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Charles Hurt

churt@washingtontimes.com

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

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, center, smiles as he watches an opening day baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the New York Yankees at Nationals Park, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

America’s Faucian bargain

Anthony Fauci's embarrassing face-plant on Opening Day at Nationals Park gave a bad name to bespectacled nerds everywhere. Maybe it was his facemask cutting off the oxygen required for elite athleticism.

July 27, 2020
In this Dec. 12, 2005, file photo, a rat comes briefly out of its hole at a subway stop in the Brooklyn borough of New York, before retreating at the arrival of the F train. New York City is gearing up for its latest war on rats with an army of inspectors will descend on the city’s most rat-infested neighborhoods, targeting the parks, sewers and dumping areas where rats congregate and breed. (AP Photo Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Just like rats in a plague, Democrats feed on America’s misery

Nearly 150,000 Americans have already died in this once-in-a-century plague from China. The nation is truly at war against an invisible enemy. In other words, this is the perfect time for Washington Democrats to pillage for their own personal political profit.

July 23, 2020
This June 16, 2010, file photo, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., participates in a ceremony to unveil two plaques recognizing the contributions of enslaved African Americans in the construction of the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, has died. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed his passing late Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Remember John Lewis

Remember John Lewis. Remember Selma. Last week America lost one of the great lions of the civil rights movement. Few people alive today did more to bend the arc of history toward justice than Rep. John Lewis.

July 20, 2020
Leroy Satchel Paige 1942 (Associated Press)

Baseball is the answer

When in doubt, baseball is the answer. In these harrowing times, the silver lining has been the local-TV baseball station that plays "classic" games from years past every night.

July 16, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del., on June 30, 2020. As his bid for a second term faces growing obstacles, President Donald Trump’s primacy in the dizzying digital world is one of his top advantages, giving him a massive platform to connect with supporters and push a message that ignores his vulnerabilities related to the pandemic, unemployment and race relations. Biden and his allies are working feverishly to establish a social media force of their own. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being … Joe Biden

After six weeks of shamelessly exploiting the tragic death of George Floyd for his own political fortune Mr. Biden has finally identified the source -- the very headwaters -- of White Privilege in America. He found it in the mirror.

July 9, 2020
In this file photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2011, a Cape vulture is seen in its enclosure at the Vulture Programme at Boekenhoutkloof near Hartbeespoort Dam, South Africa. The birds are known as loyal mates, devoted parents and resourceful foragers, as well as spectacular flyers. Visitors to the Vulture Programme can observe the birds feeding at a "vulture restaurant" and get close to a Cape vulture breeding colony established on an artificial cliff built of concrete, mesh and paint. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Vulture Joe Biden no Atticus Finch

What kinds of political vultures sit around bobbing their nasty little heads in search of rotten carrion after a human catastrophe? Well, Democrats, of course!

July 2, 2020
Supporters of of President Donald Trump hold signs during a rally at Pliny Park in Brattleboro, Vt., Saturday, June 27, 2020. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

Beware, President Trump, of the enthusiasm gap …

President Trump's reelection campaign issued a "memorandum on enthusiasm" Sunday outlining the very "real and wide" gap in enthusiasm between Mr. Trump's campaign and that of Joe Biden.

June 29, 2020
The White House is visible behind a statue of President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in Washington, with the word "Killer" spray painted on its base. Protesters tried to topple the statue Monday night. President Tump had tweeted late Monday that those who tried to topple the statue of President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House faced 10 years in prison under the Veteran's Memorial Preservation Act. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The Democrats’ ‘Bonfire of Inanities’

In this modern Bonfire of Inanities, ignorance reigns supreme. Which is one of the big problems with mob "justice," a painful lesson we history students here in America learned a long time ago.

June 25, 2020
In this June 17, 2020, photo, Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Darby, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) **FILE**

Joe Biden’s 40 years in Washington is the problem

The problem isn't how long Joe Biden has been alive. The problem is how long he has been in Washington. Or, as President Trump described it, "four decades of betrayal, calamity and failure."

June 21, 2020
President Donald Trump pauses while speaking during a roundtable discussion about "Transition to Greatness: Restoring, Rebuilding, and Renewing," at Gateway Church Dallas, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Dallas.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump and the riot of political plagues

It is only June. But already this year, President Trump has endured an impeachment trial, a global pandemic, an economic collapse and, now, unchecked rioting in the streets.

June 11, 2020