Charles Hurt
Columns by Charles Hurt
Obama wiretapping Trump evidence of former president’s agenda
Once again bypassing the hopelessly jaundiced media, President Trump announced that he just learned that his predecessor in the White House bugged Trump Tower during the last election. Published March 7, 2017
Jeff Sessions too nice for Al Franken, Patrick Leahy, other jackals
When Jeff Sessions is told that he has lied under oath, failed to answer questions completely and misled the United States Senate, he responds with the humility of a church deacon who has just been accused by fellow parishioners of piling too much of the fried chicken onto his plate at the potluck supper. Published March 5, 2017
Washington Post publishes article noting returned illegals could depress blue-collar wages in Mexico
No mouthpiece in Washington is a more reliable one for crazy leftists in the Democrat Party than the Washington Post, which is out with yet another head-scratcher on illegal immigration. Published March 4, 2017
Democrats can’t hide their contempt for military
Two of the Democratic Party's last three nominees for president voted to send our troops to die and be maimed in a war they later determined was not worth it. Published March 2, 2017
Donald Trump speech to Congress leaves Democrats befuddled, in ruins, with question marks
Donald Trump delivered the most finely crafted speech of his political life Tuesday night in what will go down as one of the best speeches delivered to a joint session of Congress in the past two decades. Published February 28, 2017
Donald Trump war on ‘fake news’ offers a great civics lesson
President Trump is lashing out against "fake news" in what is quite possibly the greatest civics-journalism course ever publicly taught in America. Published February 21, 2017
Donald Trump is the answer to all that ails Washington
In a whirling dervish White House press conference, President Trump manhandled the press, piledrived all the fake news and reminded the world why he tore through both political parties and got elected president in the first place. Published February 16, 2017
Mike Flynn drives outrage from liberal hypocrites
So Mike Flynn violated some arcane statute that has never been prosecuted in the more than 200 years it has been on the books. The statute is so loosely defined that Jimmy Carter, Dennis Rodman and the entire Clinton Cartel could have been rung up on that charges a hundred times over. Published February 14, 2017
Liberal judges set up Trump constitutional showdown
Thursday night's ruling to uphold the stay on President Trump's executive order by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was not surprising. It is incontrovertible proof that these judges, and far too many other judges, simply do not believe that the American people have the right to govern themselves. Published February 9, 2017
George Orwell’s ‘1984’ book awakens liberals
Are the kids finally waking up and after decades of blithe ignorance and deciding to finally educate themselves about social studies? Are they suddenly "woke" to the ancient questions such as "Who should govern?" and "Where do rights come from?" Published February 7, 2017
Gorsuch nomination: Never Trumpers were wrong about Trump — again
That wheezing death rattle you hear right now is the last struggling gasps of the Never Trumpers finally slipping away and sinking into their muddy graves. Published February 1, 2017
Neil Gorsuch nomination: Never Trumpers were wrong about Trump — again
That wheezing death rattle you hear right now are the last struggling gasps of the Never Trumpers finally slipping away and sinking into their muddy graves. Published February 1, 2017
People need to get over the so-called ‘Muslim ban’
Look, global elites, nobody said self-governance would be easy. Or pretty. But it is what it is. Get over it. Published January 30, 2017
Trump, Lincoln inaugural speeches dark, militant
Spring 1865. The president has just delivered his second inaugural address. MSNBC provides live coverage. Published January 24, 2017
Donald Trump rips into establishment, pledges to keep every campaign promise
Anybody expecting President Donald Trump to lay down arms and surrender his campaign once he got to Washington and give some kind of soaring inaugural address filled with gauzy political pablum was sure in for a shocking dose of harsh reality Friday. Published January 20, 2017
Donald Trump the Revolutionary
Not since 1980 -- or perhaps 1932 -- has such a political revolution hit the banks of the Potomac River. Published January 19, 2017
Obama turns out the lights of America’s greatness in rush to embrace brutal Castro regime
America's Cuban policy is in sharp contrast to the way countries in the Middle East respond to vicious hellholes like Syria. Published January 13, 2017
At Jeff Sessions hearing, Democrats live up to the party’s tradition of racism
Like tired old racists clinging to their discredited past and divisive politics, Democrats wheezed exhaustively on their racial dogwhistles Tuesday in their increasingly futile bid to derail Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination to become the next attorney general. Published January 10, 2017
How Democrats rolled out the red carpet for hackers
Whether Sen. John McCain and Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee intended for Thursday's Russian hack hearings to be used to undermine the U.S. presidential election, one thing is for sure: The hearings WILL be used to undermine the election -- precisely as the Russians wanted. Published January 5, 2017
Obama pens farewell as world burns down around him
Bearing his trademark humility and modest historical self-regard, President Obama this week announced that he will, indeed, follow the lead of George Washington and allow "for a peaceful, democratic transfer of power." Published January 3, 2017
