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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: Bordering On Disaster
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Since the 1648 Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years’ War, the conception of “Westphalian
sovereignty” has been understood to mean that individual nation states control the sovereignty of their
borders, without meddling by neighbor states, and that separate states stand on some degree of equal
footing by respecting...
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Anti-semitism and the shame of the PCUSA
Prominently featured at the website of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is an “An Open Letter of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to our American Jewish Interfaith Partners” which is signed by the denomination’s three senior officials and which begins:
We are reaching out to you after our General Assembly’s action, by a 310-303 vote, to...
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Al Qaeda is back in Iraq because President Obama and Hillary Clinton chose not to block them
As al-Qaedastan takes shape, carved from parts of two countries and with ambitions far greater than the parts of Iraq and Syria it already owns, many Americans are wondering how President Obama and his pair of foreign policy gurus Hillary Clinton and John Kerry could have allowed this to happen.
How could an al Qaeda so devastated by drone attacks and the death...
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Wanted: 118 House Republicans with the courage to elect a real leader
“The secret to happiness is freedom. The secret to freedom is courage.”
Thucydides penned that 2,500 years ago, and the House Republicans should be thinking on that line — especially this week.
There are 234 Republicans in the House, who are about to elect a new leader. Are there at least 118 of them who realize the times in which we are...
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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ at State Department failed every time
“Hard Choices,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s new memoir of her failed presidential campaign and years at State, promises to be hard going for reviewers and the general public.
The entire book was given over to the New York Times, which dutifully headlined their scoop: “In Memoir, Hillary Clinton Emphasizes Her Softer...
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Still plenty of questions for Hillary Clinton on Benghazi
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knows her presidential campaign is threatened before it begins by the mountain of wreckage left along her trail of tears tenure at State.
Her failed and embarrassing “reset” with Russia, her mismanagement of Egypt so that all parties now hate the U.S. and President-elect Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is accepting...
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For the Republican debates, every detail counts
Chairman Reince Priebus has done a lot of great things for the Republican National Committee he heads and the GOP he leads.
But of all the good work, the three great “Priebus reforms” will be the re-ordering of the primary calendar for the presidential nomination process, the decision to move the nominating convention forward to late June or early...
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When Karl Rove talks, people listen
Only four men alive have captained successful presidential campaigns: Ed Rollins (Ronald Reagan, 1984), James Carville (both Bill Clinton campaigns), Karl Rove (George W. Bush‘s double) and the wily David Axelrod, now ensconced at the University of Chicago.
(If you are trying to think who ran Bush 41′s 1988 campaign, it was the late, much-missed Lee...
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Cleveland is the place for the GOP 2016 party to begin
“If you start to take Vienna,” Napleon famously counseled, “take Vienna.”
If The GOP wants to take Ohio in 2016 to win the White House, then start by taking Cleveland as the site of the early summer GOP convention.
I spent this past Saturday morning touring the new convention center — on Twitter @clevemtgs — built on the lakefront...
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Race isn’t why Rep. James Lankford will win GOP Senate nomination in Oklahoma
Rep. James Lankford wants to be Oklahoma‘s next senator.
So does T.W. Shannon, a former speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, who is battling Lankford to fill the unexpired term of retiring Sen. Tom Coburn, heading to a June 24 GOP primary.
Both are thorough-going conservatives, and both have high profile Tea Party endorsements, with Lankford...
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GOP leaders need to nurture their future prospects
If the GOP approached leadership the way the NFL does the draft, the party would be positioning itself for 2020 and beyond as well as focusing on this November and the presidential election of 2016.
That would mean a party-wide effort to identify and rank political prospects according to their natural talents, their prior accomplishments and, of course, their...
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Older voters aren’t fooled by Obamacare hype
Census stats from 2010 tell us there are about 40 million Americans 65 and older today — 17 million are men and 23 million women, give or take a half million since the data is getting as old as the country.
Eighty million more Americans are between the ages 45 and 64, and about 3.5 million hit “near-senior” status of 55 every year.
The older...
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Hillary Clinton is Obama’s George H.W. Bush: The designated successor
There are very few genuinely new moments in American politics. Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 was one of them. Barack Obama’s triumph in 2008 another. Both were transformative elections, presidencies and men.
And both led to parties that struggled for a voice after their defining leader left the scene.
George Herbert Walker Bush was a safe and...
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Two interviews, big contrasts: Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton
Two interviews this week with two potential GOP candidates for president in 2016.
Two very different reactions from Beltway media, and those differences tell us much about the GOP problems and opportunities ahead, especially when combined with the reaction to New York Times‘ columnist Thomas Friedman’s chat with former Secretary of State Hillary...
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In his new book, George Will recounts a century of suffering for Cubs fans
In George Will’s wonderful new book A Nice Little Place On The North Side: Wrigley Field At One Hundred, a “sometimes terrible truth” appears on page 156: “[Being] a sports fan is a physical condition as well as a psychological condition.”
Draw your own conclusions, but the obvious one is that Aristotle’s “happiest...
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Will any 2016 Republican hopeful stand up for a strong defense?
If one or more of the would-be 2016 GOP nominees steps forward soon with a detailed plan on how to reshape and fund the Defense Department from 2017 through 2020, he or she will instantly achieve a significant advantage in the race for the Republican nomination.
There is simply no established voice for robust defense spending on behalf of a purpose-driven...
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