Charles Hurt
Columns by Charles Hurt
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
HURT: Dereliction of ‘Duty’ is Robert Gates’ unprincipled duplicity
Only Washington could create a sleazy charlatan like Robert M. Gates and pass him off as some bipartisan example of competence and honor. Published January 14, 2014
HURT: Dereliction of ‘Duty’: Gates’s unprincipled duplicity
Only Washington could create a sleazy charlatan like Bob Gates and pass him off as some bipartisan example of competence and honor. Published January 14, 2014
HURT: The ‘dangerous, paranoid radicals’ of another day
They warned against unstoppable encroachment by the federal government and were branded "radicals." They openly protested and wore funny clothes. Published January 7, 2014
HURT: Romney grandchild latest victim of racist media
For the racist media, 2013 was another bad year. It culminated with the hideous display on MSNBC where a gang of nasty jabber-mouth panelists played the "knockout" game on Mitt Romney and his adopted black grandchild. Published December 31, 2013
HURT: ‘The Nutcracker’ — the ‘Duck Dynasty’ of ballet
It is probably safe to say that I am not the world's greatest ballet critic. That changed this week with a strongly suggested family outing to the Warner Theater to see Septime Webre's "The Nutcracker." Published December 24, 2013
HURT: D.C. gets the vapors, calls sequester too much
With the War on Women now apparently behind us, politicians here have turned their attention to the next front: The War on Math. Published December 17, 2013
HURT: Russian diplomats found socialist paradise in U.S.
Investigators in New York and politicians here in America's capital were shocked to learn last week that 50 Russian diplomats had defrauded the U.S. out of some $1.5 million as part of a Medicaid scam. Published December 10, 2013
HURT: Postal Service misses address by a whole continent
So the Postal Service decides to issue a stamp commemorating the Statue of Liberty. Just one slight little problem — the postage stamp commemorates a cheap schlocky knock-off statue that graces, naturally, the strip in Las Vegas. Published December 3, 2013
HURT: Let us all give thanks for George Mason and the Bill of Rights
George Mason's home, Gunston Hall, just down the river from Mount Vernon, is closed on Thanksgiving Day but reopens to visitors the day after. In this season when Americans reflect upon all that we are grateful for, these stately and hallowed grounds are a good place to start. Published November 26, 2013
HURT: Obama is a greater threat than Toronto’s crack mayor Rob Ford
Disgraced. An embarrassment. Utter disregard for the law. Toronto's crack mayor Rob Ford? No. President Obama. Published November 19, 2013
HURT: It’s the Democrats, not the GOP, facing a looming civil war
Despite what the hysterical media will tell you, those distant blasts you heard last week rolling from New York City to Richmond were not cannon fire from the ongoing civil war within the Republican Party. They were the first shots fired in the civil war that is about to break wide open within the Democratic Party. Published November 12, 2013
HURT: Sarah Palin knew a death panel when she saw one
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was laughed out of town for making four years ago what we now know is a prescient prediction about Obamacare and death panels. Perhaps she is one of the few who actually read the health care bill before it passed. Published November 5, 2013
HURT: Lou Reed: A voice wanting to get free
Before he finally flew into the sun this week, Lou Reed set the world of rock 'n' roll aflame, filled stereos with the spirit of pure poetry, renounced the fakery of so much commercial success, fed the Velvet Revolution and chronicled some of New York City's freakiest characters. Published October 29, 2013
