Bernard @ A Certain Slant of Light posted THE “COMMON AND UNIFYING LANGUAGE” OF AMERICA: ENGLISH OR SPANISH?. In the article he said,

Our nation’s Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, is clearly against any legislation that might be passed by Congress and signed into law by the president (Gonzales, in this regard, has really nothing to fear, but fear itself) that would codify English as the “national language” of this country.

GawainsGhost paid a visit to ACSOL and left a comment that provides a touch of history of the English language. Ghost discusses the transformation from Latin prior to William the Conqueror, through Shakespeare and the evolution to modern English. That’s an interesting time for me because my family has traced the origin of our name from Scandinavian (HLEAHTOR) and Old Norse (LAHTRE and LATTR) to forms beginning in England about 1400 (LAHTRO > LATRE > LAUCHTER) to the U.S., Canadian and Australian versions of today (LAUGHTER, LAWTER) and the U.K. version of (LARTER).

Ghost adds:

Anyone even remotely familiar with the History of the English Language understands clearly why it is the superior language. Because it’s not just a language — it’s a meta-language (a language of languages).

Not learning English is like being a carpenter who insists on using a screwdriver because a powerdrill is too complicated. The longer it takes Hispanics to figure that out, the more behind they’re going to fall. Misguided ethnic pride is the surest path to the second, if not the third, class status. Or, as they say in Spanish, “Si tu quieres ser un hombre, pero no tienes una mente, entonces no tienes algunos juevos.”

Who can disagree?

BTW: You’ll have to read the comment if you want a translation of the Spanish.

Another quote from GawainsGhost from another site: “Today, it [English] is the Language of Money. (The real money is making money, just as the real language is making words.) It is also the international language of business, commerce, communication, and law.

Best of May 30, 2006

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A Certain Slant of Light — Bernard Higgins
LINKS ROUND-UP ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION DEBATE
There are a baker’s dozen of excellent posts this morning on the border security/illegal immigration debate that continues to rage in this country and more so than ever now that the United States Senate has shirked its responsibility of “representative government” and turned a deaf ear to the vast majority of American citizens in passing the egregiously incomprehensible S-2611 amnesty first bill.

A Certain Slant of Light — Bernard Higgins
THE “COMMON AND UNIFYING LANGUAGE” … ENGLISH OR SPANISH?
Our nation’s Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, is clearly against any legislation that might be passed by Congress and signed into law by the president … that would codify English as the “national language” of this country. …

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California Conservative — Gary Gross
Whatever Happened to Due Process?
People speaking “on condition of anonymity” aren’t trustworthy at all. Furthermore, whatever happened to the legal principle that the accused gets to confront and attempt impeaching his accusers before the jury deliberates? It seems, at minimum, that Murtha is tainting the jury pool and violating these Marines’ due process rights.

Whoever said that Murtha is a rational person.
He’s totally incapable of saying these words.

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FOX News — Associated Press
Court Rejects Atheist’s Claim Over Boy Scouts
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Tuesday from an atheist father over Boy Scout recruiting at his son’s public school. … John Scalise had asked the court to bar public schools from opening their doors to Boy Scout recruiters and promoting membership, arguing that the group discriminates against nonreligious boys and parents by denying them membership if they don’t swear to religious oaths.

FOX News — Associated Press
Supreme Court Makes it Harder for Whistleblowers to Go Public
By a 5-4 vote, justices said the nation’s 20 million public employees do not have carte blanche free speech rights to disclose government’s inner-workings. New Justice Samuel Alito cast the tie-breaking vote.

FOX News — Associated Press
Minutemen Offer Widespread Blame for Inflow of Illegals
“It’s overwhelmingly a national security issue,” Hair said, calling the flow of immigrants “a human tsunami over the border.” … The two Minuteman groups are made up of grandparents, children, World War II veterans, pilots, accountants, doctors, teachers, cab drivers, former military, law enforcement, and border patrol, the planners said.

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Michelle Malkin — Michelle
INCIDENT AT HADITHA, PT. II
Our Marines do not deserve to be hung in the court of public opinion before an investigation is complete, before hearings are convened, or before any military court proceedings are launched. But there are knees jerking on both sides.

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NRO — John Derbyshire
Path to What?
I suppose the “path to citizenship” at some point involves getting a “green card” (it is actually pink), the document that entitles you to live here as a resident alien, but without full citizenship rights. If so, it will be interesting to see how many of the illegals, once they have got themselves a green card, bother to proceed to citizenship. … There is not actually a lot of point in doing so.

