Bob McCarty Writes

Today’s entry at American Minute isn’t extraordinary, but it speaks volumes about how far off course the United States has drifted during the past century.  Take a look at this excerpt:
At a missionary conference, 1908, William Howard Taft stated: “No man can study the movement of modern civilization from an impartial standpoint and not realize [...]

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On this, the seventh anniversary of the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001, William J. Federer at American Minute offers a glimpse into the history of conflicts between Christians and radical Islamic extremists:
In 1683, over 138,000 Muslim Ottoman Turks surrounded Vienna, Austria. For two months, they starved the 11,000 Hapsburg-Austrian defenders. Sultan Mehmed IV sent a [...]

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The Liberty Bell got its name 232 years ago after it was used to call the citizens of Philadelphia together to hear the Declaration of Independence read out loud for the first time. Today, I can think of at least 435 other “bells” that need to be rung — or, better yet, replaced — [...]

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Sixty years ago at midnight, the State of Israel came into being and was immediately recognized by the United States and the Soviet Union. In his American Minute entry for May 14, 1948.

A homeland for the thousands of Jews who were persecuted and displaced during World War II, Israel was attacked the next day [...]

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Today, after visiting the American Minute and reading about the 205th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, I began to ponder how things might have turned out if today’s liberals had been in charge of Congress at the time. I came up with Five Ways Today’s Congressional Liberals Would Have Screwed Up the Louisiana Purchase:
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