This afternoon the chairman of the FCC decided to delete the Fairness Doctrine as well as 82 other unusable or antique rules.

further info can be found at
http://www.fcc.gov/document/genachowski-announces-elimination-83-outdated-rules

Each December, I vowed to make Christmas a calm and peaceful experience. I had cut back on nonessential obligations – extensive card writing, endless baking, decorating, and even overspending.

Yet still, I found myself exhausted, unable to appreciate the precious family moments, and of course, the true meaning of Christmas.

My son, Nicholas, was in kindergarten that year. It was an exciting season for a six year old. For weeks, he’d been memorizing songs for his school’s “Winter Pageant.” I didn’t have the heart to tell him I’d be working the night of the production. Unwilling to miss his shining moment, I spoke with his teacher. She assured me there’d be a dress rehearsal the morning of the presentation. All parents unable to attend that evening were welcome to come then. Fortunately, Nicholas seemed happy with the compromise.

So, the morning of the dress rehearsal, I filed in ten minutes early,found a spot on the cafeteria floor and sat down. Around the room, I saw several other parents quietly scampering to their seats. As I waited, the students were led into the room. Each class, accompanied by their teacher, sat cross-legged on the floor. Then, each group, one by one, rose to perform their song.

Because the public school system had long stopped referring to the holiday as “Christmas,” I didn’t expect anything other than fun, commercial entertainment – songs of reindeer, Santa Claus, snowflakes and good cheer. So, when my son’s class rose to sing, “Christmas Love,” I was slightly taken aback by its bold title.

Nicholas was aglow, as were all of his classmates, adorned in fuzzy mittens, red sweaters, and bright snowcaps upon their heads. Those in the front row- center stage – held up large letters, one by one, to spell out the title of the song. As the class would sing “C is for Christmas,” a child would hold up the letter C. Then, “H is for Happy,” and on and on, until each child holding up his portion had presented the complete message, “Christmas Love.” The performance was going smoothly, until suddenly, we noticed her; a small, quiet, girl in the front row holding the letter “M” upside down – totally unaware her letter “M” appeared as a “W”.

The audience of 1st through 6th graders snickered at this little one’s mistake. But she had no idea they were laughing at her, so she stood tall, proudly holding her “W”. Although many teachers tried to shush the children, the laughter continued until the last letter was raised, and we all saw it together. A hush came over the audience and eyes began to widen. In that instant, we understood the reason we were there, why we celebrated the holiday in the first place, why even in the chaos, there was a purpose for our festivities.

For when the last letter was held high, the message read loud and clear:

“C H R I S T W A S L O V E”

He still is.

Christ is born, Alleluia! Have a Blessed Christmas.

“the above is from an email I received recently and had sent on to other RedState members who in turn prodded me to make this a diary,I do not claim this as an original However it does state my feelings perfectly.
MERRY CHRISTMAS

back in 2005 I decided to sign up so I could read and understand more fully the true meaning of conservatism, having lived the majority of my life in the Peoples republic of Massachusetts a lot of the things I was reading on this blog thingy were rather new and novel to me.
Seeing that a few years prior I had moved to sunnier climes (Florida) I found myself in a rather conservative area of the state and I thank all the posters at Redstate for providing me with an education in conservatism and its many different types and varieties.
I have watched and only very occasionally written while many of the greats have come and gone to and from the halls of this blog some have left in a fit of anger while others have passed this mortal coil and others yet have left to create something more on their own personal style my thanks go to all of you
Happy birthday??

I spent Sunday afternoon at a get together for Jason Sanger for Fl 05 , this was my first time visiting with him and I came away very well impressed with both his platform and his person,  As a person Jason is a regular guy trying to do the right thing and he is not embarrassed to tell everyone that he spent 4 days praying on it till he got his answer to go for it. Jason has his family and his wives family behind him in full and now a whole lot of Fl05 Republicans, he has said he will not run a negative campaign against his primary challenger but rather point out the obvious differences between a Reagan Republican and a government can do it all RINO (my words not his). As far as his general campaign it will include many things to appeal to Republican conservatives he is a strong pro life believer and is one of the reasons he was running against Ginny B.W. he is very adamant that we the people place the lock back on the chains that should bind government from interfering in our lives and while not believing he should play to the party line he says we need a new revitalized Republican party as the present office holders have gotten fat and lazy and are happy to be taken to dinner if you would like to read more on Jason his web site is www.standwithsager.com

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Early results from Citrus County Florida shows the RINO’S have been sent packing, the anti growth high tax rino County Commissioners Joyce Valentino and Vicki Phillips were defeated by a political newcomers Joe Meek and Win Webb who have both stated themselves to be low tax and pro growth with 100% of the vote total now in the incumbents lost about 2 to 1, Webb got 68.1% compared to Valentino’s 31.8%, Meek got 67% to 32.1% for Phillips.
In a bit of a surprise long time Property Appraiser Melanie Hensley was defeated by another newcomer Geoff Greene 53.3% to 46.6%.
The only commissioner to be given another chance was pro growth low tax advocate Dennis Damato. It seems to show that people are angry with government just doing as they please and feeling they are untouchable.
Even though we are a Republican dominated County we stillneed toshed ourselves of these people who think they own it all.