Guest essay by Bill Federer Was Islam responsible for Columbus seeking a sea route to India & China? “There are but 155 years left at which time…the world will come to an end,” wrote Christopher Columbus in his book Libro de Las Profecias, composed in 1502 between his 3rd and 4th voyages.” Columbus continued: “The […]
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Happy with Government Care? Look at the American Indian
Guest essay by Bill Federer The Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, written by Jared Diamond (1997), documented that throughout human history hunter-gathering peoples were always subdued by civilizations which had mastered domestication of grains and animals—from Mesopotamia to Indonesia, to Africa, to the Pacific Islands, to the […]
You Americans are so Gullible
Guest essay by William Federer “You Americans are so gullible…You won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses”—Khrushschev, 1959 In an attempt to warn the nation, the Democrat Congressman from Florida, Albert S. Herlong, Jr., read into the U.S. Congressional Record, January 10, 1963, the list of Communist goals for America (Vol […]
Sacrificing their Prosperity for their Posterity
Guest essay by Bill Federer The Declaration of Independence acknowledged God: “Laws of Nature and of NATURE’S GOD … “All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights … Appealing to the SUPREME JUDGE OF THE WORLD for the rectitude of our intentions …” The Declaration ended with: […]
Flag Day 2017
Guest essay by Bill Federer Thirteen Stars and Thirteen Stripes. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress selected the Flag of the United States. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson designated JUNE 14 as “National Flag Day.” “I…call your attention to the approach of the anniversary of the day upon which the Flag of the […]
Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily Conquered
Guest essay by Bill Federer “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph” —”The American Crisis,” December, 1776. “The American Crisis” was written anonymously by Thomas Paine, an aide-de-camp to American General Nathanael Greene. It was immediately published in […]
September 11—Muslim attacks at Malta, Vienna, Zenta, and WTC
Guest essay by Bill Federer In 1565, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent dominated the Mediterranean, with intentions of not only invading Sicily, Sardinia, Majorca, and southern Spain, but Rome itself. The only thing standing in his way was the small rocky Island of Malta just south of Sicily, defended by the Knights of Malta. In March […]
Warnings of “a More Formal & Permanent Despotism” – G. Washington
Guest Essay by Bill Federer “….Disorders…incline…men to seek security…in the absolute power of an Individual…on the ruins of Public Liberty” Thomas Jefferson wrote to Mr. Hammond in 1821: “The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in…the federal judiciary; “an irresponsible body…working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and […]
God Acknowledged in Inaugurals of Past Presidents
Guest essay by Bill Federer The date of Presidential Inaugurations was moved from March 4th to January 20th with the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1933. The 32nd President Franklin Roosevelt, mentioned in his INAUGURAL, January 20, 1945: “Almighty God has blessed our land.” The 33rd President Harry S Truman, stated in […]
Acknowledging Almighty God for Constitutions of Government
Guest essay by Bill Federer “Acknowledging… ALMIGHTY GOD… for… CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT… to promote the…PRACTICE OF TRUE RELIGION AND VIRTUE…”—Washington One week after the First Amendment was approved by the U.S. Congress, President George Washington issued the First National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God on OCTOBER 3, 1789. From the U.S. Capitol […]
‘Bombs Bursting in Air’—Star Spangled Banner 200th Anniversary
Guest essay by William J. Federer On SEPTEMBER 13, 1814, just weeks after they burned the U.S. Capitol, the British attacked Baltimore, Maryland-the third largest city in America. On their way, they caught an elderly physician of Upper Marlboro, Dr. William Beanes. The town feared Dr. Beanes would be hanged so they asked attorney Francis […]
Christopher Columbus—from the American Minute
Guest essay by William J. Federer Christopher Columbus was looking for a SEA route to India and China because 40 years earlier in 1453, Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople cutting off the LAND routes. A biography of Columbus was written by Washington Irving in 1828, filled with imaginative dialogue, such as Europeans arguing that the Earth […]
Memorial Day—from the American Minute
by William J. Federer Southern women scattered spring flowers on the graves of both the Northern and Southern soldiers who died during the Civil War. This was the origin of Memorial Day, which in 1868 was set on MAY 30. In 1968, it was moved to the last Monday in May. From the Spanish-American War, […]
Ronald Reagan on America the Beautiful
by William Federer President Ronald Reagan upon a meeting with South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, November 14, 1983 declared: “At the worship service Sunday morning with our soildiers…less than a mile from one of the most tyrannical regimes on Earth..a choir of little girls..all orphans.. closing the service, sing ‘America, the Beautiful’ in our […]
