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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

In 2004, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry was determined to connect with the NASCAR demographic that he went goose hunting. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

‘NASCAR Democrats,’ remember them? Neither do they

To the credit of those old Democrats, at least they were slightly capable of self-awareness. This crowd today would march right down the throat of a flaming volcano if somebody told them that doing so would hurt President Trump.

February 17, 2020
Britain's Prince Harry decided to self-impeach. (Associated Press/File)

Prince Harry spares impeachment show trial

The prince of England has the good decency to impeach himself and spare his fellow countrymen all the tedium and stupidity of a rigged-up impeachment show trial.

January 23, 2020
Impeachment manager Adam B. Schiff condemned the Senate on Tuesday for not issuing subpoenas he and his House colleagues refused to issue and lectured senators for not calling witnesses he himself had refused to call. (Associated Press)

Adam Schiff lectures Senate on Donald Trump impeachment

There is no amount of hyperventilating, hyperbole and flat-out lying that can paper over the disastrous case that House Democrats have asked the Senate to try in their effort to impeach President Trump, but Rep. Adam Schiff did his best,

January 21, 2020
Rachel Maddow of MSNBC is just one of the news wags who keep shouting "bombshell!" regarding supposedly nefarious behavior in Ukraine. (Associated Press)

Another dud in the string of bombshells

You have to pity the bombshell-shocked American citizen trying to take seriously all the "shocking," "stunning" and "bombshell" news coming out of Washington these days.

January 16, 2020
Cory Booker was no match for billionaire Michael Bloomberg. (Associated Press/File)

Cory Booker gives up fight for crazy ideas

As left wing and riled up as Spartacus is, he is simply no match for the fever dreams spun by the rest of the crazies in his party, all vying for the Holy Grail.

January 13, 2020
Scientist and author Matt Ridley is photographed during an interview on Friday, April 13, 2012, at St Pancreas Station in London. (Fiona Hanson/AP Images) **FILE**

Beware the miserable, regressive, leftist government central planners

Interestingly, all of the cures these con artists insist upon would cost massive amounts of money paid (by you) into government coffers controlled entirely by them. Also, every single one of these solutions would give these very same charlatans vast new powers unrivaled in human history to control every aspect of your life.

December 30, 2019
Until House Speaker submits the two articles of impeachment to the Senate for the trial of the president of the United States, President Trump stands un-impeached. (Associated Press)

Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Animal House’ impeachment

Sure, Democrats rammed through a couple of articles of impeachment, but until House Speaker Nancy Pelosi submits them to the Senate for the trial of the president of the United States, Mr. Trump stands un-impeached.

December 19, 2019