Post By Patrick Cleburne on 12/28/2006

Frum frightened by War on Christmas consequences?

Peter Brimelow likes to wait until 12th Night— the Feast of the Epiphany —before closing out the War against Christmas Competition. This allows for late entries to trickle in (please send!), and for so...
Post By Patrick Cleburne on 12/25/2006

L.A. TIMES Concedes: Christmas War Denial fallacious.

Christmas this year has seen the massive use of a comparatively new and particularly absurd tactic by the Christophobic forces—War on Christmas Denial. The Deniers parrot, to the extent of well over a ...
Article By Tom Piatak on 12/21/2006

War Against Christmas 2006 Competition [III]: Diversity Is Strength! It's Also…War Against Christmas

WAR AGAINST CHRISTMAS 2006 COMPETITION [blog] [I] [ II ] [ IV ] - See also: War Against Christmas 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 [Recently by Tom Piatak: A Catholic Reader...
Post By James Fulford on 12/20/2006

War On Christmas Reaches Santa Hats

Joseph Fallon pointed to this slightly incredible War on Christmas story:School bus driver can keep Santa hat after all Newsday.comDecember 19, 2006, 11:41 AM EST COMMACK, N.Y. AP) _ A school bus drive...
Post By Patrick Cleburne on 12/19/2006

If There's No War On Christmas, How Come They Deployed An Army?

A very impressive aspect of the War on Christmas this year is the huge, thunderous barrage with which the other side opened. All at once, from all over the place, article after article appeared, announ...
Post By James Fulford on 12/17/2006

War On Christmas Not Covered

An interesting story about a Judge in Toronto who moved the courthouse Christmas tree to behind a frosted glass door has about 50 stories in Google News...all of them in Canada. Except one in Western A...
Post By Patrick Cleburne on 12/16/2006

No War on Christmas? - Ask Sasha Cohen

On my casual count, 2,498 separate "original" articles have appeared this season asserting there is "No War on Christmas." If you delve into the blogospere, the language gets pretty nasty. Generally,...
Post By Patrick Cleburne on 12/14/2006

Bloomberg News notes Seattle Christmas Tree row: But NRO is MIA

Columns of smoke are still rising and occasional explosions can still be heard from the Seattle Christmas Tree battleground, marking what might well be the most important engagement in the War on Chris...
Post By James Fulford on 12/13/2006

An Anonymous War Against Christmas?

Ann Althouse has post on Sea-Tac,The Seattle Christmas tree incident. It's an American holiday tradition: arguing about religion and threatening litigation. What would the season be without it? Althous...
Post By James Fulford on 12/12/2006

War Against Christmas, 1254

...more or less. I found this in IMDB's quotes. To demonstrate the villainy of the Sheriff of Nottingham, played by Alan Rickman, in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, they give him this line. Sheriff of N...
Article By Nathaniel Parker on 12/12/2006

War Against Christmas 2006 Competition [II]: No War Against Christmas? Tell That To The Grinches of Gotham!

WAR AGAINST CHRISTMAS 2006 COMPETITION [blog] [I][ III ] [ IV ] - See also: War Against Christmas 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999[VDARE.com Christmas competition note: Email ...
Post By James Fulford on 12/10/2006

Guerra Contra Christmas in Spain

Or War on Navidad. Via Tim Blair in Australia I learn that the Spanish have not only given up their custom of burning the Prophet Mohammed in effigy, lest it offend Muslims, they are now having qualms ...
Post By James Fulford on 12/08/2006

Happy Holiday Cards Carefully Filed

...in Jeff Randall's wastebasket. Any card that says "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" gets tossed.Randall writes in Britain's Daily Telegraph [ Christmas: crucified by do-gooders, December 8, ...
Post By Patrick Cleburne on 12/05/2006

Seeing NRO's War on Christmas Colors

Last year, considering the case of Victor Davis Hanson huffing, puffing, but ultimately falling obediently into line supporting amnesty, I remarked that there was a definite market for columnists will...
Post By James Fulford on 12/05/2006

ScroogeGrinchism.org: "Merry Christmas" The New Hate Speech

All right, it's not ScroogeGrinchism.org, it's secularhumanism.org but it comes to the same thing. The idea that "Merry Christmas" is hate speech is fairly new, to me and Tom Flynn's reference in this ...
Post By James Fulford on 12/04/2006

War On Christmas Extends To Festivus

If you don't know what Festivus is, it's an anti-Christmas celebration inspired by a Seinfeld episode in 1997. Known as a "Festivus For The Rest Of Us," it's a celebration for people with a very bad at...