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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

Washington Post buyer Jeff Bezos was described by Slate magazine as an "inscrutable libertarian Democrat." The Amazon CEO has thrust himself into politics in recent years, with views supporting both Democrats and Republicans. (Associated Press)

HURT: The Washington Post: A once-great newspaper brought the world to a boy

This week's shocking fire sale of the once-vaunted Washington Post to a home-shopping magnate was another inglorious jolt reminding us that newspapers have committed themselves to a slow and painful suicide. It was like watching a body in free fall from some high rooftop slamming off another window sill in its long journey to the pavement.

August 6, 2013
Vice President Joseph R. Biden and President Obama. (courtesy: White House)

HURT: White House paints picture of Joe Biden out to pasture

Perhaps in this brave new era where nobody's a traitor anymore, it's not such a big deal how badly President Obama is shortchanging his vice president. But it is fairly extraordinary considering how much Mr. Obama owes his presidency to Joe Biden.

July 30, 2013
George Zimmerman leaves Seminole Circuit Court with his family on Saturday, July 13, 2013, in Sanford, Fla., after a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Joe Burbank, Pool)

HURT: Race obsession obscures good Samaritan George Zimmerman

George Zimmerman swoops back into the spotlight, this time saving the day. He and another good Samaritan arrived on the scene of an accident just in time to help rescue two adults and two children trapped inside their burning vehicle that had turned over.

July 23, 2013
Several hundred people gather in Baltimore on Monday, July 15, 2013, for a demonstration after the acquittal of neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty Saturday in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

HURT: Can’t we all just move on when it comes to race?

Appalling ignorance, seething racial hatred, lurid sexual fears and grotesque violence once again swirl together in search of rough justice and bark out gunfire in the inky darkness, instantly altering so many lives forever.

July 16, 2013
**FILE** Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top law enforcement official, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the U.S. Department of Justice. (Associated Press)

HURT: Voting Rights Act represents abomination of justice

Like so many monstrosities of injustice and unfairness — especially if the federal government is involved — the Voting Rights Act began with the best of intentions. But today, long after the vast majority of Americans have emerged from the low and sordid swamp of racial discrimination, the federal government remains deeply mired in it.

June 25, 2013
President Obama pauses while talking about national security on Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. He was interrupted multiple times by hecklers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

HURT: Obamacare has federal work force panicked

Say what you want about President Obama but you got to give the guy credit. He finally discovered the holy grail for dislodging the bloated ranks of federal workers from their jobs.

June 13, 2013
** FILE ** Steven Miller (right), the ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service, answers questions on May 17, 2013, on Capitol Hill from the House Ways and Means Committee as it holds a hearing on the IRS practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. At left is J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. (Associated Press)

HURT: IRS figures find grilling before Congress taxing

You know you are a serious societal pestilence when even politicians can kick you around. Which is why the Senate Finance Committee called Steven Miller, former acting IRS commissioner, to testify about the agency's scheme targeting conservatives for tax punishment.

May 21, 2013
Vice Chairman Elijah Cummings, Maryland Democrat, speaks as State Department officials Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism Mark Thompson, Foreign Service Officer and Gregory Hicks, senior diplomat in Libya, and Eric Nordstrom, Diplomatic Security Officer and former Regional Security Officer in Libya, testify before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill on May 8, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

HURT: Benghazi shows Democrats at most desperate

The party that swept into power on promises of transparency and accountability scrambled Wednesday to circle wagons in an extravagant attempt to protect administration officials, the White House and the woman many Democrats hope will be their next nominee for president.

May 8, 2013
** FILE ** FBI agents walk along Norfolk Street in Cambridge, Mass., on April 19, 2013. (Associated Press)

HURT: Boston on wrong side of gun-control debate

Across the country, good people watched the events unfold around Boston all week and felt sorry for their defenseless fellow Americans cowering in their homes. "Bet they wish they had a gun now," was the common refrain.

April 23, 2013