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Henry E. Brown is a Republican congressman from South Carolina. Earlier this month, as I recorded a message to our troops and sent Christmas cards to family and friends, I found myself hesitating before using "Merry Christmas" to wish those important to me a blessed holiday.

While President Obama has decided to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, he has overseen a precipitous de-escalation on another front: the war on Christmas.

A few days ago Rep. Henry E. Brown from SC introduced a bill to "protect the sanctity of Christmas." The resolution calls for "the symbols and traditions of Christmas" to be "protected for use by those who celebrate Christmas." Strange bill, right? I'm left wondering: Which symbols? Protected from whom? Are tinsel-covered fir trees somehow being ...

Boeing today held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction for the second final assembly site for the 787 Dreamliner program at its Boeing Charleston facility.

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday praised President Obama for heeding the senator's advice to bypass the Charleston naval brig and transfer terror suspects instead to an Illinois prison from the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

On August 11, 2009, Guam delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo spent $6,090 on food and beverages by using taxpayer funds to host a party for members of Congress from the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee who were visiting her home district.

The so-called "war on Christmas" was just a skirmish here in Asheville. We had a few letters on the topic, but mostly it was all quiet on the Western North Carolina Christmas front.

You know, if you glued a bushy white beard to the ruddy mug of Rep. Henry Brown Jr., R-South Carolina, and yanked a red tassled hat down over that Dixie mane, the congressman from Myrtle Beach would make a decent dime-store Santa.

Dick Withington, a former Navy officer and retired accountant living in Horry County, said Friday he will seek the Democratic nomination for the 1st Congressional District seat.

By now, the " war on Christmas " has become a familiar feature of the, um, holiday season, with right-wingers from Bill O'Reilly to Focus on the Family and even Chuck Norris seeking out and doing battle with imaginary secular humanist forces of darkness.

Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas? The debate rages on - even in Congress where Rep.

A Republican lawmaker with a mission to save Christmas is aiming his latest salvo at President and first lady Obama, who've followed in a recent tradition to eliminate the mention of Christmas in the White House holiday cards.

Forty-four lawmakers sign onto Christmas resolution, despite Boehner's tirade against frivolous bills.

Without question, the two biggest morons running for public office in South Carolina right now are U.S. Rep.

A US lawmaker, describing himself as unhappy about the trend of replacing "Merry Christmas" with "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays," has introduced a symbolic resolution to preserve Christmas.

Congressman Henry Brown introduced a resolution Tuesday in Washington to protect the sanctity of Christmas.

Three men, including a father and son, have admitted attacking a black man at a South Carolina convenience store solely because of his race and threatening two white men for helping him.

Time is running out for Congress this year on must-pass legislation to pay for federal programs, allow the government to borrow more money, keep highway projects going and prevent the jobless from losing unemployment and health insurance benefits.

The House approached a vote Thursday on permanently extending a 45 percent inheritance tax on estates larger than $3.5 million, canceling a one-year repeal of the tax set to begin next month.

Lawmakers from both parties Tuesday gave President Barack Obama guarded praise for his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, but some expressed concern that his timeframe for victory is too short.