Today's American Minute

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.

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...