Saturday, March 19, 2022

The Man Who Saved Western Civilization

 I had Author, Historian and Patriot Bill Federer talking about The Man Who Saved Western Civilization, Patrick of Ireland,

The second half is a discussion with callers about the "grooming" of our children as sexual objects by educators and other predators.

Bill's website is a trove of good stuff as is the daily e-mail.




Update:

These parents, this mayor get it right. But this had been going on 6 years? Where else?

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Trans.... Humanism

Besides my show, I hosted Moment of Clarity Saturday.

In our history. land acquisition led to classes of ownership.

Machinery and transportation acquisition did the same.

In the future, those who can afford genetic and mechanical body improvements will be a class unto themselves. And that doesn’t include you, serf.

They are going for the Nietzschean Ubermensch, the Superman.
are you aware of the Amazon series The Boys? The supermen are not good guys.
They do what they want.

Data is replacing machinery as the greatest asset.
Google is a prime example.
Prime is a prime example. What do you want to buy, and more importantly, “Why?”
Then they can sell to you by manipulating you.
Subliminal messaging is so passe. They are right in your face. They have algorithms.

This is Yuval Harari, listen to him.

 You mine data with algorithms. To get results.

Speaking of algorithms:
We started out with determining that DNA and RNA are the genetic code of life.
That things were not as random as they seemed.
This led to the move to decode the program, to crack the code, to see what switches control what.
The human Genome Project.
This is very similar to finding an alien spaceship and flipping switches to see what does what.
They didn’t write the code, and it was written by somebody much smarter than them.
But they wanted to BE like Him. If He could do it, maybe they could.

It's one thing to determine why things are the way they are.
It’s one thing to see if you can use that to cure somebody.

It’s another, to see if you can create a different thing altogether. To be a God.

We’ve been faced with Trans this and Trans that.
People who think they should be something other than they are.
Boys who think they are really girls and vice versa.
And people who want to be cats or dogs. Seriously. They think they are animals trapped in human bodies. We used to put these people under psychiatric supervision. Now we celebrate them on Youtube and TicTok. Or worse, we put them in charge of our nuclear waste disposal, or we make them a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

Dr. Yuval Noah Harari talks about how humans are now “hackable animals”, no longer subject to the intelligent design of “some God above the clouds, but our intelligent design…”

He goes on to state that the idea of humans having free will is over. “Today, we have the technology to hack human beings on a massive scale,” he says.

“People could look back in 100 years and identify the Coronavirus epidemic as the moment when a new regime of surveillance took over, especially surveillance under the skin…”

Dr. Harari again.

And believe me, this guy is a big player in the World Economic Forum.

He advocates man becoming God. His latest book is Sapien Deus. The elevation of man to godhood. As if we could create a universe out of nothing.
It absolutely amazes me that a guy this smart can ignore all the data that points to everything being created by a God more powerful than he.

People can be blinded by religion. That’s why I am a Christian and don’t follow a religion.
Except I change my oil religiously.
But the left, the debased are heavily informed by their religion of self-worship.
And this can lead to great delusion.

A couple weeks ago, we had Stacy Ograyensek on Your American Heritage.
her husband obviously died from being restrained from taking Ivermectin.
I say obvious, because it was. He was given Ivermectin and he was getting better.
An administrator insisted it be withheld and he died. Is that murder? It’s at least negligent homicide.
I posted the episode on Facebook on Stacy’s timeline and some guy starts attacking her, calling her a liar. Turns out he’s an epidemiologist. He insists that we are misleading people with claims of the efficacy of Ivermectin. Well, there’s no denying that it was working, and that he died when it was taken away. Except it goes against this guy’s religion. His religion is “science”. But not science as historical scientists would see it. People like Newton who looked at cause and effect.
No, this is science as a religion. A prescribed set of beliefs. Quite the opposite.
Newton looked to find the rules that God had made.
Similar to looking at genetic code to see what God had made, even if you don’t recognize his code.
He leaves a signature like those morse coders who could recognize the tappers hand on the other end of the wire.

