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MERRY CHRISTMAS

I would like to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas.  I’m re-posting an article I wrote a couple of years ago.  Fortunately, my Goddaughter’s husband, Jeremy, has been home for over a year, but there are still thousands of our young men and women serving in [...]

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you and your loved ones a very Blessed and Merry Christmas.

How Is This Ok But a Cross Is Not?

This crucified Santa displayed outside a courthouse in Leesburg, Virginia is apparently constitutionally protected speech.  Jeff Heflin described his display as “art work of Santa on a cross to depict society’s materialistic obsessions and addictions and how it is killing the peace, love, joy and kindness that is supposed to be prevalent during the holiday [...]

WHAT HOLIDAY ARE WE CELEBRATING?

I don’t know about you, but I get really tired of hearing about the lighting of “holiday” trees.  They’re Christmas trees.  There, I said it. I’d like to ask all those city/county/state/federal officials who can’t get themselves to say the word “Christmas” to explain to me what holiday is actually being celebrated with a decorated [...]

Taxing Christmas Trees

I don’t know if you heard about the latest government proposal.  According to the Department of Agriculture, the government intended to impose a $.15 per tree charge on “producers and importers” of fresh Christmas trees, provided they sell or import more than 500 trees a year. Of course, no one in the administration is calling [...]