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Pie A La Mode, Senor Obama
On Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama told a group of supporters in Powder Springs, Georgia just what direction he wants to take the country.
Can you say, “Hola, Amigo” ?
If you look at his voting record, you’ll see that BO has opposed every legislative attempt to make English the national official language. Instead, he wants all our [...]
English as a Second Language
An interesting story in today's Fresno Bee: Jury clears NIBCO's Fresno plant of discrimination It finds English-only job-skills assessment was valid way to test workers. A Fresno manufacturing plant did not discriminate when it laid off workers who couldn't get a perfect score on a skills test that was only offered in English, a federal jury found Wednesday. The unanimous verdict ended a nine-year legal journey for NIBCO Inc., an Indiana-based irrigation-systems manufacturer. The company's l
'English -only" opponents allies in Metro Legal and Mayor's Office
Emptying both barrels on "English -only" continues by the litigating forces in support of illegal immigration. What will be next? Disruption of Crafton's family Thanksgiving meal by "English-only' opponents demanding the right to the turkey drum stick? Crafton sounds off on English Only Councilman Eric Crafton criticized the Metro Legal Department’s response to the lawsuit seeking to prevent the referendum on the English Only proposal and said the fact the complaint was filed by a Honduran im
Hester Takes Leave To Fight English-Only
Michael Cass reports that one of our Mayor’s political guys has left the administration briefly to battle against an English-Only charter amendment up in a special election in January: Jim Hester, a senior adviser who also ran Dean’s mayoral campaign last year, said he’ll also work against a second proposed Metro Charter amendment, which would allow voters to seek charter amendments through petitions more often. A special election on both measures is scheduled for Jan. 22. “We’ve got a decisi
Look, Kids! Free Hegel!
The Hegel scholar Terry Pinkard has made his long-awaited translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit available online, in en face and English-only formats. Professor Pinkard’s page also includes pictures of Hegel and other turn-of-the-century notables (such as the smokin’ hot Susette Gontard). Also of note: the tsk-tsk-don’t-distribute online presence of Robert Brandom’s forthcoming book on the Phenomenology, A Spirit of Trust. (Thanks to Continental Philosophy for the Pinkard link)
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