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Right Wing News — John Hawkins
22 Problems With The Senate’s Illegal Immigration Bill
Impossible To Deport Most Illegal Aliens … Consultation with Mexico Required To Put Up Border Barriers … Amnesty Ahead Of Security … Criminals Becoming U.S. Citizens … Illegals Will Become America’s Privileged Workers … Weak Requirement to Speak English … Employers Of Illegals Get Amnesty On Taxes … Illegal Alien Tax Amnesty … Earned Income Tax Credits For Illegals … Social Security For Illegals … PLUS eleven more

Right Wing News — John Hawkins
How The Public Really Breaks Down On Illegal Immigration
Suddenly, Bush’s selection of Harriet Miers and his strong, early support of the Dubai Port deal makes sense: he must have had these guys doing the polling. … In all seriousness, if I were a politician and a pollster came to me and told me that the polling data showed America and Republicans were wildly enthusiastic about the Senate’s plan and were cool to what the House wanted to do, I’d fire him on the spot for incompetence…

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This and this drives the MSM nuts…

They hate it.

H/T: Michelle Malkin

Best of May 27-29, 2006

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A Certain Slant of Light — Bernard Higgins
WHY HAS OUR GOVERNMENT ACQUIESCED TO VICENTE FOX?
Good ol’ Vicente Fox. He’s certainly out-foxed and out-manuevered President Bush and the United States Senate. What Fox demands of the United States government for Mexican nationals living and working illegally in our country, he refuses to provide in Mexico and not only for illegal immigrants, but for documented migrants as well.

A Certain Slant of Light — Bernard Higgins
THE “NATIONAL GUARDSMEN TO THE BORDER” RUSE
Today’s edition of the Houston Chronicle carries a front-page, below-the-fold story by James Pinkerton and John Gonzalez that confirms this writer’s suspicions that President Bush’s commitment to send “up to 6,000? National Guardsmen to the border is more bombastic bromide and political ruse than an effective way of materially reversing his long-standing open borders’ mindset.

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Ace in the Hole — TexasFred
Fox praises Mexican immigrants
[Vicente] Fox is a moderate conservative, and he’s behind the maps and direction for the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, the ones they use to successfully INVADE the USA … If he’s supposed to be the ‘Good Guy’, what the hell are we going to face if a hard core left or a commie gets in office in Mexico?…

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Ankle Biting Pundits — BullDogPundit
On Immigration, House GOP to Senats…
It looks like a good number of House Republicans — especially those in tough races — are finally coming around to understanding what many in the right-wing blogosphere have been saying for weeks — that support for the President’s and the Senate GOP’s immigration bill … means political death.

Ankle Biting Pundits — Bombstruck
Shots Reported At Capitol Building
“They said they heard gunfire at the Rayburn garage but this is a huge building, I’m guessing it’s a car backfiring or balloons popping.”

Er, how about the sound of Speaker Hastert shooting himself in the foot?

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Bizblogger — Richie Rich
Harry Reid Re-enters the “Culture of Corruption”
Harry Reid appears to have done something as unethical as those in the Jack Abramoff circle: accepting free tickets to boxing events in Nevada while he was working on legislation to provide oversight of boxing. Hmmm.

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California Conservative — Gary Gross
Durbin: “Consult Mexico”
To think that we’d have to talk to them about securing our border tells you how unserious Durbin and the Democrats are about border security. It also says alot about Mexico’s attitude towards the Mexican-American border.

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Chicago Sun-Times — Mark Steyn
Gingrich revolutionaries turn into arrogant elite
In other words, the Hastert-McCain Congress is now the complete inversion of what it’s meant to be: They won’t exercise their right to brave honest debate but they will claim the right for congressmen to keep evidence of crime and corruption in their offices without having to be bound by footling piffle like court-ordered search warrants.

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Examiner.com — Bill Sammon
White House compares illegal immigration to speeding
The White House on Friday said a Senate bill that would grant legal status to illegal immigrants is analogous to a traffic law that allows a speeder to pay a fine and continue driving. … “If you had a traffic ticket and you paid it, you’re not forever a speeder, are you?” White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said in response to questions from The Examiner.

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Free Republic — Roger Hedgecock via CAWATS
Alaskan Pipeline
So to appease them, the pipeline was put on stilts where it crossed the caribou graze lands. What happened? The caribou decided to gather at the spot where the pipeline came down to the ground. Seems the caribou liked to lie against the pipeline because the pipe was warm from the oil passing through it. The liked it so much they starting mating like crazy next to the warm pipeline and now the area is overrun with caribou. They don’t know what else to do except harvest them.

