Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Official English Bill With Bilingual Ballot Ban Introduced in Congress
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) has introduced legislation to make English America's official language and ban bilingual ballots. Congressman King has sponsored his National Language Act in every Congress since 1995.
King's National Language Act (H.R. 4408) has already been cosponsored by Congressman Steve King (R-IA), another leader of the official English movement in the 109th Congress, as well as Congressman Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO), whose late husband fought for official English until his death in 1996.
You can ask your Congressman to cosponsor this important self-executing legislation by clicking here. Please do so as soon as you can.
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Arlen Agonistes
Even non-football fans know something of the saga of Philadelphia's wide receiver Terrell Owens, who basically complained his way into being suspended for the rest of this NFL season.
Well, Senator Arlen Specter (Rhino-PA) has found time to make a federal case out of Owens' suspension:
"It's a restraint of trade for them to do that, and the thought crosses my mind, it might be a violation of antitrust laws," Specter said. ... "I do not believe, personally, that it is appropriate to punish him (by forcing him to sit out the rest of the season). He's not committed a crime, he's committed a breach of contract. And what they're doing against him is vindictive."
Question of the day: which is worse, Specter's legal reasoning or his grandstanding?
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Thanksgiving Day Dissidents
Not everyone enjoys Thanksgiving.
University of Colorado Professor Ward "little Eichmanns" Churchill's famous rant against Thanksgiving in 2000 can still be found here. A taste:
[F]rom an American Indian perspective, what is it we're supposed to be so thankful for? Does anyone really expect us to give thanks for the fact that soon after the Pilgrim Fathers regained their strength, they set out to dispossess and exterminate the very Indians who had fed them that first winter?
University of Texas Journalism Professor Robert Jensen walked in Churchill's footsteps this week:
Thanksgiving
is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers.
The mullahs of multiculturalism continue to pontificate against the Thanksgiving story:
[I]f you teach a version of the first Thanksgiving that tells how "they served pumpkins and turkeys and corn and squash. The Indians had never seen such a feast", you would be passing along an inaccurate picture. This account fails to recognize feasting as an important Native American cultural tradition. ... Dressing up as "Indians," wearing feathers, sending greeting cards with persons in "Indian" costumes, speaking one- or two-word thoughts, and reading stereotypical stories about Thanksgiving tend to lessen the contributions Native Americans have made to our society.
If these folks have their way, "Happy Thanksgiving" will soon join "Merry Christmas" as prohibited hate speech.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005
E.U. Orders Small "c" for "Christ"
Via Canada Free Press and NRO today:
At the European Union, the name of the humble carpenter from Nazareth may be diminished by lower-case spelling, but Javier Solana, The Great will continue to have his name spelled in capital letters.
Solana, a sort of Kofi Annan, European style, is High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary General of both the European Union and the Western European Union. Note to the media, all of his titles are to be spelled in capital letters.
Evidently, "multiculturalism" is sometimes missing the "multi".
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005
PFAW v. Alito on Bilingual Jurors
Via National Review Online today.
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