Glenn writes:

> Wirt writes:
>
>  > No state has an official language. Neither does the United States, as a
>  > federal policy.
>
>  To paraphrase an old saying, "If it's on the Internet, it must be true." ;)
>
>  With this in mind, here's a page which provides a counterpoint to the
>  "no state has an official language" claim:
>
>          < http://www.latino.com/opinion/0505osid.html >

I was clearly wrong when I said no state has an official language. The page
above lists those states that do. Worse yet, I had forgotten about the
Arizona controversy (and I'm originally from Arizona). Arizona enacted the
most restrictive law in the country a few years back, requiring only English
to be spoken by state government workers while on the job (there are a bunch
of idiots in Arizona that get elected to state governmental positions :-).
The Arizona law was declared unconstitutional by the lower Federal courts,
but later dismissed as moot by the US Supreme Court, because by the time it
reached the high court, the state worker who filed the original complaint had
quit her job. As a technical consequence, the Arizona law currently stands --
until it is challenged again.

Wirt Atmar