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50% of Americans Support Gay Marriage, but Only 22% of Republicans

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus5/08/2012 12:12:08 pm PDT

Another part of Obama’s plot to bring PR into American statehood, thus ensuring Democratic Party entrenched majorities, and to make America communist?


Puerto Rico Aims To Become Fully Bilingual By 2022

The governor of Puerto Rico is trying to do what more than a century of American citizenship has failed to accomplish: teach Puerto Ricans to speak English as well as they do Spanish.

Gov. Luis Fortuno has proposed an ambitious plan to give public school students a fully bilingual education within 10 years: He wants to require all schools to teach all courses in English while still offering Spanish grammar and literature classes.

The U.S. territory has had a long and contentious relationship with the English language, and many Puerto Ricans are skeptical about embracing it, fearing they will lose a key part of their identity and find themselves a step closer to statehood, a status that only about half of islanders have backed in recent polls.