The American Minute – A short daily broadcast by Bill Federer on inspiring Americans in US history. You can read the text version online.
February 12, 2016: It’s about FREEDOM!
February 10, 2016: Virtue is necessary in a Republic
2012 libertybellediaries blog posts
December 24, 2012: “Disposable People?”
December 26, 2012: Survival: The Mind-set
December 29, 2012: deTocqueville on Socialism
December 29, 2012: On Self-Reliance, Feminism and the General Decline in American Culture
2013 libertybellediaries blog posts
January 2, 2013: A Few Thoughts on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
January 3, 2013: Multiculturalism My Way
January 4, 2013: The Quest For American leadership: A Few Home Truths
February 5, 2013: Getting To Know You
March 9, 2013: Culture Demise: My Antique Home Remedy
March 31, 2013: Good Intentions
April 9, 2013: Wise Word To Remember
April 11, 2013: Take Me To The Moon (or beyond)
April 17, 2013: Hint: Quantity of time matter too
April 21, 2013: Finding Common Ground
April 26, 2013: Time to spare
May 10, 2013: Just the facts, please….
May 22, 2013: Lessons From The Village
May 23, 2013: The Life of George Washington
May 23, 2013: The duty of a wise people
May 25, 2013: Remember the cost of freedom
May 25, 2013: America at the crossroads
May 29, 2013: The Mom World Peace Solution
June 4, 2013: Military leadership 101: Set the standard
June 15, 2013: My Lucky Rabbit
June 18, 2013: Global Zero: Another Nothing-burger Plan
June 20, 2013: Paving the path to Peace
June 23, 2013: Sweet land of liberty…..(or land of the gullible?)
June 28, 2013: Little scraps worth keeping
July 3, 2013: Pledge to read the Declaration of Independence
July 20, 2013: Power to the people…. pssssst, that’s in the 10th Amendment, Mr. President
July 24, 2013: Good Citizen Solution Starts With You
July 26, 2013: Who are we?
September 15, 2013: The defining generational shift
September 27, 2013: George Washington finally gets a Presidential library
October 2, 2013: The pansies smiling at you
October 10, 2013: Minta’s Insightful Metaphor
October 11, 2013: Requiem for America (no way, no how and not as long as we can fight!!!)
October 16, 2013: March under one flag
October 22, 2013: Bumblebees really can fly
October 23, 2013: Where every child really does count
October 24, 2013: Love and Peace
November 3, 2013: Political party identification be damned
November 5, 2013: Alas Babylon by Kinnison
November 12, 2013: G. Murphy Donovan’s Thanksgiving Tale
November 16, 2013: How to fend for their young
November 22, 2013: An afternoon in the doctor’s waiting room
November 25, 2013: Why America needs gentlemen…. and ladies too
November 27, 2013: George Washington Issued the first Thanksgiving Proclamation
November 30, 2013: Stuff
December 5, 2013: Back in the kitchen…(liberal female pols blaze new trails)
December 18, 2013: Control of the Home Roost
December 28, 2013: “Please sir, I want some more”…
2014 libertybellediaries blog posts
January 2, 2014: $2.75 can make a difference…..
February 1, 2014: Where have all the real men gone?
February 2, 2014: Trey
February 19, 2014: An American moment to remember
February 27, 2014: America in need of humility….. a daunting challenge
March 9, 2014: Finding that 18th horse
March 12, 2014: An angry American fat cat
March 24, 2014: Who will defend our castle?
April 3, 2014: What the hell does that really mean?
April 5, 2014: You can teach an old dog new tricks
April 10, 2014: Timely quote
Aptil 12, 2014: Female-empowerment comparison shopping
April 19, 2014: The hotbed of politics
May 3, 2014: Virtual living
May 9, 2014: Dilapidated in America
May 14, 2014: You owe them your Freedom
May 17, 2014: A new American revolution
May 25, 2014: We here must speak of heroes
June 2, 2014: Don’t Back Down From The Sharks (Admiral William H. McRaven)
June 2, 2014: Reading the Three Cups of Tea leaves
June 4, 2014: They embraced it
June 4, 2014: Undue Command Influence
June 5, 2014: The Choices We Make
June 5, 2014: A short piece by Stanley McChrystal
June 6, 2014: D-Day, 6 June 1944
June 7, 2014: Enemies, both foreign and domestic
June 15, 2014: Defining a Team of Rivals
June 29, 2014: One American Team
July 19, 2014: Power to the people (the states)
July 31, 2014: The Biggest American Deficit: Trust
August 16, 2014: Building a bridge
September 5, 2014: What Ever Happened To Vocations?
September 7, 2014: Let’s not keep shooting elephants to avoid looking a fool
September 14, 2014: Story of the Week: Defence of Fort M’Henry
October 14, 2014: America at another crossroads
November 16, 2014: Asking the right questions
November 22, 2014: Kitchen knives and such
November 29, 2014: Another home truth
December 1, 2014: Books vs. e-books, I choose both…
December 7, 2014: Monster mash…
December 18, 2014: Please, just let it go Barack and Michelle
December 21, 2014: #BLUELIVESMATTER!!!
December 21, 2014: Civil order first
December 25, 2014: “Saved by Christmas” by Steve McCann
December 28, 2014: Life in Post-Truth America|FrontPage Magazine
December 28, 2014: A memorial?
