Charles Hurt
Columns by Charles Hurt
Santa Barbara’s proposed ban on straws really sucks
Given the clear and present existential threat these plastic straws pose to all of humankind, it was only prudent that the City Council of Santa Barbara pass a law threatening jail time for bloodthirsty straw merchants who insist upon peddling these vile weapons against humanity. Published July 29, 2018
Cohen tapes just latest ‘silver bullet’ to finally sink Trump (it won’t)
You would think, at some point, these people would eventually get tired. Published July 22, 2018
Donald Trump has bad day in Helsinki — but really, John Brennan?
President Trump is the most courageous, imaginative, and dynamic American political leader in more than a quarter-century. He is willing to tackle huge problems and fiercely pursue bold and inventive courses in search of solutions to problems that cowardly politicians have ignored for decades. None of that was on display Monday in Helsinki. Published July 16, 2018
Congressman Steve Cohen’s Wasted Freedom
In this era of mob rule, a fellow like Rep. Steve Cohen might want to keep a sharp eye out for crowds of people with buckets of tar and garbage bags full of white feathers. Back home in Tennessee, he might also want to keep an eye out for any crowds carrying a rail. As in "the thing on which they might run him out of town." Published July 15, 2018
Hillary Clinton 2020 guessing game begins
So, here the season is upon us again. There was a brief and disappointing tango with "Will Chelsea Run?" Yikes. Now we are back to "Will Hillary Run Again?" Published July 9, 2018
Even abortion enthusiasts know Roe v. Wade is a legal abomination
Of course the whole point of replacing retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy is overturning Roe v. Wade. That and a thousand other egregious overreaches by the panel of unelected, robed autocrats. Published July 8, 2018
Democrats’ 1968 rerun will have a November like last
Call it the summer of '68. Rioters in the streets. Communists on the ballot. Published July 1, 2018
New civil war already upon us
"Beware the coming civil war!" Coming? Oh, it's already upon us. And it has been raging for some time now. Published June 27, 2018
The sad legacy of the Obama border orphans
Perhaps the truest truism in politics is this: If you are explaining, you are losing. Published June 20, 2018
Wanna stop parent-child separation? Build the wall
Thousands of poor, innocent children streaming illegally across the border! Published June 17, 2018
Rod Rosenstein greater threat to Constitution than J. Edgar Hoover
However rotten and ungovernable you thought the federal swamp was, it really is so much worse. Indeed, it will take a hundred Donald Trumps to carve out all the cancer riddling this federal government. Behold, Rod Rosenstein, the very face of the swamp Leviathan. Published June 13, 2018
Donald Trump seeks peace in Singapore
Call it "Sitting Bull in a china shop." Published June 10, 2018
Stick to Netflix, Barack, and keep up the fiction, Bubba
Heading into midterm elections in which history predicts massive wins for them, the donkey party has a new slogan: "Vote Democrat. The Party of Doom and Gloom." Published June 3, 2018
Donald Trump inherits Ronald Reagan’s wind
No president from either party over the past three decades has earned the inheritance of Ronald Reagan on the world stage quite like President Trump has. Published May 27, 2018
Barack Obama and his political Choom Gang
At the end of all the scandal and drama, all of the breathlessly reported lies and false accusations, at the end of all the money wasted on some zany kabuki swamp dance choreographed to the thrumming of giant bullfrogs and yipping of excited coyotes — at the end of all of this — it comes down to precisely what we said it was a year and a half ago. Published May 20, 2018
Donald Trump moves U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, keeps campaign promise
President Trump stunned the whole world and scandalized the American political class last year by announcing that he was not lying during the campaign when he promised to move the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Published May 13, 2018
Donald Trump’s Iran decision shows diplomatic ‘experts’ how to deal
Perhaps the Iran agreement would not be so easy to tear up had it not been written out on wet toilet paper to begin with. Had it been an actual treaty, President Trump would not be able to do this. Published May 8, 2018
John Kerry should be jailed
Once again, America finds John McCain heroically fighting for his life, this time against cancer. Perhaps inspired by such heroism, John Kerry has dusted off his old turncoat from his French closet and is turning traitor against the United States again. Published May 6, 2018
Ronny Jackson vs. Jon Tester
How long does it take for a good man -- a farmer from Big Sandy, Montana -- to become thoroughly corrupted by the lies and evil ways of Washington? Less than two terms in the U.S. Senate, it turns out. Published April 29, 2018
A Trump even Sweden has to appreciate
"We're gonna win so much," then-candidate Donald Trump advised supporters, "you may even get tired of winning." Published April 22, 2018
