Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Bowing Down to the Idol of Political Correctness
By Gary Brown Carl Paladino could learn a lesson from Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Earlier this week we reported that Carl Paladino, Republican gubernatorial candidate in New York, was defending his remarks to Orthodox Jewish leaders. Paladino said, concerning what children should be taught about homosexuality, “I don’t want them to [...]
This Is Not Our Founder’s America: Our Kids Pay the Price
By Gary Brown Just yesterday… Children returned to a Carlsbad, California elementary school where a gunman wounded two girls on a playground. Friday, October 8th, Brendan O’Rourke, 41, of Oceanside was arrested Friday for investigation of attempted murder and remains jailed without bail. Just Yesterday… Carl Paladino, the conservative [...]
Columbus and What He Thought was India — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, cutting off the land trade routes from Europe to India and China, so Europeans sought new routes. During Portugal's golden age of sea power, Columbus sailed south along the African coast and then north to Iceland. He heard stories of Irish monk St. Brendan [...]
John Adams on Morality and Religion: American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer On OCTOBER 11, 1798, President John Adams wrote to the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Militia of Massachusetts: "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest [...]
Tennessee House Fire: “What Would Jesus Do?” That’s Easy
By Bryan Fischer I don’t think I’ve made comments on an issue that have generated so much anger from friend and foe alike as my comments on the Tennessee house fire. Christians have written to me and accused me of being evil and everything else short of calling me the anti-Christ himself. This refers to the controversy over Gene Cranick’s [...]
American Minute; The Government is Bound to Religion — Lewis Cass
American Minute with Bill Federer Lewis Cass was born OCTOBER 9, 1782. A Brigadier-General in the War of 1812, Lewis Cass was Governor of the Michigan Territory where he made Indian treaties, organized townships and built roads. Appointed Secretary of War by President Andrew Jackson, Lewis Cass was a Senator, Secretary of State for President [...]
American Minute on Eddie Rickenbacker
American Minute with Bill Federer A race car driver, he served in France during World War I as chauffeur for General Pershing. With Germany's Red Baron dominating the skies, he transferred to the 94th Aero Squadron and helped shoot down 69 enemy aircraft. Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, his name was "Eddie" Rickenbacker, born [...]
Firefighters Did Right in Letting House Burn to Ground
By Bryan Fischer A controversy has erupted over a decision by the South Fulton, TN fire department to allow a rural home in Obion County to burn to the ground because the owner did not pay the requisite $75 annual fee to secure fire protection. The fire department was called when Gene Cranick’s grandson accidentally set his property on fire, [...]
Arnold Joseph Toynbee and the Man Who Saw Religion as a Prime Motivator
American Minute with Bill Federer Historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee died OCTOBER 2, 1975. Providing foreign intelligence for the British during World Wars I and II, Toynbee was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conferences. Educated at Oxford "almost entirely in the Greek and Latin Classics," Toynbee taught at King's College of London, the [...]
There is a Time For All Things
American Minute with Bill Federer "In the language of the Holy Writ, there is a time for all things. There is a time to preach and a time to fight." Thus ended the sermon of 30-year-old pastor John Peter Muhlenberg as he removed his clerical robes to reveal a uniform in the Continental Army. After church, 300 men of his congregation rode off [...]
Alan Grayson, Daniel Webster and the Submission of Wives
By Bryan Fischer Rep. Alan Grayson, a miserable creature if there ever was one, created one of the most reprehensible and despicable political ads in recent memory by twisting the words of his opponent, Daniel Webster, and equating his view of women with the dark, dangerous, and demented religion of Islam. Calling Mr. Webster “Taliban Dan,” [...]
Louis Pasteur and the Revolution of Medicine
American Minute with Bill Federer He developed vaccines for rabies and anthrax, revolutionized medicine with his germ theory of disease, and laid the foundation for the control of tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria and tetanus. While Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at Lille University in France, he developed the process of "Pasteurization" of [...]
No Taxation Without Representation — Samuel Adams
American Minute with Bill Federer Crying "No taxation without representation," he instigated the Stamp Act riots and the Boston Tea Party. After the "Boston Massacre," he spread Revolutionary sentiment with his Committees of Correspondence. Known as "The Father of the American Revolution," Samuel Adams, who was born SEPTEMBER 27, 1722, [...]
Ann Coulter Gets Her “Warrior Princess” Badge Back
By Bryan Fischer I criticized Ann Coulter last month when news surfaced that she had accepted an invitation to speak at HomoCon 2010, a gathering of so-called conservative homosexuals. (They can’t call themselves conservatives, for the simple reason that using the anal cavity for sex is not a conservative value.) You also will notice that they [...]
Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting An Establishment of Religion
American Minute with Bill Federer "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Thus began the first of the Ten Amendments, or Bill of Rights, which were approved SEPTEMBER 25, 1789. George Mason, known as "The Father of the Bill of Rights," wrote the Virginia Declaration of [...]