But when you take God out of the equation of science, what are you left with?
People who would tinker with your life, who would experiment on you and yours.
Mengeles. I didn’t go full Godwin and say Nazi. But now I did.

What were the Nazis doing?  Going for the Master Race.
I read some science fiction. The subject of body modification comes up. And it’s a good place to explore ideas. What might be the logical outcome of something.

Well, some of it isn’t pretty, because people are still flawed. And some want to rule you, and some want to kill you. Thanos from Marvel comics.

Transhumanism began taking shape in the 1930s under Social Engineers like Edward Bernays whose book “Propaganda” revealed the method of mind control for anyone curious enough to pay attention:

 

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.…

In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses.
It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”

~ Edward L. Bernays, Master Propagandist

Well, we’ve seen social engineering and it ain’t pretty.
So next is genetic engineering.

You are  a hackable animal.

From the Epoch Times:
The vaccine’s mRNA converting into DNA and being found inside the cell’s nucleus is something that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said would not happen.
The Whole Process Occurred Rapidly Within Six Hours.
The vaccine’s mRNA converting into DNA and being found inside the cell’s nucleus is something that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said would not happen.

The CDC said on its web page titled “Myths and Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines.”
The genetic material delivered by mRNA vaccines never enters the nucleus of your cells.
Now we know otherwise. Did they know? Did they care? Should we? Is it part of a plan?
We had a number of people telling us that microchips were being inserted through the shot.
I discounted that and still do. The fact is that it is bad enough with all the other stuff the shot does, including getting you to take it in the first place, especially through mandate. What id that’s all this was about, seeing how far you’ll bend? And why? (algorithms).

We have a war in Ukraine, where it turns out that Bio research labs are operating.
This was first denied and suppressed in the press and social media.
Gary Wellings had sent me a text with a link to a twitter feed that showed a map of where these labs are. Then Twitter took down the account. Now the photo is everywhere.

Remember, conspiracy theory is really history in the making these days.
I’ve said before that I suspect that there is a vast criminal endeavor similar to what you would see in a James Bond movie. They are not Spectre or Smersh. They are the World Economic Forum.
Klaus Schwab is Ernst Blofeld.
They stole the government of the United States.
They are crashing the economy in such a way that farmers will go bankrupt, having to sell their land.
To Black Rock. To Bill Gates. For pennies on the dollar.
They have manipulated us into a position with Covid mania that gave them the ease to steal our government, ruin our economy, lower our standing and influence in the world and subjugate our population.
Think we aren’t being subjugated?
Ask one of the illegally detained and imprisoned Jan 6th protestors. Ask anyone who was told to take the jab to keep a job or to wear a silly mask to get on a plane or eat a meal.
And there are still people who have a mask on thinking that it protects their health.
This is a religious belief based on the religion of science similar to putting a dot on your forehead or wearing a cross for good luck. I am not bashing wearing a cross to announce that you are a Christian, but how many ungodly wear it for good luck?

Back to the World Economic Forum and the bio labs. What if instead of an island in the South Pacific or a lab under a volcano, or any one of those exotic locales in the movies, the nefarious research was being carried out in government sponsored labs? Labs that are kept outside of the country for jurisdictional reasons not unlike why prisoners are held in Guantanamo?
If this research is so dangerous that we don’t want Americans exposed to any hazards (how’s that working out for you after Wuhan?), why is it OK to expose Ukrainians to the threat?
Why did Barack Obama first float the idea of these labs in 2005? Obama? He was a junior senator out of nowhere. Or out of the Swamp machine.
Why Ukraine? Hunter Biden’s paymaster. Hunter Biden who was also funneling money to his dad.

