Charles Hurt
Columns by Charles Hurt
Donald Trump stops Nancy Pelosi’s Mexico enablers of child abuse
"Threats and temper tantrums" are better known as "smart negotiating skills." It is how this president managed for the first time in 40 years to find a solution to deal with an immigration problem that both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have refused to fix. Published June 9, 2019
Democratic presidential candidates come to their senses on abortion
Democrats running for president have taken a shockingly sensible position on the most deeply divisive issue in American politics for the past half-century. Published June 2, 2019
Robert Mueller pulls a James Comey
In this latest episode of "Prosecutors Gone Wild," special counsel Robert Mueller performed what can only be described in legal terms as "pulling a Jim Comey." Published May 29, 2019
Delusional Nancy Pelsoi, Democrats lash out at Donald Trump — again
These sure are boom times for the psychiatry industry. Published May 26, 2019
Bernie Sanders socialist utopia rebutted by North Korea
Far and away their most insidious and dishonest endeavor -- one that pretty much all of them completely agree upon -- is that those who work should be forced to pay for other people to go to school free. Published May 19, 2019
Donald Trump China trade war is what he promised workers in 2016
President Trump's escalating tariff war with China is so perfectly in keeping with his 2016 campaign. Published May 14, 2019
Donald Trump, the Kentucky Derby and fake news
In the stunning confusion of Saturday's Kentucky Derby as we tried to comprehend why Maximum Security's jockey had been disqualified after appearing to win the race, my first thought -- naturally -- was: "I cannot wait to see what President Trump tweets about this!" Published May 5, 2019
Olivier Knox and the crybaby meltdown at White House Correspondents’ Association dinner
It is said that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people. That is, of course, an insult to homely people everywhere. Published April 28, 2019
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign kickoff a shameless stunt
Even in this time of shameless, cheap politics, Joe Biden's presidential campaign kickoff is the most shameless and cheapest stunt of all. Published April 25, 2019
Oh, to work in Nancy Pelosi’s vineyard
Once again, President Trump has hit upon a supposedly "controversial" proposal that has caused the entire herd of fainting goats in the Washington press corps to collapse in fevered panting and jerky spasms. And, once again, the idea is simple, logical and genius. Published April 12, 2019
Donald Trump is lone, sensible voice about privacy among all the nonsense
For 200 years, stringent safeguards have been in place to protect the civil liberties of U.S. citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. These protections severely restricted the federal government's ability to spy on Americans, especially on U.S. soil. Published April 7, 2019
Donald Trump reacts to Barbara Bush quotes
President Trump said he was not surprised by former first lady Barbara Bush's attacks on him, as posthumously quoted in a new biography. Published April 4, 2019
Media amplified Adam Schiff’s voice, shouted down the truth
The job of newspapers was once to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Today, that job seems to be to give voice to liars and shout down the truth. Published March 31, 2019
List of trusted journalistic sources shrinks in post-Mueller report world
In the wake of the journalistic catastrophe exposed by the Mueller report, it is important that we record as many of the lies that we can and shine a bright light on the most dishonest goats in the media over the past two years. Published March 27, 2019
Media pulled off big con with Russia collusion story
America got conned again. It was all a big set-up. A ruse. A dirty canard. The whole thing was one giant lie. Published March 24, 2019
Bill Nye, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filled with hot air, hysteria regarding climate change
There are Holocaust deniers, most of whom are Democrats these days. Published March 10, 2019
Targeting young hearts, minds with leftist children’s books
Bookstores these days are stacked with hyperpartisan propaganda aimed at stealing the minds of our youngest, though not necessarily our most impressionable. Published March 3, 2019
‘Never Trumpers’ are suddenly constitutionalists
Now come all the great Washington "conservatives" lambasting President Trump for threatening to declare a "national emergency" so he can finally build the promised southern border wall that got him elected president. Published February 17, 2019
State of the Union? Kermit Gosnell could be governor of Virginia
Last week, a major political party in America openly embraced legislation to legalize elective abortion during live human birth. Previously, such infanticidal horrors had been glimpsed only in murder trials of monsters like Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist serving a life sentence for murdering three babies at birth. Published February 5, 2019
Ralph Northam blackface sparks outrage, silence over killing babies
What is truly amazing is how many Virginia Democrat politicians had to touch that hot stove before they got the message that even mainstream Democrat voters do not approve -- no, they are appalled, aghast and unbelieving -- at the mere notion of an elective abortion during delivery. Published February 3, 2019
