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NEWS ABOUT: Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer stories: 16 news summaries
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

 KSM Trial 
 Will Be a 
 Perverse Farce 

It will be like rereleasing '9/11—the Director's Cut'

Nov 20, 09 5:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Everybody knows that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is never going to walk free, and that makes the logic behind Eric Holder's decision to give him a civilian trial in New York all the more puzzling, writes Charles Krauthammer. With the 9/11 not just the most destructive terrorist attack, "but the... More »

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • civilian law • Eric Holder • 9/11 attacks • Charles Krauthammer • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial

Charles Krauthammer

Time to Act Presidential on Afghanistan

After 'yearlong drift,' Obama can't keep passing buck to Bush

Oct 30, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama loves to blame things on George W. Bush, and on Monday he did it again, referring to the “long years of drift in Afghanistan.” He must be trying to “explain away his own, well, yearlong drift on Afghanistan,” writes Charles Krauthammer . In March, Obama... More »

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Afghanistan • Bush administration • Barack Obama • Iraq war • George W. Bush • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • President Obama • Charles Krauthammer • counterinsurgency

Charles Krauthammer

 Obama Assault 
 on Fox News  
 Is 'Nixonian' 


White House needs to recognize the legitimacy of opposition

Oct 23, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is over the line in its war on Fox News, seeking not only to criticize it, but to delegitimize and marginalize it, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post. “There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics,” he argues, but they do violate “... More »

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Richard Nixon • Fox News • media bias • Obama administration • liberal media • Charles Krauthammer • conservative media

OPINION

Pres. Hamlet Must Send in
His Troops

Krauthammer: Dems have to get serious about Afghanistan

Oct 9, 09 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - It’s time for Democrats, particularly President Obama, to get serious about the war in Afghanistan, writes Charles Krauthammer. From John Kerry on, Democrats have campaigned on the cynical political calculation that Afghanistan was the “good war.” But now that it’s time to send troops into that... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • troop levels • Afghanistan war • Charles Krauthammer • Stanley McChrystal

OPINION

Obama Doesn't Lie—But He Does Mislead

President slides by on half-truths on health care: Krauthammer

Sep 18, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Wilson wasn’t quite right. President Obama doesn’t lie, exactly, writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post, but he still has an odd “relationship to the truth.” For example, Obama promised to veto any bill that grew the deficit, then with his very next sentence... More »

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Barack Obama • illegal immigrant • Bill Clinton • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Obama administration • President Obama • Charles Krauthammer • Congressional Republicans • Joe Wilson • You lie

OPINION

 Obama's 'Spell is Broken' 

Misreading his mandate and talking down to subjects makes president 'ordinary'

Sep 4, 09 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's big-government dreams have turned him into a modern-day Icarus, Charles Krauthammer writes for the Washington Post. “His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth.” The magic is gone after “a disastrous summer” of “mistaking his mandate, believing his... More »

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health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • opposition • Charles Krauthammer • political capital • big government • mandate

OPINION

Krauthammer Hails Fox News as 'Alternate Reality'

Krauthammer calls network an American treasure

Jun 10, 09 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Post awarded Charles Krauthammer a prize yesterday, and the veteran neocon columnist used his acceptance speech to praise "the genius of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes" for the miracle of Fox News. The network "created an alternate reality," he said, offering an alternative to... More »

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New York Post • Fox News • American media • News Corp • cable news • neoconservatives • Charles Krauthammer

OPINION

Obama's Settlement Demands 'Dishonorable'


Jun 5, 09 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s insistence that Israel stop building or expanding West Bank settlements is “dishonorable and self-defeating,” writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. Hillary Clinton’s call to end “natural growth” expansions is especially ridiculous. “Is the peace process moribund because a teacher in... More »

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Israel • Palestine • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • settlement • Arab Israeli conflict • Charles Krauthammer

Interview

Krauthammer: Right's Thorn in Obama's Side

Post columnist the only coherent voice in a fractured opposition

May 20, 09 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - In 2006, Charles Krauthammer urged Barack Obama to run for president, guaranteeing he’d lose. That didn’t exactly work out, but Obama’s rise has been good for the Washington Post columnist, who has become the central anti-Obama voice, writes Ben Smith in Politico. His writing drips with a... More »

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Barack Obama • New York Times • Washington Post • conservative • columnists • David Brooks • President Obama • Charles Krauthammer

OPINION

 'Moral Calculus' 
 Made Torture OK: 
 Krauthammer 

Krauthammer doing 'moral calculus'

May 15, 09 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi’s “contemptible hypocrisy” on the torture issue tells us a great deal about the “moral calculus” behind the issue, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post. “Our jurisprudence has the ‘reasonable man’ standard,” he argues, which asks a jury to decide what a... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • torture • harsh interrogation • Charles Krauthammer • Yitzhak Rabin • moral calculus

OPINION

Obama's Secret Plan to Control Your Healthcare

President serves candy now, spinach later: Krauthammer

Apr 24, 09 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is going to need more than a “cash-cow carbon tax” to fund his goals of “nationalized health care” and “federalized education,” writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. Obama’s going to have to slash Social Security and Medicare. But his current health... More »

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Barack Obama • entitlement programs • Medicare • universal health care • Medicaid • Charles Krauthammer

OPINION

'Fatuous'
Obama Does
US No Favors: Krauthammer

Big talk yields little help from European allies

Apr 10, 09 10:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is out in the world, "acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray" and badmouthing past American actions, and to what end? Charles Krauthammer, writing in the New York Times, doesn't see any satisfactory answers. "I'm not against gift-giving in international relations," he writes.... More »

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Russia • North Korea • Europe • Austria • disarmament • foreign policy • Guantanamo prisoners • G20 • President Obama • Charles Krauthammer

OPINION

Age of Obama? More Like the Age of Pork

He promised change, but stimulus is same old ugly politics

Feb 6, 09 9:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Charles Krauthammer thought it would take months for Barack Obama to lose his magic. Instead? “It took two and a half weeks,” he writes in the Washington Post. Obama’s promise to “banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple,” looked pretty... More »

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Barack Obama • House of Representatives • pork barrel spending • economic stimulus package • Charles Krauthammer

OPINION

 Why Should US Apologize
to Muslims?

We've done such great stuff for them

Jan 30, 09 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s pledge to “seek a new way forward” in the Muslim world “based on mutual interest and mutual respect” struck Charles Krauthammer as “needlessly defensive and apologetic,” he writes in the Washington Post. What do we have to apologize for? Over the past... More »

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Barack Obama • Islam • Muslim • Charles Krauthammer

OPINION

 Krauthammer: 
 Obama Doesn't 
 Need Your Adulation 

Speech a 'stunning exercise in lowering expectations'

Jan 23, 09 8:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s inaugural address was a demonstration of his most striking quality: His utter lack of neediness. The speech so abandoned his trademark soaring rhetoric, so failed to excite or inspire, that it had to be a deliberate strategy, writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. “... More »

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Barack Obama • speech • Charles Krauthammer • inaugural address

 Obama Dines With 
 Conservative Kings 

Dinner with vocal conservative critics

Jan 13, 09 11:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama broke bread with America's most influential conservative opinion shapers last night. The Washington Post reports he was guest of honor at a dinner party given by columnist George Will, along with Bill Kristol, David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer. Rumors were buzzing that Rush Limbaugh would attend, but a... More »

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New York Times • Washington Post • Rush Limbaugh • Weekly Standard • George Will • David Brooks • President Obama • Chevy Chase Md • William Kristol • Charles Krauthammer

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