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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 WebsiteFighting the Religious & Political Prosperity Gospel
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Two recent articles highlight the two biggest challenges facing conservative religious voters and the GOP in 2014 and beyond: how to adapt to and influence a culture drifting leftward on social issues, and how to combat the creeping influence of a prosperity centered worldview.
In a recent Wall Street Journal interview,...
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Is Obama the worst president ever?
“If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” — President Obama, Aug. 11, 2009
So said President Obama again and again through 2009 and 2010 as he sold Obamacare to the country. He promised. He put his personal integrity on the line. His word.
How many UPS employees voted for the president in 2008 and again in 2012?...
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America’s Shame
The use of chemical weapons against hundreds if not thousands of civilians in Syria and the burning of scores of Christian churches in Egypt raises the central question of our time: Will America stand by and allow pure evil to kill thousands on the basis of ethnic and religious identification?
This month’s thousands will be next month’s tens of thousands,...
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A campaign for the ages: SteynForSenate.com
It would be difficult for a non-citizen to run for and win a seat in the United States Senate, but there’s at least an argument that he or she is eligible to do so, and there is one candidate who could just pull it off.
Article I, Section 3 of the United States Constitution has three paragraphs. The third provides that “No person shall be a senator...
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Today he buys the Washington Post, tomorrow Bezos runs for president?
Why do the Washington Wizards worry about the contract status of John Wall? Or the Nationals that of Bryce Harper, or the Redskins about the number of years on RGIII’s deal?
For the same reason that the Washington Examiner wants Byron York, Michael Barone, Tim Carney and Phil Klein under lock and key, or Fox News Megyn Kelly or Sean Hannity or Politico...
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Are the GOP’s Looney Tunes 2016 debates right around the corner?
The 2012 GOP presidential debates were a carnival, but the 2016 editions are shaping up to be the Greatest Show On Earth. Given early speculations about who is in and how they roll, the Mainstream Media expects that the expected 46 (at least) debates beginning right after the turkey and football on Thanksgiving 2014 should be terrific.
Reince Preibus, the...
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The Majority Prevention Committee
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Board Minutes of the Committee for the Prevention of a Republican Senate Majority
July 29, 2013, 10:00 a.m.
Secretary: Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats, this meeting of the Committee for the Prevention of a Republican Senate Majority (Majority Prevention Committee) is called to order.
Let’s get down to...
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House GOP fences itself into failure by failing on the border
“We’re going to continue to work in a common-sense, step-by-step way,” Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, told Capitol Hill reporters on the subject of immigration reform last week.
“How we proceed down the road, we’re going to have to make those decisions. This is a tricky path to do this correctly and we can’t have...
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Thinking Through “This Town”
Rarely do I devote an entire, three-hour radio show to one guest.
Favorite novelists –like Alex Berenson, C.J. Box, Daniel Silva, Brad Thor and the late Vince Flynn—have regularly been welcomed for two-hour chats. The opportunity to do long-form interviews is one of the great aspects of talk radio. Both Silva and Thor were on this week in fact, and the...
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A thriller indicts the MSM: Daniel Silva’s ‘The English Girl’ and the Zimmerman trial
“Not guilty.” And “Not guilty” again. With four short words, the Zimmerman travesty ended.
But there were plenty of guilty verdicts to hand around to the media, whose orgy of coverage consumed all before it, absorbing eventually all the cable networks, most of talk radio and endless column inches of ink when every serious student of the...
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The House GOP Fumbles The Fence and Thus Border Security And Thus Immigration Reform
It is easy to agree with Bill Kristol, editor of the WeeklyStandard, and Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, that the Senate immigration bill should die a quick death in the House. There was much that was good in the bill, but it didn’t mandate a border fence, and the vast length of the bill are equally sufficient reasons to judge the bill a giant...
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Ted Cruz would be a formidable 2016 presidential contender
“I’m Ted Cruz and I approved this message … because I can clean up this mess.”
No, you haven’t heard any thing like that yet (unless you live in Texas where Ted Cruz, R-Texas, romped to a first-time win in the U.S. Senate race last fall.)
But don’t be surprised to hear it in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and beyond, come...
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Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Most Important Week in the History of the Republic
July 3 marks the last day of the battle of Gettysburg 150 years ago — Pickett’s Charge, the “high water mark of the Confederacy.”
July 4 is of course Independence Day, but this year it is also the sesquicentennial of the surrender of Vicksburg, which split the rebel states in two by securing the length of the Mississippi for the...
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Immigration reform comes to the House of Representatives
Memo for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas:
The political reality behind the need to handle immigration reform the right way is obvious to anyone who reads Jonathan Alter’s new book on the campaign of 2012, “The Center Holds.” Alter is a...
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10 Takeaways From The Senate Immigration Fiasco
It was a fiasco — the worst possible result: A terribly flawed bill that, of all the GOP’s Senate superstars, only Marco Rubio could support. All the other rising stars — Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and John Thune — voted “no,” as did Leader McConnell and Whip Cornyn. Worse yet, the jam down created a toxic environment around...
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Should Gun Companies Pay A Sin Tax?
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
In a June 23, 2013 New York Times article, “Make Gun Companies Pay Blood Money,” law school professors Lucinda Finley and John Culhane proposed that gun companies, those who import guns, or those who lawfully use guns should pay a sin tax based on the public threat of the particular gun. They further proposed a compensation...
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