Charles Hurt
Columns by Charles Hurt
HURT: Ryan knows what’s wrong and how to fix it
By picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney slapped the big-boy knickers right off President Obama's backside. Published August 14, 2012
HURT: The improbable reign of Harry Reid, mumbling gangster
Harry Reid brings the same honor and integrity that he has used to slime so many to the task of running the Senate, which is to say he will say anything and do anything to win any little skirmish over tactics, policy or anything else. Published August 7, 2012
HURT: The smallness of the new Obama
It has become the disappearing presidency. He went from peddling the "audacity of hope" to sheer hopelessness. From promising change to — literally — begging for change. Any spare change. Published July 31, 2012
HURT: An open letter to Christopher Nolan, Sean Penn and Warner Brothers
It is all so perfectly fitting that in the wake of a murderous rampage in which 70 people are shot, 12 fatally including a 6-year-old girl, and countless families are sacked with unspeakable grief, you would take the time to share with us your feelings. Published July 24, 2012
HURT: Obama’s South Side Chicago thuggery
Now that we know just what President Obama thinks of people who succeed in business, it is no wonder that the economy is so much in the crapper. To avoid any discussion of his own disastrous handling of the economy, Mr. Obama announced last week what he thinks of the struggling spark plugs of commerce: They are a bunch of felons. Published July 17, 2012
HURT: Higgs boson, by Mark Twain
Everyone, it seems, has an explanation for the scorching heat, terrifying winds and hellish wildfires haunting the world these days. Published July 10, 2012
HURT: Explaining the face-eating zombie
With all the zombie cannibals on the loose these days in this scorching heat, choking wildfires and violent winds, we are living in some terrifying times. Published July 3, 2012
HURT: The silver lining? Now Obama owns his tax hikes
Conservatives gathering now for a low-tech lynching of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. need to take a quick breath of air and think about what he managed to accomplish by upholding President Obama's highly unpopular, signature piece of legislation. Published June 28, 2012
HURT: Obama’s court victory sets up bigger defeat later
Perhaps it is fitting that the justices began the week by throwing President Obama a bone. Because later this week the Supreme Court will deliver the final death blow to his "progressive" agenda and at long last set some far-out perimeter for the federal government's galloping encroachment on Americans' dearest rights. Published June 25, 2012
HURT: Politicians — the highest-priced harlots of all
There is no honor, it is said, among thieves. The only honor you will find these days, it seems, is among the whores. Published June 19, 2012
HURT: Postal Service failure a symptom of federal failure
On this tiny fishing island in the Gulf, the majestic and prehistoric tarpon sheathed in its armor of giant scales is called "Silver King." Fisherman here bow to the king when he breaks from his foamy lair and people who live along the shoreline of his domain talk of little else. Published June 12, 2012
HURT: The only thing worse than the economy is Obama talking about it
If you are wondering why President Obama and his supporters spend so much time in this election condescending to female voters, jabbering about gay marriage and contraception, or whether Mr. Obama really was born in Kenya, it is because they simply cannot talk about the economy. Published June 5, 2012
HURT: Capital Bikeshare is making biking ugly, smugly
Unlike Sarah Palin or Tina Fey, or whoever it was, I really can see Russia from my front porch. Or, at least, I can see broken-down socialism. That is because across the street from my house on Capitol Hill is a loud, clanging "Capital Bikeshare" docking station. Published May 29, 2012
HURT: The news media’s un-American failures
When the national media isn't consumed with "exposes" revealing that Mitt Romney was once a teenager and attended high school with other teenagers, they are busy ignoring persistent evidence causing alarming numbers of Americans to believe President Obama was not born in the U.S. Published May 22, 2012
HURT: In a whirl over Obama’s gay marriage pirouette
One "mainstream" American journalist broke into sobs of joy last week when President Obama publicly announced his twirling pirouette (aka "flip-flop") in support of gay marriage. In describing the unbinding of his emotions, Andrew Sullivan called Mr. Obama his "father figure." Published May 15, 2012
HURT: Obama’s real ‘war’ is against the elderly
Politicians around here keep talking about some kind of underground, undeclared War on Women. But the only real open warfare going on is President Obama's all-out War on Seniors. Published May 8, 2012
HURT: Bailing out bad choices isn’t academic
Once again, this town has ground to a halt in another one of its interminable squabbles about how to spend even more of our money that we do not have. Published May 1, 2012
HURT: In this economy, U.S. needs border fence — to keep Mexicans in
A new study from the highly esteemed Pew Hispanic Center says the millions of Mexicans who risked their lives crossing the desert to get here to the promised land for a better life have given up on the U.S. This is no small feat. Have you ever been to Mexico? Published April 24, 2012
HURT: Tax-and-waste never seems out of style
The whole problem with this crowd here in Washington always comes into perfect focus every year right around ... well, Tax Day. Published April 17, 2012
HURT: Fire and brimstone from the Church of Do-Goodery
Two of the wisest sages of all time — Mark Twain and Jesus Christ himself — spoke memorably about the dangers of worrisome do-gooders run amok. Indeed, it is the curse of do-gooders the world over to find fault in everyone except themselves. Published April 10, 2012
