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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

Former President Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

HURT: Even while praising Obama, Clinton pats his own back

Bill Clinton's typically epic speech last night was certainly the most detailed, calculated and complete attack on the Republican agenda that we have heard during the entire campaign. It was also the most unreserved and embracing defense of President Obama.

September 6, 2012
** FILE ** Vice President Joseph R. Biden and his wife, Jill, arrive in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 4, 2012, to attend the Democratic National Convention. (Associated Press)

HURT: Biden’s garrulity, gaffes are 
antithesis of authenticity

If it is true that a sucker is born every minute, then there simply are not enough minutes in the day to account for all the suckers around here. And nothing brings these suckers together in agreement more than the canard that Vice President Joseph R. Biden is some kind of fountain of "authenticity."

September 5, 2012
Charlotte Police K-9 units keep watch over the crowd as the Occupy Charlotte movement holds a protest march through the streets of uptown Charlotte, N.C. during the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/The Star, Ben Earp)

HURT: Convention security the embodiment of a police state

Welcome to the police state. In Tampa, Fla., and now here in Charlotte, N.C., thousands of troops, police and Secret Service agents flood the city and set up giant perimeters around the convention sites. They close off public land, shut down streets and take over private property.

September 3, 2012
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie arrives to speak to delegates at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

HURT: Chris Christie, tamed and leashed at the RNC

What the heck happened to Chris Christie? Everyone eagerly anticipating his signature New Jersey-style smackdown on the first night of the Republican convention walked away scratching his head wondering who or what muted the famously uncontainable, confrontational, loud-mouthed governor.

August 29, 2012
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan speaks Aug. 21, 2012, during a campaign rally at Beaver Steel in Carnegie, Pa. (Associated Press)

HURT: With Ryan pick, the adults are now in charge

By picking Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a very political decision that his campaign for the presidency will be about offering serious solutions to gravely serious problems. It will be the group of adults versus the once-hip youngsters cruising around on one final bender before graduating from college.

August 28, 2012

HURT: Tampa dancers do politics American style

But with the Republican convention in town, Thee DollHouse has taken on a decidedly political flair. That is because small business owner Warren Colazzo, a modern American patriot if there ever were one, sensed an opportunity to make some money.

August 26, 2012
**FILE** Rep. Kevin Yoder, Kansas Republican (Associated Press/The Kansas City Star)

HURT: Another media belly-flop over skinny-dipping ‘scandal’

Skinny-dipping overseas isn't exactly the campaign commercial you want to run for Congress on, but the notion that leaping into the Sea of Galilee is somehow an offense that churches and synagogues all over the country are suddenly fretting about seems a wee bit overblown.

August 21, 2012
**FILE** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, announces July 31, 2012, to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington that he and GOP House Speaker John Boehner have reached an agreement to keep the government running on autopilot for six months when the current budget year ends on Sept. 30. (Associated Press)

HURT: The improbable reign of Harry Reid, mumbling gangster

Harry Reid brings the same honor and integrity that he has used to slime so many to the task of running the Senate, which is to say he will say anything and do anything to win any little skirmish over tactics, policy or anything else.

August 7, 2012
President Obama addresses the National Urban League convention at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on July 25, 2012. (Associated Press)

HURT: The smallness of the new Obama

It has become the disappearing presidency. He went from peddling the "audacity of hope" to sheer hopelessness. From promising change to — literally — begging for change. Any spare change.

July 31, 2012
President Obama speaks during a fundraising event Tuesday, July 17, 2012, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

HURT: Obama’s South Side Chicago thuggery

Now that we know just what President Obama thinks of people who succeed in business, it is no wonder that the economy is so much in the crapper. To avoid any discussion of his own disastrous handling of the economy, Mr. Obama announced last week what he thinks of the struggling spark plugs of commerce: They are a bunch of felons.

July 17, 2012
**FILE** A physicist explains the ATLAS experiment on a board May 20, 2011, at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) outside Geneva. The illustration shows what the long-presumed Higgs boson particle is thought to look like. (Associated Press)

HURT: Higgs boson, by Mark Twain

Everyone, it seems, has an explanation for the scorching heat, terrifying winds and hellish wildfires haunting the world these days.

July 10, 2012
**FILE** This undated booking photo shows Rudy Eugene, 31, who was shot and killed by Miami-Dade Police after he refused to stop eating another man's face in Miami on May 26, 2012. (Associated Press/Miami-Dade Police Dept.)

HURT: Explaining the face-eating zombie

With all the zombie cannibals on the loose these days in this scorching heat, choking wildfires and violent winds, we are living in some terrifying times.

July 3, 2012
President Obama greets Chief Justice John Roberts on Jan. 27, 2010, before he delivered his State of the Union Address on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

HURT: The silver lining? Now Obama owns his tax hikes

Conservatives gathering now for a low-tech lynching of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. need to take a quick breath of air and think about what he managed to accomplish by upholding President Obama's highly unpopular, signature piece of legislation.

June 28, 2012
President Obama walks across the tarmac June 25, 2012, to greet people as he arrives on Air Force One at Boston Logan International Airport in Boston. (Associated Press)

HURT: Obama’s court victory sets up bigger defeat later

Perhaps it is fitting that the justices began the week by throwing President Obama a bone. Because later this week the Supreme Court will deliver the final death blow to his "progressive" agenda and at long last set some far-out perimeter for the federal government's galloping encroachment on Americans' dearest rights.

June 25, 2012