“Christmas Day” on The Daily Caller

Bristol Palin won’t be matriculating at Arizona State University, but she could be co-hosting a Phoenix, Ariz.-based radio show. (more)

We all breathed a sigh of relief when the ball fell in New York’s Times Square and the holiday season this year ended without another terror attack — or attempted attack — on our homeland. You’ll recall that on Christmas Day 2009, the notorious “underwear bomber” tried to blow up his jet over Detroit. Young Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen, wanted to take down his Northwest Airlines flight right over Detroit’s airport. Had he succeeded in detonating his BVDs, his victims would not only have been the 288 passengers and crew he was flying with, but doubtless hundreds or thousands on the ground. (more)

A recent article in USA Today (Many Skip Christmas’ Religious Aspect, December 20) reports that while nine out of 10 Americans celebrate Christmas, less than half attend church on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, and less than 30 percent read or tell the nativity story from Luke. (more)

Kobe. LeBron. (more)

Christmas is a time of year for celebration; a time to return home and spend time with family and friends, to give gifts, and enjoy home-cooked meals and sweets. It is a joyous time of year but we cannot forget that we are celebrating the coming of One who came to be the servant of all. (more)

’Tis the season to celebrate the annual festive tradition of refusing to call Christmas “Christmas.” (more)

Traditionally, Thanksgiving marks the official start of what has become known in America as “the holidays”: From the celebration of the Islamic New Year to Christian Christmas, and the African heritage festival of Kwanza, it is a season for loving, giving, and sharing. (more)

From: John Pistole, Director, Transportation Security Administration (more)

The head of the Transportation Security Administration John Pistole said there would not be any immediate changes made to the TSA’s screening policy, but the administrator has been slowly walking back his defense of the invasive screening process since releasing a statement Sunday night. (more)

Charlie Sheen and wife Brooke Mueller each filed separate divorce petitions on Monday. (more)

Charlie Sheen calls his alleged coke binge that ended with him trashing a suite at The Plaza hotel while a hooker hid in a bathroom “totally overblown,” according to a new report. (more)

Alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab says he likes things the way they are: he wants to continue being his own lawyer. (more)

As the U.S. struggles to manage its efforts to influence opinion about Al Qaeda abroad, Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula has produced its first English-language propaganda magazine. (more)

A couple of Tennis players are getting plenty of, er, Love. The seemingly endless tennis match between America’s Jon Isner and France’s Nicolas Mahut has already gone nearly 10 hours, with the final set itself outlasting any other match in recorded history. (more)

“We’d been had.” (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say two New Jersey men arrested at a New York City airport on their way to join a jihadist group in Somalia had previously tried to get into Iraq. (more)

In the past year, there have been stark reminders of why our Armed Forces are engaged in foreign battles and why many have sacrificed their lives for our freedom. The Christmas Day bomber nearly killed hundreds in the sky over Detroit. Just a few weeks ago, a terrorist trained in Pakistan tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square. (more)

Presidents are never really off the clock, even when they go on vacation. But President Obama’s decision to skip the traditional Memorial Day ceremony in Arlington while on his second vacation since the BP oil spill began has some wondering what the schedule says about his priorities. (more)

Memorial Day is a rare but essential opportunity to honor our nation’s true heroes—those men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend and preserve these United States and our values. We honor them by doing our part, in serving this country in whatever way we best can. It is ironic then that with hundreds of thousands of our brave warfighters in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the globe pursuing an enemy who attacks innocent civilians and crowded subways and seeks to exploit our transportation and information systems, Congress is all but failing to do its duty. Congress needs to put our troops first, protect our citizens, and pass a clean, wartime supplemental spending bill. (more)

The resignation of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Dennis Blair, is a symptom of a more serious problem within the Obama administration than the failures of the DNI. It’s a problem that won’t disappear with Blair’s departure. Fixing it requires more than appointing the right replacement. It requires a hard look at the DNI position itself and how President Obama and his White House oversee it. (more)