What is the real purpose of these labs? Is there genetic research going on there? I don’t know, but what I’m saying is that it could well be that the American taxpayer is being used to fund the very weapons that will be used against them by the very organization that wants to crash everything for the Great Reset, where you will own nothing and like it. Or else.

There truly is a mindset in this group that they are the elites. And you wonder how many of these are tools of the inner core of elites, ready to be sacrificed for the greater good. Of the inner core of elites.

And not yours.


Saturday, March 12, 2022

Active Pulpits

 

Your American Heritage March 12 2022

  Good afternoon and welcome to Your American Heritage 

That was Madison Rising playing their take on God Bless America written by Irving Berlin.

My name is Ed Bonderenka, and I am  not your fluffy insurrectionist.  Working the board and the phone lines is Derek Stone, who also hosts Stone Cold Sports, Sundays at noon thirty, right after my friend Sean Todd, the Rockin’ Rev on The Intersection at noon. It’s not your fluffy Christian radio show. 

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It’s Day 416  of the coup, the theft of the American Government, by enemies both foreign and domestic.

Let’s pray, Let’s go to war.

Father, thank you for the gift of this country that you have placed us in.

Help us to protect and preserve this gift that you have given us.

Please lead us and guide us today and in the days to come,

Please restore the political prisoners in DC to their freedom.

Please continue to awaken the American People from their slumber, those that are not aware of the danger.

Please help us retake the government from the traitors and criminals that have stolen it.

Please move mightily and either bring these oppressors to a place of repentance or imprisonment.

I ask that if they will not repent, that you destroy them. That you will protect us. Amen.

“Pastors should not talk about politics from the pulpit.”

Why not? Is it because Christianity or “religion” is above or transcends politics?
Is it the Johnson amendment that was written by an immoral racist jackass democrat who went on to become president? One that limits free speech from the pulpit because of a tax exemption?
BTW, do you know why churches are tax exempt?
Because it was always said that the power to tax is the power to destroy.

And the church, as an example of religious freedom, was to be protected from those who would destroy her. Particularly by writing specific tax law that would destroy it.

Well, the Johnson amendment stifles but not quite destroys the churches influence by writing tax code that affects it.

All the Johnson amendment does is supposedly keep pastors from endorsing candidates from their pulpits. Yet we see many an example of democrat politicians speaking from liberal churches.

 

“Why have 501(c)(3) organizations united to keep the protections of the Johnson Amendment?”

“This provision protects 501(c)(3) organizations from the rancor of partisan politics and being harassed by politicians and their operatives seeking endorsements; endorsing specific candidates could split congregations and divide boards and members of nonprofit organizations”

Now I say all this because I have attended a few churches where the pastor doesn’t want to do politics from the pulpit. This doesn’t stop all these rainbow-flagged gay LGBQT certified churches from advancing a political agenda from the pulpit.

So, why wouldn’t a pastor want to advocate certain policy (that’s where the word “politics” comes from) from the pulpit? Why wouldn’t he bring to your attention an ungodly proposal before the council, legislature, congress, etc? Is it to not alienate members of his congregation and not drive them away in the hopes of retaining influence in their lives towards salvation?

Well, that kind of leaves the rest of the culture to the loons, doesn’t it?

 I was watching this movie last night. Cromwell. It stars Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Timothy Dalton, etc, and I expected it to mock Oliver Cromwell, but instead it makes him look rather good, so far.

I was absolutely struck by the similarities between the situation England and Cromwell found themselves in as portrayed by the movie.
Cromwell found himself a patriot, a man who supported the right of the people to self-govern via parliament. He starts out dismissing friends from his house who would rise up against the King, though.

That would be treason and lead to civil war. The King, Charles, was weak and manipulated by those around him, changing opinions based on who the last person talking to him was. The worst was his wife Jill. I mean Henrietta Maria. She is of a different religious persuasion than most of England and seeks to turn power and the culture towards her church.

 In one of the earlier scenes, a man is protesting the loss of his access to public property, grazing land.

