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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

In this file photo from 2009, then-Vice President-elect, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, stands with his son Hunter during a re-enactment of the Senate oath ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

Meet the Bidens, the one family who made a fortune in the Obama economy

Welcome to the "mute button election."

October 21, 2020

President Donald Trump dances after speaking at a campaign rally at Prescott Regional Airport, Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump still running as outsider

The surest takeaway from the past four years in politics is that whatever crimes people accuse President Trump of committing are, in fact, being committed by the accusers themselves.

October 19, 2020

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., speaks during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Samuel Corum/Pool via AP)

In final stages of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Democrats lie down like little shorn lambs

President Trump has officially broken these people. They now find themselves in the final, acute stages of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

October 15, 2020

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Erin Scott/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Amy Coney Barrett attack campaign part of Democrats’ quest to destroy Supreme Court

For nearly 50 years now Democrats have plotted to annihilate the Supreme Court.

October 11, 2020

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at the Carpenters Local Union 1912 in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, to kick off a small business bus tour. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Something seriously amiss inside the Democrat victory party

Current polls show Joseph R. Biden anywhere from 10 to 20 points ahead of President Trump -- a double-digit blowout.

October 8, 2020

President Donald Trump stands on the Blue Room Balcony upon returning to the White House Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Liberal vermin squeal with delight over Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis

Watching the hate-filled vermin squeal and squirm in their toxic juices over President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis has been an astonishing thing to watch.

October 5, 2020

President Donald Trump makes a points as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden listens during the first presidential debate Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)

Hurt: Trump-Biden debate had only losers

Anybody out there who is sick and tired of "politics as usual" sure got an earful Tuesday night between President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden in Cleveland.

September 30, 2020

Sen. Cory Booker, New Jersey Democrat. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Democrats can’t smear Amy Coney Barrett

The Holy Roman Senator Cory Booker -- AKA "Spartacus" in the tinfoil helmet with the plastic sword -- will be crushed under the weight of his own hubris, stupidity and gargantuan self-regard.

September 28, 2020

Former media mogul Conrad Black's attorney, Miguel Estrada, leaves the federal courthouse surrounded by members of the media Wednesday, July 21, 2010, in Chicago after U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve set bond at $2 million for Conrad Black, ruling that the former media mogul can't leave the continental United States and must return to a Chicago courtroom to receive further conditions of his release. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Miguel Estrada as Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick could right historic wrong

President Trump has signaled his clear intention to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

September 21, 2020

In this Jan. 3, 2017, file photo The Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward arrives at Trump Tower in New York. Woodward, facing widespread criticism for only now revealing President Donald Trump's early concerns about the severity of the coronavirus, told The Associated Press that he needed time to be sure that Trump's private comments from February were accurate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Embalmed Bob Woodward and desperate Democrats reliving Deep Throat fantasies

This just in! D.C. journalist Bob Woodward has proof that President Trump killed 200,000 Americans!

September 14, 2020

In this image taken from police body camera video provided by Roth and Roth LLP on Sept. 2, 2020, a Rochester police officer puts a hood over the head of Daniel Prude, on March 23, 2020, in Rochester, N.Y. On Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren announced that top police leaders in the city are retiring en masse amid criticism of the city's handling of Prude's death. (Rochester Police via Roth and Roth LLP via AP)

Daniel Prude case: We want to look away, but the police can’t

The dark, grainy footage of Daniel Prude writhing and twisting on the icy pavement entirely naked is certainly painful to watch. It is human instinct to look away.

September 10, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden meets with members of the community at Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha, Wis., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Joe Biden: The audacity of dope

In the throes of a heated national election, cities burn and innocent citizens are beat up and murdered in the street. Who is to blame?

September 3, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at campaign event at Mill 19 in Pittsburgh, Pa., Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Joe Biden’s America being burned down … by Joe Biden’s supporters

They suck at life. They are too lazy to work. They are too pathetic to do something constructive with their lives. They get their feelings hurt. They are angry. They are stupid potheads.

August 31, 2020

In this image from video, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. (Democratic National Convention via AP) ** FILE **

Democratic National Convention blessedly over, but Democrats’ hate finds new focus this week

It's the hate that never sleeps. The only good news out of last week's Democratic convention was that it was finally over.

August 27, 2020

In this Jan. 12, 2017, file photo, President Barack Obama laughs with Vice President Joe Biden during a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington where Obama presented Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Joe Biden: Just Barack Obama without the shiny rhetoric

For all his soaring rhetoric, former President Barack Obama really is nothing more than a typical, cheap Washington politician brimming with false promises. And Joe Biden is even worse. He is Barack Obama minus the pretty talk.

August 24, 2020

In this image from video, former President Barack Obama speaks during the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. (Democratic National Convention via AP)

Obamas remind American voters why they elected Donald Trump

Twelve years after making history by getting elected America's first actual Black president on soaring promises of "hope" and "change," Barack Obama is back to let you know he is very, very disappointed in you.

August 20, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., signs required documents for receiving the Democratic nomination for President and Vice President of the United States in Wilmington, Del., Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Kamala Harris has the right skin color for Joe Biden … and nothing else

Joe Biden selected a running mate based on the color of her skin. He rejected other candidates based on the color of their skin. He did this openly and without apology.

August 17, 2020

In this June 4, 2020, file photo Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam speaks during a news conference in Richmond, Va. Virginia has rolled out a smartphone app to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. It's the first U.S. state to use new pandemic technology created by Apple and Google. The Covidwise app was available on the tech giants’ app stores Wednesday, Aug. 5, ahead of an expected announcement from Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam.(AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) ** FILE **

Virginia dreaming: King Northam prioritizes schoolchildren …

Decidedly not funny is the discovery that school teachers are not essential. Heck, it turns out school is not even deemed essential anymore. It was one of the very first casualties of the coronavirus pandemic.

August 13, 2020

In this Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Democrats’ fear-mongering and demagoguery are enough to choke a mule

Defunding city police departments. Exploding murder rates. Free health care for illegal aliens. Crushing debt. Obliterating American history.

August 6, 2020

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., holds his face mask as he appears before members of the media following a House Judiciary Committee closed-door meeting with former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman on Capitol Hill, Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Jerrold Nadler attacks on William Barr par for course for New York windbag

On his way to a hearing last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler was in a car accident. Watching Mr. Nadler during that hearing, you might think he had hit his head in the accident.

August 3, 2020