"Charles Krauthammer" is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated Op-Ed/columnist, author, political commentator, and physician. His weekly column is syndicated to more than 400 newspapers worldwide. He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and a nightly panelist on Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier. He was a weekly panelist on the Public Broadcasting Service/PBS news program Inside Washington from 1990 until it ceased production in December 2013.

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After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.

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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

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When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

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If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life . . .

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In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

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In the old days one merely gawked at these unfortunates. Donahue's genius is to get them to talk.

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A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

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Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

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This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

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