The rights were given to a friend of the king. The man is taken away by soldiers not to be seen again until later he enters church where Cromwell sits. He has been tortured and beaten for speaking up for his rights. Couldn’t happen here, could it?  

Tell that to the incarcerated Jan 6th protestors. Do you have any idea of the percentage of Christians who were at the capitol protests that day? And who are currently locked up for over a year on phony charges? And the Inquisition goes on?

Who will speak for them? Is this the righteous act of a government?

It’s time for some pastors to take sides and speak up against the sinful activity of government.
is there an LGBQT poster in City Hall? Demand it be taken down!

 Is there a law or worse an administration edict, that promotes abortion, or sexual sin, or heroin use or just about anything they espouse in San Francisco that needs speaking out against?

What does another argument about how baptism is to be administered do to combat that rot in the culture? Salvation is pre-eminent. A good religious people is imperative to the health of this nation.

But the people must be motivated. They must be encouraged to vote, to rise up in righteous anger and say “No more!”. Historically, this was done In The Church.
The Black-Robed Brigade was the regiment that the British government feared in the colonies.
They motivated the congregations and made them aware of their rights and responsibilities given to them by God.
I know that we have in those listening, people whose pastors do just that.

And I know that there are others who don’t.

We have Christian based organizations like The Thomas Moore Society and Salt and Light Global and The Great Lakes Justice Center and others that will stand up to the debased, but how often do you hear them promoted from within the churches? Your church?

 There is a battle in this world. It is a spiritual battle. But it is being played out in courtrooms and legislatures and many Christian Conservatives are not being motivated from the pulpits.

They are being motivated by talk radio.

Does that sound right?

 My guest today is David Kallman of Kallmna Legal Group, Sal and Light Global (a global initiative you can get behind!) and the Great Lake Justice Center.

Hi Dave!


Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Death by Hospital

 Your American Heritage Feb 19, 2022   

Good afternoon and welcome to Your American Heritage
My name is Ed Bonderenka. I am an endangered species, a Christian white male.
My pronouns are Thee and Thou.

Working the board and the phone lines is Derek Stone

Before I start, I was talking to my friend Jay Poplar and he suggested that we are being Cloward-Pivened. I replied that they are flooding the zone.
Ukraine is under fire.
Truckers and little old ladies in Ottawa are under fire from Castro’s bastard son. Illegals are flooding into the country. You know that.
When I look for a topic for this show, I try not to respond to the immediate news. Listen to Tucker Carlson, Steve Gruber, Maria Barteromo.
I’ve only got an hour. I want to explore topics that are current yet go deeper.
With explanations of motives and background. Thanks for joining us.
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It’s Day 395  of the coup, the theft of the American Government, by enemies both foreign and domestic.
They want you to bow down and worship Caesar, to make the government your God, your provider.
A government not for the people or by the people, but by theft of an election.

We wrestle not just against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness.

This is spiritual warfare. Good vs Evil.

If you do not believe the Biden regime is evil and in your face about it, check out who was appointed to be the deputy secretary of Health and Human Services, Rachel Levine, a guy who wears a dress in public.

Check out who was appointed to be in charge of nuclear waste in this country, a pervert who dresses like a woman or a dog, in public, and is proud of it. It used to be you had to be sane to get a position of responsibility like that.
And then there’s the Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg who took off a few months in the middle of a national crisis that was in his portfolio, the supply chain fiasco, to take paternity or maternity leave with is male partner while they adopt twins. Maybe if he’d had a cesarean, it would have been more acceptable.

Psalm 144 Blessed be the Lord my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle. My lovingkindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, My shield and the One in whom I take refuge.

Clasp your hands and fingers together, bow your heads and,
Let’s go to war.

