Celebrating Greatness
Celebrating Greatness
Celebrating Greatness
Famous Composers & Carols!
American Minute by William J. Federer Many famous composers wrote greatly loved Christmas music. In 1741, George Frideric Handel wrote his oratorio Messiah. In 1734, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his Christmas Oratorio. Twenty years after composer Johann Sebastian Bach died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, and baptized [Read More]
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Mothers Day – “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World.”
American Minute with Bill Federer Mothers’ Day was held in Boston in 1872 at the suggestion of Julia Ward Howe, writer of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” But it was Anna Jarvis, daughter of a Methodist minister in Grafton, West Virginia, who made it a national event. During the [Read More]
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Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate
by Robert J. Avrech Yom Kippur was a deeply moving experience. The Jewish liturgy emphasizes personal responsibility. Traditional Jewish prayer—not the watered down liberal versions practiced by the Conservative and Reform movements—is a stark and bracing contrast to this postmodern age where lies are a new truth, slavery is redefined [Read More]
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A Few Words From Our Founder…
One of the great things about being a part of the Watchers Council isn’t the fame,the blogging groupies or the obscene amounts of money to be made but the great people you get to associate with. For me, one of those people has always been the founder of the Watcher’s [Read More]
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The most trusted man in America?
LBJ famously said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost America.” Who have the Democrats and President Obama lost? Howard Stern and Mad Magazine. The latter was via Instapundit. The source of the second observation is interesting, because Cronkite was characterized as “… the most trusted man in America.” Despite a [Read More]
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Joannie Rochette – Celebrating Excellence
In the Olympics it is hard enough to compete knowing that the weight of you nation is on your shoulders. But for Joannie Rochette of Canada she bore an unimaginable burden. The six time Canadian national champion figure skater was preparing for the upcoming events with her mother by her [Read More]
Celebrating Greatness
Remembering D-Day, 65 Years and Counting!
Sixty Five years ago today the allied armies invaded the cliffs of Normandy in an effort to fight back the German forces that had enslaved nations and rescue Europe from the shadow of tyranny. These men knew the stakes and fought for liberty without reservation, to the death if necessary. [Read More]