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The religious right’s annual “War on Christmas” is ramping up early this year, and at least one Minnesota-based company is on its hit list. Targeting retail stores that use the word “holiday” instead of “Christmas,” a trend it says the Nazis began, the American Family Association includes SUPERVALU, Eden Prairie–based owner of Cub Foods, among its targets for using the h-word in its ads.

Two days into Minnesota’s statewide election recount, Al Franken and Sen. Norm Coleman are challenging ballots at a pace that could end up sending more than 1,700 disputed votes to the state’s Canvassing Board to sort out: Coleman’s crowd has challenged 374 so far, Franken’s 360. As that number grows, the margin between the rival candidates has shrunk, with 42.33 percent of ballots already recounted. New figures from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office indicate that Coleman’s lead now stands at 129. It’s only a snapshot in a process that hasn’t yet reached the halfway mark, but it’s a snapshot in which the vaunted Coleman “victory” appears to be fading fast.