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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 WebsiteThe Obama Legacy: Decreasing Freedom
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
By dint of legislative debacles at home and listless incoherence abroad, the Obama administration has decreased human freedom in every sphere it has entered. Five years into his presidency, Barack Obama presides over the most pronounced declination of individual freedom at home and abroad in the post-world war...
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With focus on winning the Senate, GOP factions opt for coexistence
Texas Gov. Rick Perry endorsed the re-election of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Saturday, giving the Republican leader in the Senate another boost on his way to re-election.
“Leaders like Mitch McConnell who have the courage to stand up for conservative principles, even when it means standing up to the leader of the free world,” Perry said in a...
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Common Core is the dynamite that could blow up Jeb Bush’s presidential ambitions
The Conservative Political Action Conference has come and gone for 2014, and Sen. Rand Paul won the straw ballot which is held every time the party gets started.
Paul, R-Ky., racked up 31 percent support among the partiers, and the CPAC gang is indeed prone to party.
Sen. Ted Cruz , R-Texas, came in second with 11 percent of the CPAC thumbs-ups, and he will now...
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GOP’s 2016 hopefuls can stand out by standing up for a strong defense
“The lamps are going out all over Europe,” Lord Edward Grey, then British foreign minister, remarked 100 years ago this August as Europe hurtled toward what would become a giant conflagration. “We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”
Vladimir Putin‘s swallowing of the Crimea and who knows what other parts of Ukraine is...
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Happiness is at risk as the world stumbles leaderless into instability
Speaking events in Los Angeles, New York City and San Diego over a four-day period on “The Happiest Life” means not only red eyes and jet lag, but an awful bout of cognitive dissonance as the lectures on the literature and experience of happiness are occurring against a backdrop of mayhem and murder in Ukraine and Venezuela, bordered all around by...
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NBC’s latest Olympics fail: Banishing the US-Russia hockey game to cable
You can work alongside someone for years, live next door, think you know them, and then, bam, one day you discover they are hockey fans.
Sure, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is obliged to be a hockey fan, and a profligate one at that. He even claims to have played for more than five decades.
Other Minnesocoldians succumb, like Chad the Elder, sinister...
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What John Boehner should say about the cut in military retirement benefits
The House of Representatives will almost certainly undo this week the very unjust cut to the retirement benefits of career military which House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., engineered in the recently adopted spending bill.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., had left the door open to such a cut in his negotiations with his...
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The President and Bill O’Reilly” Stonewalling As Super Bowl Warm-Up
Bill O’Reilly tried, about as well as anyone has, to oblige the president to respond to serious questions in a serious way, but of course the president didn’t and simply wouldn’t.
Rejecting the idea that there remain serious issues to be investigated, disclosed and discussed with regards to both Benghazi and the IRS scandals, the president signaled that...
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Lessons from a trip to Washington
A few days broadcasting from frozen D.C. makes me eager to get back to sunny California, but it also impresses on the visitor many lessons.
The first is that the revolution in journalism is accelerating. Hosting panels of young and extraordinarily talented scribes from the Washington Free Beacon and the Daily Caller produces a kind of awe at the amount of talent...
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Targeting service members for budget savings is a losing strategy for Republicans
What do former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton; Charles Krauthammer; Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.; Rep. Corey Gardner, R-Colo.; and Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan.; all have in common?
Each has appeared on my radio show in the past two weeks and...
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Five Papal Questions for Pres. Obama
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
The White House announced on Tuesday that President Obama will meet with Pope Francis on March 27 at the Vatican. This will be the first meeting between the president and the Pope, and it could not come at a more precipitous moment. Across the globe and across the United States, profound questions of religious freedom and human...
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As The House GOP Prepares For Its “Retreat”: Ask For Speakers Not From Planet Beltway
Two weeks from today, House Republicans will travel to the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina in Cambridge, MD in an attempt to plan their legislative year and of course a strategy for maintaining their majority.
They will do so after 64 of their number refused Wednesday to vote for the “omnibus” $1.1 trillion dollar spending...
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Memo To GOP: Vote No On Veteran-Betraying Appropriations Bill
Incredibly, the lead negotiators for the House GOP have just agreed that the only group deserving budget punishment in the new spending deal is the career military. It is an obscene deal, one made worse by a patently cynical attempt to hide the blow to the military by “restoring” cuts to the pensions of wounded veterans. A vote for this betrayal of...
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Reince Priebus takes aim at Republican nominating process
Reince Priebus is in the process of joining that short list of chairmen of the Republican National Committee — Haley Barbour, Ed Gillespie and Ken Mehlman to name three — who matter beyond their tenures in the office and do so for what they did for the long term good of the GOP and not just a particular nominee or themselves.
Here’s a link to a...
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The Gates Earthquake
Thirteen years into a war we are not winning –read Eli Lake’s latest on the return of al Qaeda to Fallujah– comes the searing memoir of the second of four Secretaries of Defense who have been second to the president in the chain of command through the long and continuing struggle with radical Islam.
Duty by Robert Gates has been read in full...
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Hard left turn will lead to dead end for Democrats
The “Free Enterprise Friday” roundtable on CNBC’s The Kudlow Report means the always gracious but relentless Larry Kudlow focuses his panel of three guests on very specific subjects.
Larry’s table Friday included Richard Socarides, Democratic strategist and former Clinton White House official, New York City radio talker Mark Simone, and...
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