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We promise to keep French on our cereal boxes if we don’t have to subject our children to the joys of ‘French immersion’ programs in our schools. And no Celine Dion. Ever.

I'm not a expert on law. I'm very, very far from it. I'm just an average Freeper who tries to keep on top of Congress and proposed legislation. Sometimes it's hard to decipher the real "nuts and bolts" of a bill, and to get past the spin and rhetoric you're likely to read about in the newspaper or to watch on TV. Here's a small attempt to bring some clarity and definition to a bill making its way through Congress. 108th Congress, U.S. House & U.S. Senate (joint resolution) 108 H.J. Res. 56; 108 S.J. Res. 26 A JOINT RESOLUTION...

I'm not a expert on law. I'm very, very far from it. I'm just an average Freeper who tries to keep on top of Congress and proposed legislation. Sometimes it's hard to decipher the real "nuts and bolts" of a bill, and to get past the spin and rhetoric you're likely to read about in the newspaper or to watch on TV. Here's a small attempt to bring some clarity and definition to a bill making its way through Congress. 108th Congress, U.S. House 108 H.R. 3313 MARRIAGE PROTECTION ACT of 2003 "To amend title 28, United States Code, to...

I'm not a expert on law. I'm very, very far from it. I'm just an average Freeper who tries to keep on top of Congress and proposed legislation. Sometimes it's hard to decipher the real "nuts and bolts" of a bill, and to get past the spin and rhetoric you're likely to read about in the newspaper or to watch on TV. Here's a small attempt to bring some clarity and definition to a bill making its way through Congress. 108th Congress, U.S. House 108 H.R. 1997 UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT of 2004 (a.k.a. Laci and Connor's Law) "To...

MONTREAL - Parisians who tut-tut at the quality of French spoken in Quebec may have to bite their tongues now that the Académie française has declared the Quebec term courriel to be the official French equivalent of e-mail. The rare acceptance by the Académie of a Canadian-grown word is seen as evidence Quebec has overtaken France in adapting the language to modern advances. "It could not have been easy for them to accept that word, because France is supposed to be the francophone leader," said Gérald Paquette, head of communications for the Office québécois de la langue française. "Quebec has...