Charles Krauthammer Passed Away!

Charles Krauthammer passed away of stage IV cancer of the liver.

Cancer took his life but his legacy will remain. Often regarded as the gold standard of old school conservatism, Charles Krauthammer passed away at the age of 69. He was diagnosis with liver cancer.

The right has now poured their condolences to the Pulitzer Prize columnist.

He wrote for the Washington Post and appeared as a panelist on Fox News.

Before his death, he announced his retirement. He said that he knew that day would come and he didn't have much to regret. "I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months. I had thought silence would soon be coming to an end, but I'm afraid I must tel you now that fate has decided on a different course for me... Recent test have revealed that the cancer has returned. There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly. My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over. I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living."

Krauthammer appeared mostly on Special Report with Bret Baier.

Often a fan of baseball, some may have seen him at Washington Nationals games. The team offered a moment of silence for the departed.

Charles Krauthammer with his son Danny.

Krauthammer was a very active man. When he was in his twenties, he and a friend went for a swim at a local pool. He would take a nasty dive and hit his head on the pool's bottom.

"We go for a swim, we take a few dives and I hit my head on the bottom of the pool. The amazing thing is there was not even a cut on my head. It just hit at precisely the angle where all the force was transmitted to one spot...the cervical vertebrae which severed the spinal cord."

He would spend his life mostly confined to a wheelchair. He said that his disability would not be a failure. He said that he would use this an advantage.

During the 1980s, he found Ronald Reagan and soon became a conservative publisher. He would write controversial and influential postings.

He would become one of the most prominent voices during the Clinton years. He was an advocate for the Iraq war. He was a big defender of Israeli occupation. He was also a harsh critic of Donald J. Trump.

Born in New York, raised in Montreal, Krauthammer was a Harvard educated, famed and controversial writer. He was loved among those on the right and some on the left. He leaves behind a wife and son.