Charles Hurt
Columns by Charles Hurt
HURT: An unfair trade for an undeserving deserter
It is truly a fool's errand for any decent person of conscience governed by honesty to engage in debate with the likes of these people. Never has that folly been more acute than in the aftermath of the president's release of the five Kingpins of Terror. Published June 3, 2014
HURT: Obama’s audacity of inaction
According to my copy of "The Audacity of Hope," Barack Obama is deeply disturbed by "income inequality," access to health care for poor people and having U.S. troops on aimless missions abroad. Published May 27, 2014
HURT: Harry Reid hides behind Constitution to hit Koch brothers
When the founders included the "Speech or Debate" clause in the U.S. Constitution, they wanted to protect members of Congress from the whims of any outside tyrant who might abuse the power of his office to harass, control or destroy his political enemies. Published May 20, 2014
HURT: Frau Hillary C. — a case study that would tax Dr. Freud
It has forever been perfectly fair game in prudent political discourse to demand that politicians seeking higher office reveal information about their physical fitness. Everyone remembers when Democrats and the press tried making an issue out of Ronald Reagan's advanced age and health in 1984. Published May 13, 2014
HURT: Butt out of Nebraska GOP primary contest, Mitch
Granted, he lacks the warmth of Darth Vader or the charm of Jabba the Hutt. But Mitch McConnell, I have always thought, was a principled force for good in an evil, evil place. Published May 6, 2014
HURT: Tripping over income inequality with intellectual shoelaces
A French "thinker" writes a book about global poverty and, predictably, The New York Times goes limp in the knees. All out was the putsch last week by the Gray Lady's opinion staff to promote the book aimed at toppling the evil rich around the world. Leading this charge was the paper's famous, bearded Marxist Emeritus columnist Paul Krugman. Published April 29, 2014
HURT: President Obama’s ‘Selfie Doctrine’
In these selfie times when freedom, joy and posterity are just a head-tilt, grin and finger-click away, it is only fitting that the United States of America would have as commander-in-chief the undisputed King of Selfies. Published April 22, 2014
HURT: Wilson and Obama … 100 years apart, but so alike
When Woodrow Wilson signed into law the Revenue Act of 1913, it probably sounded like a good idea. Most people would pay less in taxes and the prices of everyday goods would drop, he promised. And the rich would — finally! — start paying their fair share. Published April 15, 2014
HURT: The Rev. Al Sharpton: Once just a race hustler, now a snitching race hustler
Are there no heroes left in America anymore? President Obama turns out to be an incompetent fraud who has never actually read the U.S. Constitution. Edward Snowden tucked tail and fled to Siberia. Washington Nationals star Ryan Zimmerman can no longer be relied upon to scoop up a crazy bouncer just inside third base line, pirouette and throw like a laser into first baseman Adam LaRoche's mitt. Published April 8, 2014
HURT: Baseball gives way to whine-ball
Monday, March 31 — a date which will live in ignominy — Major League Baseball officially legalized whining. Published April 1, 2014
HURT: Do liberals understand anything about operating a business?
Poor Jesse Lee. Before last week, he was just an earnest, "progressive" blogger. (That's their latest handle of choice having totally ruined previous ones such as "liberal," "Democrat," "socialist," and "control freak.") Published March 25, 2014
HURT: $75K a day over a pond: Your corrupt EPA thugs at work
If a man's home is his castle, then his land is his kingdom. Published March 18, 2014
HURT: John Kerry — The ridiculous face of a ridiculous U.S. diplomacy
With a face like this, is it any wonder we are the laughingstock of the world? Published March 11, 2014
HURT: An unexceptional Axis of Wrong
I certainly understand why freedom-lovers around the world are upset over Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent incursion into Ukraine. And I understand why the good people of Georgia, Estonia and other democracy-minded countries take exception to this sort of Iron Curtain saber-rattling. But I just cannot understand why it is that President Obama is so upset about it. Published March 4, 2014
HURT: ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ — not if you’re Obama’s
Deep in the doldrums of a second term, this White House is turning into a ridiculous parody of itself. Published February 25, 2014
HURT: Close down the Democratic minstrel show on immigration
The Republican Party has for years been in a quandary about how to address the issue of illegal immigration honestly and firmly without sounding racist. A good place for the party to start would be to knock off the brown-face minstrel show routine they learned from Democrats. Published February 18, 2014
HURT: Obama reveals his obliviousness at Monticello
America's president — heir to the world's greatest document of freedom ever drawn up by man — strode across the hallowed grounds of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. With his hands clasped behind his back as a fuehrer surveying his troops or his kingdom, he told a gaggle of onlookers, "That's the good thing about being president. I can do whatever I want." Published February 11, 2014
HURT: Immigration will kill GOP, but only if it goes along with amnesty
Immigration as a top concern for American voters polls somewhere around 2 or 3 percent, according to the latest Gallup survey. That is right down there with "lack of respect for each other" and "hunger." Published February 4, 2014
HURT: Meet Preet — Obama’s hatchet man against filmmakers
Preet Bharara, the U.S. prosecutor who last week indicted anti-Obama filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza on campaign finance charges, is the snapping jaws of Attorney General Eric H. Holder's junkyard attack dog and the velvet fixer of President Obama’s thorniest political problems. Published January 28, 2014
HURT: Republic to lose true public servant
It is a safe bet that Tom Coburn will not have a big federal building named for him. He is not likely to get a monument erected around here honoring him. He won't be sitting for an official portrait — striking that generous pose of the longtime, greasy politicians — anytime soon. Published January 21, 2014
