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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 Talk Radio Primary Begins: A Tale of Two Senators
Marco Rubio spent a half hour on the radio program with me yesterday, calling in to respond to the many criticisms (most bogus, some legit) launched at the first draft of immigration reform. (Transcript here.) The wide-ranging interview of the Florida senator also included criticism of the president’s press conference and his Syrian “red...
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Memo To Senate: Mandate The Border Fence Be Built Or Kill The Bill
The effort to secure the borders and reform immigration law is about to enter a crucial month at the end of which the fate of the bill will almost certainly be known.
The bill as it emerged from the Gang of 8 can probably not pass the Senate and certainly wouldn’t pass the House, nor should it.
But the Gang of 8 draft was only, as Senator Marco Rubio has said...
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How to investigate Boston bombings and Benghazi
“When everybody says you are drunk, you had better sit down,” is my favorite alleged old Irish proverb, which accurate or not in its origins, directs us to the wisdom of (informed) crowds.
Thus when an idea appeals to me, I’ll test it against at least a few of the first-team minds in the country to see whether it is a keeper. That I can do so...
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The Lessons of 4/15/13
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
“Approximately 30 seconds before the first explosion, he lifted his phone to his ear as if he was speaking on his cell phone, and kept it there for approximately 18 seconds. A few seconds after he finished the call, the large crowd of people around were seen reacting to the first explosion. Virtually every head turned to the...
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Why Obama Misfired on Gun Control
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate voted 54-46 to defeat an amendment that would have required broader background checks on gun purchases. The amendment, sponsored by Pennsylvania Republican Senator Pat Toomey and West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin and pushed by the White House and its supporters, was the last hope for any...
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The Collapse of Leadership
Carnage in Boston, ricin in Congress and devastation in West, Texas make this the worst week in years for the U.S. That the parents of some of the victims of Newtown were disappointed in the Senate yesterday adds to the gloom, and the president’s unbelievable timing for his fit of pique Wednesday added to the sense that the country is, genuinely,...
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House GOP is dazed, lost and leaderless
Down two touchdowns after the first quarter, the House Republicans think they are winning.
That’s a big problem, and not only because they are losing the great positioning battle in the run-up to President Obama’s last great campaign — the 2014 congressional elections — but also because the House GOP is destroying what’s left of its...
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Thatcherism: The Cure For An Ailing America
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
With the passing of Margaret Thatcher, and the commemoration of Winston Churchill day, world attention this week was rightly focused on the greatest Prime Ministers of the 20th century.
Given that Thatcher, more than Churchill, will be remembered for the near miraculous economic recovery her governance produced in Britain, and...
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The Death of Genuine Debate
Because I cannot imagine the pain the parents of Sandy Hook are suffering, I hope every senator agrees to meet with them and hear them out.
I welcome any or all of them to my radio show to tell me how I and my audience can help them and their families.
Grief and sorrow do not only wound but they also can serve to energize and clarify.
Just last week two amazing...
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Everything is unexpected in an unserious Washington
Readers of the New York Times on the morning of Sept. 10, 2001, found a front page lead on how congressional leaders were in talks about economic stimulus and below-the-fold stories on school dress codes and the morning television ratings races.
The summer of 1950 was just another post-war summer, and on June 23 the Indians’ Luke Easter hit the longest...
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Second Term, Second String, Second Wind: A Regulatory Vesuvius Is Close at Hand
Speeches to lawyers’ groups are among the least fun to give. For one thing, if you get a detail wrong someone is sure to point it out. For another, most lawyers (and judges) have quasi-professional commitments to impassivity in their facial expressions.
Tough audience indeed.
In a pair of recent outings before collections of general counsels and their...
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The crux of the marriage cases
Last week’s arguments over marriage were the latest chapter in a very long but very important book about how freedom endures through the separation of powers.
The first day’s argument turns on whether the people of the state of California may decide what “marriage” is. They did, and they may yet change their mind, but it is absurd to say...
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Challenge to the House GOP: Kill the Medical Device Tax, Now
Of all the many awful features of the Affordable Care Act –”Obamacare”– the medical device tax (“MDT”) is the most obviously ruinous of a particular sector of the economy.
More than 8,000 firms in the United States are at work on such devices, from artificial hearts to sight-saving eye technologies to low tech bandages and...
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Easy repeal for medical device tax
Harvard won an NCAA tourney game and the United States Senate voted 79-20 to repeal a tax — both on the same day last week. “Your old men shall dream dreams,” proclaimed the prophet Joel, “and your young men shall see visions.” Strange things are afoot.
There is nothing the House GOP can do about arranging for more basketball...
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The Coming Debate Among American Catholics
Pope Francis, Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio walk into a bar…
OK, so that’s not going to happen. But say it did. What would the new pope want to talk about, and what would the these most visible Catholic members of the new GOP say?
For the benefit of the Beltway conservatives who spent the week at CPAC, or the MSMers who...
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Francis is third of three champions of freedom
Karol Wojtyla lived under both the Nazis and the communists, and helped bring about the shattering of the communist empire.
Joseph Ratzinger grew up under the Nazis as well, and spent most of his life locked with his friend John Paul II in the worldwide battle with the Soviets and their branch operations in various intellectual garbs around the globe.
Now comes...
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