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General Omar Bradley -“America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America” – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on May 12, 2026 at 1:03 pmGeneral Omar Bradley stated in an Armistice Day speech, November 10, 1948: “To ignore the danger of aggression is simply to invite it … We shall doom our children to a struggle that may take their lives … Unless free peoples stand boldly and united against the forces of aggression, they may fall wretchedly, one by one, into […]
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National Day of Prayer Presidential Proclamations – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on May 6, 2026 at 2:51 amLincoln stated “Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” More
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Patriots’ Day Lexington & Concord, the “shot heard around the world, and the Right to Keep & Bear Arms – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on April 18, 2026 at 12:21 pmJoel Barlow, U.S. Consul to Algiers and France, wrote in Advice to the Privileged Orders in the Several States of Europe, Resulting from the Necessity and Propriety of a General Revolution in the Principle of Government (1792, 1956, p. 46): “The foundation of everything is … that the people will form an equal representative […]
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Barbary Pirates, Slave Markets, and Ransomers – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on April 11, 2026 at 4:43 amKidnapped Englishman Francis Knight wrote: “I arrived in Algiers, that city fatal to all Christians and the butchery of mankind.” More
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He is Risen! “I know my Redeemer liveth” – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on April 5, 2026 at 12:26 pmGeorge Washington’s tomb is engraved with John 11:25, where Jesus told Martha: “I am the Resurrection and the Life; sayeth the Lord. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.” More
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Lamb of God sacrificed on Passover; In tomb on Feast of Unleavened Bread; Resurrected on Feast of First Fruits – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on April 4, 2026 at 12:23 amOn the Jewish Feast of Passover, the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, around 30-33 AD, Jesus was crucified as the “Lamb of God.” The Apostle Paul wrote: “For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” (I Corinthians 5:7) The lamb is considered the most innocent of animals. The Gospel of John recorded when John the […]
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One Third of the Bible Is Prophecies – Jesus fulfilled 100s of them! – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on April 3, 2026 at 1:39 pmProfessor Peter W. Stoner concluded: “We find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 17th power. That is one with 17 zeros behind it.” More
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Did you know the date of Easter changed our calendar? – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on April 2, 2026 at 2:30 amHow the Quarto-decimanian Controversy separated the Gentile Church from its Jewish roots.More
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What happened Palm Sunday 937 AD that led Europe to respond with the Crusades – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on March 26, 2026 at 3:38 amOn Palm Sunday in 937 A.D., during the reign of Caliph al-Radi of the Abbasid Caliphate, ordered Muslim rioters to plunder the Church of Calvary and the Church of the Resurrection.More
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Sharia Law vs. U.S. Law: “Law of the Middle East is the antithesis of Western law” – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on March 23, 2026 at 3:17 am“The law of the Middle East is the antithesis of Western law” -Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, 1955, Law in the Middle EastMore
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Saint Patrick and the times he lived — He “…found Ireland all heathen and left it all Christian!” – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on March 12, 2026 at 9:58 pm
In his 30 years of ministry, Saint Patrick is credited with baptizing 120,000 people and founding 300 churches. He used the three-leaf clover to teach the Trinity.More
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“Old Ironsides” USS Constitution -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., & his dissenting son – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on March 11, 2026 at 3:55 pmThe USS Constitution was about to be decommissioned and broken into scrap when it was saved by a poem titled “Old Ironsides,” written by poet, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. More
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IN GOD WE TRUST National Motto: Francis Scott Key’s anthem & his fight to free slaves – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on March 10, 2026 at 3:20 amOn March 7, 2011, the Supreme Court denied a challenge by an atheist who was intolerant of the National Motto, by letting the decision of the Federal Appeals Court stand. On November 1, 2011, the House of Representatives passed an additional resolution in a 396-9 vote reaffirming “IN GOD WE TRUST” as the official motto of the […]
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“Remember the Alamo-Remember Goliad”: History of New Spain & Texas Independence – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on March 7, 2026 at 4:00 am
The Texas Declaration ended: “We, therefore, the delegates, with plenary powers, of the people of Texas … DECLARE, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas, do now constitute a FREE, SOVEREIGN, and INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC … Conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, […]
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Captain John Smith fought Islamic warriors before founding Virginia – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on March 6, 2026 at 9:42 amSix 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.More
