We first went live with VDARE.com on Christmas Eve, 1999, with a leaked internal memo from Clinton Administration Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo, (now Governor of New York). VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow  wrote at the time that

The ongoing Kulturkampf against Christmas has now extended to any direct mention of it at all, even when other "holidays" are ritually specified.

Google’s logo  for today is  a picture of Christmas toys, and the message “Happy Holidays from Google."

That same logo is used by Google all over the world, frequently with messages that mean “Merry Christmas” rather than Happy Holidays. The problem for Google is that those other countries don’t necessarily have a War On Christmas, so that there isn’t even a phrase for “Happy Holidays” in the sense of “Don’t mention Christmas!”

You can see the same thing in this Craig Nelsen photograph of the Main St Post Office in Queens, NY, ca. Christmas 2000.

No matter how you say it, “Happy Holidays”? Well, the people saying “Buon Natale," "Joyeux Noel," and  "Fröhliche Weihnachten"  think they’re saying Merry Christmas.

VDARE.com has been here for a good many Christmases past, and continues celebrates the Christmas Present. (What Charles Dickens called the Christmas Yet To Come will depend largely on your generosity.)

Many heartfelt thanks to the people who have already donated, and donors yet to come.

No matter how you say it, Merry Christmas From VDARE.com!

VDARE.com’s Christmases Past

2011 VDARE.com Remembers Christmas Eves Past, Broods About The Future By Peter Brimelow  

 2010: The War Against Christmas 2010: God Bless Us, Every One! By James Fulford  

2009: Christians Against Christmas? By  Tom Piatak  

2008: A Nebraska Atheist Wishes VDARE.COM A Merry Christmas!

2007: Merry Christmas From VDARE.COM! By James Fulford  

2006: Diversity Is Strength! It's Also…War Against Christmas By Tom Piatak  

2005: Resistance Rampant, Whether National Review Likes It Or Not! By Tom Piatak  

2004: Merry Christmas By Peter Brimelow  

2003: From The Lawns Of Iowa To The Sands Of Iraq By James Fulford  

2002: Christ, The "Other", And Counterfeit Citizens By John Zmirak   

2001: A Christmas Meditation: St. Augustine on the National Question By   Chilton Williamson Jr.    

2000: Merry Christmas From VDARE! By Peter Brimelow   

1999: How the HUD Stole Christmas by Peter Brimelow