By Charles Hurt
You know you are a serious societal pestilence when even politicians can kick you around. Which is why the Senate Finance Committee called Steven Miller, former acting IRS commissioner, to testify about the agency's scheme targeting conservatives for tax punishment. Published May 21, 2013
By Charles Hurt
So, what does somebody have to do to get fired around here? Published May 14, 2013
By Charles Hurt
The party that swept into power on promises of transparency and accountability scrambled Wednesday to circle wagons in an extravagant attempt to protect administration officials, the White House and the woman many Democrats hope will be their next nominee for president. Published May 8, 2013
By Charles Hurt
Big Apple Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his band of rabid gun snatchers have targeted their victims, taken them hostage and will start bumping them off one by one. Time for negotiation has passed. Published May 7, 2013
By Charles Hurt
The King of Glib sure isn't ready for the serious business of actually getting things done. Published April 30, 2013
By Charles Hurt
Across the country, good people watched the events unfold around Boston all week and felt sorry for their defenseless fellow Americans cowering in their homes. "Bet they wish they had a gun now," was the common refrain. Published April 23, 2013
By Charles Hurt
When did we all become so bitterly political? When did vicious murder, blind terrorism, the slaughter of innocent children and cruel rampages by mad men become so divisive and partisan in America? Published April 16, 2013
By Charles Hurt
Having plunged America trillions of dollars deeper into debt with little to show for it, President Obama reportedly has found agreement with congressional Republicans on something: Social Security "reform." Published April 9, 2013
By Charles Hurt
President Obama keeps preaching about "common-sense" new federal laws that will end the senseless slaughter of innocents such as the massacre we saw at an elementary school in December. Published April 4, 2013
By Charles Hurt
The truth is, President Obama and his fellow politicians have no real plan for curbing gun violence. Twenty children were murdered by a psychopath and they smelled blood. And they did what politicians do. They used the poor dead children to push their political agenda. Published April 3, 2013
By Charles Hurt
President Obama sure is serpent-bit when it comes to going to church. First, it was his longtime Chicago preacher who dragged the young presidential aspirant into hot water with all his fiery old sermons about the U.S. of KKK and chickens coming home to roost. Now, his most regular preacher, we find out, hangs out with white supremacists. Published April 2, 2013
By Charles Hurt
The purpose of the very traditional father-daughter dance inside prison walls is just what you would think. It gives lost little girls a glimpse of their fathers in a highly controlled environment. And it gives fathers a heart-wrenching glimpse of their daughters, which hopefully becomes an incentive to get through their prison stint and stay out. Published March 26, 2013
By Charles Hurt
Rage over the waste and injustice of agents sent by the federal government to bang on doors of law-abiding citizens to ask probing, creepy questions is normally something that bubbles up only every 10 years. But ever since the federal government became a cancerous leviathan, the outrage is now an annual occurrence. Published March 19, 2013
By Charles Hurt
Only here in Washington could a bunch of people get together and struggle over how to trim excess fat from a $3.6 trillion budget. Published March 12, 2013
By Charles Hurt
With $6 trillion down the drain, you might think that wild, drunken spending of other people's money that we do not have is President Obama's single greatest talent. Turns out, there is something else he is even better at. Published March 5, 2013