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The Jerusalem Post — Mark Steyn
And now, the Latino Jihad
Chavez’s revolutionary mentor is Fidel Castro and the new kid on the block has been happy to pump cash infusions into the old boy’s impoverished basket-case. “Venezuela,” writes Gaffney [Frank Gaffney's new book War Footing], “has more energy resources than Iraq and supplies one-fifth of the oil sold in America.”

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Michelle Malkin — Michelle
DO-IT-YOURSELF BORDER CONTROL
The Minutemen began a fence-building project in Arizona today–and they didn’t ask Mexico’s permission. Chris Simcox issued a statement announcing the construction project now underway:

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Myrtle Beach Online — Kelly Marshall Fuller
N.C. man charged with intent to kill
Via Free Republic: Larry Jacobs, of Sugar Grove, N.C., was arrested in Surfside Beach after witnesses saw a car hit 27-year-old Makino Robinson from behind, then continue driving at least four miles with the motorcycle pinned beneath his car.

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NewsMax.com — Staff
Illegal Immigration Up Since Senate Bill
Senate debate over an immigration bill that promises Social Security benefits and citizenship for illegal immigrants has already prompted an increase in the number of Mexicans trying to get into the U.S. illegally, Rep. James Sensenbrenner said Sunday.

NewsMax.com — Staff
Minutemen Building Ariz. Border Fence
Timothy Schwartz of Glendale, Ariz., who was among at least 200 volunteers gathered, said he wants to see a fence along the border from California to Texas. … “We’re not going to stop,” Schwartz said. “We’re going to stay here with a group and keep building.”

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Patterico’s Pontifications — Patterico
Republicans Caving on Judicial Nominees, Thanks to Gang of 14 Deal
Don’t let the confirmation of Kavanaugh fool you into thinking that all is hunky-dory on the judicial confirmation front. A recent Bloomberg story suggests that Republicans plan to cave on all the other controversial nominees:

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Red State — Krempasky
Diana Irey vs. Jack Murtha
Diana Irey is running against Jack Murtha. Running as a challenger anywhere in the country is a tall order – and rest assured, Murtha will get money from every fever swamp around. Nonetheless, someone had to say it, …

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TimesOnline — Tony Allen-Mills
Bewitching blonde casts spell on Bill
Yet Stronach’s name has a knack of popping up at awkward moments in discussions of the Clinton marriage. … With that marriage under increasing scrutiny as the New York senator edges closer to a potentially historic presidential campaign, the organisers of Bill’s party are facing an awkward dilemma. … will Belinda be there?

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Townhall.com — Mona Charen
“Anchors” away
In 1970, six percent of all births in the United States were to illegal aliens. In 2002, that figure was 23 percent. In 1994, 36 percent of the births paid for by Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid, were to illegals. That figure has doubtless increased in the intervening 12 years as the rate of illegal immigration has risen.

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VDare.com — Prolific Whistleblower X
Amnesty … Document Fraud And Today’s Technology
In 1986, the proof that an alien was in the U.S. for a certain amount of time, or performed a certain number of days of field labor, was dumbed-down to ensure that EVERYONE could qualify. Legalization offices were told to accept little more than copies of handwritten receipts and “affidavits” from people who could attest that the applicant lived or worked somewhere for a certain amount of time. … Now it’s about to happen again.

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The Washington Post — Jim VandeHei and Zachary A. Goldfarb
Immigration Deal at Risk as House GOP Looks to Voters
Several Republicans said they are getting more bricks in the mail — as part of a new grass-roots campaign promoting a fence between the United States and Mexico — than letters or calls supporting Bush and the Senate bill. Most said 80 to 90 percent of feedback coming from constituents last week was in opposition to Bush and the Senate on the citizenship question.

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COMMENTARY

I’m getting more than a little ticked at some members of congress that I usually respect… James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) comes to mind.

I’m happy that Sensenbrenner is holding the line on the House’s border control bill and I appreciate his promise to fight the Bush-Senate amnesty plan. Those are good things. Republicans need all the good publicity they can get these days. But instead of tallying up the pluses from the border-control-first stance the House GOP seems intent on blowing the whole enchilada over a bogus claim that Congress is above the law… That Capitol Hill has privileges never granted to the White House or the Judiciary.

Denny Hastert looked, sounded, and acted stupid when he tried to sell the swill that the DOJ and federal courts had over-reached the boundaries of “separate but equal.” Within 48 hours Hastert backed off, probably after discussing the matter with a HS civics’ student.

Sensenbrenner wasn’t so easily dissuaded. Throughout the weekend he was on cable TV asserting that the House will stick to its guns to control the border before taking up the matter of illegal aliens already here, but then he invariably ended in a long discourse denouncing the DOJ-FBI for violating the principles of “separate but equal.”

