NewsMax.com: Arizona Wants English as Official Language

And not only that, they've passed a bill to make it so.

The head of US English has urged Governor Janet Napolitano to sign the bill into law. She's probably disinclined. But of even more important note is that the head of US English is not some stereotypical WASP. His name is Mauro Mujica--almost certainly Hispanic, not Anglo-Saxon (though I don't know about the Protestant angle). This ought to give the lie to the notion that the only people who want English spoken are--well, stuck-up Englishmen who want no one else to have any cultural identity.

But the biggest point here is that any nation-state needs to speak one language. The only superpower I ever heard of, that tried to speak multiple languages, was ancient Persia in the Archemenid era. Darius III, last of the Archemenids, led an empire that spoke more languages than I could count--and had military training and doctrinal manuals printed in all those languages. Now when your sergeants can't talk to one another, you're in trouble. That's why Alexander the Great, commanding an army having only seven men for every hundred that Darius had, trounced Darius and erased the Persian Empire from history. Alexander commanded an army whose sergeants, corporals, and privates spoke only one language.

Governor--and Mr. President, you ought to pay attention to this, too--whom do you want to emulate? Alexander--or Darius?