Today's American Minute

"Jews of the United States were free & prospered ... in a degree unexampled in Europe"-London Jewish Chronicle, 1862 - American Minute with Bill Federer

March 05, 2023 • "Jews of the United States were free & prospered ... in a degree unexampled in Europe"-London Jewish Chronicle • 1862

In 1862, the London Jewish Chronicle reported: "We now have a few words of the Jews of the United States in general ... The Constitution having established perfect religious liberty, Jews were free in America ... They ... in a comparatively short time, prospered and throve there in a degree unexampled in Europe."

Christians pioneered Anti-Slavery Movement: Quaker Anthony Benezet to JQA to Republican Senator Charles Sumner - American Minute with Bill Federer

March 01, 2023 • Some Anti-Slavery Champions: Quaker Anthony Benezet to Republican Senator Charles Sumner - American Minute with Bill Federer

The original 1856 Republican platform was: "Resolved ... it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism -- Polygamy and Slavery."

South of the Border: Mexico's Revolutions & How they pursued former Presidents & their supporters - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 28, 2023 • South of the Border: Mexico's Revolutions & How they pursued former Presidents & their supporters

Santa Anna had previously told the U.S. Minister to Mexico, Joel R. Poinsett, 1824: "I threw up my cap for liberty with great ardor ... but very soon found the folly of it. A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are ... A despotism is the proper government for them."

Will Civilization Survive? - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 27, 2023 • Will Civilization Survive?

Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Committee, spoke against joining the League of Nation, August 12, 1919: "The United States is the world's best hope ... Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance; this great land of ordered liberty. For if we stumble and fall, freedom and CIVILIZATION everywhere will go down in ruin."

Evolution's Racism defended by Clarence Darrow: The Monkey Trial & William Jennings Bryan - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 26, 2023

Dershowitz continued: "Darwin's theories were being used ... by racists ... to further some pretty horrible programs ... The eugenics movement, which advocated sterilization of 'unfit' and 'inferior' stock, was at its zenith, and it took its impetus from Darwin's theory of natural selection" ... The textbook Scopes wanted to teach was ... a bad science text, filled with misapplied Darwinism and racist rubbish."