Remember the Nixon tapes? Remember the dozens of times that federal judges have ordered the White House to cough up documents? Remember the hundreds of times that federal judges have had their own chambers searched? That’s exactly the same thing that happened here. A LEGAL subpoena* had been issued EIGHT MONTHS before the search warrant was executed and Congressman Jefferson and the H.O.R. had failed to comply. [Don't try that at home or you’ll end up in the cell next to Duke Cunningham.]

With that said, it’s hard to imagine that Sensenbrenner could look even more foolish but he managed to pull it off. He compared the DOJ-FBI search of Jefferson’s office to a hypothetical: He said, what would the White House think if Congress issued a subpoena and sent the Capitol Hill Police over to the White House to conduct a search. — Huh?

For a sitting congressman to compare the Capitol Hill Police (CHP) to the constitutionally authorized Department of Justice boggles the mind. — Then, top that by confusing a subpoena and a search warrant! — THEN, he tops that by implying that Congress can conduct criminal investigations… GET REAL! — He has no idea how close he’s edging over toward the stuff that makes revolutions.

Hey, James… This is really kindergarten stuff but obviously you need to pay close attention: THE CHP HAS NO AUTHORITY BEYOND YOUR OWN LITTLE FIEFDOM… IT’S A PRIVATE POLICE-SECURITY FORCE FOR THE CAPITOL. BUSH DIDN’T SEND THE SECRET SERVICE TO JEFFERSON’S OFFICE… THE DOJ AND A FEDERAL COURT SENT THE FBI. — CONGRESS HAS NO AUTHORITY TO ISSUE A SEARCH WARRANT FOR ANY HOUSE, LET ALONE THE WHITE HOUSE… GOT IT? — Besides, it wouldn’t be a fair fight to send the bumbling CHP up against the Secret Service. If I were you, I’d look for another solution. — Remember, the CHP are pretty busy: They’re trying to figure out if a cellphone cracked across a police officer’s head is a no-no or is it OK.

Here’s a way you could work it, James: Congress issues a subpoena to the White House… The White House refuses to comply… You go to a federal judge and get an order to compel the White House to comply… The White House still refuses… You impeach the President and send him back to Crawford. — Repeat that process for each new President until you find one that will comply. — GOT IT?

There IS another way that DOJ could’ve handled this matter: They could have put Jefferson in jail FIRST, and THEN searched his office.

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UPDATE I: As expected, John Conyers has chimed in and is spouting the same tripe as Sensenbrenner. We can look forward to the same BS until after the elections. Dems see it as Republicans validating their claim that Republicans are out of control. — I’ve always said that one problem I have of voting with Republicans is that they’re so damn dumb its embarrassing.

UPDATE II: This should prove they’re either certifiably insane or dumber than dirt.

UPDATE III: Leon H. Wolf @ RedState: Reckless Fools…

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* (DEF: SUBPOENA, “A writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding or to produce evidence; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court.”)

I received the following via Eagle Forum email subscription. It’s posted here without permission for two reasons: I like the article and think it’s well worth reading and, there’s a technical problem linking to the Eagle Forum site. If the Eagle Forum objects to the liberty I have taken, I’ll redo the posting and replace the article with an excerpt and link but it will retain the same title and archives reference.

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Why Is Bush So Stubborn?
May 31, 2006
by Phyllis Schlafly

As President Bush’s poll numbers drop dramatically even among his base, the question most frequently asked by angry Republicans is, why, oh why, is Bush so stubbornly rejecting the advice of his supporters even though that advice is consistent with the thunderous message from public opinion surveys? The reliable Rasmussen survey, for example, reports that by a 63 percent to 19 percent margin, voters want legislation that controls the borders before trying to change the status of illegal aliens.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger encapsuled the typical reaction to Bush’s televised speech: “I have not heard the president say that our objective is to secure the borders no matter what it takes. That’s what I want to hear.”

Bush’s dogmatic statement that we can’t stop aliens from illegally entering our country unless legislation is packaged “together” with a guest-worker program is a non sequitur, nonsense, and untrue. So what gives?

Grassroots Republicans are speculating about explanations for Bush’s behavior: (a) Bush prides himself on being a man of his word and he gave his word to Vicente Fox that he would never stop the migration of Mexicans into the United States; (b) Bush made a faustian bargain with the big-money guys who raised more political money in 2000 than all other Republicans combined in order to nominate and elect him president; (c) Bush is a globalist at heart and wants to carry out his father’s oft-repeated ambition of a “new world order”; (d) Bush meant what he said, at Waco in March 2005, when he announced his plan to convert the United States into a “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” by erasing our borders with Canada and Mexico.

