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The Life and Liberty Minute with Bryan Fischer, the host of “Focal Point” on American Family Radio. It’s a laser-like 60-second focus on an issue of the day, using the Word of God and the Constitution to analyze and explain.

The Life and Liberty Minute with Bryan Fischer, the host of “Focal Point” on American Family Radio. It’s a laser-like 60-second focus on an issue of the day, using the Word of God and the Constitution to analyze and explain.

The Life and Liberty Minute features Bryan Fischer, the host of “Focal Point” on American Family Radio. It’s a laser-like 60 second focus on an issue of the day, using the Word of God and the Constitution to analyze and explain.

The Life and Liberty Minute features Bryan Fischer, the host of “Focal Point” on American Family Radio. It’s a laser-like 60 second focus on an issue of the day, using the Word of God and the Constitution to analyze and explain.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life & Liberty Minute. Jack Lucas is a name worth remembering on Memorial Day. After Pearl Harbor, Jack, at age 14, begged his mother to help him enlist in exchange for a promise to someday finish school. When his unit boarded a troop ship for Iwo Jima, he stowed away instead of reporting for guard duty so he could join a combat unit. Just after his 17th birthday, he hit the beach and a day later was fighting in a Japanese trench when he threw himself on two grenades which landed near his comrades. Assuming he was dead, a medic started to take his dog tags when he saw a finger twitch. After months of treatment and recovery, he returned to school as promised, and entered the ninth grade with a Congressional Medal of Honor around his neck. We owe our freedom to such warriors. Father, we thank you for giving America men like Jack Lucas.

Bryan Fischer here with the Life & Liberty Minute. Valedictorian Elizabeth Turner of Hillsdale High School in Michigan wrote a graduation speech that mentioned Jesus Christ. School officials freaked and told her she couldn’t. But the Michigan constitution says, “Every person may freely speak, (and) express his views on all subjects.” There is nothing in there that says, “Unless you are talking about Christianity or speaking at a graduation ceremony.” The First Amendment guarantees the right to the free exercise of religion and to freedom of speech. When First Liberty Institute reminded the school of the Constitution, the school quickly folded, and Elizabeth will now be free to share her faith in Jesus with her classmates. Good for her, and shame on this school for its ignorance. Graduation should be about celebration, not censorship.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life and Liberty Minute. The Brookings Institute on the left and the Heritage Foundation on the right agree about one thing: fathers matter. The poverty rate for single parents with children in the United States is thirty seven percent. The poverty rate for married couples with children is just seven percent. Being raised in a married family reduces child poverty by eighty-two percent. Brookings says boys are more affected than girls by the lack of a male role model in the family. Heritage says the principal cause of child poverty is the absence of married fathers in the home. I’ve made a modest contribution to the solution through The Boy To Man Book, a book for fathers of twelve-year-old boys to mentor them on their glide path to adulthood. You can order your copy today at afastore.net. That’s afastore.net.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life & Liberty Minute. The sharpest political divide in America is not between whites and blacks but between people who are married and people who aren’t. Researcher Brad Wilcox has observed that married Americans keep voting Republican. In 2020, married men voted for President Trump 56-42 while married women voted for him 52-48. And this represents an increase since 2016. Entire communities with more married men and women were markedly more likely to vote conservative. Marrieds tend to have more conservative views on things like taxes, role of government, and education. Marriage is now the best predictor of voting trends. No wonder regressives try to undermine the institution of marriage every chance they get. If you want to reform  American politics, the best thing you can do is get married and stay married.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life & Liberty Minute. Police are being defunded at eye-watering rates, leaving the residents of one city after another defenseless against criminals as crime and murder rates go into the stratosphere. What’s the answer? The answer is the Second Amendment, which guarantees to every American the right to own and carry arms in his own defense and the defense of his family. Texas this week became the 21st state to pass “Constitutional Carry” legislation, which means the only permit you need to carry a weapon for your own defense is the Constitution of the United States. Folks are buying handguns at the fastest rate ever, including 16 million in the first four months this year, which is up 30% over last year. Americans are realizing that if Joe Biden will not allow the cops to protect us, we’ll have to do it ourselves.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life & Liberty Minute. Regressive police reforms are making big cities less safe, not more. Fewer police mean more crime and more murders. More police mean less crime and fewer murders. St. Louis is only the latest example. St. Louis already has the highest murder rate in the country, and its new mayor is about to goose that figure by getting rid of 100 officers and reducing the police budget by $4 million. In the 1990s, New York was a cesspool of crime. Mayor Rudy Giuliani pacified the Big Apple by adding more cops to the beat and implementing a proactive stop and frisk policy in the most crime-ridden parts of town. Times Square was cleared of prostitution and pornography and the city became an attractive tourist destination again. If you thought the murder rate in St. Louis was bad now, just wait til this time next year.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life and Liberty Minute. Seven counties in the regressive state of Oregon have voted to secede from Oregon and join Idaho. They are sick up to here with a state government that is controlled by far-left values. My home state of Idaho, by contrast, is one of the most conservative states in the Union. In the regressive part of Oregon, Biden defeated Trump 56-40, but in these freedom-loving counties, Trump received 69-79% of the vote. Moving state boundaries has happened three times in U.S. history - that’s how we got Kentucky, Maine, and West Virginia. Maybe it’s about to happen again. One supporter of the move said liberals ought to support it: “If Oregon really believes in liberal values such as self-determination, the Legislature won’t hold our counties captive against our will.” May their tribe increase.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life and Liberty Minute. Here’s an excerpt from a column in National Review, written by an American woman. “American men! They’re the kindest, most decent, most loving men there are. They treat you like a human being, in a free, natural way. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that a young American woman could make a long trip alone in perfect security - woe to anyone who touched her. During a snowstorm one year, two young men at a Pennsylvania bus station helped me cross the icy parking lot with my luggage and then stood near me under the awning, talking to each other about frontier history. I realized I didn’t have to worry. They had no notion of a right to either hurt me or drive me away.” I’ve written the Boy to Man Book to produce more American young men just like this. Order your copy today at afastore.net. That’s afastore.net.