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A Runaway Slave, Anti-Slavery Party founded, and the first Republican Party Platform - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 11, 2024 • and the first Republican Primaries • How a Runaway Slave led to the formation of an Anti-Slavery Party

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... By the time of the Civil War, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million. The two major political parties in America were the Democrats and the Whigs. Democrats were pro-choice regarding slavery, wanting to protect the slave owner’s choice as to whether or not to own a slave, similar to sharia Islamic countries. The Whigs were the opposition party, taking their name from the British political party of the same name that opposed the king. Though many Whigs were against slavery, they...

Beware of leaders professing devotion to "democracy": The Politics of Pericles - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 05, 2024

Historians Plutarch and Beloch purport that Pericles deliberately let Athens be pulled into a needless Peloponnesian War with Sparta in order to divert criticism away from himself.

JEFFERSON & ADAMS —50 years after the Declaration of Independence - they died the SAME DAY, July 4, 1826 - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 04, 2024 • 1826 • JEFFERSON & ADAMS — 50 years after the Declaration of Independence - they died the SAME DAY • July 4

John Quincy Adams wrote in an Executive Order, July 11, 1826: "A coincidence ... so wonderful gives confidence ... that the patriotic efforts of these ... men were Heaven directed, and furnishes a new ... hope that the prosperity of these States is under the special protection of a kind Providence."

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."