I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!
American Minute with Bill Federer "I have not yet begun to fight!" shouted John Paul Jones when the captain of the British ship Serapis asked him to surrender. Their ships were so close their cannons scraped and masts entangled, yet his American ship Bonhomme Richard, named for Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, refused to give up. When [...]
I Have But One Life to Lose For My Country
American Minute with Bill Federer "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" were the last words of 21-year-old American patriot Nathan Hale, who was hanged by the British without a trial on SEPTEMBER 22, 1776. A Yale graduate, he almost became a Christian minister, as his brother Enoch did, but instead became a teacher [...]
Democracy Without Morals Would Eventually Reduce Freedom
American Minute with Bill Federer Fisher Ames helped ratify the U.S. Constitution. He sat beside George Washington during the service at St. Paul's Chapel following Washington's Inauguration. Fisher Ames authored the final House language of the First Amendment. At age 46, Fisher Ames was elected Harvard's president, but declined due to an [...]
Lord of the Rings, and the Man Who Gave Away Power
American Minute with Bill Federer The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolken tells of man's lust for "the ring of power." George Washington had that power and twice gave it up. When King George III asked American-born painter Benjamin West what Washington planned to do now that he had won the war, West replied "They say he will return to his [...]
American Minute — Our Indispensable Duty to Testify Our Gratitude to The Divine Being
American Minute with Bill Federer A member of the Continental Congress, he led military expeditions during the Revolutionary War, paying for them at his own expense. He built ships to raid the British, signed the Constitution and was the first President pro tem of the Senate. His name was John Langdon, and he died SEPTEMBER 18, 1819. As [...]
American Minute — The U.S. Constitution and The 34% Religious References
American Minute with Bill Federer "Done...the SEVENTEENTH DAY of SEPTEMBER, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven." This is the last line of the U.S. Constitution. A study by Professors Donald S. Lutz and Charles S. Hyneman, titled "The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late 18th-Century American [...]
American Minute — The Great Pilgrim Spirit
American Minute with Bill Federer SEPTEMBER 16, 1620, according to the Gregorian Calendar, 102 passengers set sail on the Pilgrims' ship, Mayflower. Their 66-day journey of 2,750 miles encountered storms so rough the beam supporting the main mast cracked and was propped back in place with "a great iron screw." One youth, John Howland, was [...]
President Taft on Democracy — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer The only U.S. President to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he had previously been appointed by President McKinley to be the first governor of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War and was later appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as Secretary of War. The largest President, [...]
Harvard was Founded Upon Christianity — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer Son of a butcher, his family died when a plague swept England, leaving him an estate. He attended Emmanuel College, was ordained, married and sailed for Massachusetts where he pastored the First Church of Charlestown. At age 31, he died of tuberculosis on SEPTEMBER 14, 1638. His name was Rev. John [...]
Fort McHenry and The Star Spangled Banner — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer Just weeks after the British burned the U.S. Capitol, they set out for Baltimore. On the way they caught an elderly physician of Upper Marlboro, Dr. William Beanes. The town feared Dr. Beanes would be hanged so they asked a young lawyer, Francis Scott Key, to sail with Colonel John Skinner under a flag of [...]
What Kind of Compatibility Can There Be Between Us?
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Pat Buchanan This episode reveals the gulf between us and the Islamic world. Despite all our talk of universal values, tens of millions of Muslims, in countries not only hostile but friendly, believe that a sacrilege against their faith, like the burning of the Quran by a single American oddball, justifies [...]
Islam a Religion of Violence and War: Iman Rauf Says So
By Bryan Fischer Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is back in the United States flacking for the Ground Zero mosque, insisting that his Mosque of the Glorious 9/11 Martyrs must be built as close to the site of Allah’s great victory over the infidels as humanly possible. This self-proclaimed bridge-builder apparently believes he can carry out that noble [...]
State Attorneys General and Violent Video Games
By Phyllis Schlafly Extremely violent and addictive video games are polluting the minds of an entire generation of children, and most parents are clueless. Young players earn game points based on how many murders they commit, with increasingly realistic bloodshed splattered around for teenagers and pre-teens to learn to enjoy. These highly [...]
They Destroyed My Towers
By Alan Caruba Whenever I drove into New York via the Lincoln Tunnel, I would join the other cars on the long, graceful curve leading to its entrance and, looking to my left, I could see across the Hudson River. At the tip of Manhattan, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center stood as symbols of our economic power. On occasion, I had [...]
Nazi Dreams were Green Dreams
By Alan Caruba In a week when Jews will celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the New Year--5771, the connection between the Nazi’s rebellion against the Judeo-Christian worldview and the present-day ideology that drives the environmental movement needs to be exposed. Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere around the world, driven in [...]