Bush’s guest-worker proposal would turn the United States into a boarding house for the world’s poor, enable employers to import an unlimited number of “willing workers” at foreign wage-levels, and wipe out what’s left of the American middle class.

Bush lives in a House well protected by a fence and security guards (and he associates with rich people who live in gated communities). Yet for five years he has refused to protect the property and children of ordinary Arizona citizens from trespassers and criminals.

Much attention has been paid to Bush’s proposal to legalize the illegals currently in the United States (estimated at 10 to 20 million). Despite his denial of the A word, friends and foes alike recognize this as amnesty.

However, amnesty for 10 to 20 million is almost a drop in the bucket compared to the mammoth legalization of immigrants hiding under the deceitful words “temporary” and “guest-worker.” Those words are lies because the workers are not temporary and not guests.

We are indebted to the Heritage Foundation for its stunning report proving that the so-called 614-page “compromise” bill just passed by the Senate is a stealth open borders bill that would import into our country permanently and put on the path to citizenship at least 66 million people, with the actual number rising to at least twice that number when they bring in their relatives. Every category of legal immigration will be quadrupled or quintupled, and the racket called family chain migration will be dramatically expanded.

The so-called temporary workers in their fourth year will get the right to remain in the United States permanently if they have learned English OR are enrolled in an English class, and after five years will get the right to become a U.S. citizen who can vote in U.S. elections. At the same time, the guest worker’s spouse and children, without any numeric limits, will get legal permanent residence and citizenship.

After the so-called temporaries and their spouses become citizens, they acquire the right to bring in their parents as permanent residents on the path to citizenship. Siblings and adult children and their families will be given preference in future admissions.

In the words of the author of the Heritage report, Robert Rector, this is “the most monumental bill ever considered” and its mindboggling costs would be the largest-ever expansion of taxpayer-paid social benefits. Adding these millions to Medicaid, and adding their parents to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, will become staggering entitlement costs.

The Senate bill would make 25 percent of our population foreign born within 20 years (most of them high school dropouts), and the United States as we know it would no longer exist. It is impossible in so short a time to assimilate a hundred million people whose native culture does not respect the Rule of Law, self-government, private property, or the sanctity of contracts, and where they are accustomed to an economy based on bribery and controlled by a small, rich ruling class that keeps most of the people in dire poverty.

Further reading: Amnesty

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Tribute to 9/11

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The Washington Times — Suzanne Fields
“For generations schoolchildren learned as a Memorial Day recitation the lines written by Col. John McRae, a Canadian doctor, as he took a break at a field hospital beside a cemetery at the Ypres salient in 1915:”
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
between the crosses row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep,
though poppies grow, In Flanders fields.

A rare news item appeared today.

FOX News.com
Mauritanian Leader Calls for Abolishment of Slavery
May 28, 2006
Associated Press

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — The military ruler of Mauritania called Friday for his countrymen to stamp out slavery — a rare official acknowledgment that the long-outlawed practice continues in the northwest African country.

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If only we had such a principled politician here… Maybe we could stamp out the slavery and bondage of millions of Latinos by unscrupulous businesses and politicians in the U.S.

Estimated number of people in the U.S. who speak languages other than English in their homes:

– Spanish — 29.7 million

– Chinese — 2.2 million

– French — 1.4 million

– Tagalog* — 1.3 million

– German — 1.1 million

– Vietnamese — 1.1 million

* Tagalog is an official language of the Philippines

SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau

H/T: The Erickson Tribune, Baltimore, MD.

The numbers are interesting. More than 10 percent of Mexico’s national population of 107,000,000 people live ILLEGALLY in the United states. — That’s 10,000,000 illegal Mexicans living in the U.S. whose first allegiance is to Mexico.

If that’s not alarming enough, the figures show that 12.4 percent of the U.S. population speaks a language other than English at home, indicating that 36.8 million of the total U.S. population has not fully assimilated into the American society. — For comparison, the total un-assimilated people living in the U.S. is greater than the entire 33,000,000 population of Canada.

Browsing through blogs and Web news is an important pastime. Its kind of like puttering around in an old gold mine… There’s always a chance you’ll find a nugget.

It happened to me yesterday. I ran across a hunk of gold at Free Republic.

Ben Stein on Religion
CBS Sunday Morning Commentary | 12-2005 | Ben Stein
Posted on 05/27/2006 8:25:41 PM PDT by Hadean

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary, Sunday, 12/18/05

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart: I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important?

I don’t know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise’s wife.

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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him?

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I cached the whole thing here. I want to make sure its always available.