All of us at The Price of Liberty send greetings and love to our readers and correspondents today.

We hope that you have and continue to have a joyful time, that you are encouraged as we near the end of an eventful year, and that you keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

None of us at The Price of Liberty commemorates Christmas Day (now or on Twelfth Night, 6 January) as a religious holiday. For multiple reasons, we recognize it as an important family and social holiday. The importance of any excuse or reason to stop the fighting, the robbing and stealing, and all and sundry threats is obvious. So we encourage people to celebrate Christmas or the other holidays of this time of year: the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and summer solstice in the southern half of the planet.

As much as we here at TPOL want people to remember the Prince of Peace every week, we are grateful that so many people do at least remember Him and His gift of life and liberty twice a year.

The world needs peace, which is a reason to respect the great gift of personal liberty that we have been given. Liberty produces peace and prosperity, and tyrannical government destroys all three.

Share greetings to all, now and for the next twelve days of Christmas, and any other holidays you wish to celebrate. And count your blessings, always, for this past year. Especially the blessings of the freedom we do enjoy, regardless of the efforts of those who would steal our liberties, steal our time and money. And ultimately, our lives and our souls.

But remember, evil though they may be, these enemies of liberty are still humans, endowed by their Creator with the same blessings that they would deny to others. We must fight them, we must protect ourselves and others from them. But we must also educate them, encourage them to cease their evil ways.

And above all, proclaim liberty unto all the land and all the inhabitants thereof.