TRACKING SANTA – AT 10:33 A.M. ET:  A fine Christmas story.  Did you know that NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, tracks Santa's progress?  Oh yes, oh yes.  They sure do.

Michelle Obama joined the folks at NORAD yesterday to help answer calls from kids who wanted to know where Santa was.  We commend her for that gesture.  There's a wonderful story in how the practice got started, as reported in The New York Times: 

The program began in 1955 after a youngster in Colorado Springs, Col., dialed a misprinted telephone number in a newspaper looking for Santa – and wound up getting a commander at NORAD’s predecessor agency. The commander gave the child Santa’s whereabouts, and a tradition was born.

Today, NORAD runs a Web site, http://www.noradsanta.org and a live operations center with more than 1,200 volunteers who receive hundreds of calls and e-mails from around the world looking for Mr. Claus.

COMMENT:  Now watch – "experts" will try to shut this down, claiming that we're misleading youth and warping their minds.  No chance, guys.  This will continue.

December 25, 2010