Charles Hurt
Columns by Charles Hurt
CHARLES HURT: Obama prepares for the Ebola election
Snap on those rubber gloves, zip up your hazmat suits, and tape up those galoshes. Get ready for the Ebola election! Published October 16, 2014
CHARLES HURT: Fight the spread of Ebola by wiping out malaria with DDT
It is good to see President Obama and his political machine finally wake up, sound the alarm and spring into action against the ongoing global humanitarian crisis that is Ebola. Published October 14, 2014
HURT: The Post-Obama Nobel Prizes go to …
Now, in this hopeful Spring of post-partisan, post-racial and post-violent times, the world must come together to celebrate all this truth, justice, freedom and progress with a whole new slate of Nobel Prizes. Published October 7, 2014
HURT: Ebola mission not worthy of troops’ sacrifices
The world's supply of experimental Ebola drug runs dry just as U.S. troops are deployed to West Africa by a commander-in-chief who has never appeared to have much use for the military as an actual military force. He has deployed them there to fight, in all seriousness, the Ebola virus. Published September 30, 2014
HURT: It’s time for bicycle sense in America
With the senseless killing of a mother walking through Central Park last week by a madman on a bicycle, it is high time that society take a hard look at what is sure to be a thorny issue: Is it finally time to ban bikes once and for all? Published September 23, 2014
HURT: Dr. Obama’s prescription: More troops for Ebola than Islamic State
You think Ebola is scary now, just wait until Doctor Obama gets through with it. Published September 16, 2014
HURT: A foreign policy conducted in a drug-addled haze
See, kids, this is why you don't do drugs. And this is why you will always eventually regret voting for somebody who boasted of all the coke and dope he did while smoldering about his absentee father. Published September 9, 2014
HURT: We finally have Obama’s doctrine, but horse-and-cart placement isn’t placating the world
President Obama cleared up the question the entire world has been wondering for quite some time and finally defined the Obama doctrine for foreign policy: "I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet." Published September 2, 2014
HURT: When officer safety is job No. 1, the public suffers
Defending yet another police shooting of an American citizen, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson last week casually made a stunning admission — one that fell largely on deaf ears among the twisted media, race pimps and merchants of racial discord gathered in Ferguson. Published August 26, 2014
HURT: Why everything went wrong in Ferguson
You have a nasty thug boosting Swisher Sweets from the corner store and roughing up the merchant. Then, like flies to a barnyard, you have swarms of race pimps breathlessly buzzing to the scene to further fuel the rage and delegitimize the very banner behind which they march. Published August 19, 2014
HURT: Hillary Clinton — a woman of no convictions
The rank spectacle of ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suddenly turning on her commander in chief and former boss to shiv him in the back over the burning ruins she helped make of the Middle East is staggering to behold. Published August 12, 2014
HURT: Do you favor the BLEED Act, or are you a racist?
I call on Congress to write and immediately pass the Begin Loving Ebola Emigres, Dude! Act. And I call on President Obama to sign the BLEED Act, though that is merely a formality he doesn't really have to do if he doesn't feel like it. He can just write the law himself and pass it without Congress. Published August 5, 2014
HURT: Impeaching Obama is a losing strategy for the GOP
All this talk of impeaching the president is the stupidest Republican political strategy so far this century. Published July 29, 2014
HURT: The cost of ‘free’ water in Detroit
Anyone who wants a glimpse of America's Third World future can just take a gander at Detroit. Published July 22, 2014
HURT: Now that I have to pay for it, it is my business
Politicians here have not even figured out how yet to implement their new law requiring us to pay for everybody else's health care, and already people are clamoring to legalize drugs that are, at the very least, hazardous to their health. Published July 15, 2014
HURT: With immigration, Obama lets a crisis go to waste
Whatever happened to the Obama administration's guiding principle never to let a serious crisis go to waste? Published July 8, 2014
HURT: The Supreme Court’s Biggest Loser: Barack Obama
Summer is hot upon us, another Supreme Court term is ending, and now it is time to evaluate America's most tutored — and tortured — constitutional law student. Published July 1, 2014
HURT: Bring Obama your huddled, illegal youths; he invited them
"Death trains" rumbling through Mexico teeming with children, headed for the U.S. border. Teenage girls raped. Unspeakable violence at the hands of ruthless coyotes, carrying out President Obama's stunningly reckless new foreign policy. Published June 24, 2014
HURT: Amnesty for illegals unfair to Hispanic and other legal immigrants
It is a false choice only politicians could come up with. Either you support granting amnesty to 12 million lawbreakers who are now in the U.S. illegally, or you are a racist whose political future is doomed by the coming influx of Hispanic voters. Published June 17, 2014
HURT: Silence among sequoias gives solace from a noisy world
For those who generally prefer the company of trees over the company of people, Muir Woods is a transportive place to visit. Published June 10, 2014