DAVID MARCUS: Ben Sasse is dying, but his letter to America will live forever

As a writer, there are times when I read something and think, "Wow, that’s good, this cat has chops." Very rarely do I read something that’s new, that I didn’t know was possible. Ben Sasse, he just wrote one of those.

The former Republican senator from Nebraska was informing the nation that he has stage four cancer and is going to die soon.

"Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence," he write. "But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do."

It may seem trivial...