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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 WebsiteCongress to get needed injection of members with military experience
Rarely has a Congress so needed an infusion of men and women with military experience as this House and Senate.
Fewer than 110 members of the current Congress have served in uniform, and that compares to a high of approximately 400 in the mid-1970s as the “Greatest Generation” made its way from battlefields to Capitol Hill.
A nation at war and with...
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Priebus has earned right to speak on GOP’s behalf about conservatism
Twenty years ago this week, the famed “Contract with America” was put forward by the House and Senate Republicans of 1994. The Contract committed to voters that, if given legislative majorities in the upcoming elections, the new GOP-run Congress would, within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress (1995–96), propose tax cuts, a permanent...
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Republicans must act with urgency if party captures Senate
Urgency. It’s the quality most missing from within D.C. elites; the quality most necessary if the GOP gains control of both chambers of Congress on Nov. 4.
In an otherwise solid address at the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, disappointed on two key fronts.
First, he did not speak to the GOP’s commitment to...
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Resurgence of GOP hawkishness is boosting Romney 2016 prospects
Suddenly NBC‘s “Meet The Press” matters again, and when new host Chuck Todd joined me on Friday’s radio show (see transcript) two of many reasons why became obvious.
First, Todd had booked James Baker (former secretary of state and treasury, White House chief-of-staff, and W’s Florida strategist during 2000′s epic recount) to...
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The ‘Obama touch’ could doom Democratic candidates
With President Obama‘s decision to hold back on “using his pen” and granting at least temporary legal status from millions of Latinos living illegally in the United States, the famed “Obama touch” may now have extended all its benefits to the Democratic Party that had previously been reserved for Israel, Ukraine, Iraq, and Libya....
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The world melts down as the fall election season begins
Some future Thucydides will surely point to the Aug. 28, 2014 declaration by President Obama that, “We don’t have a strategy yet,” as some sort of significant point in the long war of the West against Islamist extremism. A low point? The beginning of the end? The collapse of coherence? Who knows. But to not have strategy for a war with Islamist...
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Republicans need to be ready for Democratic election lawfare
Could Mike McFadden, the GOP nominee for Minnesota‘s U.S. Senate seat, best Democratic incumbent Al Franken on Election Day, Nov. 4, and lose the race in overtime?
The last Republican to face Franken, former Sen. Norm Coleman, did just that, losing a recount battle that was, according to most observers, a well-run Democratic legal and media blitz against...
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The Islamic State of the World
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
The American people have learned that once again, they were not told the truth. We were told that by the fall of 2012, Al Qaeda was purportedly on the run, finished off by a diplomacy that exchanged bullets for talking points, kinetic warfare for bridge-building conciliation. None of it was true. These talking points...
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Resetting federal courts on a more neutral path requires GOP wins in 2014 and 2016
Conservatives who worry about the U.S. Supreme Court shouldn’t worry about if and when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg steps down and how the GOP will respond to that vacancy, but rather when Justices Antonin Scalia or Anthony Kennedy hang up their robes and call it quits.
Scalia and Kennedy are both 78, and while it is hard to imagine either of them laying...
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Unlike his ice cream, Doug Ducey won’t melt in Arizona’s political heat
Doug Ducey should be the next governor of Arizona.
Ducey leads in the polls, is the state’s very successful treasurer who led the effort to defeat a massive permanent tax hike, and is one of the founders of one of the state’s pre-eminent business success stories: Cold Stone Creamery, which has become an international brand employing hundreds of...
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Palestine Kills: Why Israel Must Destroy Hamas
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Amidst another tense cease fire in Gaza this week, the world stopped to assess the reality on the ground. Israel estimates it has killed 900 Hamas terrorists – a redundancy – and destroyed 32 tunnels that Hamas previously used to infiltrate Israel and launch terror attacks against Israelis. 64 Israeli soldiers –...
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The border bill House Republicans should have passed
Another week, another 50-car pileup on the GOP fog-enveloped highway known as the House Republican Caucus.
This time it was the border. Last time it was a cut to earned benefits by active duty military. The time before that spending. The time before that … well, who cares. Point is, this isn’t a surprise.
To call the House GOP the Keystone Cops is to...
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Dear Pope Francis: Head west to see the real America
I understand, Your Holiness, that your trip to America has not been officially confirmed, and that while many are hopeful you will be welcomed by Archbishop Charles Chaput to Philadelphia in September, the archbishop has been very careful to stress that much could happen between then and now that might interfere with such a visit. I do truly get that.
Assuming,...
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Don’t be surprised if Mitt Romney is on the GOP primary ballot
Caveat emptor: I have not talked with or received an email from former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in months, and the last time I asked him if he was thinking about 2016 — on air before a national audience — his answer was a firm “No.”
Since then on every occasion he has been asked that I have seen...
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Like Cleveland, Mitt Romney may be on a comeback
7/11 is the day LeBron came back to Cleveland.
Every time I pass a 7-Eleven store I’ll think of basketball’s greatest talent’s decision to go home to northeast Ohio, and smile. Thanks to the Cleveland Indians’ Nick Swisher for showing Lebron the way by leaving the Yankees for the Tribe in 2013, demonstrating that a professional athlete at...
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Conservatives have great ideas, but House GOP leaders aren’t promoting them
Sam Tanenhaus is the very talented editor emeritus of the New York Times Book Review and now a senior writer for the paper, as well as the author of a widely acclaimed biography of Whitaker Chambers and 2009′s The Death of Conservatism.
Conservatism not only did not die but roared back into shared power with Barack Obama in 2010, nearly won back the White...
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