KUDOS to House Speaker Dennis Hastert for insisting that the Christmas tree on the Capitol lawn be designated, once again, the Capitol Christmas Tree. Political correctness had worked to re-dub it a “Holiday Tree” in recent years. Hastert’s edict that Congress simply recognize the obvious by using the term “Christmas tree” was a welcome moment of clarity and common sense that is, alas, all too rare on Capitol Hill.
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