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 More interesting history form the National Constitution Center Blog.  Not sure if this is from this day or from March 11 but it was in was in my email inbox: On March 11, 1861, delegates from the newly formed Confederate States of America agreed on their own constitution. Here is a look at this little-known third constitution that controlled the lives of about 9 million people for a short period of time. Much of the Confederate Constitution mirrored the Constitution of the United States as it existed at the time, with bigger differences in the matters of slavery and states’ rights. In 1860, there were more than 9 million people, including 3 million slaves, living in the states and territories that would leave the Union, compared with 22 million people outside those areas. The document was drawn up and approved just a week after Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States on March 4th. There were seven southern states that had seceded at the time, and a total of 11 w...

 https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/immigration-law-from-the-1950s-may-play-role-in-columbia-deportation-case Law from the 1950s may play role in Columbia University student deportation case The current case involving Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student facing expulsion from the United States for his participation in public pro-Palestine protests, may center on a law from the McCarthy era, and how courts interpret it. On March 8, 2025, federal immigration officers detained Khalil at his university-owned apartment in New York. Agents reportedly told Khalil that his legal permanent resident status had been revoked by the State Department. On March 10, a federal judge  ordered a temporary pause  to Khalil’s deportation process, with a hearing set for March 12. In  a public statement  posted on X, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said, “Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. ICE and the D...

 https://historyfacts.com/us-history/fact/wwii-navajo-code-talkers/ Diné bizaad is an Indigenous language primarily used by the Navajo, or  Diné , people of the American Southwest. Not only is the language complex, but it’s traditionally passed down orally. During World War II, the United States military used this to its advantage by recruiting Navajo people fluent in both English and Diné bizaad, dubbed “code talkers,” to transmit secret messages among Allied forces.   The U.S. military wasn’t the first to use the tactic — members of Cherokee, Lakota, and other nations used their native tongues to evade German detection in World War I. The Marines, however, established the first formal training program for code talkers, and 29 Navajo completed the training in 1942. Recruits developed and memorized a two-part  secret code inside a guarded room . The first part used 26 Diné bizaad words to stand in for letters of the English alphabet. The next part was more complex, a...

 https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/donald-j-trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_presidency_of_Donald_Trump#:~:text=The%20Trump%20administration%20was%20characterized,did%20over%20their%20entire%20terms. Ok, here's hoping I found some good objective sites.