VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: Tom Piatak , whom we first published on the War On Christmas in 2001 , is a key figure in what I suppose we can call #WarOnChristmasResistance and his State Of The War On Christmas roundups are a VDARE.com tradition—see 2016; 2015; 2014; 2013; 2012; 2011; 2010; 2009; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003; 2002; 2001.

See also: Peter Brimelow Announces VDARE.com’s War On Christmas Competition…And Explains How Long It’s Been Going On

The War on Christmas in 2017 was marked by the same pattern we have seen in recent years: the vast majority of ordinary Americans love Christmas, but those who think of themselves as their betters do not. Before a handful of us began calling attention to the elite’s War on Christmas, many ordinary people were going along with the diminishment of the public celebration of Christmas, no doubt because they felt their pro-Christmas beliefs must be in small minority. But publicity over the War on Christmas, most recently and dramatically President Trump’s oft-repeated preference for “Merry Christmas,” has made it clear that tens of millions of Americans absolutely do not want to see Christmas replaced by “holiday.” This year, after the continuing trauma of Trump’s first year in office, the elite’s disdain for Christmas expressed itself in increasingly nasty ways, unquestionably because they sense that on this issue, as in others, Americans were no longer content to follow their lead.

The opening salvos against the public observance of Christmas were comparatively mild. Back in October, Colbert King [Email him] used his perch at The Washington Post to chide Donald Trump for expressing his preference for “Merry Christmas”—

As if we don’t already have enough trouble across the length and breadth of the land with Trump’s forays into cultural wars, the last thing the United States needs is combat over use of the words “Merry Christmas.”

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I never thought I'd see it, but Al Franken has finally gotten around to calling a moving van.

While it is true that Franken was given virtually no chance to defend himself against multiple groping allegations (your side made those rules, not us), remember, it was never his practice to give that chance to anyone else.

On CNN and MSNBC, they were thunderstruck by Franken's magnanimous response to the charges: UNLIKE ROY MOORE, HE ADMITTED IT AND APOLOGIZED!

Yeah—there's a photo. So the part they had him dead to rights on he apologized for. What a guy.

Everything else he denied. Specifically, Franken said of his accusers: "Some of the allegations against me are simply not true. Others I remember very differently."

Which reminds me: That's exactly what Newt Gingrich said about the charge—repeated by Franken ceaselessly, endlessly, relentlessly and ubiquitously—that he'd served divorce papers on his wife when she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. Read more >>

Earlier by Michelle Malkin: It's Time for Beltway Barnacle Orrin Hatch To Go (2012) and Preemptive Surrender On Immigration–The GOP’s Orrin Hatch Problem (2015)


The longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history announced this week that he will finally, finally, finally, finally, finally, finally, finally retire.

That's seven "finallys"--one for each of the consecutive six-year terms Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, served. He begin his occupancy in 1976, when all phones were dumb, the 5.25-inch floppy disk was cutting-edge, the very first Apple computer went on sale for $666.66, the Concorde was flying high, O.J. Simpson was a hero, Blake Shelton was a newborn, the first MRI was still a blueprint, and I was a gap-toothed first-grader wearing corduroy bell-bottoms crushing on Davy Jones. Read more >>

New Year blues. I've reached the point in life when lamenting the end of another year comes more naturally than celebrating the beginning of a new one.

How time flies! Another year gone already? After age seventy the passing scene more and more resembles the image one of Noël Coward's characters supplied: it's

like one of those montages you see in films where people jump from place to place very quickly and there are shots of pages flying off a calendar.

For example: The last time movie actress Diana Rigg impinged on my consciousness, she was young and beautiful. Heck, I can recall having erotic fantasies about her.

Now, it's true that I pay very little attention to show business. It was mildly shocking none the less to see Ms Rigg's picture at MailOnline Christmas Day, a wrinkled old lady. Damn this demon Time!

Reflections of this kind are so commonplace, it's impossible to say anything original about them. Poets have been lamenting the aerodynamics of time for two thousand years at least.

I can't compete with all that talent, so I'll leave this here as merely the registration of a New Year's mood.

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Lightless in the quarry. Continuing in the same gloomy key: For an overview of the whole show I have always thought King Vlad, in Speak, Memory, summed it up as well as it can be summed up:

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

In Eastern traditions, where reincarnation is taken for granted, that "prenatal abyss" is populated with earlier lives, human or otherwise according to regional taste. Which I guess means it's not an abyss at all in those traditions. Read more >>

Earlier by Patrick J. Buchanan: Did the FBI Conspire to Stop Trump?

What caused the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016, which evolved into the criminal investigation that is said today to imperil the Trump presidency?

As James Comey's FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller have, for 18 months, failed to prove Donald Trump's "collusion" with the Kremlin, what was it, in mid-2016, that justified starting this investigation?

What was the basis for the belief Trump was colluding, that he was the Manchurian candidate of Vladimir Putin? What evidence did the FBI cite to get FISA court warrants to surveil and wiretap Trump's team?

Republican congressmen have for months been demanding answers to these questions. And, as Mueller's men have stonewalled, suspicions have arisen that this investigation was, from the outset, a politicized operation to take down Trump. Read more >>

A new study confirms Mexico is very racially-stratified society—a direct challenge to the myth of Mexico as multicultural utopia and a warning to those who think Mexican immigration will help America solve its racial problems. [ Is Mexico a Post-Racial Country? Inequality and Skin Tone across the Americas , November 6, 2017].

Mexico’s census bureau Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, [INEG—The “National Institute of Statistics and Geography”] published a study last summer showing light-skinned Mexicans performed better economically than darker-skinned Mexicans. The new study, which drew on this previous work, was conducted by Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga [Email him] and Ivan Flores Martinez, both of CIDE ( Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, "Center for Research and Teaching in Economics") a Mexican higher education institution and think tank.

Zizumbo-Colunga besides being a CIDE Assistant Professor, is also a Research Assistant Professor at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University. His project was also sponsored by Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt’s LAPOP (Latin American Public Opinion Project) and LAPOP’s survey group AmericasBarometer. Read more >>

Karia (brunette, 5), Felicity (blonde, 7), Victoria Beauregard ("Bo", redhead, 2).

Diversity Is Strength!

Earlier VDARE.com New Year's coverage:

• 12/31/16— Happy New Year! 2016 Was The Year Of Miracles. We Need More!


• 12/31/15— New Year's 2015: Last Year Was The Year Of Dave Brat, This Has Been The Year Of Trump (But GOP Is Still Not Getting It)


• 12/31/14— Happy New Year--2014 Was The Year Of Dave Brat


• 01/01/13— Happy New Year from VDARE.com!


• 12/31/11— Thanks And Happy New Year To VDARE.com Readers by Peter Brimelow


• 12/31/10— The Fulford File | What Are You Doing New Year`s? In France, They`re Burning The Place Down by James Fulford


• 12/31/09— The Fulford File: Happy New Year—VDARE.com`s Decade In Review


• 12/31/08— The Fulford File: Happy New Year 2009!


• 12/31/07— The Fulford File: 2007 In Review—An Interesting Year, by James Fulford


• 12/31/06— The Fulford File: Happy New Year 2007! by James Fulford


• 12/31/04— Happy New 2005!


• 12/31/03— Happy New Year from VDARE.COM! by James Fulford


• 12/27/02— View From Lodi, CA: A Patriot`s New Year Resolution, by Joe Guzzardi


• 12/31/01— Happy New Year – Unhappy Old Nation? By Sam Francis


• 12/31/00— Happy New Year* From VDARE!

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