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If 2. is small and is just rounded up, 2. + 2. can equal 3. For large values rounded down, it can be 5. It can never be 6.

I read historical documents a small chunk a day to understand them. That’s all this feed is.
30/Fred

Continuing with his dissent Murphy notes that some did prove disloyal, just like those of German and Italian descent who were judged individually, not as a group like Korematsu.

He argues all have ancestral loyalties - I’d add even natives have ties to their own nation not the US.
May 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
9/Fred

Section 3 refers to the “instant case” (legal speak for the case currently before the court) being that there was information Korematsu violated a law passed by Congress, 18 U.S.C.A. §97(a), quoted in section 4.

Can’t find this section now on a quick search, apparently repealed in 1948.
May 7, 2025 at 5:58 AM
7/Fred

The sections of the ruling are numbered, and 1 is the charges.

Korematsu was charged with being of Japanese descent and remaining in “military area #1” described in exclusion order 34, linked.

The ruling notes that there is no question of his loyalty.

www.javadc.org/java/docs/19...
May 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Teddy’s Man In The Arena speech is evergreen.

www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-...
April 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Texas DSHS tells a different story.
April 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Clearly and tragically false.
April 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Schimel should read a bit on what God smote people for in days of old.
April 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
March 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
March 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Just reposting this little bit from Frederick Douglass - this is not a new problem.

There’s a reason so many have turned away and the church has become a fallen institution.
March 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
33/What

Beyond simply turning a blind eye to the problems and focusing on going through the motions of religion, FD accuses the church of palming off the blasphemy of endorsing slavery as Christianity.

FD argues that Christianity used this way is an endorsement of atheism.
March 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Christians have always been bad at this.
March 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
29/What

This is a bit of scripture that FD invokes which is something I ran across in my own reading that, well, resonates.

FD uses the verse in referring to these tithes of spices as the trappings of religion (psalms, sacrament, ceremony) as things that would get a response if affected.
March 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Obama inauguration:
March 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
March 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Here’s a relevant line. Reading through the political doublespeak it’s clearly about race.
March 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Which report?

This one? (P. 30 excerpt, Smith, 7Jan25)
March 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
They’ve been at it for a while.

Just ask Elián Gonzalez.
March 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
March 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
March 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Mission accomplished!

Bush the Younger really ruined that phrase for me, trying to reclaim it.
March 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
From the article that you obviously didn’t read:
March 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Those protests are in no danger of threatening the government. This is the quote that sets off alarm bells, btw, as sounding like “I’m saying this because I have to.”
February 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
We could easily be around January 27th on this graph.
February 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
February 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM