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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

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a joint news conference with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko following their talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Democrats’ best buddy Putin to the rescue

Another election and another elaborate ruse by Russian President Vladimir Putin to interfere in U.S. elections. And -- as always -- on behalf of the Democrats. Published February 21, 2022

President Joe Biden walks to the Oval Office of the White House after stepping off Marine One, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Washington. Biden is returning to Washington after traveling to Ohio to promote his infrastructure agenda. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden Doctrine: America Last

Former President Donald Trump's foreign policy doctrine was simple and direct. The first rule was: America First. The second rule was: America First. The third rule was: see Rules One and Two. Published February 18, 2022

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., listens during a news conference about the treatment of people being held in the District of Columbia jail who are charged with crimes in the Jan. 6 insurrection, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Twitter on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, banned the personal account of Greene for multiple violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a statement from the company. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Mrs. Greene goes to Washington

Say what you want about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, but one thing is for sure. The "political bad girl" has not gone all Washington on her constituents back home in Georgia. Published February 7, 2022

Hillary Clinton. (Image via America First Policy Institute video montage)

Democrats’ hypocrisy on election security exposed

As Democrats in Congress push several bills federalizing state elections and loosening voting regulations, Republicans over at the America First Policy Institute compiled examples of Democrats -- from Vice President Kamala Harris to Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont -- spreading claims of hacked elections. Published February 2, 2022

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in Conroe, Texas. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via AP)

New front in attack on Trump

Remember back in 2016 when we suffered through endless, tedious lectures from a magazine called National Review about how former President Donald Trump was such a threat to the Republican Party? Published January 31, 2022

In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks at a rally in Montgomery, Ala. Palin is on the verge of making new headlines in a legal battle with The New York Times. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

New York Times on trial: Sarah Palin vs. conspiracy theorists

Who is laughing at death panels now? As former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin goes to court next month in a defamation trial against The New York Times, her most sensational claims from a decade ago are proving entirely true. Published January 27, 2022

President Joe Biden arrives at the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, after spending the weekend at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Look! Over there! War in Ukraine!

Speaking of "gun crimes," there is nothing in the world more dangerous than a gun in the hands of a desperate idiot with nothing to lose. Published January 24, 2022

Glenn Youngkin gestures after he was sworn in as Virginia's 74th governor during an inauguration ceremony, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Glenn Youngkin, man of hope and change

Bankrupt of ideas and blind of vision, Democrats spent months last year trying to smear Virginia's new Gov. Glenn Youngkin as some racist reincarnation of former President Donald Trump. Published January 17, 2022

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a news conference after presiding over House passage of President Joe Biden's expansive social and environment bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dust Bowl Democrats

Once again, political bad girl Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene proves herself the smartest person in Congress. Published December 30, 2021