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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

Workers begin to lay the bronze statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill onto a flatbed truck on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, in Richmond, Va. The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed the statue, its last city-owned Confederate statue Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Second wave of Civil War Reconstruction: Erasing history in Richmond and Detroit

We have reached the point in the collapse of American leftist ideology where they are digging up the dead.

December 19, 2022

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers is shown during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. A Mexican national was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison for trafficking the largest amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl seized by U.S. authorities in 2021 and 2022. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

Illegal immigration, fentanyl and the politics of Trump’s harsh language

Courtney Bannick, a police officer in a small city outside Orlando, Florida, nearly died this week while making a traffic stop that uncovered the presence of illegal substances.

December 15, 2022

National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Twitter’s new reign of free speech exposes true fascists like Alexander S. Vindman

If Alexander S. Vindman were not on Twitter, he would probably be out among the serious people doing real damage. Yes, Twitter is a sewer. But it is also a babysitter for ridiculous people.

December 12, 2022

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel speaks to a packed room at the opening of the RNC's new Hispanic Community Center in Suwanee, Ga., June 29, 2022. A decade after its last election autopsy, the Republican National Committee is moving forward with a new post-election audit designed to examine the GOP's underwhelming performance in the recent midterms and the party's broader struggles in the years since former President Donald Trump took power. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

Time for new leadership at the RNC after three straight failed elections

It's starting to look like maybe -- just maybe -- the Republican Party might be having trouble getting their candidates elected.

December 8, 2022

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Musk said during a presentation Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2022, that his Neuralink company is seeking permission to test its brain implant in people soon. Musk’s Neuralink is one of many groups working on linking brains to computers, efforts aimed at helping treat brain disorders, overcoming brain injuries and other applications. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)

Latest warrior in Trump movement, Elon Musk, exposes corrupt Twitter

When President Donald Trump arrived on the political scene, he was a bull in a china shop. That was his most important and appealing attribute.

December 5, 2022

Elon Musk attends Heidi Klum's 21st annual Halloween party at Sake No Hana at Moxy Lower East Side on Oct. 31, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Vulgarian Trump and barbarian Musk at the gate

Former President Donald Trump is at his most vulgar and unsuited for high office when he claims that the 2020 election was stolen. This just in: The 2020 election was stolen!

December 1, 2022

Nick Fuentes, far-right activist, holds a rally at the Lansing Capitol, in Lansing, Mich., Nov. 11, 2020. Former President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago club with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who is now known as Ye, as well as Nick Fuentes, who has used his online platform to spew antisemitic and White supremacist rhetoric. (Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News via AP, File)

Dems’ latest race hustle is Brown ‘White supremacist’ at Mar-a-Lago

In what we hope are the last, desperate death gurgles of their long, sordid history with racist political strategies, the Democrat party is accusing others of "normalizing antisemitism."

November 28, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks on the House floor at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Happy Thanksgiving: Gratitude is the best way to start your day — or a country

"In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." -- 1 Thessalonians 5:18

November 24, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks during a pardoning ceremony for the national Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Happy Birthday, President Biden: Very old and left with nothing but bad options

Welcome to Shamelot. It's not quite the Kennedys, but it's the best the Bidens can do.

November 21, 2022

Former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump keeps it elegant in 2024 presidential campaign announcement

In a speech that would have exhausted Fidel Castro, Donald Trump announced his 2024 campaign for president Tuesday night in Palm Beach, Florida.

November 17, 2022

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attends a Senate Rules and Administration Committee meeting on the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. The bill is a response to the Jan. 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump's efforts to find a way around the Electoral Count Act, the 19th-century law that, along with the Constitution, governs how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Permanent Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

Another close election draws to a close. After a week of counting "post-election" ballots, the results are almost in.

November 14, 2022

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign rally, Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, in Hialeah, Fla.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Rise of the MAGA clones

Well, no wonder the guy is so damned sanctimonious. Maybe his nickname should be Ron DeLandslide. Or Ron DeSavage.

November 10, 2022

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in support of the campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., at the Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

GOP in a tizzy over Don from Queens’ new ‘DeSanctimonious’ nickname

Donald Trump is back. And nobody learned a thing.

November 7, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about threats to democracy ahead of next week's midterm elections, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, at the Columbus Club in Union Station, near the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats abort abortion message, turn to fear mongering

It was supposed to be all about abortion. They told us that was going to bring the big blue wave.

November 3, 2022

In this June 3, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd as he disembarks from his plane for a campaign rally at the Redding Municipal Airport in Redding, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Trump Force One ready to take off for ‘24 presidential campaign

Former President Donald Trump is running for president. The only question that remains is whether he formally announces his 2024 campaign sometime in the next seven days or waits to announce after the midterms.

October 31, 2022

Cracked Candidate John Fetterman Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

White House may be the only suitable place for John Fetterman

John Fetterman very well may lose this election, but it will not be because of his painfully doddering, incoherent and downright senile performance during this week's debate.

October 27, 2022

FILE - Democratic candidate for Georgia Governor Stacey Abrams poses for a portrait in front of the State Seal of Georgia on Aug. 8, 2022, in Decatur, Ga. The Georgia governor's race is a rematch of 2018, when Brian Kemp narrowly defeated Stacey Abrams. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Ghosts of Democrats’ future only bring a ‘vortex of misery’

With the Democrat party in full, fiery conflagration two weeks before the midterm elections, now is a good time to take a quick peek at the party's leaders -- present and future.

October 24, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about the ongoing federal response efforts for Hurricane Ian from the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington on Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

‘Buzzkill’ Biden’s financial pandemic looms over midterm elections

Welcome to the "Buzzkill" Biden Financial Pandemic. The Democrats' Globalist Pandemic.

October 20, 2022

Holy Obama Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The Chosen One returns: Obama back to save his Democrats

Barack Obama is Risen!

October 17, 2022

The Achievements of President Biden Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Light up, America, and cast your ballot this year on Biden’s terrible record

It took a fake news anchor on "Saturday Night Live" to finally ask the question the fake political media in Washington has been ignoring for years.

October 13, 2022