Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt is the Opinion Editor and 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.

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Immigrants aboard the Governor head out of Vineyard Haven, Mass., for Woods Hole, Mass., Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. They were being transported on the Yankee Bus. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the playbook of a fellow Republican, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to a new level by catching officials flat-footed in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., with two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants. On Friday, the migrants were being moved voluntarily to a military base on nearby Cape Cod, Mass. (Ron Schloerb/Cape Cod Times via AP)

Racist residents of Martha’s Vineyard exposed

The only problem with those illegal aliens dumped on Martha's Vineyard? They weren't housekeepers and yard workers. Published September 19, 2022

Illustration on crime in America by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Time to hold Biden and Democrats accountable for defunding police

In times of peace, elections are almost always about the economy. As ex-President Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign memorably scolded: "It's the economy, stupid!" Published September 15, 2022

A person falls from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. Associated Press photographer Richard Drew talks about AP’s coverage of 9/11 and the events that followed. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

Remembering the most haunting image of 9/11

The sights and sounds on that crisp, cloudless morning of Sept. 11, 2001, seem like yesterday. Published September 12, 2022

In this June 16, 2021, file photo U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

As a queen lay dying, AOC poses for another star turn in her own fantasy

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a legend in her own mind. A rock star with an air guitar. The leading actress in a movie all about her that was never made -- and never will be. Published September 8, 2022

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., questions Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Don’t believe the lying media: Republicans in strong position to take House, even Senate

The political press -- along with desperate Democrats -- have been in full propaganda mode lately. They insist that despite all these headwinds, Democrats are cruising towards victory in November. Published September 5, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks at the National Association of Counties 2022 Legislative Conference, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden must pay for the lies, death, war, and misery he has inflicted on the world

The FBI raided former President Donald Trump's private residence because President Joe Biden would rather talk about Mr. Trump other than his own catastrophic record going into the next election. Published September 1, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks during a rally hosted by the Democratic National Committee at Richard Montgomery High School, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, in Rockville, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In the Babbling Land of Babylon, Biden is king

Brandon the Unifier strikes again! Published August 29, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt forgiveness in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden wages war on America’s innocent hardworking taxpayer

Robbing the poor to give to the rich. Published August 25, 2022

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks during a conversation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) ** FILE **

Doomsday climate disaster mongers Gore and Biden

The truth keeps getting more and more inconvenient. Just ask the inventor of the internet, the former vice president and America's forever "next president" Albert Gore. Published August 22, 2022

Biden foreign policy illustration by The Washington Times

America last: Biden’s back-foot diplomacy

In a city of 10 million people, just 15 miles from the North Korean border -- bristling with nuclear warheads -- international diplomacy is not some kind of State Department parlor game. Published August 18, 2022

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2017, photo, North America's tallest peak, Denali, is seen from a turnout in Denali State Park, Alaska. National park rangers in Alaska on Friday, May 6, 2022, resumed an aerial search for the year's first registered climber on North America's tallest peak after he didn't check in with a friend. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

Alaska: Fiercely individualistic and America’s final frontier

People don't come up to Alaska looking for handouts. Published August 15, 2022

The entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is shown, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump said in a lengthy statement that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Bear hunting in Mar-a-Lago

If you are going to shoot a grizzly bear, you better kill it. Published August 9, 2022

In this Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, photo, a can of Spam is shown, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Biden shatters ‘Misery Index’

America, you've got SPAM. But in President Biden's America, you better lock it up! Published August 1, 2022

Then-President Donald Trump and then-former Vice President Joe Biden square off during the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

‘America First’ vs. American carnage

The case for former President Donald Trump has never been clearer. Published July 28, 2022

Former President Donald Trump reacts before addressing attendees during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, Saturday, July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Trump: The joyful gambler

During the 2020 election, the Swamp used every weapon under God to blast then-President Donald Trump out of the White House. Published July 25, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media after exiting Air Force One, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Hiding behind sunglasses, Biden lies again

So, the president announced Wednesday that he has cancer. Published July 21, 2022

Alec Baldwin, left, and Hilaria Baldwin appear at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2017. Hilaria Baldwin is expecting baby No. 7. She announced Tuesday on Instagram that she’s expecting, sharing a video of the moment she and Alec told their kids. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Democrat Party’s only ‘Hispanic’ voter left is Hillary Baldwin

Serious question: If all Hispanics are tacos as first lady Jill Biden told us this week, what kind of taco is Alex Baldwin's wife? Published July 14, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about abortion access during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, July 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden gives hope to imbeciles everywhere

President Biden has plumbed the greatest depths to expose and remove every last barrier to the White House. He has proved that anyone can be president. Published July 11, 2022

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to those gathered near the site of Monday's mass shooting during the Highland Park July 4th parade Tuesday, July 5, 2022, in Highland Park, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Democrats offer word salad in response to unspeakable tragedy

Like sick moths to a flame, Democrat politicians flutter brainlessly to every catastrophe -- their willful dishonesty and shallow stupidity outmatched only by their misplaced confidence in the solutions they offer. Published July 7, 2022

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies under oath before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, June 23, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. She delivered alarming new testimony about Donald Trump's actions that day and provided detailed, first-hand knowledge of what she saw and heard in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, including her description of an angry and defiant Trump who ignored repeated warnings against summoning the mob to the Capitol on Jan. 6 and then refused to intervene to stop the violence as rioters laid siege. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Telephone game in the ‘Age of Trump’

If you want to know why former President Donald Trump and so many of his supporters don't trust assurances from government Democrats that the 2020 election was on the level, just ask Cassidy Hutchinson. Published July 4, 2022