Bring Out Yer Dead, Mr. Santorum! – UPDATED

Elizabeth Scalia shares her column on how our reaction to death has been sanitized, and how natural a home wake was only 80 years ago.

Death, for the people of that era, and every era before, was no stranger and brought no squeamishness. There was nothing mysterious about death beyond those questions we still ask–will we see them again in the next life, and why, so often, do the good die young while old bastards hold forth for far too long? A family mourned and drank, and fought and keened and then stumbled into church for the funeral; they buried their beloved and stumbled about some more, and life went on

Pundits Alan Colmes and Edward Robinson mocked the Santorum's handling of the death of their son Gabriel was a mean spirited act of ignorance. It was far beyond the pale and at least Alan Colmes has had the grace to apologized, which the Santorums gracefully accepted. It shows the depth of their Catholic convictions, and their loving hearts. I would have had a difficult time being that gracious!

Colmes and Robinson are not only part of the Culture of Death, but they are ignorant. They don't know what mothers know, that proper mourning a dead child is healthiest for the family. Karen Santorum is a mom of 8 and a neonatal nurse, she has training and life experience which she drew upon in her moment of crisis. What she and Rick did was the most healthy and loving for them and their children. How would the children know their brother Gabriel really ever existed without seeing him?

I lost three babies to miscarriage. The first time, I was in such shock, I allowed the OB to take the remains of my son to “the lab” without thinking about what that meant. The thought that my child may be disposed of like poor aborted babies, in medical waste, haunted me. Finally I researched and discovered that in my Catholic hospital, unborn children’s remains are put to rest in a common plot in a local Catholic cemetery. I felt comforted to know this.

The next two times I miscarried, I buried my children’s remains with their grandmother in our family plot in the same cemetery. My priest told me it was proper. I memorialized them in the book at the Shrine of the Holy Innocents in NYC. The book which inspired me to take such care of my children. to name them and bury them was Karen Santorum’s “Letters to Gabriel”.

Last night, I finally had the opportunity to thank Karen personally for her example and her book. If we truly want a culture of life, we participate in the corporal work of mercy and bury our dead with love, and dignity.

Just imagine how it would help the pro-life movement if we had Karen Santorum as First Lady, a promoter of the Culture of Life! Read more in Jill Stanek's column here.

New York Times Columnist Says Death Panels Needed to Fix Economy | LifeNews.com

New York Times Columnist Says Death Panels Needed to Fix Economy | LifeNews.com
Paul Krugman mocked Sarah Palin for saying that Death Panels were part of the program, and now he glibly says they are part of it.
Go figure.

NPR fired Juan Williams unfairly

Juan Williams was a reliable, though measured voice of liberalism on Fox News. He engaged in many debates, and presented the liberal point of view without losing his cool or stooping to name calling. He was, in the truest sense, a true liberal whose credo is: "I may not agree with your position, but I will defend with my life, your right to state it".
His recent comment about being nervous when Muslims dressed in traditional garb board airliners, resonates with most Americans. I can remember agonizing over whether I should notify a flight attendant, when, on a cross-country flight, a Muslim man reading the Koran, kept looking suspiciously over his shoulder, and then spent an extraordinarily long time in the bathroom. If the passengers on flights where Muslim men like the underwear bomber and the shoe bomber hadn't alerted them, they may have been killed. Its only common sense after 9/11, and makes us cautious not racist. I had a student reluctant to  enter my ESL class at a community collegeon 9/12 because she was wearing a Hijab, and I smiled and waved her in. I was aware that these two are different situations and called for different reactions. Using his comment to fire Williams was just a ruse.

The real reason Williams was fired is that George Soros' owns a new radio network, NPR.
His huge $1.8 million donation apparently came with strings attached; fire Williams to punish him for appearing on Fox News.
Well, now Williams has found a new job at Fox News, the ONLY network which is interested in presenting both sides of an issue.
Do NOT donate to NPR in their fund drive, or offer to donate IF Williams is reinstated. Of course, if you're not donating $1.9 million, you're not likely to have an impact. They do, after all have our tax dollars to keep them going.
Sheila Liaugminas on MercatorNet agrees;

Now he’s being accused of bigotry? That’s preposterous and offensive to the sensibilities of Americans who have already tolerated enough verbal engineering and political posturing in our media. Williams is one of the many regular Fox News contributors who presents a consistently liberal counterbalance to the conservative analysts there, which allows the network to claim the ‘Fair and Balanced’ motto.

Read Sheila's blog at MercatorNet.

March for Life 2010 Slideshow

The Free Republic board is full interesting commentary on my article Against the Tide about the media blackout of the March for Life. One man said that we should march in New York up to MSNBC's door. I wonder if they would cover us even then. They'd still have their cameras trained on six women supporting abortion in DC. But, as I note in my article, young people know how to use the New Media.

Here's a wonderful example.
View the slideshow here.