THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

What We Can Learn By Tracking Santa Last night the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was busy fielding thousands of calls and emails from distressed families. Thankfully NORAD, whose chief mission is to defend the skies above North America, was not tracking enemy aircraft but rather their sights had turned to none other than Santa Clause. With the ever-developing Santa tracker, children could log on and find exactly where Santa was located. What started as a misprint in a Sears Roebuck advertisement in 1955 has grown into a website with well over 150,000 visitors. To me, one of the greatest lessons we can learn from this entire program is that we should all revel in the fact that American taxpayers aren't footing any of the bill for this program. Corporate sponsorships and thousands of volunteers come together to make the tracking of Santa a reality. What began as an accident has clearly shown that Government can be the facilitator of great things without spending a dime of taxpayer money. Obviously that won't work all the time but before we look to 2015 and all the government spending that is, no doubt, on its way, perhaps we can remember the NORAD Santa Tracker and all that they're able to accomplish without a single dollar of taxpayer money. The Interview Sony Pictures announced earlier this week that it would reverse course and it would release "The Interview" online Christmas Eve. Sony did make good on its promise and moviegoers could rent the movie on YouTube and other digital media sites. This was contentious for theater owners who originally bailed on the movie because of threats from North Korea but, as I've been saying since Sony pulled the movie earlier this month, Americans needed to be able to see this movie. We can't capitulate to terrorism, even if it comes from digital terrorists, and American free speech is among the most precious rights in this country and one that many men and women have died trying to protect. So, it was a bit of a Christmas present to the country when Sony found a way to distribute the movie and definitely a clear message to the world that America will always find a way to celebrate free speech.