Mark Steyn: The Dude Gets It

The left hates disabled people, disabled children, the old the weak and the vulnerable. They have a one-size fits all cure for it: death.

Mark Steyn understands this-and gets to the heart of the despicable attack on a parent who faced the greatest loss of all.

This part choked me up: "he's entirely incapable of imagining how it must feel for a parent to experience within the same day both new life and death – or even to understand that the inability to imagine being in that situation ought to prompt a little circumspection."

I understand that feeling, I have been there. And I have seen one of my children hover between life and death on more than one occasion.

"Santorum's respect for all life, including even the smallest bleakest meanest two-hour life, speaks well for him, especially in comparison with his fellow Pennsylvanian, the accused mass murderer Kermit Gosnell, an industrial-scale abortionist at a Philadelphia charnel house who plunged scissors into the spinal cords of healthy delivered babies. Few of Gosnell's employees seemed to find anything "weird" about that: Indeed, they helped him out by tossing their remains in jars and bags piled up in freezers and cupboards. Much less crazy than taking 'em home and holding a funeral, right?"

There is Team Life and Team Death. Steyn understands this. We always need to know what team people are on-this is the big picture question that defines individuals and societies.