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Charles Hurt was the Opinion Editor and is a columnist for The Washington Times. Often seen as a Fox News contributor on the cable network’s signature evening news roundtable, Mr. Hurt in his 20-year career has worked his way up from a beat reporter for the Detroit News and Washington correspondent for the Charlotte Observer before joining The Washington Times in 2003. He later served as D.C. bureau chief and White House correspondent for the New York Post and editor at the Drudge Report. He can be reached at churt@washingtontimes.com.

Columns by Charles Hurt

President Joe Biden responds to a question from a reporter as he speaks in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats double down on inflation

So it is true. Money really can't buy you love. Just ask Joe Biden.

November 15, 2021

Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, attends the opening ceremony of the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday Nov. 1, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow gathers leaders from around the world, in Scotland's biggest city, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (Yves Herman/Pool via AP)

Biden, the Duchess of Cornwall and the stench of pervasive conspiracies

Oh, to live in this age of conspiracies. Did you hear the latest one?

November 8, 2021

President Joe Biden talks about the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden’s administrative state launches war on America

The good news is voters in Virginia this week fired the first shot in the war to end the carnival of absurdity that has infected our politics over the past few years.

November 4, 2021

In this image provided by NBC29, five people holding tiki torches stand in the rain by the campaign bus for GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, outside the Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant on Market Street in Charlottesville, Va., Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. The anti-Donald Trump group The Lincoln Project is taking credit for the group of five people who showed up at a Charlottesville campaign stop by Youngkin. The appearance recalled the torch-bearing White supremacists who descended on the city during two days of violence in 2017. (Elizabeth Holmes/NBC29 via AP)

Virginia Democrats reach new lows in race hatred campaign

There is desperation in the waning days of a doomed political campaign. And then there is this Terry McAuliffe train wreck.

November 1, 2021

Former Virginia Gov. L Douglas Wilder gestures during a news conference in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

The unyielding independence of L. Douglas Wilder

Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder answers to no one. He has always been truly independent, which makes him a problem inside the Democratic Party.

October 28, 2021

President Joe Biden talks to students during a visit to East End Elementary School to promote his "Build Back Better" agenda, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in North Plainfield, N.J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden caught with his rusty drawbridges down

Peddling his monstrous Green New Deal Monday, President Biden delivered a strange lecture about drawbridges.

October 25, 2021

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Wandering, lobotomized Obama zombies search for ‘Hope and Change’

On Wednesday, President Biden traveled to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to sell his doomed "human infrastructure" bill, which smells more like an un-showered Green New Deal.

October 21, 2021

Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a lawsuit to block the enforcement of a new Texas law that bans most abortions, at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden weaponizes terror law against patriots in Virginia

Parents attending school board meetings in America are not terrorists.

October 14, 2021

People wait for a rally with former President Donald Trump to begin at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa., Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Thomas Beaumont)

Congress’ classical narcissists fret as the Trump train rolls on

No, GOP swampers, Donald Trump is not going away.

October 11, 2021

D.C. government workers cleared out all the tents on the sidewalk under the K Street Northeast underpass last week to make room for pedestrians. Many of those homeless folk moved to the L Street Northeast underpass. (Sophie Kaplan/The Washington Times) ** FILE **

D.C. Democrats dispatch bulldozers on ‘unhoused neighbors’

However much you hate Washington, you do not hate it enough.

October 7, 2021

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the debt ceiling during an event in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Media road whores are Biden band’s only fans left

President Biden's administration really is an aging rock band that hasn't had a hit in memory. Or ever.

October 4, 2021

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, left, and Republican challenger, Glenn Youngkin, participate in a debate at Northern Virginia Community College, in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Terry McAuliffe: ‘Smarmy used car salesman’

In a remotely honest world, the Virginia governor's race would already be over. But this is politics, and NBC's greasy Chuck Todd is the referee.

September 30, 2021

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley listens to a Senator's question during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

Strategic failure — perfectly executed

Well, now we know why there was no plan to evacuate Afghanistan after 20 years without abandoning thousands of American citizens and allies on the battlefield.

September 28, 2021

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on COVID-19 during an event in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

#FJB latest craze in political discourse

President Donald J. Trump has not been out of office one year and already there is so much Americans miss about him. Top of the list, apparently, are the Mean Tweets.

September 27, 2021

President Joe Biden speaks during the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden preaches ‘dignity’ at U.N.

President Biden went before the United Nations this week to lecture the world about "dignity."

September 23, 2021

FILE - In this May 5, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden takes questions from reporters as he speaks about the American Rescue Plan, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Biden is plunging into the next phase of his administration with the steady approval of a majority of Americans, buoyed in particular by the public's broad backing for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also shows an uptick in Americans' overall optimism about the state of the country. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Joe Biden dies slow death by media

And the Firm Grasp of the Obvious Award goes to ... Chuck Todd of NBC News!

September 20, 2021

Norm Macdonald appears at KAABOO 2017 in San Diego on Sept. 16, 2017. Macdonald, a comedian and former cast member on "Saturday Night Live," died Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, after a nine-year battle with cancer that he kept private, according to Brillstein Entertainment Partners, his management firm in Los Angeles. He was 61. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

Norm Macdonald refused to pander to powerful socialist planners

The whole problem with socialism is that it's like sharing a banana with a gorilla. You never get a bite of the banana. And you will probably get mauled anyway.

September 16, 2021

Vive President Kamala Harris speaks at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Shameless pols use 9/11 to lecture America about ‘unity’

It was entirely fitting that the finest speech from Saturday's 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was delivered by an ordinary citizen.

September 13, 2021

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters to discuss President Joe Biden's domestic agenda including passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill and pushing through a Democrats-only expansion of the social safety net, the at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden’s ‘America last’ agenda

Twenty years after 9/11, a plague from China rampages across our homeland. To date, COVID-19 has killed over 230 times more Americans than did those terrorist attacks.

September 9, 2021

FILE - In this March 30, 2021 file photo, anti-abortion rights demonstrators gather in the rotunda at the Capitol while the Senate debated anti-abortion bills in Austin, Texas. The nation's highest court has allowed a Texas law banning most abortions to remain in effect, marking a turning point for abortion opponents who have been fighting to implement stronger restrictions for nearly a decade. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Merchants of Death

Nothing reveals people's true selves like death.

September 6, 2021