Where did the Christmas story begin?
Well, the shadow of Jesus Christ is seen all throughout the Old Testament. It was the prophet, Isaiah, however, who gave the most eloquent and precise word on the coming Messiah, roughly 700 years before the birth of our Lord. |Keep Reading at RedState
The PC, perpetually-offended crowd has struck again. This time in Pennsylvania where a homeowners’ association ordered a family to remove a “Jesus” sign from their own property because someone claimed to be “offended” by its presence. | Keep Reading at Legal Insurrection
A woman named Jean Marie Simon was scheduled to take a United Airlines flight, booked into First Class using miles.
Then she realized that United had bumped her from the seat, and given it to Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
The woman posted a photo on Twitter and also went public with her story: |More at Legal Insurrection
The U.S. Secret Service just completed the first-ever live security drill on White House grounds.
The alarming number of security breaches at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW have served as a warning that those tasked with protecting the president and his family need to tighten things up. | Keep Reading at The Federalist Papers.org
Of course they didn’t mean it to be public, it was terrible. We covered the memo in question in an earlier post. Now the school is back-tracking.
The College Fix reports:
University of Minnesota says its anti-Christmas memo wasn’t supposed to leak to the public
The University of Minnesota has limited options in responding to a memo distributed during a “Dean’s Dialogues” event on “religious diversity,” hosted by its agricultural school.
There’s a meme going around this holiday season that seeks to justify the Grinch’s quest to stop Christmas from coming. In true Internet fashion, it rewrites history and gets facts wrong to give its distributors a false sense of moral superiority. | Keep Reading Mary Katherine Ham at The Federalist
Forgiveness is the very best Christmas gift. For those of us who have suffered significant trauma at the hands of people who should have been our caretakers, this seems like an impossible task. The core violation of long term child sexual abuse creates complex trauma. | Keep Reading at the Darling Princess
New Hampshire’s Senate Democrats filed legislation to limit the activities of the Commissioner of Education. SB466 says; “during their term of appointment, a commissioner may not hold or campaign for elective office, serve as the officer of a political party or political committee, use his or her name in support of or in opposition to a candidate, participate in or contribute to political campaigns or act as a lobbyist.” | Keep Reading at Girard at Large
HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A program that reduces power plant emissions in the Northeast is being eyed by states looking to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative includes nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. It has been credited with reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent since 2008 in those states. | Read more at CBS/ Newsplex.com
Chris Balch of Wilton has submitted a petition warrant article to the town for consideration at Town Meeting in March. The main point of the article: Wilton opposes natural gas pipeline construction or expansion by any company.
The warrant calls for several points of action: *|Read More at the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
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