Just when you thought you’d heard it all, New York’ s Communist Dear Leader, Bill de Blasio, announced another school holiday –  the Asian Lunar New Year.  The new holiday “will allow the city’s Asian families to celebrate an important holiday without tarnishing their attendance records”, the pandering mayor proudly proclaimed. The announcement, also reported on Twitter in Korean and Mandarin, follows two Muslim holy days de Blasio quietly added to the school calendar only three months ago.

The new holiday may be good news for Ryan Seacrest who can now stand one more time atop Times Square while a paper tiger floats down onto Broadway celebrating another Rockin New Years Eve, but  it’s bad news for the city’s children – already among the least educated in the nation. What’s next? Romanian New Year, Bangladeshi New Year or Syrian New Year?

These kids are now Americans. If they wish to celebrate the wonders of their native countries, let them return there to do so. While in this country, presumably enjoying the freedoms and opportunities not available back home, they should celebrate our national holidays – that’s it.

Only in New York? Not so fast – San Francisco already celebrates the Asian New Year.  Let’s contain this lunar lunacy before it’s too late.

You are welcome.