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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 WebsiteDick Cheney highlights how Obamacare kills world’s best health care system
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has a new and fascinating book out, “Heart: An American Medical Odyssey,” co-authored with his cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner.
This book is a must-read for anyone facing heart disease, as well as their families and friends.
The book is the chronicle of one man’s four-decade battle against heart disease, a man...
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Questions for Contractor Witnesses and for Reporters
Reputations and careers are waiting to be made with a scandal as enormous as the Obamacare fail. Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will get their chances tomorrow and next Wednesday as first the contractors who delivered the failed Obamacare websites troop to the Hill tomorrow, and then Kathleen Sebelius arrives next Wednesday.
Reporters too...
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Memo for Chairman Upton: Next Week’s Hearings On The “It’s Really Good” Obamacare Launch
The president’s remarkable speech in the Rose Garden yesterday, the high point of which was his claim regarding Obamacare –”It’s really good!”– sets the stage for another MSM fail, because the president made several specific, verifiable claims that ought to be the subject of real, deep and sustained reporting over the next few...
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No, Republican governors are not why Healthcare.gov is a disaster
There’s a new meme emerging from the Manhattan-Beltway media elite as the collapse of the Obamacare rollout accelerates: The GOP governors did it.
If Republican leadership learned anything from last week’s political Dunkirk, it is that they have to message more effectively and continually.
Part of messaging includes rebutting pernicious myths and...
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The GOP’s Road Forward: No Black Knight Hubris, Just Reality Re: 2014
This past weekend the Cleveland Browns went up on the Detroit Lions 17-7 as halftime neared.
I was at that point perhaps a bit ungracious on Twitter with my pal Larry O’Connor, a Michigan native, and the morning drive man on D.C.’s WMAL, not to mention an alumni guest host of my radio show.
The Browns lost the Lions’ game 31-17, and Craigslist...
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Nobody can know for months who ‘won’ the Battle of the Shutdown
Proposed opening question for the first GOP presidential debate in the fall of 2015: “Was the ‘shutdown showdown‘ of October 2013 good or necessary — either or both — and why?”
I don’t have any idea how it will be answered by the 10 or so potentially serious candidates who may be on that stage, but the difficulty of...
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What Has Ryan Wrought?
Paul Ryan is a leader, and hats off to him for stepping up and trying to bring coherence to the House GOP strategy and messaging. As one of the commentariat very uneasy with the Speaker’s decision to open with a bid of a six week extension of the debt ceiling without any attached demands, I and my colleagues still have to recognize that someone needed to...
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The Gates Option
On Monday night’s Sean Hannity Show I made two points.
The first is that the president would have us believe the only red line he won’t erase is the one he drew for the Republicans. His strident “I won’t negotiate” is causing his –and the Republicans’– standing to plummet in the eyes of the public. We elected a...
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On quarterbacks, singers and responding to the trials of life
Commencement addresses are a dime a dozen, and their shelf life is the time it takes most to reach an adult beverage after the formalities conclude.
But I heard a memorable one this past May, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where the wonderful Julie Andrews stole the day and served up a message the grads and those watching won’t forget.
I was...
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Ted Cruz The Texas Tornado That Destroyed D.C.
Cries of anger and outrage from the Morning Joe panel early Wednesday suggested a horrible event had happened the night before.
David Gregory, Chris Matthews, Mia, Joe and more wailed and wailed in a long chorus of keening that would have been appropriate to a national tragedy of some sort.
But what had set them off was just a long, long speech by Texas Senator...
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Nairobi horror signals terrorism may now be an American export
As details emerge from Nairobi, especially on the identities and stories of the terrorists who are alleged to be American, the public in the United States is going to need clear answers to some very hard questions.
The families of the victims in Kenya will also want to know how America has turned into a jihadist-exporting country.
“We received permission to...
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Bravo Ted Cruz. Bob Corker, Sit Down.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is drawing a lot of ire and fire from the Beltway GOP.
The eloquent and passionate Texas freshman has raised the hair on necks of the Republicans who sought a deal to avoid the unpleasantness of brinksmanship with the most incompetent president of modern times.
It is absolutely the case that the GOP will, in the end, have to vote for a...
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Big Brother is here to help but needs your credit card, mortgage data
Members of the House Financial Services Committee held a Sept. 11 oversight hearing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau featuring Richard Cordray, its recently confirmed director, as the key witness.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was passed in July 2010, and it birthed the CFPB. The agency’s website, at its...
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The President’s Mr. McGoo Mini-Munich Moment
Victor Davis Hanson was the last guest I interviewed in five hours of broadcasting Tuesday that included a dozen different foreign policy experts and political journalists. The consensus is that the president took a terrible situation and made it worse with what Bill Kristol called a “mini-Munich” speech, a continuation and amplification of what Joe...
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Right will support Obama on Syria if …
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Russian President Vladimir Putin loom over the about-to-open congressional debate on whether President Obama ought to receive the backing of Congress for a strike against Syria’s president and Iran’s puppet Bashar Assad.
How you understand the Hezbollah-Syria-Iran-Russia axis drives your point of...
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GOP isolationists are taking U.S. back to the 1930s
Syria’s butcher Bashir Assad could end up toppling British Prime Minister David Cameron and not the other way around, while also giving Russia a big boost back on to the Great Power stage and green lighting Tehran’s most ambitious and sparky plans in its mountain tunnel complexes.
Along the way he has exposed President Obama as feckless and fearful....
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