Charles Hurt - Page 7

You don’t have to be a seasoned Kremlinologist steeped in the chicanery of klepto-thugocracies to realize that America really dodged a bullet in last year’s presidential election.

TIGHTSQUEEZE, Va. — The secret to President Trump’s remarkable outsider success is his fearless willingness to walk into the most politically fraught situations, redefine every long-held prejudice and seize the moral high ground by embracing the simplest truth. Take little

The Trump presidency is a little like having a dog. Every day that passes, you love the dog more and more until it seems impossible to love her any more.

The thing people like about House Speaker Paul D. Ryan is that he is a serious guy who is capable of thinking big and has an ambitious agenda to salvage our ungovernable federal bureaucracy.

As with his campaign, Donald Trump’s presidency is developing into yet another epic tome, “The Tale of Two Trumps.”

Every time the Washington political press freaks out and goes into full panic mode against President Trump, the blockbuster, Watergate-volume story always unfolds the same way.

This is what happens if you mess with the swamp. All the swamp creatures begin snapping and writhing and yowling like angry cats in the dark.

Late night “funny” man Jimmy Kimmel delivered a heart-wrenching monologue Monday night that every mother and every father could relate to. But then his monologue went horribly awry.

A couple thousand of the most esteemed and rarified reporters gather deep in the bowels of the Washington Hilton for this year’s convening of the mutual admiration society and one of the “grandfathers — perhaps great-grandfathers — of American journalism” uses his position of high authority on national television to promote stock in the company owned by his boss.

A full decade after voting to construct a secure barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, Congress continues to refuse to lay out the money required to build the damned wall.

Remind me again: Who is the impulsive, trigger-happy pugnacious brute who cannot be trusted with the nuclear codes?

All these months, it turns out, it was his right-hand hatchet gal and exposed serial prevaricator Susan Rice who was behind the scenes in his administration working all the levers of the most powerful espionage machine on planet Earth to spy on Mr. Obama’s political enemies.

What is with this curious — now deafening — silence from former President Barack Obama on these charges that his administration spied on a political opponent at the very height of a presidential campaign?

So far the only people blamed for the failure of the GOP Obamacare replacement bill have been those conservative Republicans in Congress who served their constituents rather than their party leaders.

Every few years, the botanical garden down on the National Mall proudly boasts its prized “corpse flower.” In years when our federal swamp gets hot and icky enough, the foul-smelling plant turns a throbbing purple and blooms.

Remember how for years after President Obama first got elected we had to hear all about how Republicans destroyed the economy?

Once again bypassing the hopelessly jaundiced media, President Trump announced that he just learned that his predecessor in the White House bugged Trump Tower during the last election.

The problem with Attorney General Jeff Sessions has always been that he is too nice.

No mouthpiece in Washington is a more reliable one for crazy leftists in the Democrat Party than the Washington Post, which is out with yet another head-scratcher on illegal immigration.

The president opened by celebrating Black History Month. Lady Democrats wore white.

It’s not like they leave much room for doubt about how much contempt they hold for military service and the immeasurable sacrifice that comes with it.

President Trump is lashing out against “fake news” in what is quite possibly the greatest civics-journalism course ever publicly taught in America.

Democrats should be very, very careful what they wish for.

Donning dirty T-shirts that say things like “nasty woman” and “resist,” the melting snowflakes are fleeing this Orange Revolution for their latest safe space. But it is probably one that should come with a trigger warning for these tender little kiddies.

Look, global elites, nobody said self-governance would be easy. Or pretty. But it is what it is. Get over it.

That wheezing death rattle you hear right now is the last struggling gasps of the Never Trumpers finally slipping away and sinking into their muddy graves.

Spring 1865. The president has just delivered his second inaugural address. MSNBC provides live coverage. “Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest

Not since 1980 — or perhaps 1932 — has such a political revolution hit the banks of the Potomac River.

Like tired old racists clinging to their discredited past and divisive politics, Democrats wheezed exhaustively on their racial dog whistles Tuesday in their increasingly futile bid to derail Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to become the next attorney general.

Just imagine it is one of the holiest days of the Muslim calendar and The New York Times decides to “celebrate” the occasion by asking incredulous questions aimed at obliterating the very foundation of the entire religion of Islam.

NEW YORK — Bill Clinton is a lot of things, but out-of-touch elitist snob has never been one of them. Until now. President-elect Donald Trump has so thoroughly turned the political world upside down and inside out that he has

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.

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.

Just when they thought it was safe to go outside again, the political press is breaking out the smelling salts again. They’re back to having the vapors and breaking out in warts over the orange-haired vulgarian holding court at his

It all began with Jeff Sessions from Alabama. Even before they coined a term for it — Borking — they did it to Jeff Sessions, a decent man with a stellar legal reputation as a fearless and tough but fair federal prosecutor down South.

NEW YORK CITY | 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.