A clown in a cowboy hat
For the good of humanity -- not to mention the notion of self-governance in America -- this woman must be removed from public office. Published October 20, 2017
Charles Hurt
Articles by Charles Hurt
Trump takes wrecking ball to the swamp that is D.C.
There is the old adage that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. This has always been because the swamp contains the nastiest reptilian creatures that will just as soon strike you in the back as look at you. Published October 15, 2017
The general schools doltish press corps
Gen. John Kelly stepped to the podium in the White House briefing room and delivered a bare-bottom, wire-brush, red-rash public spanking of the political press Thursday-- the likes of which we have never seen in the age of modern media. Except, perhaps, every single time President Trump addresses the media or hurls fiery bolts of Twitter lightning in their general direction. Published October 12, 2017
Columbus deserves his day
In this era of Making America Great Again, it is true and wonderful to celebrate this great and glorious holiday and sing high praises for the good and daring adventurer who discovered America. Published October 8, 2017
Puerto Rico the latest crisis Democrats see as too good to let go to waste
And so on President Trump goes, once more slaughtering yet another political sacred cow: the hurricane-ravaged, flooded-out, helpless local pol -- weeping before the jackals in the media -- accusing the federal government of failing to protect her people from Mother Nature. Published October 1, 2017
Critics call Trump 'self-interested' like it's a bad thing
As a businessman, a builder and a real estate tycoon in the most fiercely competitive real estate market on the planet, President Trump has spent his entire life exercising his own considerable self-interest. He built a huge and admirable fortune trying to make a buck for himself. Published September 24, 2017
Trump jingles spurs at U.N., decries rogue regimes Obama bowed to
After a decade of global apology, squirrelly deals and appeasement of the world's worst actors, America has returned to the ramparts of its founding ideals, unapologetically backed -- of course -- by the 16-inch guns of an armada of battleships. Published September 19, 2017
Trump 'experts' let imaginations run wild with dog-whistle political attacks
Isn't it funny how all the great political experts who never met a Trump supporter and never thought President Trump could win the White House are suddenly the greatest experts on how upset Mr. Trump's voters are with all the president's wheeling and dealing with dirty Democrats? Published September 17, 2017
Trump delivers to voters, even if they don't like it
Thrice now President Trump has struck a dirty deal with devious Democrats, thwarting the good governance of fellow Republicans and betraying the alliance of voters who sent him to the White House where they hoped he would just behave like a good, proper professional Republican. Published September 14, 2017
Clinton's 'What Happened' blames everyone else for presidential loss, but we knew that already
NEWSFLASH: President Trump's fingerprints were NOT found on any of the money or anywhere around the crime scene. This comes as twice-failed presidential candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton launches yet another campaign to blame everybody she can for her crushing loss last year to Mr. Trump. Published September 10, 2017
Trump sidesteps roadblock of Republicans
The swamp gets sloshed! Republicans stunned! GOP reeling! Blindsided! Published September 7, 2017
Trump schools Obama on U.S. Constitution
Everyone knows that former President Barack Obama, our Great American Constitutional Law Professor, got mercilessly schooled by the Supreme Court during his eight years in office. Now he is getting schooled by a brash-talking, orange-haired reality-TV star and real-estate developer from Queens. Published September 4, 2017
There are no decent plans in Congress, just lies, intraparty squabbling
We are witnessing some of the most spectacularly absurd political gambits in American history unfold right now before our very eyes. Published August 27, 2017
Democrats decry the KKK while forgetting legacy of one of their own
Because, of course, they want rule of law to reign, a group of citizens began digging up the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis this week over his helping found the Ku Klux Klan. Published August 20, 2017
Between alt-right and 'antifa,' media still manages to be worse
Eight years after it was proved -- even more convincingly than the moon landing -- that a black man can get elected president of the United States of America, we still have slow learners stuck in the past. Published August 13, 2017
Under Trump, Homeland Security actually gets around to securing the homeland
In the long march to remaking American greatness, President Trump has certainly attracted plenty of scorn and ridicule from all the predictable and boring corners over all the predictable and boring nonissues. Published August 8, 2017
Health care debate hasn't dulled Trump's political instincts
Even amid the cosmic chaos that is this White House, President Trump maintains the laser focus of his wickedly sharp political instincts. Published August 1, 2017
Recusal or not, Trump's attacks on Sessions no way to help drain the swamp
The Alabama Republican is a deeply good man of impeccable decency. Donald Trump -- the man -- certainly owes Mr. Sessions respect, gratitude and loyalty. But when a man becomes president, he forfeits so many of the conventions that govern normal relationships between people in ordinary life. Published July 25, 2017
Blame dishonest Democrats who created Obamacare and lied about it
Politicians far, far away in Washington -- advised by armies of bureaucrats whose salaries you pay but you have never met -- all huddled in Congress deciding what pills they will give you and how long is long enough for you to be on life support. Published July 18, 2017
Long live President Trumpopov!
You don't have to be a seasoned Kremlinologist steeped in the chicanery of klepto-thugocracies to realize that America really dodged a bullet in last year's presidential election. Published July 11, 2017
