This happened in Canada by creeping law. It will inevitably become a Federal standard in the U.S. unless we pass law to limit our language of government to English and require by law that naturalized citizens conform to our standard of communications. A law making English ‘the national language’ won’t cut it.

The good news is the GOP House is on the side of preserving America. The bad news is the great American bald Weasel, Senator Specter, is still flying high.

Specter is willing to postpone amnesty until the borders are secure. It all depends on what you mean by ‘secure’. Who gets to declare the moment that our borders are secure?

To Specter secure may mean that we spent a bunch of money and deployed some National Guard. Specter is selective about enforcement of border law right now, which laws will he select to enforce under the new Bill?

As to Germany’s new solution for Iran, when did Madeleine Albright get appointed German Defense Minister? I think the solution is for Iran to build their nuclear reactors in North Korea. That way, the U.S. will help them build it too.

We can consolidate our dictators, which we need to do as we have run out of fat ladies to negotiate with them.

I believe that Iran is most certainly developing nuclear weapons and this is the reason behind their nuclear enrichment program. By giving Iran time to develop their own nuclear weapons the Germans are showing what they are made of (and not made of) – these types of decisions are made based on cowardice and lack of moral fiber. It will be interesting to see their reaction after Iran threatens and then uses nuclear weapons.

We should all hope that the United States sticks to it’s position that a nuclear armed Iran is unacceptable. The short term consequences of knocking Iran into the stone age may be painful economically but are nothing compared with the alternative.

- Deutschland? Was denken sie? The Germans have to have made a huge oil deal. I can not think of why else they would stoop to this. WHY?
Plus, isnt Iran on the board of IAEA for Nuclear oversight or something?
– We will see mushroom clouds in an act of anger in our lives. Something I never believed could happen, but now I dont know for sure.

From goose stepping to belly crawling. Poor Germany just cannot find the right path I guess.

Not to quible, but I am not sure that the article Allahpundit has linked to really says that Iran has rejected talks with the U.S.

“Negotiating with America does not have any benefit for us and we do not need such negotiations,” Khamenei was quoted as saying by state television.

I agree, normal people would say that sounds like a rejection. But diplomatic-speak is filled with all sorts of nuances and double meanings and innuendos.

My point is that there is still some wiggle room in this statement. If the U.S. and Europe hang tough, Iran might then agree to talk with the U.S. and won’t have to admit it caved to U.S. pressure.

Of course in my original post, I didn’t directly address the issue of what would happen if Europe didn’t hang tough. It would appear this is happening, which would certainly make it look like Iran now really “…[doesn't] need such negotiations.”

If only our European allies had the same strength of will that our enemies do.

What truly amazes me is that Germany has the nerve to say anything about what the world should do in a situation such as this one (given their propensity for starting global conflicts). Germany needs to take a cue from Japan and not try to take the lead on something like this. Much of the world (especially Iran) may have (conveniently) forgotten what you put everybody through in the 20th century, but we haven’t.

Key backers of the Senate immigration bill said yesterday they are willing to consider a compromise that would delay the guest-worker program and “amnesty” portions until the borders have been secured…

The Times says the House isn’t budging and that they still plan to hold public hearings next month on the competing bills. God only knows what polls they’re seeing inside Congress, but Rasmussen reports a 63-19 preference for a hypothetical enforcement-only proposal over a hypothetical amnesty-only plan.

God, AJ Strata, John Podhoretz, Bill Kristol and other RINOs are going to wet their pants over this sure sign of the apocolypse, now that there are indications that a majority of voters are on the side of us “far-right restrictionsis who want no immigration whatsoever”. I mean how could that be when their guy won his primary in Utah last night (never mind Bilbray).

As for the second item of the post, I don’t have much hope for Europe to do the right thing. Recommended reading here is The Force of Reason by Orianna Fallaci. If that book doesn’t scare the bejesus out of you regarding Europe’s fate, then you have a lot of sand in your mouth.

“SALEM, Ore. – Some English-speaking firefighters are losing their jobs because of an Oregon state law that requires them to be bilingual.”

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“Those concerns led the state to draft a new rule that all firefighting bosses speak English, and the languages of crew members who don’t speak English.”

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“Both Oregon state officials and those in the firefighting business say they do not think there are ‘that many’ illegal immigrant workers in the fire crews.”

Peace, in our time. (gag)

Two world wars later, and WW3 is ratcheting up the ante.