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Title: RIP dr. charles
Post by: rocket surgeon on June 21, 2018, 06:28:16 PM
        this was a guy who was well respected by most and respected everyone in return-a true gentleman and a scholar-he respected the life that God gave him and made the best of it-he approached his impending death with dignity and courage, looking back without regrets-RIP my good man

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-pundit-charles-krauthammer-221040604.html?soc_trk=gcm&soc_src=937981b8-b832-11e5-a8a0-fa163e2c24a6&.tsrc=notification-brknews
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: WarriorDad on June 21, 2018, 06:47:27 PM
Did not agree with him that much, but he took lemons in life and made lemonade.  RIP
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: Mr. Nielsen on June 21, 2018, 07:20:26 PM
Outstanding well spoken and brilliant man. He will be missed.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: chapman on June 21, 2018, 08:13:20 PM
Fascinating man.  We've lost many great thinkers this year.

Piece on The Reagan Doctrine, one of his more involved areas of expertise: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,141478,00.html


Final farewell column, not even two weeks ago:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-note-to-readers/2018/06/08/3512010c-6b24-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?utm_term=.bbdad347c19a

Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: Goose on June 22, 2018, 06:55:06 AM
He will be missed a great deal. RIP Charles.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: Lennys Tap on June 22, 2018, 12:48:34 PM
Amazing intellect, amazing life. A profile in courage right to the finish.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: GGGG on June 22, 2018, 12:56:21 PM
I'm not a big TV show pundit guy, so my exposure to him was pretty limited, but I had no idea until about six months ago that he was paralyzed.  Profile in courage indeed.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: jsglow on June 22, 2018, 01:17:50 PM
Brilliant and incredibly kind man.  The national conversation is weakened by his passing.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: Jay Bee on June 22, 2018, 05:46:42 PM
Brilliant fella, hey. RIP
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: WarriorDad on June 23, 2018, 12:28:49 PM
Did something rare last night and watched Fox, they had a special 1 hour on the man.  He started working for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale as a speechwriter despite no experience.  Wrote for the New Republic, used to be one of the best publications out there. His girlfriend stayed with him even after the accident and married him, a great love story.  It was worth the hour.  How he studied for the medical school after the accident gave me the chills.  Determination.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: Mr. Nielsen on June 23, 2018, 02:11:24 PM
It was an outstanding show on FNC last night.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: theBabyDavid on June 23, 2018, 04:06:02 PM
Krauthammer was one of the giants. A brilliant mind with an undaunted spirit.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: theBabyDavid on June 24, 2018, 02:09:47 PM
Krauthammer's passing made me think of another great theorist who possessed both a formidable mind and a deft pen: Irving Kristol. Without Kristol there is no Reagan. Kristol once wrote that a conservative is a liberal who was finally mugged by the stark reality of human nature.

Krauthammer and Kristol take their place alongside Burke, Friedman, Jefferson, Cato, Babbitt, von Mises, Podhoretz, and Buckley as not just brilliant minds but pragmatic realists.

Karl Marx was brilliant. But he was more Don Quixote than Alexander Hamilton or Russell Kirk.

Krauthammer's agile mind and adroit musings will be missed.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: real chili 83 on June 24, 2018, 03:37:27 PM
Krauthammer was one of the giants. A brilliant mind with an undaunted spirit.

Keefe, who's the babe?
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: theBabyDavid on June 25, 2018, 02:11:04 AM
Keefe, who's the babe?

theBabyDavid's mother. She is holding theBabyDavid in that photo but he got cut off in the upload.


Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: Babybluejeans on June 25, 2018, 12:19:23 PM
Did something rare last night and watched Fox

Cheekz, you're trying way too hard brother.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: Jockey on June 25, 2018, 01:42:43 PM
Cheekz, you're trying way too hard brother.

Let him keep going. This is funny stuff.
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: ZiggysFryBoy on June 26, 2018, 04:20:33 PM
theBabyDavid's mother. She is holding theBabyDavid in that photo but he got cut off in the upload.

Is she about 30 years your younger?
Title: Re: RIP dr. charles
Post by: theBabyDavid on June 26, 2018, 04:45:43 PM
Is she about 30 years your younger?

Not quite but was born while I was at MU. Great gal. Grew up on an Idaho cattle ranch, went to school out east, and works at MSFT. Keeps me busy and out of trouble. And really doesn't get why anyone would waste time on something like Scoop. She read some of it and said, simply, "Why?"

Depsite that she is an incredible mother to a delightful boy.