2015 libertybellediaries blog posts
February 4, 2015: General George Washington enters the vaccine debate
March 1, 2015: Modernity meets the Amish
April 14, 2015: Minding Your Manners
May 8, 2015: The power of free thinking
May 12, 2015: Who I am and why I blog
May 15, 2015: Aquamarine vs. turquoise
May 16, 2015: If we build it; we can fix it
May 24, 2015: Rememberance
May 25, 2015: About the sacrifices
July 3, 2015: Grace in action (Condoleezza Rice & Jenny Oakes Baker – Amazing Grace)
July 8, 2015: To live free in Dixie
August 11, 2015: For the future in the distance
August 23, 2015: My thoughts on “Making America great again!”
August 25, 2015: Ben Caron’s essay: A must read
August 27, 2015: The rule of law in America
August 29, 2015: “He never means anything serious till he talks about justice and right”
August 31, 2015: Where have all the gentlemen gone?
September 2, 2015: When a hero comes along
September 5, 2015: Shoulders about the crowd
November 11, 2015: Short Veterans Day Tribute
November 26, 2015: Freedom is special and rare
December 6, 2015: Diversity does not make us stronger
December 9, 2015: What he should have said
December 20, 2015: The complete guide to understanding America
December 31, 2015: Rebuilding the American Team
2016 libertybellediaries blog posts:
January 3, 2016: Self-help projects: an American tradition
January 22, 2016: On America’s side
February 20, 2016: The sound of angels’ wings
February 20, 2016: For the girls, mostly
March 6, 2016: An American wake-up call
March 14, 2016: Aquamarine vs. turquoise (repost from May 2015)
March 18, 2016: Hitch America’s wagon to a star again
March 18, 2016: Gimme A Knife (Written by Gladius Maximus)
March 18, 2016: The American Spirit (speech by Ben Sasse)
March 20, 2016: Sweet land of liberty….. (or land of the gullible) – repost from 2013
April 22, 2016: The bitter taste of defeat
April 23, 2016: What kind of parents would
May 6, 2016: A really great commencement address (Admiral William H. McRaven)
May 12, 2016: Time to rebuild the American team
May 15, 2016: A “revolutionary ” idea for America
May 30, 2016: Freedom isn’t free
May 30, 2016: A day to remember
June 8, 2016: Men?
June 12, 2016: Mike Rowe nails the truth
June 14, 2016: “American identity”
July 4, 2016: Let Freedom Ring
July 4, 2016: The Discovery of Freedom
July 9, 2016: Another afternoon in the doctor’s waiting room
July 14, 2016: Civic virtue in America
July 22, 2016: Forgotten war heroes
August 7, 2016: #PurpleHeartDay
August 9, 2106: “Post-reality” America: a Path to Perdition
September 13, 2016: March Under One Flag (blog repost from 2013)
September 17, 2016: #ConstitutionDay
September 23, 2016: My backwoods view on race relations
October 1, 2016: The American Civil War of Words
October 13, 2016: Gentlemen: America’s endangered species
October 16, 2016: More HomeTruths
October 22, 2016: Looking for a Savior in all the wrong places
October 23, 2016: Just because you are poor…
October 25, 2016: America: Our Ordered Liberty Roots
October 28, 2016: Mixed Potpourri
November 11, 2016: Good Fortune
December 4, 2016: Change you can believe in
December 2, 2016: Some thoughts on being a “liberated” American woman…
December 5, 2016: Amarillo By Morning
December 19, 2016: Domestic Propagandists
December 29, 2016: Hand-me-downs
December 29, 2016: America needs to become ONE team
December 26, 2016: Think for yourself
2017 Blog Posts
January 5, 2017: A woodpecker in my willow tree
January 9, 2017: The road to becoming an “information specialist”
January 19, 2017: Senator Ben Sasse explains Inauguration Day
February 12, 2017: Sewing that does change lives
February 27, 2017: An extreme feminist Utopia
March 9, 2017: Speaking the same language
March 24, 2017: Threads of Civic Virtue
April 24, 2017: Standards of excellence… or not
May 1, 2017: When everyone gets a gold star
May 3, 2017: Dutiful women and needlework
May 6, 2017: The Men
May 11, 2017: Musings on motherhood
June 6, 2017: Soldiers and books
June 18, 2017: True heroes, no capes required
July 20, 2017: Lovely Things
July 22, 2017: The value of a Goodwill book?
July 23, 2017: Talking to ordinary people
July 24, 2017: Quotes to Ponder
September 17, 2017: Bad title, but great story
September 20, 2017: A glimmer of hope
October 17, 2017: The death of gentlemen
October 28, 2017: Katie was right
November 17, 2017: A deep breath of fresh air
November 21, 3017: The Reckoning is upon us
November 25, 2017: “A few leaves of grass” for remembrance
2018 Blog Posts
January 12, 2018: America is more than Trump and Media Tweetstorms
January 14, 2018: A few links in Ulysses S Grant
January 31, 2018: Another tale from my doctor’s waiting room
February 13, 2018: A great speech
February 18, 2018: Lost in Prague
February 19, 2018: Boys
February 26, 2018: Chasing old paper trails
February 28, 2018: Frederick Douglass celebration
March 2, 2018: Angels Among Us
August 10, 2018 Looking Westward
September 17, 2018 Falling in love… with American history
November 4, 2018 Beyond Little Women
December 2, 2018 The passing of an era
December 6, 2018 The American “can do” spirit
2019 Blog Posts
March 21, 2019 More proponents of a “Kill Them With Kindness” plan
August 24, 2019 Searching for our American moral compass
2020 Blog Posts
May 2, 2020 Our American heart
July 11, 2020 How do we begin changing America’s course?
November 27, 2020 Better than a blog post
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