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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

Demonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court on June 30, 2014, the day of the Hobby Lobby decision relieving businesses with religious objections of their obligation to pay for women's contraceptives. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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

Children are held at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville, Texas. Thousands of children crossing alone into the U.S. can live in American cities, attend public schools and possibly work for years without consequences. (Associated Press)

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

This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A Pentagon investigation concluded in 2010 that Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching, the military decided not to exert extraordinary efforts to rescue him, according to a former senior defense official who was involved in the matter. Instead, the U.S. government pursued negotiations to get him back over the following five years of his captivity a track that led to his release over the weekend. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)

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

Obama

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

Folksy: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid compared the fight with Republicans over the Keystone XL pipeline to a greased pig contest in which a deal always slips out of his hands.

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

Hillary Clinton

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

Krugman

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

President Obama feigned outrage when it became public that the picture of him with Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz and a "44" jersey was just part of some sleazy corporate product campaign by Samsung. (Associated Press)

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

Wilson

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

Al Sharpton

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