Free Republic

The war against western culture, traditional American values, Christians, and especially Christmas rages on, with atheists, scrooges, socialists, politically-correct bureaucrats, liberals, and other far-left loonies plotting to eradicate anything that reminds them of where their privileges originated. If it's war they want, though, it's war they should get. Not only did I decide to buy Christmas stamps this year, I decided to buy enough for all of my Christmas cards, AND, for all of my 2005 postal needs. Mortgage, car insurance, school loans; all these bills will have Christmas stamps attached. Upon year's completion, I will purchase enough to last...

Hard though it is to judge, the United States appears to be winning the war against terrorism. The United States is certainly in a stronger position than it was on Sept. 10, 2001. The terrorists have lost their main base. From protected predators, they are now the hunted. The United States has ousted Saddam Hussein's criminal regime, which while uninvolved in 9/11 was still a serial terrorism sponsor, and Libya is renouncing terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The main setbacks have been in Iraq - the self-inflicted wound of torture at Abu Ghraib and the faltering response to the...