Nothing Funny About Left's Christmas, Hanukkah Grinches

It never fails that around this time of year another self-described "authority" tries to denigrate the story behind Christmas. This year brought with it more than its usual share of "authorities" — two of them columnists in The New York Times. According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was conceived within a Jewish virgin named Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit — an Immaculate Conception. Mary then married Joseph, a Jewish carpenter, and in the latter stages of pregnancy the couple traveled to Bethlehem to take...