Father, thank you for this country that you have placed us in.
Help us to protect and preserve this gift that you have given us.
Please lead us and guide us today and in the days to come,
Please restore the prisoners in DC to their freedom.
Please protect the truck drivers and their support from harm.
Please continue to awaken the American People from their slumber, those that are not aware of the danger.
Please help us retake the government from the traitors and criminals that have stolen it.
Please move mightily and either bring these oppressors to a place of repentance or imprisonment.
I ask you to protect this nation. Deliver us from our oppressors.
Remove from power those who threaten our livelihood and income.
Those that would rob from us and our children by excess taxation and inflation..
Those who would imprison and assault us for opposing, for speaking out against, their evil totalitarian plans for this nation.
I ask that if they will not repent, that you destroy them. That you will protect us.
Amen.

This Pete Buttigieg just recently announced that he wants to eliminate all traffic deaths in America.

I wonder if he envisions lockdowns to do that.
Reduce the national speed limit to 55.
Ben Franklin said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”    

Let’s face it, if this administration was interested in driving down the number of fatalities, perhaps it would not encourage or demand that people take a vaccine that has been demonstrated through their own VAERS system (which notoriously undercounts events) or incentivize or allow hospitals to kill people.

I was listening to Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson’s “Second Opinion” panel discussion with a group of world renowned doctors and medical experts and I heard a question posed to Dr. Christina Parks, who is not a white person about the disparity of support for the black community regarding Covid. Surprisingly, Dr. Parks announced that her father had died a few days earlier, not of Covid, but of treatment for Covid.
Listen to Dr. Parks.
 
A few weeks ago, I played audio of a doctor detailing covid payments to hospitals for treatment.
I can’t find it now and videos are being banned.
These two guys also spoke up and did a video, and it’s been removed.

Drs. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi of Accelerated Urgent Care (they own it) said
"Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for—if they're Medicare—typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000,” said Jensen, whose claim was fact-checked by USA Today. “But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."

 So today, we’re talking to Stacy Ograyensek whose husband Ryan was admitted to a Beaumont hospital with Covid.
You can help Stacy here:
Give Send Go for Stacy and her fight for Ryan's Law.

Hi Stacy!


Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Insurrection in America

Some good stuff in here.
I had to edit audio for about four hours to condense a 90 minute interview into this show.

I hope you enjoy it.

I host Bill Federer who talks about insurrections in American History. The Real Ones.

It’s Day 381 of the coup, the theft of the American Government, by enemies both foreign and domestic.
A government at war with you.

You who don’t bow down and worship Caesar, to make the government your God.
A government not for the people or by the people, but by theft. A government that steals your savings and wages, not by taxation but by inflationary policies.

We wrestle not just against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness.

This is war. This a fight for the soul of our nation. Literally. These debased leftists are trying to capture the souls of our children. They are grooming them in the classroom like Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell were grooming those teenage girls she brought to him before he did not kill himself.
They are teaching our kids to be subjected to them in humiliating ways. Forcing them to wear masks of subjection all day like a dominatrix would and then exposing them to salacious pornography, sexual perverts at reading time n the library and then training them in sexual techniques.

This is spiritual warfare. Good vs Evil.

To fight this spiritual battle, you must follow the Lord of Hosts, the Lord of armies.
This isn’t a religious show, but this country was founded on religious principles. My friend, historian William Federer makes that abundantly clear. We’ll be talking to him later this hour.

Psalm 144 Blessed be the Lord my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle. My lovingkindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, My shield and the One in whom I take refuge.


Clasp your hands together, bow your heads and,

Let’s go to war.

Father, thank you for this country that you have placed us in.
Help us to protect and preserve this gift that you have given us.

Please lead us and guide us today and in the days to come,

Please restore the prisoners in DC to their freedom.

Please protect the truck drivers and their support from harm.

Please continue to awaken the American People from their slumber, those that are not aware of the danger.

Please help us retake the government from the traitors and criminals that have stolen it.

