Charles Krauthammer is a national treasure. Here is this week's piece, which protests the idea of Christmas being stripped of meaning in order to avoid "threatening" any non-Christian's religious identity. As usual, he says it all.

I've been fascinated by the wideranging discussion this year of the de-Christification of Christmas. Some believe that the discussion is taking place just because conservatives are "emboldened" by their election day victory.

I disagree. My view is that many, many people have been increasingly dismayed, over a period of years, by the "forcible secularization" of Christmas -- the sanitized "holiday greetings" and all the rest. But there was never any central "clearinghouse" where people could realize that many other shared their views . . . until the blogosphere came along.

Yes, the blogosphere was around last year, but it really only came into its own as a conservative resource over the past year -- Rathergate being the most prominent example. And now, people who before might have felt isolated in their opposition to "forcible secularization" understand that there are lots of compatriots out there for whom Christmas means more than "jingle bells" and "holiday parties." And that there is resentment at the small minority of devout secularists who are trying to strip every shred of religiosity from America's common social and civic life.