December 25, 2025

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

Posted at 1:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

COVID FOUR YEARS AGO: Jill breaks White House rules to go maskless as Joe is accused of staging bizarre dancing nurses show at the White House to distract from his catastrophic failure to order enough COVID test kits.

President Joe Biden was slammed on Thursday for holding Christmas festivities at the White House this week, complete with nurses singing ‘We Need a Little Christmas’ and a maskless First Lady, as critics claimed the event was ‘tone deaf’ and meant to distract from the president’s COVID policy failures.

The White House invited the famous Northwell Health’s Nurse Choir to perform at this year’s ‘Spirit of the Season’ TV special Tuesday night, and many were quick to point out the poor visuals of happy nurses singing amid the current Omicron surge.

The performance also featured some singers without masks, as well as a maskless Jill Biden off to the side, despite the White House’s indoor mask mandate in place.

To add to the schizophrenia, just a few days before the dancing TikTok nurses appeared with “Dr.” Jill,” the Biden Politburo was telling the rest of America — just in time for Christmas — that the Winter of Death was at hand:

UPDATE: Merry Christmas from Hunter, “Dr.” Jill, and oh yes, the former president is (Photoshopped?) in there somewhere! — in the back of a gloomy, badly lit photo:

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHANGE:

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

Posted at 12:03 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HEH, INDEED: Trump tells children ‘coal is beautiful and clean’ while on Santa watch.

Donald Trump told children that coal is “beautiful and clean” as he asked young callers about what presents they wanted from Father Christmas this year.

The US president marked Christmas Eve by quizzing children on their wishlists, while promising to not let a “bad Santa” infiltrate the country and even suggesting that a stocking full of coal may not be so bad.

Mr Trump and Melania, the first lady, spoke to children from Mar-a-Lago in the tradition of talking to youngsters who have called the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), which tracks Santa’s progress around the globe.

Asked by an eight-year-old girl in Kansas what she would like Santa to bring, the answer came back: “Uh, not coal.”

“You mean clean, beautiful coal?,” Mr Trump replied, echoing a favoured campaign slogan he has long used when promising to revive domestic coal production.

“I had to do that, I’m sorry,” the president added, laughing.

It certainly beats the programming that blue state parents and teachers have been doing to kids for years: How to talk to children about their anxiety over climate change. But beyond the lack of environmental doomsday talk, will anyone in the DNC-MSM mention that after four years of Biden needing cue cards and cheat sheets just to simulate conversations with his party’s operatives with bylines, we once again have a president who can talk without a script?

UPDATE: Watch: Trump’s Humorous Moments Talking to Kids on Santa Hotline.

Posted at 11:44 am by Ed Driscoll

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

Posted at 10:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Christmas really a pagan festival?

The celebration of Christmas is suffused with probable pre-Christian elements, from the Yule Log to the Lord of Misrule (an official appointed to oversee the festivities) but this should hardly surprise us. After all, the priority of early missionaries was to ensure that people came to believe in the Christian God. Customs with no direct bearing on the basics of belief were often left alone; for example, it was several centuries before Anglo-Saxon missionaries to Germany began to interfere in pre-Christian funeral rites or betrothal customs. The medieval church did not, as some think, demand control of every aspect of people’s lives. However, whether surviving pre-Christian customs should be called pagan is debateable, since ‘paganism’ seems to imply something to do with the cult of pagan deities. It is pretty clear that such cults disappeared fairly quickly, within a few decades of the Christianisation of most European nations, even if many other traces of pre-Christian culture remained.

So, is Christmas pagan? In the sense that Christmas is a festival that retains, in most cultures, elements of pre-Christian midwinter festivities, the answer can be yes – provided we’re prepared to use the word ‘pagan’ in quite a loose way.

I blame Saturnalia:

Posted at 10:22 am by Ed Driscoll

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

Posted at 10:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Merry Christmas! “I will continue to do a “Best Of” rerun of a classic Morning Briefing post on holidays and the day after holidays, but with a twist. I’ll be recording video greetings for each one. These won’t be behind the paywall. Still, I would encourage everyone to join us over there. This doesn’t apply to those Monday Post Office holidays that I barely know are happening.”

Posted at 9:20 am by Stephen Green

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM 328 CHAUNCEY STREET, APARTMENT 3B:

Posted at 8:44 am by Ed Driscoll

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS MORNING OPEN THREAD: What was under your tree?

Posted at 8:19 am by Glenn Reynolds

MONROE CROSSED THE DELAWARE WITH WASHNGTON: Don Surber provides a wealth of fascinating detail about Gen. George Washington’s daring surprise attack on Christmas against the Hessians at Trenton.

Among those with Washington in that hugely significant operation was another future president, James Monroe, who was severely wounded and very nearly died but for the effective treatment of one Dr. Riker.

Posted at 8:14 am by Mark Tapscott

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds