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CBS has gone back to a famous story from 1897 for a new animated Christmas Special. “Yes, Virginia,” to air Friday, December 11th (8:00-8:30 pm ET/PT) is based on the true story of Virginia O’Hanlon, an eight-year-old girl who inspired the most famous newspaper editorial of all time by asking, “Is there a Santa Claus?” [...]

Once a year and only once a year Santa Claus sits down with the media. And as usual, Santa has a lot to say.
In a year with a troubled economy with folks all over suffering from lost jobs, lower income, and higher prices Santa says the odds for a merrier Christmas are better than [...]

The annual Christmas concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir this year features guest artist Natalie Cole and historian, writer and narrator David McCullough. The famed holiday program draws 80,000 attendees over four days each December and is featured nationwide on PBS. Free tickets for the event will be distributed by lottery via the events page [...]

Santa is listening. After enduring days of controversy following a series of articles about turmoil in the world of professional Santas action has been taken by members of the Santa community to remove negative information and promote peace.
Please read more at DefendingSanta.com
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Santa is in trouble — at least a Santa known as Jeff Germann.
Germann is Vice President of AORBs — officially known as the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas. For over a year an anonymously operated website called SantaCheck.com has been upsetting many of the folks in the professional Santa world because it would call [...]

Glenn Beck has released 3 books in 5 months — and this may be the best of the set. If only because it gives us a break from the usual Beck fare. This illustrated children’s version of Beck’s Christmas book of the same title tells the story of what Christmas is all about being [...]

The fourth and concluding installment on the fiasco at Celebrate Santa, a major convention for professional Santas that has been mired in controversy and charges of corruption, has been posted at DefendingSanta.com. This article largely discusses the aftermath of a sad week-long examination of the world of professional Santas and what can be done to [...]

Home Depot, of all people, is going high tech with their new gift card this Christmas.
When a customer receives one of the company’s interactive gift cards, he or she can go to a special Web site, enter the gift card amount and hold the gift card up to a webcam. The webcam will show [...]