Joseph Curl

Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com.

Columns by Joseph Curl

CURL: Freedom of the press almost impossible to define

America's birthday. Today. 235 years old. This is a day when all Americans should ...

July 3, 2011

CURL: Obama says everything — and nothing

What on earth is President Obama talking about? The short answer is everything — and nothing.

June 26, 2011

CURL: Veep blunder in ‘08 might be right pick for Romney

In the summer of 2008, Republican Sen. John McCain was not doing so good. He had gone from front-runner status against presumed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton to badly trailing an obscure first-term senator from Illinois.

June 19, 2011

CURL: Weiner was looking for love in all the wrong places

So there's this movie. In it is a guy (a white suit he has on). He's handsome, smart as a whip, debonnaire, a real class act. He's got all the right friends, hundreds, thousands even, and they adore his every move.

June 12, 2011

CURL: Election 2012 by the numbers (take 1)

North Carolina. Colorado. Iowa, Indiana, Nevada, Virginia - and the old favorites Ohio and Florida.

June 5, 2011

CURL: Porn Twittergate has Rep. Weiner hacked off

Every American should be absolutely outraged about WeinerGate. Outraged!

May 29, 2011

CURL: It’s hard to win when your motto is ‘It’s my turn’

Once upon a time there was a president, wavering in popularity. He was deemed by some political pundits as "highly beatable." But then, the Republican Party did the unthinkable: It gave the nomination to a guy because it was essentially "his turn," and the candidate got shellacked by the incumbent Democratic president.

May 22, 2011

CURL: Ron Paul will win 2012 GOP nomination *

* No, not Ron Paul, the 75-year-old congressman from Texas and grandfather of the tea party ... Ron Paul's ideas.

May 15, 2011

CURL: So many Osama queries, so little doubt

Here are the three best "theories" circling the Internet about why President Obama chose not to release the death photo of Osama bin Laden:

May 8, 2011

CURL: White House out of gas on remedies for pump price

President Obama hasn't a clue what to do about high gas prices. Not a clue.

May 1, 2011

CURL: Consequences of debt crisis aren’t too dire for our leaders

Just how dire is the crisis over the $14,294,000,000,000 debt ceiling, which America will hit on about May 16?

April 24, 2011

CURL: Trump shows lightweights how to pound Obama in 2012

Just how weak is the 2102 Republican presidential field?

April 10, 2011

CURL: Press yawns at story much worse than Abu Ghraib

Paging Seymour Hersh. White courtesy telephone, please. A scandal of epic proportions is being completely ignored by the media -- including the AWOL Mr. Hersh, who, among others, broke the Abu Ghraib story.

April 3, 2011

CURL: Who’s wearing pantsuit at White House?

In the end, the call didn't come at 3 a.m. But the Decider in Chief who answered the phone made sure that everyone in the White House knew who wore the pantsuit around there.

March 27, 2011