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Another great piece by Steyn.
1 posted on 01/07/2012 6:31:26 AM PST by passionfruit
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For Mark Steyn pink list.


2 posted on 01/07/2012 6:32:42 AM PST by passionfruit (When illegals become legal, even they won't do the work Americans won't do)
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Once again, a great conservative thinker proves without intending to that conservatives are truly the compassionate and the brilliant, the liberals, mere shells of caring whose depth is revealed to be a puddle pretending to be an ocean.


3 posted on 01/07/2012 6:42:01 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival. (Ron Paul is the Lyndon Larouche of the 21st century.))
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Great column.


4 posted on 01/07/2012 6:45:12 AM PST by Shannon
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5 posted on 01/07/2012 6:57:14 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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I know why the willow weeps

Its branches are too long

It grows and grows and grows and grows

But its muscles aren't too strong

6 posted on 01/07/2012 7:04:04 AM PST by Pietro
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Brilliant piece.


7 posted on 01/07/2012 7:19:37 AM PST by Rocko
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It breaks my heart that Santorum’s wife cried upon hearing Colmes’ remark. Just when does the brutality towards the family of Republican candidates end?

One of my vivid memories as a child is my grandmother talking about her baby who only lived an hour after birth. She would tear up and describe the baby girl’s pretty red hair. She was never thought to be a particularly warm or maternal-type of mother but I’ll never forget her tragic face when she would reminisce...


8 posted on 01/07/2012 7:20:29 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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The Democrats hate Santorum for the same reason they hate Palin: they refused to kill their babies. That choice is like a dagger of conviction aimed at their cold, black hearts. The Left are nothing but walking dead souls.


9 posted on 01/07/2012 7:23:30 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
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Very moving piece by Steyn.


10 posted on 01/07/2012 7:33:22 AM PST by SuzyQue
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The left never had any empathy to begin with.


15 posted on 01/07/2012 8:11:44 AM PST by formosa (Formosa)
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This is a very personal issue with me and I hesitate to even comment on it, but here goes.

My wife and I, after 2 years of marriage, were eagerly awaiting the birth of our first child. She was born and everything seemed to be going well.

After she was born, I received a call after going home to sleep. I raced back to the hospital where I was told she had contracted B Strep and was in a very bad way.

She was a le to live for 2 days, days that I remember in hooro as I watched the life slowly drain from her.

She dies in her mothers arms, surrounded by family and friends.

A curse on Colmbs.

Literally.

This vile little metrosexual is dead to me.

To paraphrase a politician; Have you no shame sir?

Screw Alan Colmbs.

No cheers this time,

knewshound


19 posted on 01/07/2012 8:39:52 AM PST by knews_hound (Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd. E. Clampus Vitus)
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This past August, my wife went to the bathroom and our twenty-week baby started to come out. By the time the ambulance came, he didn't have a heartbeat. When she delivered at the hospital, I was unsure if I wanted to see the baby, but I had to. I am eternally thankful for the time when my wife and I were able to hold our son, telling him hello and goodbye at the same time. We only got to meet him in death, but we are glad that we got even that much too short time with him. Ghouls like Colmes and Robinson would probably cringe that I have pictures of the little boy on my phone that I look at some times. He had my full lips and his skinny legs looked exactly like mine. I would give anything to have had more than just a couple of hours with him, but that is not the way it worked out.

I even went to see my son a few days later in the hospital morgue to spend one last time with him and take some pictures of his tiny hand wrapped around one of my fingers. It was really hard to let go and say goodbye. I don't consider my behavior weird at all. In fact, my sister lost a child during pregnancy earlier that year and she told me that she really regretted not seeing the child at all after she delivered, and that she wished she had treated the baby with more respect and dignity.

For some deranged fiend to mock my family or Santorum's family's few precious moments shows that they are truly mentally disturbed, and that there is absolutely nothing they won't do to win political points.

21 posted on 01/07/2012 8:43:20 AM PST by SeafoodGumbo
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Steyn: "...The Left's much-vaunted powers of empathy routinely fail when confronted by those who do not agree with them politically. .."

In other words, it's the "empathy" of society's freaks. bttt

"under the guise of "tolerance" and multiculturalism, we have deprived these poor souls of the feedback they need in order to know that they are not normal. This is not empathy, but cruelty. ..." Here:

Revenge of the Ghouls: When Liberals Attack

".....Believe or not, there was a time, not too long ago, that abnormal people in our culture actually felt abnormal. They were aware of their deviancy, and how this deviancy contributed to an unhappiness that no government has the power to eliminate. .....

"...In order to allow such people to feel normal in their abnormalcy, we have had to develop a deviant culture for them to live in, to such an extent that the normal are now made to feel abnormal.

"This is one of the hidden influences of the Tea Party movement, and more generally the effort to take our country back from the deviant.

"Not surprisingly, this is enraging the abnormals of the left, as witnessed, for example, by the weird attempt to suggest that normal people somehow caused the patently abnormal Jared Loughner to open fire on a bunch of normal people.

"If multiculturalism were true, it would mean that all cultures are of equal value.

"But this is equivalent to saying that there is no reality to which culture is an adaptation. As a result, culture devolves to a mere fantasy world. Which, of course, it is for the left. They are, by their own lights, not oriented to reality, since reality is just an oppressive white European male construct. ...."

22 posted on 01/07/2012 8:55:07 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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Typical Steyn excellence. Worth reading the whole piece. Thanks for posting.


24 posted on 01/07/2012 9:19:43 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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I remember how shocked I was when a leftist relative of mine cheered the death of Tony Snow. Tony Snow! Lord have mercy.


26 posted on 01/07/2012 9:45:35 AM PST by k omalley (Caro Enim Mea, Vere est Cibus, et Sanguis Meus, Vere est Potus)
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We are up against truely soulless evil people and it is going be a real battle and may even have eventually go 2nd amendment if we are to survive within our own nation


27 posted on 01/07/2012 10:06:38 AM PST by uncbob
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Never mind the dead kid, [Santorum] has six living kids. How crazy freaky weird is that?

This crazy freaky weird: all those self-evidently ludicrous risible surplus members of the Santorum litter are going to be paying the Social Security and Medicare of all you normal well-adjusted Boomer yuppies who had one designer kid at 39. So, if it helps make it easier to "empathize," look on them as sacrificial virgins to hurl into the bottomless pit of Big Government debt.

Gotta love Steyn. Another hard-hitting column.

28 posted on 01/07/2012 10:07:37 AM PST by RhoTheta ("We're from the Government, and we're here to help you ... NOT")
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Steyn brilliantly points up the huge divide between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives keep trying to argue with liberals, while liberals merely sneer at conservatives.


34 posted on 01/07/2012 10:23:51 AM PST by irv (Live Tea or die!)
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Like every other characteristic for which the Left prides itself, their “compassion” is phony.


35 posted on 01/07/2012 10:59:01 AM PST by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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Excellent column from Mark Steyn.


39 posted on 01/07/2012 11:37:07 AM PST by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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