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Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt is the Opinion Editor and 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

Police secure an area around a supermarket where several people were killed in a shooting, Saturday, May 14, 2022 in Buffalo, N.Y. Officials said the gunman entered the supermarket with a rifle and opened fire. Investigators believe the man may have been livestreaming the shooting and were looking into whether he had posted a manifesto online (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP)

The left has an agenda for every tragedy

The yawning disconnect between the screeching scribes in the political press and ordinary citizens in America is never more evident than in the aftermath of a horrific human tragedy. Published May 16, 2022

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on the Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, Thursday, May 12, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool photo via AP)

Meet Janet Yellen: Margaret Sanger for modern America

Speaking on behalf of the Biden administration, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen lectured Sen. Tim Scott on the public value of abortion because it is so frequently used on the unborn children of "teenaged women, particularly low income and often Black." Published May 12, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. addresses the audience during the "The Emergency Docket" lecture Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in the McCartan Courtroom at the University of Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Ind. (Michael Caterina/South Bend Tribune via AP) ** FILE **

St. Alito slays abortion dragon

The bad news is that we are presently living through the Dark Ages of America. Black magic, witches, squalor, plagues and pestilence define these fearful times. Published May 5, 2022

President Joe Biden appears with first lady Jill Biden and the Easter Bunny on the Blue Room balcony at the White House, Monday, April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden and the bunnymen

Oh, to be alive in this age of science fiction in America. Published April 21, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks at the North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) Legislative Conference at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

The despicable Joe Biden

In the fifth decade of his political career in Washington, Joe Biden rebranded himself as a harmless, old coot. Published April 11, 2022

Biden's Illegal Immigration Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Impeach Biden over border treason

This White House is the most corrupt administration in modern history. It is high time to impeach President Biden. Published April 7, 2022

Caravaggio's 1602 painting entitled "The Taking of Christ" which will go on display at Washington's National Gallery of Art. To Christians it's one of the most dramatic moments of their faith, the kiss of Judas and the arrest of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. To art lovers it's the depiction of that moment by one of the greatest of Italian artists, Michaelangelo Meerisi, better known as Caravaggio. (AP Photo/National Gallery of Art)

Judas was a Democrat

Coming up on Holy Week as we are, it might not be very Christian to compare President Biden to Judas Iscariot. Published April 4, 2022

President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks with members of the press after speaking about his administration's plans to combat rising gas prices in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Thursday, March 31, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden’s doomsday doctrine

Unlike President Biden, actor Bruce Willis has a family who cares deeply about him, his dignity and the profession to which he has dedicated his life. Published March 31, 2022

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Don’t know much biology

Talk about blind justice. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson does not even know what a "woman" is. And she wants to be on the United States Supreme Court? Published March 23, 2022

President Joe Biden waves as he rides a bicycle in Gordon's Pond State Park in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Sunday, March 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

War hell: Biden wears a helmet, takes bike ride at the beach

One of President Abraham Lincoln's greatest challenges prosecuting the Civil War, he reportedly once lamented, was that all of his best generals were otherwise occupied writing editorials for newspapers across the North. Published March 21, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the U.S. Congress by video to plead for support as his country is besieged by Russian forces, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

Zelenskyy’s dream

Remember Pearl Harbor. Remember 9/11. That was the plea to the United States Wednesday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking to a joint session of Congress from a bunker in Kyiv. Published March 16, 2022

Stickers featuring President Joe Biden pointing at the gas total and saying "I did that!" have been spotted at several gas stations around the country. (Kerry Picket/The Washington Times)

Biden: ‘I did that!’

The abused, burdened, innocent American taxpayer can hardly afford a gallon of gasoline these days. Published March 14, 2022

Polish President Andrzej Duda, right, shakes hands with US Vice President Kamala Harris on the occasion of their meeting at Belwelder Palace, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden dispatches ‘The Joker’ to Europe

This is what you get when you take more than 200 years of hard-fought history, fearless progress and unrivaled leadership in the world to build the greatest global power ever devised by humans on earth -- and hand it to an imbecile. Published March 10, 2022

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks about a Senate resolution calling for accountability for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Brutus in South Carolina

Just when you thought it was impossible for anyone to screw things up worse in Ukraine than President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris already have, Sen. Lindsey Graham opens his mouth. On Twitter. Published March 7, 2022

President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., watch, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Biden’s political Mardi Gras

Say goodbye to "voodoo economics." Say hello to black magic politics, astrological financing and ouija board diplomacy! Published March 2, 2022