By Charles Hurt
The Oscar-winning tale "Argo" contains a movie within the movie. Comparisons to Shakespeare's Hamlet — or anything worth remembering, for that matter — certainly end there. So, it was altogether fitting that first lady Michelle Obama horned her way into the insufferable ceremony to award the night's most coveted honor to the hostage thriller. Published February 26, 2013
By Charles Hurt
In New York, they are rounding up the crazies. In Seattle, they want armed police invading the homes of law-abiding gun owners for annual "inspections." In Denver, plans are under way to levy new taxes on gun owners to raise millions for the state's strained coffers. Published February 19, 2013
By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times
Here are five reasons why Dr. Ben Carson, the famed Baltimore pediatric neurosurgeon and American patriot, should run for president. Published February 12, 2013
By Charles Hurt
The state of our union, President Obama now tells us with “renewed” confidence, is “stronger.” Stronger than what, exactly? The deepest bowels of a recession? Published February 12, 2013
By Charles Hurt
Chuck Hagel, in all likelihood, will be confirmed as President Obama's next secretary of defense. Published February 5, 2013
By Charles Hurt
Living here in the shadow of our nation's great Capitol in this fine Federal City, my neighbors and I enjoy the peace and serenity of a tightly enforced "no-fly" zone. By "peace" and "serenity" I mean that we are under near-constant assault by helicopters everywhere whapping just over our rooftops. Published January 29, 2013
By Charles Hurt
It was another door-buster inauguration. Not quite 2008, but still a pretty sensational showing. Published January 22, 2013
By Charles Hurt
Where is the liberal outrage? Where is the liberal suspicion about powerful, unchecked governments? Where is the liberal unflinching devotion to individual liberty? Published January 16, 2013
By Charles Hurt
What does it tell you when a new group founded to clamp down on gun-ownership rights announces its formation by trotting out the celebrity victim of a crazed gunman? Published January 8, 2013
By Charles Hurt
Congress and the White House have so utterly disgraced themselves and this country over the past few years it seemed impossible for them to do any worse. Yet here we are, facing a massive tax-hike time bomb that was set by them 10 years ago and these people manage to reach new levels of stupidity, recklessness, dishonesty and unfairness. Published January 1, 2013
By Charles Hurt
What an irony it was to watch the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre finally emerge after a self-imposed and highly publicized week of silence after the incomprehensible killings of 20 elementary school children. Published December 25, 2012
By Charles Hurt
Only in this capital of self-absorbed arrogance do people learn of an incomprehensible slaughter of angelic children huddled in terror and immediately think — well, of themselves. And how they can, in their boundless power and wisdom, fix it so it never happens again. Only in this town do people witness such madness and carnage and think of — what else? — low, dirty politics. Published December 18, 2012
By Charles Hurt
Without doubt, the most dangerous place to stand in all of Washington is on your principle. Published December 11, 2012
By Charles Hurt
Only in a town like this would criminally reckless and penniless grifters still be at the bargaining table as their debtors and creditors pick through the rubble of the financial ruin they themselves created. Published December 4, 2012
By Charles Hurt
So President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have returned to Washington emboldened by their "clear mandate" from voters. Published November 27, 2012
