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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 Fallen Angel: The Best Vacation Read Available for The Summer of 2012
Vienna was home to 23 synagogues prior to World War II, only one of which outlasted the Nazis –the Stadttempel, which was constructed in 1825 and 1826 and which survived Kristallnacht in November, 1938. This beautiful house of worship was saved because the emperor had ordered that it be built behind facades and as part of an organic structure which...
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The Need For Speed and Detail On the Pledge of Repeal
Do you trust the Congressional GOP to do everything they can to repeal Obamacare if Mitt Romney wins the presidency and if at least 51 GOP senators are elected and the House GOP majority maintained?
Do you trust them to move as quickly as possible to do so?
I do, because the political consequences of failing to do so would be so immense as to cost the GOP their...
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What Will You Say Next Year, in Two Years, and in Five?
Over at HughHewitt.com I have ventured the opinion that perhaps –just perhaps– originalists will eventually recognize Chief Justice Robert’s decision and opinion yesterday as a bit of judicial genius that will be his Marbury v. Madison –the case that at first glance seemed a win for an executive whom the then Chief Justice opposed but...
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The Brief Against Obama: The Rise, Fall and Epic Fail of the Hope and Change Presidency
The Brief Against Obama: The Rise, Fall and Epic Fail of the Hope and Change Presidency is my new book, and new books mean book tours, both real and virtual. Thus I began the week in Las Vegas, moved to New York City and am headed to Phoenix Thursday, promoting the book and the website as I go, dashing between television studios and dialing radio stations spread...
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The Choice
On Monday The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza launched a voyage of the imagination –an extremely well sourced essay on what Team Obama thinks a second term would look like. Lizza’s article should be mandatory reading for the pundit class, especially those enamored of the idea that all the country needs is some collective group therapy.
I have...
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Obama’s Deepening Hole
A raft of new polls underscore the political free fall Barack Obama finds himself in.
As an incumbent president matched against a nominee from the other party who survived a grueling primary season, Obama should be rolling in dough and enjoying a double-digit lead nationally and healthy head-starts in the key battleground states.
Instead he finds himself in a...
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Team Romney Invades The Chicago Gang’s OODA Loop, With An Assist From New Media
Rich Stowell is a citizen-soldier. I met him in the summer of 2010 when he was assigned to shepherd me around Kosovo on my visit to the California National Guard deployed there.
Rich is also a citizen-journalist, one who is very kind to me in his most recent column for the Washington Times. I don’t mention him because of that column, but because it...
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Talk Radio, Online College, Deep Content and the 2012 Campaign: Embracing the Disruption
What do New York Times’ columnist David Brooks, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, and Thomas Nelson Publishing Chairman Michael Hyatt all have in common?
In addition to being guests on my radio show yesterday, that is?
Each is thinking long and hard about the spreading disruption brought about by the new media revolution.
In a May 3rd...
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The Return of Rev. Wright and the Small Donor Surge To Romney
“He is a bitter man…Jeremiah Wright is a joke…[What] Obama’s crazy preacher is saying this week” is a “side show.”
These quotes are from my interview Wednesday with Bloomberg View’s Jonathan Alter, the transcript of which is here.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright is relevant again, and about to get even more relevant, and it...
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“Leading from Behind” On Same Sex Marriage: The President’s Foreign Policy Finds Its Domestic Policy Expression as Joe Biden Pushes Barack Obama To Flip Flop On Marriage, Again.
President Obama is a thorough-going man of the left obsessed with power and thus in re-election, so his decision Wednesday to declare for same sex marriage is hardly a surprise. The only surprise is that his timing was so nakedly political and reflexive. The president was pushed into declaring his support by his Vice President and his Secretary of Education, and...
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An Indictment of the President’s Touchdown Dance
On Tuesday morning the Wall Street Journal carried a very unusual op-ed.
The author was a former Attorney General of the United States, Michael Mukasy, who had served on the federal bench for 18 years before taking on the top job in federal law enforcement. As a federal district court judge, Mukasey had presided over the trial of Omar Abdel Rahman, the “blind...
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A Strong Nominee In A Strong Position: Romney Turns On The Engine
The zombie narrative of a brokered convention is dead, and Politico is having to lay off the brokered convention team.
Mitt Romney is the GOP nominee and a very strong one who has emerged from the primary process focused on the economy and in a dead heat with the president.
Romney’s speech last night was the best he has given, and it must reflect the...
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The Battle of the Buzzwords, 2012
Presidential campaigns often reduce themselves to words or phrases, slogans or gaffes.
These fragments actually represent much more than the specific words employed, but very often condense enormous themes, important differences or character issues into a compact but complete message package. Five examples of years defined by a few words:
1976: Poland is free....
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The Short-Short List of Three
With Mitt Romney all but universally acknowledged as the GOP certain nominee, attention has quickly and rightly turned to speculation about the former Massachusetts governor’s running mate.
I say “rightly” because not only will the choice greatly impact the election result, it could also profoundly shape American history if that choice were to become the...
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Joe Scarborough, Meet Pauline Kael
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough recently got a lot of tongues wagging by saying that he didn’t know any establishment Republicans who thought Mitt Romney could win in the fall. “Nobody thinks he’s going to win,” Joe said, referencing the vast, unnumbered GOP establishment that Joe hangs with in the Green Room.
I don’t doubt Scarborough is telling the truth...
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The Books And The Arguments That Matter In 2012
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has a new book out, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power. I don’t know if it is a good and important book because I haven’t read it yet. If her publisher sends it to me, I will read it and will have her on the show to discuss it in detail. Maddow has a big platform, and there is a chance that her book is good...
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