Please move mightily and either bring these oppressors to a place of repentance or imprisonment.
I ask you to protect this nation. Deliver us from our oppressors.
Remove from power those who threaten our livelihood and income.
Those that would drive down the value of our savings and the ability to pay our bills.
Those who would imprison and assault us for opposing, for speaking out against, their evil totalitarian plans for us.

I ask that if they will not repent, that you destroy them. That you will protect us. Amen.


Election Fraud and Theft

A discussion with Patrick Colbeck, over the theft of a nation.

Patrick Colbeck, Rocket Scientist, former State Senator, former candidate for governor of Michigan, currently author and dare I say activist, host of letsfixstuff.org, occasional talk show host and prominent investigator into how the coup against the American People was accomplished.


It’s Day 381 of the coup, the theft of the American Government, by enemies both foreign and domestic.
A government at war with you.

You who don’t bow down and worship Caesar, to make the government your God.
A government not for the people or by the people, but by theft. A government that steals your savings and wages, not by taxation but by inflationary policies.

We wrestle not (just) against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness.

This is war. And we must realize that it is a spiritual battle. To fight this spiritual battle, you must follow the Lord of Hosts, the Lord of armies.
This isn’t a religious show, but this country was founded on religious principles. My friend, historian William Federer makes that abundantly clear. We’ll be talking to him next week.

Psalm 125

Those who trust in the LORD Are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, So the LORD surrounds His people from this time forth and forever. For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, Lest the righteous reach out their hands to iniquity. Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts. As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity.
This psalm is a prayer that God would defeat our oppressors. Now, not later.


Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who recently suffered a stroke, will be back in the Senate in 4-6 weeks, "barring any complications," according to a person close to the senator.
Is this God protecting us in a discreet way? The democratic party edge in the Senate has been reduced. For how long?

Is this an answer to the prayers of Americans for this country?


Psalm 144 Blessed be the Lord my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle. My loving kindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, My shield and the One in whom I take refuge.


Clasp your hands and fingers together, bow your heads and,

Let’s go to war. 

Father, please lead us and guide us today and in the days to come,

Please give us the wisdom we need as we fight this assault on our nation. Please help us retake the government from these traitors and criminals. Please continue to awaken the American  .

Please move mightily and either bring these oppressors to a place of repentance or imprisonment.
I ask you to protect this nation. Deliver us from our oppressors.
Remove from power those who threaten our livelihood and income.
Those that would drive down the value of our savings and the ability to pay our bills.
Imprison us for opposing, and speaking out against, their evil totalitarian plans for us.

I ask that if they will not repent, that you destroy them. That you will protect us. Amen.


Last night, I was with a group of engineers at work. I was programming machines to talk to the new database that would integrate us into the company that recently acquired us that they were implementing.
I was explaining that this one machine drops four different stacks of finished goods, but due to the design, I could never guarantee that all four stacks would be equal, only that they would total a certain goal number or overshoot that number a little.
One of the software engineers turned to another one and said, “Yeah, we can’t have .5 of a part.”
and I responded that this was a welding cell, not a Dominion voting machine.
And they all laughed. My boss shook his head and said “Here we go…”, but I said I was glad they all knew what I was talking about, and they agreed. So I mentioned that I did this radio show, and would be talking about this today. Had any of them heard of Pat Colbeck? And they had. Friends, that’s encouraging!

And God has been kind to you, the listening audience and answered my prayer for an intelligent informed guest in the form of the afore mentioned Pat Colbeck.
Rocket Scientist, former State Senator, candidate for governor, currently author and dare I say activist, host of letsfixstuff.org occasional talk show host and prominent investigator into how the coup against the American People was accomplished.


Covid and Wrath

Audio clips and commentary,
Ron Johnson's senate hearings.
My winning radio spot, 
and a reprise of
Peter Wood's
Wrath: America Enraged 

Jesus and Santa

I interviewed William J. Federer regarding his book on Santa Claus. You should listen, there's more to the story than you may know. How ...