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Via Media Matters, I see that Fox News has begun its annual attempt to defend America in the War on ChristmasTM:
(Other groups started their fight to defend Christmas earlier this month.) It’s probably hopeless to point this out, but Christians are not an embattled minority in this country and Christmas is in no danger of becoming any less of a holiday. This seems like a good time to repeat my favorite statistic: a higher percentage of America’s population is Christian than Israel’s is Jewish.
