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“Happy Ramahanuqwanzmas.”
(Hat tip: Reader Garth Olson)
Update: Another reader clues me in to the origins. It’s a Glenn Beck thang!

Earlier this week, many of you contacted Denver mayor John Hickenlooper (MileHighMayor@ci.denver.co.us) after I wrote about his effort to replace the city’s “Merry Christmas” sign with a “Happy Holidays” sign. As you all know by now, Hickenlooper heard us–and tons of other protesters– loud and clear. The phrase “Merry Christmas” will not be removed from [...]

The persecution never ends. Denver has launched war against a church group that wanted to march in the city’s Christmas parade “Parade of Lights.” (I hate, hate, hate that p.c. euphemism.)
From the Denver Post: Parade Organizers Say Christmas Carols May Be Offensive To Others
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recently announced that next year the phrase [...]

From Fox News…Students Free to Thank Anybody, Except God:
ANNAPOLIS, Md. � Maryland public school students are free to thank anyone they want while learning about the 17th century celebration of Thanksgiving � as long as it’s not God.
And that is how it should be, administrators say.
Young students across the state read stories about the Pilgrims [...]

Blogger Justin Katz of Dust in the Light enlightens us in NRO today on the Bar Association’s anti-religious bias .

Tom Ridge made a splash yesterday with news that al Qaeda is recruiting non-Arabs. He used the opportunity to deride racial and ethnic profiling as an effective counterterrorism tool. Here’s a piece I did today in response. The fact that al-Qaeda is using some non-Arab recruits does not render racial/ethnic/religion/nationality profiling moot. As long as [...]

Here’s a great story of a small-business owner in Seattle fighting onerous regulations that restrict competition in the name of the “public interest.” From yesterday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A Senegal-born hair braider who learned that traditional trade from her grandmother is challenging Washington laws she says could drive her out of business, or out of the state.
Attorneys [...]

Here’s a quick roundup of stories involving the American flag under attack this holiday weekend:
- A bemused Washington Post reporter attends an American flag-burning protest in Egypt: “The most curious thing about an American flag burning, for an American, is the embarrassingly warm welcome you get here.”
- Boston Red Sox player Keith Foulke was forced [...]

Oh, dear Lord. WBIR reports:
An East Tennessee man who runs an organization that works to memorialize American soldiers and police officers is now battling the U.S. Army.
Bob Parker runs a non-profit organization called “Fallen Friend.” Since 1996, Parker has sent special medallions to the survivors of soldiers and police officers killed in the line of [...]

In this otherwise unobjectionable Wall Street Journal op-ed by Alan Bromley, who recounts a typically dreadful experience at an Ivy League graduation last weekend, he complains:
The dean of the School of Education talked about our country’s isolation and “our need to learn more about” Islam and Muslims–not their need to learn about multicultural capitalism that [...]