Charles Hurt
Columns by Charles Hurt
HURT: Obama, King of Glib, whines ‘This stuff is hard’
The King of Glib sure isn't ready for the serious business of actually getting things done. Published April 30, 2013
HURT: Boston on wrong side of gun-control debate
Across the country, good people watched the events unfold around Boston all week and felt sorry for their defenseless fellow Americans cowering in their homes. "Bet they wish they had a gun now," was the common refrain. Published April 23, 2013
HURT: A pox on both sides’ perpetual ‘rush to politics’
When did we all become so bitterly political? When did vicious murder, blind terrorism, the slaughter of innocent children and cruel rampages by mad men become so divisive and partisan in America? Published April 16, 2013
HURT: Social Security ‘reform’: This is another stickup
Having plunged America trillions of dollars deeper into debt with little to show for it, President Obama reportedly has found agreement with congressional Republicans on something: Social Security "reform." Published April 9, 2013
HURT: Obama’s ‘common sense’ on guns makes no sense
President Obama keeps preaching about "common-sense" new federal laws that will end the senseless slaughter of innocents such as the massacre we saw at an elementary school in December. Published April 4, 2013
HURT: Newtown as political tool against guns
The truth is, President Obama and his fellow politicians have no real plan for curbing gun violence. Twenty children were murdered by a psychopath and they smelled blood. And they did what politicians do. They used the poor dead children to push their political agenda. Published April 3, 2013
HURT: Communing with hatemongers from the pulpit
President Obama sure is serpent-bit when it comes to going to church. First, it was his longtime Chicago preacher who dragged the young presidential aspirant into hot water with all his fiery old sermons about the U.S. of KKK and chickens coming home to roost. Now, his most regular preacher, we find out, hangs out with white supremacists. Published April 2, 2013
HURT: Please withhold your judgment of prison father-daughter dances
The purpose of the very traditional father-daughter dance inside prison walls is just what you would think. It gives lost little girls a glimpse of their fathers in a highly controlled environment. And it gives fathers a heart-wrenching glimpse of their daughters, which hopefully becomes an incentive to get through their prison stint and stay out. Published March 26, 2013
HURT: We’re from the government and we’re here to learn everything about you
Rage over the waste and injustice of agents sent by the federal government to bang on doors of law-abiding citizens to ask probing, creepy questions is normally something that bubbles up only every 10 years. But ever since the federal government became a cancerous leviathan, the outrage is now an annual occurrence. Published March 19, 2013
HURT: Give the jogging shrimp a bike, i.e., how to cut federal budgets
Only here in Washington could a bunch of people get together and struggle over how to trim excess fat from a $3.6 trillion budget. Published March 12, 2013
HURT: Barack Obama, the spending jihadist
With $6 trillion down the drain, you might think that wild, drunken spending of other people's money that we do not have is President Obama's single greatest talent. Turns out, there is something else he is even better at. Published March 5, 2013
HURT: ‘Obargo’ — A tale of hostage-taking not involving Iran
The Oscar-winning tale "Argo" contains a movie within the movie. Comparisons to Shakespeare's Hamlet — or anything worth remembering, for that matter — certainly end there. So, it was altogether fitting that first lady Michelle Obama horned her way into the insufferable ceremony to award the night's most coveted honor to the hostage thriller. Published February 26, 2013
HURT: Anti-gun zealots going ‘cuckoo’ from coast to coast
In New York, they are rounding up the crazies. In Seattle, they want armed police invading the homes of law-abiding gun owners for annual "inspections." In Denver, plans are under way to levy new taxes on gun owners to raise millions for the state's strained coffers. Published February 19, 2013
HURT: Obama’s agenda is simple — take more of your money
The state of our union, President Obama now tells us with “renewed” confidence, is “stronger.” Stronger than what, exactly? The deepest bowels of a recession? Published February 12, 2013
HURT: Dr. Carson a good remedy for what ails U.S.
Here are five reasons why Dr. Ben Carson, the famed Baltimore pediatric neurosurgeon and American patriot, should run for president. Published February 12, 2013
HURT: Five reasons Dr. Ben Carson, who’s already upstaged President Obama, should run for president
Here are five reasons why Dr. Ben Carson, the famed Baltimore pediatric neurosurgeon and American patriot, should run for president. Published February 12, 2013
HURT: Hagel is ideal Republican for Obama, but not for DoD
Chuck Hagel, in all likelihood, will be confirmed as President Obama's next secretary of defense. Published February 5, 2013
HURT: Gun-free zones are only for ‘the little people’
Living here in the shadow of our nation's great Capitol in this fine Federal City, my neighbors and I enjoy the peace and serenity of a tightly enforced "no-fly" zone. By "peace" and "serenity" I mean that we are under near-constant assault by helicopters everywhere whapping just over our rooftops. Published January 29, 2013
HURT: A unifying day — until the inaugural speech began
It was another door-buster inauguration. Not quite 2008, but still a pretty sensational showing. Published January 22, 2013
HURT: Gun edicts put personal liberty under fire
Where is the liberal outrage? Where is the liberal suspicion about powerful, unchecked governments? Where is the liberal unflinching devotion to individual liberty? Published January 16, 2013
