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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 WebsiteImmigration Reform: Time for a Congressional Fencing Match
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
It has been said that the U.S. Senate is where good ideas go to die. In the context of immigration reform, the opposite is true: this week the Senate passed a bundle of mostly bad ideas, “comprehensive” immigration reform. Attention is now focused on the House of Representatives, where hopefully this bundle of errors will...
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The Echoes from 150 Years Ago
Thank you to the Shaaras, Michael and Jeffrey, as we enter the beginning of the most important weeks of the Sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War.
The siege of Vicksburg was already underway 150 years ago as General U.S. Grant pressed and pressed against the lifeline of the Confederacy between its western and its eastern halves. The city would...
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Trust But Verify: A Tentative Thumbs Up For Corker-Hoeven and the 700 Mile Fence It (Allegedly) Guarantees
Fine print matters — a lot — but if press reports of the Corker-Hoeven amendment are correct and the small print matches the large promises, this amendment would yield a Senate bill that I could applaud.
The increase in Border Patrol presence is fine, but it’s no substitute for the fence. I agree with my friend Kurt Schlichter, who argues that,...
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Sen. Charles Schumer’s choice: Immigration reform or a campaign issue
Immigration reform, including the regularization of the nation’s 11 million-plus illegal immigrants, appeals to a large slice of the conservative movement — if it is accompanied by genuine border security, specifically a very long, very strong border fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-LA, calls the proposal for a border fence...
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What part of ‘no fence, no deal’ does the Senate GOP not get?
“A fence from left to right, from east to west, except obviously the mountainous areas,” Charles Krauthammer told me on air in an interview in late April.
“We know that fences work,” he continued. “If the president tells you fences don’t work, ask him why he’s got one around the White House.”
Krauthammer is easily...
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Data Collection Isn’t Data Abuse — Yet
Notorious RINO and Blind Sheik prosecutor Andrew McCarthy posted this at NationalReview.com’s The Corner yesterday afternoon:
What gaineth a president if he wins over knuckle-dragging right-wing loon commentator McCarthy but loses the New York Times? ”The administration has now lost all credibility.” Ouch!
Ouch indeed, but if you really need...
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A reminder about what’s good for the Harvard goose
Harvard University president Drew Faust Gilpin was in a conversation before the assembled reunion gatherings of the classes of 1978 and 1988.
The day before, Oprah had exhorted the departing seniors of the College to expect and then overcome failure, and President Gilpin had…blasted the sequester.
Washington Post writer Melinda Henneberger noted how...
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Obama’s Scandalous Second Term
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Like an onion being peeled, each week seems to reveal new layers of odious conduct by the Obama Administration that increasingly offends the senses. Only five months into the second term of the hope and change presidency, few are hopeful of any positive change.
The scandals that have dominated the headlines should concern all...
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Fake flowers and the pretend White House press corps
Here is what Attorney General Eric Holder testified to when, while under oath, he was asked about the Department of Justice’s investigations of journalists and national security leaks:
“In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material: This is not something I’ve ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would...
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Scandalous Ignorance
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
“Everything comes from the top.” This quote from an anonymous source in the IRS Determinations Unit explains why the IRS targeting of conservative groups did not likely originate with low level staffers at a remote IRS outpost. The truth is far different.
In March of 2010, the IRS offices on tax exempt entities, headed by...
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House should expose Washington’s growing culture of intimidation
Far better to have an imperfect tax code fairly applied than a perfect tax code unfairly applied.
It is far more important that the entire enforcement and regulatory philosophy of the executive branch be radically remade than any particular law be amended.
The proponents of tax reform are attempting to seize on the parade of horribles marching out of the Obama...
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The Internal IRS Whitewash of the Great Tea Party Purge: We Need A Special Prosecutor
On Tuesday night the report of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration on the great Tea Party purge was released.
This is a terrible report. Just begin reading it and you will quickly realize that you are in the the swamp of obfuscation and CYA.
On the “Highlights” page there are more questions raised than answered –questions such...
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Hillary never called back
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her senior staff conducted a conference call with Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Libya, in the early morning hours of Sept. 12, 2012.
Hicks was overseeing a chaotic scene in Tripoli, where his staff was busy destroying classified material with axes and whatever else was at hand and as the few security...
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Benghazi’s Inconvenient Truths
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
After Wednesday’s remarkable congressional testimony by State Department officials with inside knowledge of the Benghazi attack, it is settled that the explanations for the attack and the American non-response advanced by the Administration and its defenders are false.
In one day, three officials, in minute-by-minute accounts...
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House GOP leadership is a ballooning problem
Republican ennui is engulfing the grass roots as the party’s House majority sits, and sits, and sits, doing nothing except raising money and, yes, taking action to secure the country’s helium reserve.
The Balloon Council applauded the latter action. Yes, the council exists, and it says it represents 100,000 balloon-connected manufacturers,...
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For GOP Would-Be Presidents, The Border Fence is 2016′s Panama Canal
A border fence, “a fence from left to right, from east to west, except obviously the mountainous areas,” as Charles Krauthammer put it, is essential to the effort to pass immigration reform.
If a serious fence along the southern border is not mandated in the bill–high, double-fencing with access roads for patrol vehicles– it won’t...
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