Category Archives: Christmas

America Is A “Merry Christmas” Kinda Place

Hmmmmmm (h/t Scared Monkeys) Amidst all the holiday shopping craziness, most Americans at this time of year want to see holiday signs that wish them a “Merry Christmas.” A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of adults prefer “Merry Christmas,” while 22% like “Happy Holidays” instead. Older Americans favor “Merry Christmas” more […]

Aside: Nice Deb On War On Christmas

Nice Deb: Massachusetts School Bans Christmas Items From “Holiday” Shop

War On Christmas Starting Early, With A Few Good Wins For Christians

Yes, it is that time of the year With increasing threats, lawsuits and exposure over what constitutes a ‘legal Christmas season’ in this country, it is astounding albeit wonderful, that the current White House administration, President and Congress have not decided to remove the word Christmas or Christ from the upcoming tree lighting ceremony in […]

A Charlie Brown Christmas

The reason for the season

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus

Every Christmas, after the presents are opened and breakfast is being made, I read this first in the paper (ye olde parental units get the paper, and they live in NJ). It is a Christmas classic that has always touched my soul. While some people outside of the Tri-State area have heard of it, rarely […]

Christmas Today: Mahmoud And Evil Christmas Lights

Hey, look it’s the dictator who Barry wants to have one on one convo’s with, and told Barry, “um…no.” Iran’s president is offering season’s greetings to Christians in a British TV address and suggests that if Jesus were alive, he would oppose “bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers” – an apparent reference to the U.S. and […]

Those Wacky Muslims Show Liberal Style Tolerance In Nazareth

While even the worlds most famous athiest, Richard Dawkins, does a bit of Christmas celebration, some Muslims have to take a dip into Liberal World As Nazareth’s Christians prepare to celebrate Christmas, they are playing down the appearance of a confrontational Islamic banner that challenges a elemental Christian belief. Journalists visiting the city saw two […]

Retailers Taking The Christmas Out Of Christmas

Anyone surprised? And with the holiday that dare not speak its name almost upon us, nowhere is that phenomenon more noticeable, or more indefensible, than in the advertising sales circulars of the national retail chains that come by the dozen in newspapers, especially on Sundays. A review of those sales brochures from the day after […]

Christmas Cookies Deemed “Unethical”

This is actually one of the last areas I would have expected to see this kind of story, the Deep South, but, here we go After asking the state Board of Ethics last month whether library staff can accept inexpensive and homemade Christmas gifts from grateful patrons, St. Tammany Parish library officials last week received […]

Christmas Surprise In East Wenatchee

I do truly like these types of cheerful stories more then the ones about people trying to do away with Christmas, don’t you? EAST WENATCHEE (Washington) — Dressed head-to-toe in military fatigues, her camouflage pants tucked into combat boots and her hair pulled back in a tight bun, Maureen Peltier stood nervously outside a classroom at […]

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