Ridgeway a casualty in Christmas war

Christmas came to the small town of Ridgeway, Wis. this year complete with a police escort and tight security for an elementary school holiday concert, Susan Lampert Smith reports in her Wisconsin State Journal column.

Ridgeway was one of the communities singled out by the Liberty Council as being a combatant in the war on Christmas, and soon was denounced by Jerry Falwell, Bill O'Reilly and an unheavenly host.

It was, of course, much ado about nothing. But it certainly ruined a small town's Christmas.