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December 2, 2015

Has the president lost his ability to discharge the powers and duties of office? By Charles Hurt

Is it now time to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment?

Has our president officially lost his ability to discharge the powers and duties of his office?

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November 25, 2015

With Americans shaken by terrorism, Obama defaults to snide lecturing By Charles Hurt

Why, dirty Americans, do you hate people from exotic, war-torn places? Why do you despise other cultures? Why do you so hate freedom of religion?

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November 18, 2015

Donald Trump Fuels Support By Riding Third Rail, Invading ‘Safe Space’ By Charles Hurt

If you are still confused about how Donald Trump is walking away with the Republican nomination for president, look no further than his swift, reflexive, fearless and unvarnished response to the terrorist attack in Paris.

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November 11, 2015

Jeb Bush, John Kasich Seal Their Fates By Pandering To Illegal Immigrants By Charles Hurt

MILWAUKEE — As if Jeb Bush’s campaign were not already finished, the candidate drilled several additional screws into his own coffin during Tuesday night’s debate here.

“Even having this conversation sends a powerful signal,” he whined as real estate mogul and presidential front-runner Donald Trump tangled with the Democratic wing of the Republican Party over the insanity of allowing 12 million illegal aliens to roam free in America without the slightest concern that our country’s laws might just apply to them.

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November 4, 2015

Freshman Senator Gives Pep Talk To Vapid Chamber Of Fake Debate By Charles Hurt

When was the last time you heard a sitting politician give a speech that made you stop and think? A speech where you actually learned something?

When was the last time you heard a vicious excoriation of Washington and Congress and the whole federal government, yet saw the first glimmer of hope that perhaps all is not already completely lost?

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October 28, 2015

Anti-Trump Glee Leaves GOP With Single-digit Candidates By Charles Hurt

To hear the GOP establishment squeal with such glee, you would think there was a fire sale going on down at Brooks Brothers. Or maybe Congress just passed a law making country club dues tax-deductible. Or somebody invented a glow-in-the-dark golf ball.

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October 21, 2015

GOP Leaders Won’t Pledge Loyalty to Trump By Charles Hurt

Just last month, Republican Party officials scurried into Trump Tower to extract a loyalty pledge from a certain unpredictable billionaire real estate mogul turned presidential candidate.

Who knew that it should have been Donald Trump extracting just such a loyalty pledge from Republican bigs?

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October 14, 2015

It’s The Empty Lectern In A Landslide By Charles Hurt

For the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States of America, I hereby officially and wholeheartedly announce my endorsement for — The Empty Lectern!

Debate hosts CNN and Facebook announced earlier this week that they were saving an extra debate podium just in case a liberal knight in shining armor rode in at the last minute to provide desperately-needed legitimacy to the stable of lame donkeys on stage.

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October 7, 2015

Obama Offers ‘Crazy List’ As Silver Bullet To Gun Massacres By Charles Hurt

Like the bumper sticker says, a gun’s only serious enemies are rust and politicians. At least rust has principles.

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September 30, 2015

‘Teflon Don’ Morphs into a Real Candidate By Charles Hurt

First they ignored him. Then they mocked him. Then they tried tearing him down.

With each failure to destroy Donald Trump, the political experts and establishment stooges only made him stronger. And now they don’t have a clue what to do.

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September 23, 2015

Pope Francis threatens legacy of Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan By Charles Hurt

Speaking under the hateful gaze of Che Guevara in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution — a shrine to ruthless communism — Pope Francis scolded us to “serve people, not ideas.”

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September 16, 2015

Dear Donald Trump: Stay refreshing, back off Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson By Charles Hurt

You have run a near-flawless campaign.

At every turn, your originality and unpredictability have outsmarted the most highly touted minds in the political world today. Every time they count you out, you gain 10 more points in the polls. It is, as you yourself might say, a-MAAAAAAAAZ-ing.

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September 10, 2015

Obama’s half answers bolster mullahs By Charles Hurt

You may not like ex-Vice President Dick Cheney and you may not miss former President George W. Bush but you have to give them credit. They did not do things halfway.

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September 3, 2015

Hillary suffers Trump envy as Clinton fatigue sets in By Charles Hurt

No woman in the television age of American politics has suffered so much abuse and public humiliation at the hands of men.

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August 27, 2015

The Donald went down to ‘Bama By Charles Hurt

In the sad, soul-cratered world of desperation politics, size matters. It really, really matters. And nowhere does size matter more than inside the distortion machine that is our national political media.

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August 20, 2015

Trump Quickly Grasps Immigration Problem By Charles Hurt

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi (or somebody)

That giant sucking sound you hear right now is the entire political establishment reacting in shock to Donald Trump’s deeply informed and comprehensive plan to address the rampant illegal immigration that has plagued America for more than a quarter century.