Middle East