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History of Iran – Part 3 – Jimmy Carter’s Fault – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on March 2, 2026 at 4:50 pmPost World War I, Shah Reza’s secular government, Britain’s coup to oust him, Mossadegh confiscating British oil, and the pro-American Shah Reza Pahlavi ousted by Khomeini’s Islamist revolution.More
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Lincoln v. Darwin: born same day but lives had opposite effects – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on February 27, 2026 at 1:22 pmReagan continued: “Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide […]
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Battles of King’s Mountain, Cowpens, Guilford Court House, Yorktown, and end of Revolutionary War – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on February 24, 2026 at 5:48 amTheodore Roosevelt wrote of the Battle of Kings Mountain: “This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution.” More
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Presidents’ Day – George Washington’s Birthday – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on February 16, 2026 at 2:02 pmPresidents’ Day is actually Washington’s birthday, recognized by an Act of Congress for government offices in Washington, D.C., in 1879, and for all federal offices in 1885. More
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Saint Valentine’s Day Origins – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on February 14, 2026 at 8:55 amWhen Emperor Claudius demanded that Christians deny their consciences and worship pagan idols, Saint Valentine refused. More
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History of Iran Part 2 – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on January 31, 2026 at 5:34 pmSafavid Dynasty, Persia’s switch from Sunni to Shi’a, Shah Abbas the Great, trade with Britain’s East India Company, and oilMore
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Iran History – Part 1 – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on January 30, 2026 at 4:44 pmIn part one of this history of Iran, we will learn about ancient Persia, King Cyrus, the Sasanian Empire, the Abbasid Islamic Golden Age, the Mongol Invasion and Tamerlane.More
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Scandals in U.S. History – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on January 27, 2026 at 4:27 amLISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF … Below is a list of some political scandals. 1866 GUNS TO MEXICAN GANGS After the Civil War, the United States secretly supplied “decommissioned” guns to Mexican gangs to cause domestic violence and insurrection in order to oust French-backed Maximillian the First. This was in […]
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Politics of Creating Crisis – Do The Ends Justify Means? – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on January 27, 2026 at 4:00 amThe conviction that one’s political agenda is so good that it justifies bending the laws to implement it has produced innumerable scandals throughout history. More
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Madison, Punishing Disturbers of Religious Worship, and Protecting Freedom of Conscience – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on January 21, 2026 at 2:13 am
Madison introduced a Bill in the Virginia Legislature, October 31, 1785, for Punishing Disturbers of Religious Worship, which passed in 1789: “If any person shall of purpose, maliciously, or contemptuously, disquiet or disturb any congregation assembled in any church … he may be put under restraint … and upon conviction … […]
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French Revolution’s “liberté, égalité, fraternité” became Reign of Terror – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on January 19, 2026 at 2:39 am
Author Don Feder wrote in the article “Observations and Fulminations-The French Revolution and Jacobins in Our Streets (July 13, 2018): “The Reign of Terror wasn’t an episode of the French Revolution, it was the Revolution. In ‘Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution,’ historian Simon Schama writes, ‘The terror … was […]
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Sanctity of Life “The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion”-Mother Teresa – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on January 18, 2026 at 1:58 am
President Reagan addressed the March for Life, January 22, 1985: “I’m convinced, as I know you are, that our response to the 12th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton must be to rededicate ourselves to ending the terrible national tragedy of abortion.” More
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Religious Freedom Day: Jefferson Opposed Censorship; How Courts Twisted First Amendment – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on January 15, 2026 at 3:22 amVirginia Statute of Religious Freedom: “Almighty God hath created the mind free, and … all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments … tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it […]
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., advocated for non-violence – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on January 14, 2026 at 4:23 amRev. Martin Luther King, Jr., reflected on concept in Romans 13 in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 1963: “One may well ask: ‘How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?’ The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust … How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A […]
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Islamic Wars, Renaissance, Reformation and Influence of Calvin and Knox on American Revolution – American Minute with Bill Federer
by Bill Federer on January 13, 2026 at 2:33 amHessian Jager Corps Captain Johann Heinrichs wrote to the Counsellor of the Court, January 18, 1778: “Call this war, dearest friend, by whatsoever name you may, only call it not an American Revolution, it is nothing more nor less than an Irish-Scotch Presbyterian Rebellion.”More
