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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 WebsiteGetting to No: the GOP Mantra for 2014
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
In the successful and influential book “Getting to Yes,” the authors provide strategies for reaching mutually acceptable agreements in all kinds of conflicts. In the hit movie series “Austin Powers,” Dr. Evil rejects his son’s outlandish schemes for world domination with the question, “how about no, Scott?”
Going...
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Medicaid expansion: The worst of Obamacare’s four big lies
A New Year’s resolution you can make and keep this very day: Buy and read the e-book How Medicaid Fails The Poor by Avik Roy. Encounter Books has done many good things in recent years, but publishing Roy’s short work on the disastrous impacts of Medicaid on those it purports to help is among its most significant.
Once you have read Roy’s work...
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Memo to the Gang of 15
The Gang of 15 –John Bolton, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, Peter King, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Rick Santorum, Rick Snyder, John Thune and Scott Walker– are enjoying what should be their last unscheduled weekend until either election night 2016 or their drop-out from the race for the White...
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The next crop of cardinals will reveal much about Pope Francis
BUENOS AIRES — Nothing like back-to-back visits to Pope Francis‘ former home church, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires, to focus the mind on the very important decisions about to be handed down by Time’s Man of the Year.
Francis will soon name new cardinals who will enter the College of Cardinals at a formal “consistory” to...
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The CoveredCA.com Collapse: How Many California Democrats Does It Take With It?
Peter Lee is going to need a copy of The Happiest Life, and very soon, because his 2014 looks like it will be miserable, though not as miserable as he will have made the start of the new year for hundreds of thousands of Californians whom Lee has failed.
Lee is the number one guy at what may prove to be the biggest failure of many big failures in the state...
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‘Twitter primary’ can help reveal interest in GOP presidential hopefuls
With former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s Dec. 12 comments on his presidential ambitions — “The Lord knows but he’s not telling yet” — the planners for the 2016 GOP debates have to ratchet up their potential stage sizes.
There are now 16 plausible candidates for those hopefully reformed and reformatted contests two years out,...
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The Hillary Advance(d) Guard
“So Secretary of State Clinton, how did your much-reported travels help Ukrainian democracy take root and establish itself so that the inevitable Putin-push for domination of the former Soviet Republic could be resisted?”
Just another of a hundred questions Hillary won’t get asked by her pals in the Manhattan-Beltway media elite preparing for the...
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Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the world
Rio de Janeiro is hosting the World Cup and the Olympics in back-to-back media spectacles that will transform the world’s understanding of the city and its people.
The city’s famous, or infamous, favelas will be front and center of a thousand features, and still the western viewer will not fully grasp their enormity of their complexity.
My wife and I...
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Hillary Is The Nominee, So Let The Defining Begin
When RNC Chairman Reince Presibus told me on air Wednesday that his team was getting ready for Hillary, the “news” went viral on the left in hurry.
(The complete transcript of my chat with the chairman is here, including my continuing pitch for Cleveland as the site of the 2016 RNC Convo.)
The Huffington Post story reporting on Preibus’...
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GOP should focus on limiting government in 2014
“What we could do, what we could be, if the federal government would go back to its limited role.”
That should be the mantra for GOP candidates for the House and the Senate, incumbents and challengers, in 2014. A year from now, if the center-right sticks to this mantra, to this summary of everything the Obama-Reid-Pelosi troika has inflicted on the...
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Obamacare’s failure masks problems with state exchanges such as CoveredCA.com
“CPL” is short hand for “cost per lead.”
“CPM” means “cost per thousand.”
“CPC” is, of course, “cost per click.”
These are all measurements of advertising efficiency. The dollars spent marketing bring a return in customer attention and perhaps purchase. No serious business spending serious...
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Obamacare disaster should unite the Right, not divide it
If it was a fight, they’d stop it; a play and it would close. If it was a Little League game, the mercy rule would be invoked.
But because it is Obamacare, it goes on and on, a bureaucratic plague, touching, infecting and killing all parts of the health care system, some quickly, others slowly and terribly.
Miss a day of headlines, and you miss another set of...
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Hillary is the Obamacare grandmother who never called back
Hillary is Obamacare‘s grandmother. Put another way: Obamacare is Hillary’s grandchild.
This is one of the two crucial messages of the 2016 campaign, and if Team Obama’s brutally effective branding of Mitt Romney in early 2012 taught us anything, it is that branding of the opposition has to begin early and be relentlessly hammered home across...
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Healthcare.gov – A Failed IPO
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
If Obamacare’s website, www.healthcare.gov, had an initial public offering, as Twitter did last week, how might its stock price be valued after its recent performance?
In Colorado, nearly 250,000 people were notified that their health insurance will be cancelled because their plans fail Obamacare’s requirements. In Washington...
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Obamacare marketers could learn from book publishers
Rollouts have been getting a bad name since the Battle of the Bulge, but usually not because the product was unavailable.
New Coke, the Ford Pinto, the USFL — all launched on time. The public said “meh,” and they went away.
Non-transparent pricing has been dead longer than Elvis. The first thing you show folks is the price, not the...
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Obamacare: Let the Infection Run Its Course
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
“Unbelievable. A new low. I’m so ashamed.” So remarked Boon to his girlfriend Katie in the movie “Animal House,” offering a fake apology for another raucous fraternity party just before Delta House’s downfall at the hands of Dean Wormer.
That same kind of cavalier nonchalance about failure has been on display in...
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