PULITZER WINNING AMERICAN COLUMNIST, CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, IS DEAD

Penpushing reports further that, the deceased was credited with laying the ideological groundwork for the invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration in 2003. He educated at Harvard, and was paralysed from the waist down in a diving accident that occurred during his first year.

He went on to graduate and later became a physician before turning to media, was born in Manhattan, New York, on March 13, 1950, and moved to in Montreal, Canada, with his father and mother who were Jewish refugees from Europe. He graduated first in class at McGill University, Montreal, in 1970 with a degree in political science and economics.

Krauthammer then spent a year studying political theory at the University of Oxford. Amid the ferment of student revolution on college campuses, he grew disillusioned with politics and abruptly switched course to pursue medicine.

That discipline, he later wrote, “promised not only moral certainty, but intellectual certainty, a hardness to truth, something not to be found in the universe of politics.” He worked as a speechwriter for former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale in the 1970s before moving fully into print journalism as a conservative columnist and later to television as a commentator.

Penpushing also reports that, at Fox News, the late Krauthammer was a regular feature on “Special Report with Bret Baier” for more than a decade. He won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his writing at the Washington Post.