Articles by Charles Hurt
Bearing his trademark humility and modest historical self-regard, President Obama this week announced that he will, indeed, follow the lead of George Washington and allow "for a peaceful, democratic transfer of power."
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January 3, 2017
Shares On Christmas Day, The New York Times took the sacred opportunity of Jesus Christ's birth to interview a Christian and basically pick apart the entire religion.
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December 27, 2016
Shares President-elect Donald Trump has so thoroughly turned the political world upside down and inside out that he has entirely defanged Bill Clinton. The most potent and effective operative dominating the American political scene for nearly 30 years is now an out-of-touch elitist snob.
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December 20, 2016
Shares Long after the rest of America gave up on the mainstream media, the Old Gray Lady has finally discovered the fake news we have complained about for decades. And as with most things, the New York Times takes it to a level and sophistication that is the envy of the establishment media firmament.
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December 12, 2016
Shares If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome, then Donald J. Trump is curing insanity in American politics.
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December 6, 2016
Shares Just when they thought it was safe to go outside again, the political press is breaking out the smelling salts again.
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November 29, 2016
Shares In 1986, President Reagan nominated Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to the federal bench. The son of a general store keeper, Mr. Sessions was highly regarded for his intellect and devotion to the Constitution. The American Bar Association deemed him "qualified" for the post. But then he came to Washington and met the United States Senate for confirmation hearings.
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November 21, 2016
Shares For eight years after America elected her first black president, Americans were accused of being racist for pointing out President Obama's insufferable arrogance.
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November 15, 2016
Shares President-elect Donald J. Trump -- the name really has a sweet ring to it! -- has earned a mandate unlike any predecessor in more than 30 years.
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November 10, 2016
Shares Yes, Hillary, this revolution is real.
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November 8, 2016
Shares If Hillary Clinton wins next week's election, the United States will immediately be plunged into a constitutional crisis the likes of which we have not seen since at least Watergate. Perhaps not since the Civil War.
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November 2, 2016
Shares Behold, the Revenge of the Weiner. Only in the world of the Clintons could a lecherous serial oversharer like Anthony Weiner become such a star.
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October 30, 2016
Shares Hillary Clinton is a liar. She has terrible instincts. She doesn't believe in anything. Her head is broken. She doesn't know why she should be president. She is pathological. And she is psychotic. Just ask everybody who works for her. Just ask campaign chairman John Podesta. Just ask the people working the hardest to get her elected president.
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October 27, 2016
Shares Once again Donald Trump revealed his true inner racist self by going to a famous Civil War battlefield in a nod to the spectacular turning point in that epic war.
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October 24, 2016
Shares From the start of this crazy, wild election, Mr. Trump's campaign slogan could have been, "Well, you can screw it up." That has been his message and it has worked running against first Republicans, then Democrats and now a cabal of Republicans, Democrats and the dishonest media.
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October 19, 2016
Shares Donald Trump has had a rough couple of weeks. Democrats and the Clinton campaign -- by which I mean the media -- have thrown more slime and dirt at the Republican presidential nominee than any other politician in the history of television. Yet, Mr. Trump is still standing.
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October 18, 2016
Shares It was always going to be this way: Bush vs. Clinton 2016. From the very start, the media tried to rig this election to be a showdown between the Republican Party's polite and uptight Bush clan and the Democratic Party's shameless and self-serving Clinton mafia.
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October 12, 2016
Shares Well, the stakes just got real around here!
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October 10, 2016
Shares If you run Donald Trump off from the American political scene, you will have ruined your last, best chance to Make America Great Again and be forever condemned to torturously boring political debates the likes of which we saw here Monday night.
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October 5, 2016
Shares Just when you thought the media could not get any more dishonest and unserious, along comes Lester Holt.
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September 29, 2016
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