Free Republic

Santorum says Puerto Rico must adopt English as official language if it wants statehood By Daniel Strauss - 03/14/12 04:10 PM ET Rick Santorum said Puerto Rico would have to adopt English as its primary language if it wants to achieve statehood. "Like any other state, there has to be compliance with this and any other federal law," Santorum told a local newspaper, El Vocero, according to Reuters. "And that is that English has to be the principal language. There are other states with more than one language such as Hawaii, but to be a state of the United States,...

Gunmen belonging to the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, Monday shot and killed two Palestinians suspected of collaboration with Israel. The group said in a leaflet distributed in the West Bank that the two, Fadel Odeh and Amjad Ajaj, had confessed to working for the Shin Bet and assisting in the killing of three Fatah fugitives. Odeh, 26, and Ajaj, 25, were kidnapped two weeks ago from their homes in the village of Saideh in the Tulkarem area. Their families said the kidnappers were members of the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades. Around noon Monday, the kidnappers brought Ajaj...