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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

Bluto from "Animal House" (Courtesy Universal Pictures)

Bluto’s ‘Animal House’ philosophy beats Biden’s pro-Hamas doctrine

President Biden's pro-Hamas riots on university campuses the past couple of weeks are the second big glimpse into just how rotten American education has become.

May 2, 2024

The All-Out Attack on Donald Trump Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Lawless confederates against Trump

Democrats are fond of saying that former President Donald Trump is a "threat to democracy." That is why they will stop at nothing to destroy him. But it is a lie. And they know it is a lie.

April 29, 2024

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and the House Republican leadership meet with reporters following a closed-door Republican strategy session as Johnson pushes towards separate votes on aid for Israel and Ukraine, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Speaker ‘Moses’ Johnson drowns House Republicans in the Red Sea

When Rep. Matt Gaetz and his band of political misfits cashiered former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last year, they assured us they were leading Republicans out of the wilderness and finally into the promised land.

April 25, 2024

Police in riot gear stand guard as demonstrators chant slogans outside the Columbia University campus, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. The protesters were calling for the school to divest from corporations they claim profit from the war in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

University safe spaces reserved for terrorist supporters

So these are the racist Americans President Biden warned us about.

April 22, 2024

Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings during jury selection at Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, April 18, 2024 in New York. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump stars in ‘Law & Order: Zero Victims Unit’

Excuse me, your honor, but what part of "America First" do you not understand?

April 18, 2024

Activists opposed to the confirmation of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, are dressed as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale," at the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

It’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Bring back the Great White Knights of the Patriarchy

Long live the patriarchy! Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it's been nothing but bloodshed in the back alleys of America.

April 11, 2024

President Joe Biden, right, and former presidents Barack Obama, left, and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden transforms into ‘Dark Brandon’

Dark Brandon is real.

April 8, 2024

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 9, 2024, at Pullman Yards in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Democrats’ desperation is good news for the rest of us

The Democratic Party's latest mental breakdown over former President Donald Trump was triggered last week by the former president hawking Bibles to supporters over the internet.

April 1, 2024

New York Attorney General Letitia James waits for the start of proceedings in New York State Supreme Court, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023 in New York. In a civil case brought by James, members of the Trump family and the Trump Organization are accused of inflating the value of properties by billions of dollars to obtain favorable loan terms from banks. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Democrats’ ‘freak show’ goes after Trump

If Donald Trump is a carnival barker, this motley crew of Trump detractors is the freak show that sets up a tent down the road from wherever Mr. Trump takes his jolly circus.

March 28, 2024

Former President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a story featuring New York Attorney General Letitia James while speaking during a news conference, Jan. 11, 2024, in New York. Trump could find out Monday, March 25, how New York state aims to collect over $457 million he owes in his civil business fraud case, even as he appeals the verdict that led to the gargantuan debt. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

On Donald Trump’s Judgment Day, Letitia James gets spanked

Turns out Donald Trump's legal instincts are as good as his political instincts, which are as good as his marketing instincts -- all of which are as perfect as a Ukrainian phone call.

March 25, 2024

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Super Tuesday election night party Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) ** FILE **

Trump plans new short list of 20 potential Supreme Court picks

Former President Donald Trump is working on a new list of 20 potential picks for the Supreme Court should he be reelected in November, The Washington Times has learned.

March 19, 2024

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

‘Chains’ vs. ‘bloodbath’: Political press no match for Trump’s Shakespearean prose

Once again, the political press has spilled their bloody entrails over the Shakespearean language former President Donald Trump uses to vividly describe the dramatic doom that will befall America.

March 18, 2024

President Joe Biden holds a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Nov. 13, 2023, in Washington. Biden has invited the top four congressional leaders and other lawmakers to the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, as members have struggled to reach agreement on aid for the Ukraine war. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Delaware Gothic: Sound and fury of Biden’s troubled mind

"And where would those have been?" federal prosecutor Robert Hur asked President Biden, referring to some papers that had been boxed up at the vice president's residence in Washington.

March 14, 2024

Illustration on Joe Biden's immigration law decision making by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden’s worst month reflects his dangerous open border experiment

This is the worst month of President Biden's 50-year political career.

March 11, 2024

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump rises from the ashes on revenge and retribution

Not since Elvis Presley's second act in 1968 after returning from military service has there been a bigger American comeback than the resurrection of Donald J. Trump's political career. And he did it without a guitar.

March 7, 2024

Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Orem, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Loser Nikki Haley mining for humiliation

Not since Benjamin Franklin invented electricity with his key and kite has any political figure accomplished more when it comes to exploring new depths of the murky unknown.

March 4, 2024

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley taking the stage at an election night event, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Wack-a-doodle Nikki Haley in South Carolina: ‘I’m not going anywhere’

Wherever she is in the five stages of grief, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has not yet reached the "acceptance" stage.

February 26, 2024

Congress and illegal alien immigration amnesty bill illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden, Congress stick broke taxpayers with overseas war bills while ignoring invasion here at home

We are once again reminded in spectacular fashion just how bad things are watching Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill play dangerous political games in recent weeks.

February 22, 2024

A portrait of former President Abraham Lincoln President hangs in the State Dining Room of the White House as Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Pro-slavery ‘experts’ rank American leaders for Presidents Day

A group calling itself the American Political Science Association celebrated Presidents Day this year by publishing a list ranking all U.S. presidents in order of greatness.

February 19, 2024

Biden's cognitive decline illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Whose ‘mental state of willfulness’ is running the Biden administration?

No matter how hopelessly stupid, lazy or incompetent you may be, there is always a home for you in Washington, the town where nobody ever gets fired and everybody eats.

February 12, 2024