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Hugh Hewitt
Professor Hugh Hewitt is a lawyer, law professor and broadcast journalist whose nationally syndicated radio show is heard in more than 120 cities across the United States every weekday afternoon. Professor Hewitt has been a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News Network, and MSNBC, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. Hewitt writes daily for his blog, HughHewitt.com, which is among the most visited political blogs in the U.S. He is also a weekly columnist for The Washington Examiner and Townhall.com.
Writer's WebsiteObama’s Midterm Shellacking, Part II
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
What does national rejection of a President, and his party, look like? On Tuesday, it looked like this.
The GOP gained sixteen seats in the House of Representatives, giving it the largest majority it has had since 1929. The GOP won seven, though possibly nine, U.S. Senate seats to take control of that chamber away from Mr. Do...
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Obama’s Midterm Shellacking, Part II
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
What does national rejection of a President, and his party, look like? On Tuesday, it looked like this.
The GOP gained sixteen seats in the House of Representatives, giving it the largest majority it has had since 1929. The GOP won seven, though possibly nine, U.S. Senate seats to take control of that chamber away from Mr. Do...
Read More
Obama’s Midterm Shellacking, Part II
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
What does national rejection of a President, and his party, look like? On Tuesday, it looked like this.
The GOP gained sixteen seats in the House of Representatives, giving it the largest majority it has had since 1929. The GOP won seven, though possibly nine, U.S. Senate seats to take control of that chamber away from Mr. Do...
Read More
Obama’s Midterm Shellacking, Part II
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
What does national rejection of a President, and his party, look like? On Tuesday, it looked like this.
The GOP gained sixteen seats in the House of Representatives, giving it the largest majority it has had since 1929. The GOP won seven, though possibly nine, U.S. Senate seats to take control of that chamber away from Mr. Do...
Read More
Obama’s Midterm Shellacking, Part II
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
What does national rejection of a President, and his party, look like? On Tuesday, it looked like this.
The GOP gained sixteen seats in the House of Representatives, giving it the largest majority it has had since 1929. The GOP won seven, though possibly nine, U.S. Senate seats to take control of that chamber away from Mr. Do...
Read More
Obama’s Midterm Shellacking, Part II
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
What does national rejection of a President, and his party, look like? On Tuesday, it looked like this.
The GOP gained sixteen seats in the House of Representatives, giving it the largest majority it has had since 1929. The GOP won seven, though possibly nine, U.S. Senate seats to take control of that chamber away from Mr. Do...
Read More
Democrats about to pay for supporting the failed President Obama
“Landrieu thinks Louisianans are bigots. Orman thinks Dole’s a clown. Braley thinks Iowans are hicks. What next? Coakley attacks Paul Revere?”
With a single tweet, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cook summed up the widespread desperation of Democrats mired in their records of support for President Obama and flailing about for anything to...
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Democrats about to pay for supporting the failed President Obama
“Landrieu thinks Louisianans are bigots. Orman thinks Dole’s a clown. Braley thinks Iowans are hicks. What next? Coakley attacks Paul Revere?”
With a single tweet, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cook summed up the widespread desperation of Democrats mired in their records of support for President Obama and flailing about for anything to...
Read More
Democrats about to pay for supporting the failed President Obama
“Landrieu thinks Louisianans are bigots. Orman thinks Dole’s a clown. Braley thinks Iowans are hicks. What next? Coakley attacks Paul Revere?”
With a single tweet, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cook summed up the widespread desperation of Democrats mired in their records of support for President Obama and flailing about for anything to...
Read More
Democrats about to pay for supporting the failed President Obama
“Landrieu thinks Louisianans are bigots. Orman thinks Dole’s a clown. Braley thinks Iowans are hicks. What next? Coakley attacks Paul Revere?”
With a single tweet, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cook summed up the widespread desperation of Democrats mired in their records of support for President Obama and flailing about for anything to...
Read More
Democrats about to pay for supporting the failed President Obama
“Landrieu thinks Louisianans are bigots. Orman thinks Dole’s a clown. Braley thinks Iowans are hicks. What next? Coakley attacks Paul Revere?”
With a single tweet, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cook summed up the widespread desperation of Democrats mired in their records of support for President Obama and flailing about for anything to...
Read More
Democrats about to pay for supporting the failed President Obama
“Landrieu thinks Louisianans are bigots. Orman thinks Dole’s a clown. Braley thinks Iowans are hicks. What next? Coakley attacks Paul Revere?”
With a single tweet, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cook summed up the widespread desperation of Democrats mired in their records of support for President Obama and flailing about for anything to...
Read More
Democrats about to pay for supporting the failed President Obama
“Landrieu thinks Louisianans are bigots. Orman thinks Dole’s a clown. Braley thinks Iowans are hicks. What next? Coakley attacks Paul Revere?”
With a single tweet, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cook summed up the widespread desperation of Democrats mired in their records of support for President Obama and flailing about for anything to...
Read More
A resounding GOP victory needed to wake Obama from his dangerous slumber
Ottawa and Corporal Nathan Cirillo. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent. New York City and NYPD Officer Kenneth Heale. Ebola and EV-D68. Marysville, Wash., and Placer County, Calif.
Hatchets, handguns, body armor, beheadings, quarantines and more somber press conferences in a week than occur in a normal quarter.
And a president who, one...
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Ebola burden on U.S. hospital system warrants tighter travel restrictions
Among the arguments in favor of stricter travel restrictions on West Africans wishing to come to the United States without first spending 21 days outside of “the hot zone” are the extraordinary costs that would be born by U.S. hospitals by any significant number of Ebola cases.
Most pundits can guess that the costs are high, but I asked one of my law...
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Obama’s political interests are getting in the way of protecting Kobani from the Islamic State
On March 28, 2011, President Obama addressed the nation about the civil war then raging in Libya. Two paragraphs set out the “Obama doctrine”:
At this point, the United States and the world faced a choice. [Moammar] Gadhafi declared he would show “no mercy” to his own people. He compared them to rats, and threatened to go door to door to inflict...
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