By Bill Federer Guest Blogger “The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco,” stated President Obama in Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009. In 1625, Governor William Bradford wrote of a Pilgrim ship returning to England with dried fish and beaver skins to trade for supplies: “They…were well within the England Channel, almost in sight [...]
Why Was Morocco First to Recognize USA?
February 16th, 2010 · 6 Comments
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Much Has Changed in U.S. During Last 100 Years
September 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
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Muslim-Christian Conflict Nothing New
September 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
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It’s Time to Ring Some ‘Bells’ in Washington, D.C.
July 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 — in [...]
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Happy 60th Anniversary, Israel!
May 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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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Five Ways Today’s Liberals Would Have Screwed Up the Louisiana Purchase
April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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: 1. [...]
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‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’
March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” The words above, spoken by Patrick Henry to the 2nd Virginia Convention on this date in 1775, came after the British had imposed several edicts — the 1764 Currency Act, 1764 Sugar Act, 1765 Stamp [...]
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