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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

Scientist and author Matt Ridley is photographed during an interview on Friday, April 13, 2012, at St Pancreas Station in London. (Fiona Hanson/AP Images) **FILE**

Beware the miserable, regressive, leftist government central planners

Interestingly, all of the cures these con artists insist upon would cost massive amounts of money paid (by you) into government coffers controlled entirely by them. Also, every single one of these solutions would give these very same charlatans vast new powers unrivaled in human history to control every aspect of your life. Published December 30, 2019

Until House Speaker submits the two articles of impeachment to the Senate for the trial of the president of the United States, President Trump stands un-impeached. (Associated Press)

Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Animal House’ impeachment

Sure, Democrats rammed through a couple of articles of impeachment, but until House Speaker Nancy Pelosi submits them to the Senate for the trial of the president of the United States, Mr. Trump stands un-impeached. Published December 19, 2019

Several FBI headquarters officials, including Director James B. Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and senior counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, were fired for improprieties related to the probe. (Associated Press photographs)

Yes, James Comey, facts really do matter

President Trump is a stooge of Russia, a puppet of Vladimir Putin, we have been told from the beginning. He is a morally unhinged reprobate unworthy of the White House. Published December 12, 2019

President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Obama administration’s abuse of power literally worse than Watergate

The FBI spied on an official they believed -- or pretended to believe -- was working inside the 2016 Trump presidential campaign on behalf of the Russian government to hijack the election and install a Manchurian candidate who would give America away to Moscow. Published December 9, 2019

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified on national television about her opinions of President Trump. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump impeachment witnesses coddled

If you are a "witness" willing to smear President Trump from inside the federal bureaucracy, then you are treated like some kind of precious, swaddled savior, one who must be protected at all costs from any whiff of fairness or justice or due process. Published November 18, 2019

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a smart enough politician to know that impeachment will fail to remove the president and could very well cost Democrats control of the House. (Associated Press)

Nancy Pelosi is loser in impeachment inquiry vote

For months, we have listened to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insist that this whole "formal impeachment inquiry" in search of a "high crime" did not require a vote by the full House of Representatives. Until, apparently, it does. Published October 31, 2019

Donald Trump threw out the ceremonial first pitch for a 2006 game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Fenway Park in Boston. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump must throw World Series first pitch

The Washington Nationals should invite President Trump to throw out the first pitch at the World Series Game 3 on Friday night to take a historic opportunity to heal our senselessly divided political system in the nation's capital. Published October 21, 2019