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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

Republican presidential candidates from left, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., participate in a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by NBC News Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

‘Party of losers’ spices up latest GOP debate

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley would really like to tear each other apart to claim the donor-approved mantle of being "not Donald Trump." But someone keeps getting in the way.

November 9, 2023
President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in Washington, about the war in Israel and Ukraine. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

Biden funding two new wars

When Democrats promised a "return to normalcy" during the 2020 campaign, they did not tell us it was another one of their crazy euphemisms -- this one meaning a return to unending war and bloodshed around the world.

October 23, 2023
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., leaves a meeting on the morning after he filed a motion to strip Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., from his leadership role, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Burning down the House

Rep. Matt Gaetz, Florida Republican and psycho killer, led the smallest caucus in Congress this week across the aisle and into the lap of Democrats.

October 5, 2023
From left to right, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., argue a point during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX Business Network and Univision, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Dana Perino and the Seven Dwarves

Dana Perino, moderator of last week's GOP debate, sparked a firestorm on the internet by asking contestants on the stage to eliminate one competitor from the stage. After all, eliminating opponents is what the electoral process is about in a free country.

October 2, 2023
From left to right, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and former Vice President Mike Pence, participate in a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX Business Network and Univision, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Trump wins another debate he didn’t attend

They're all in it for the one-liners. There were more canned lines at that debate than you would hear on a Rodney Dangerfield comedy tour. And most of them were lame.

September 28, 2023
UAW members cheer as employees walkout from the Fort Worth Parts Distribution Center on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, in Roanoke, Texas. (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

UAW should have hired Hunter Biden

Too bad striking autoworkers are too stupid to know what's best for them. If they really wanted their "fair share" under the Biden administration, there is one surefire way to get it: Hire Hunter Biden. Just ask the Ukrainians.

September 25, 2023
Illustration on the Biden sleeping and his debacles by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Bedtime in America: John Wayne is dead and President Biden falls asleep

President Biden flew around the world this past week while he pretended to be John Wayne, told China to invade Taiwan, took five questions from the press, insulted our ally Vietnam, wandered offstage again, skipped 9/11 ceremonies back home and announced he was going to bed.

September 11, 2023