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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

Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, speaks outside of the federal courthouse following a hearing, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Stone was arrested Friday in the special counsel's Russia investigation and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

The real sins of Roger Stone

Finally. America is safe. Young children can go outside and play again. No longer is liberty and justice threatened by the scourge of the Donald Trump presidency. Or militant Russian collusion.

January 27, 2019
A sign is posted on a gate blocking a parking lot to Land's End in San Francisco, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. Nonprofits, businesses and state governments across the country are paying bills and putting in volunteer hours in an uphill battle to keep national parks safe and clean for visitors as the partial U.S. government shutdown lingers. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

How about a taxpayer shutdown?

The federal government has been shut down for three weeks now and it is hard to find a single tax-paying, Average-Joe citizen who has been affected -- unless, of course, you happen to work for Uncle Sam.

January 6, 2019
Protesters are reflected in a puddle as they wave European flags to demonstrate against Brexit in front of the Parliament in London, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. British Prime Minister Theresa May is battling to persuade lawmakers to support the divorce agreement between Britain and the European Union in a Dec. 11 House of Commons vote. Opposition parties say they will vote against it, as do dozens of lawmakers from May's Conservatives. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Only the second-worst result of efforts to unify Europe

Back during the formation of the European Union in the 1990s, there was a joke going around among those who prefer to remember history -- mainly hoping to avoid repeating it. The last time folks worked this hard to unify Europe, the joke went, things didn't turn out so well.

December 9, 2018
A man raises a sign "Blacks For Trump" as President Trump speaks on June 27 in Fargo, North Dakota. (Associated Press)

Idea of pro-Trump black voters terrifies the media

Because President Trump is an Alt-Right, White-Supremacist, Nationalist Racist who wants to bring black slavery back in America, he dispatched a tweet proudly declaring record support among black voters.

November 4, 2018
In this twisted world, making a joke about a guy who roughed up a reporter equals gang-torturing, killing and dismembering a reporter in a Turkish consulate. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump at fault for all political incivility?

The media tries drawing a straight line from President Trump's joyous verbal pounding of the media to actual violence against reporters. That is why there has been so much flood-the-zone coverage of the dastardly murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the occasional columnist for The Washington Post.

October 28, 2018
President Donald Trump reacts as he speaks to a crowd at Eastern Kentucky University, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, in Richmond, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Forget, Hell! Trump wades into Civil War

The press today is never dumber than when they report on politics. Except when they try tackling history. Especially American history. And most especially Civil War history.

October 14, 2018
Judge Merrick Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court at a time when American voters had expressly put Republicans in charge of the Senate. (Associated Press/File)

Brett Kavanaugh, Merrick Garland equivalency false

The biggest lie about Merrick Garland -- one that is constantly peddled by Democrats and unquestioningly accepted by the press -- is that Republicans' treatment of him and his nomination is somehow on par with how Democrats treated Justice Kavanaugh and his nomination.

October 7, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford claimed that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually groped her 36 years ago when he was 17. (Associated Press/File)

The vanished vestiges of civility

These are lonely times. The whole world, it seems, is talking past each other, not listening. Whatever vestiges of civility were left after the 2016 election have vanished.

September 30, 2018