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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 WebsiteOne of Two Men Will Be President in January, 2013: Which One Do You Support?
With a sweeping win in Illinois that ranged across almost every demographic and income level, educational achievement or religious background, Mitt Romney has almost completely killed off the “zombie narrative” of a “brokered” convention.
That bizarre “story-line” isn’t dead in every precinct of the media, but those who...
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Hugh Hewitt: The mainstream media vultures gather
“Show up and shut up.”
Rabbi Harold Kushner was my guest for a PBS series on God in America, and this was his condensed version of advice for those who would comfort the grieving.
It ought to circulate around the halls of American broadcast media for once again there were no boundaries the collective media would respect in the aftermath of the...
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Why the MSM Doesn’t Want To Do the Romney Math
Mitt Romney’s nomination as the GOP standard bearer in the fall is as inevitable as Barack Obama’s renomination.
Meteors could hit either man, but it will be a Romney-Obama race in the fall, and the map favors Romney now, as do some national polls.
The election will come down to a dozen or so states: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire,...
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Doing the Math on Romney’s Path
David Parker is a very smart and successful businessman, a Romney guy, and an occasional contributor to the blog MittRomneyCentral. He is close to the Romney campaign, so I read his posts and emails with care, and found this bit of math from his missive on Wednesday morning to be the sort of analysis missing from the MSM as it sifts through Romney’s big...
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Mitt’s Big Night and the Road Ahead
The significance of Mitt Romney’s big wins in Arizona and Michigan is debated in a symposium over at NationalReview.com. Along with the Weekly Standard’s Jay Cost, I think it is hard to see anyone but Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee. More to the point, I am of the view that the race for the GOP nomination is effectively decided. Not over, just...
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The End of the Debates and the Romney Campaign Ahead
Like most pundits, I dragged myself along through most of the death march of the 20+ debates. Last night’s was an exception. After seeing excerpts of the first hour through the last hour of my radio show, I was obliged to dash to another event and thus could only judge the result through the anlayses offered by others.
These, however, were near uniform....
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Brokered Conventions and Unicorns
It is the season for silly predictions about the presidential campaign, and the most absurd of all is that the GOP is headed towards the emergence of a new candidate or a “brokered convention.”
This first meme got some traction when ABC’s Jonathan Karl quoted an “anonymous Republican senator” as saying that “[I]f Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a...
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The President’s Anti-Catholic Duck
When President Obama signed off on the new HHS regulations that demand every Catholic institution in the country not officially designated a “church” either shut down or offer its employees subsidized sterilization, “morning after” pills and all other forms of contraception, neither the president nor his political team recognized the...
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Memo to the Catholic Bishops
To the Members of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops:
It may have taken a few days to sink in, but by now you should all have realized that President Obama has opened a massive assault on the Roman Catholic Church in America the likes of which none of you have ever experienced and for which few of you have prepared.
My guess is only a handful of...
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40 Years After The 1972 Campaign, “Dirty Tricks” No Longer Matter To MSM
The single biggest storyline out of Florida and concerning the GOP presidential nomination isn’t getting much attention.
It is the attempt by President Obama and his allies to pick the Republican nominee.
It is the manipulation of the Tea Party by the hard-left activists of the ACORN-wing of the Democratic Party.
The president and the Chicago Gang as well...
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MSM and the 13 State Election
Will ABC’s interview of Marianne Ginrich matter in the South Carolina primary?
Will Mitt Romney’s wealth and “effective tax rate of 15%” hurt him in the Palmetto State?
Will the endorsement of Rick Santorum by key Evangelical leaders over the past weekend in Texas swing him crucial support on Saturday?
Answers on these questions in a...
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Rick Perry’s Long March
Rick Perry isn’t giving up and isn’t going home, and some folks in South Carolina have noticed.
The New York Times followed the Texas governor around some his stops in the Palmetto State and reported back to their Manhattan elites that, gasp, Perry was connecting with Christians.
Perry, the paper announced today, “seems to have found in South...
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Romney v. Santorum: 1976 All Over Again
Either Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee by early February, or we have a replay of the 1976 GOP primaries on our hands.
Both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum had great nights on Tuesday. Both can say an earnest thanks to Iowa caucus goers. Iowa battered everyone else, perhaps not beyond repair, but probably.
Both men are fine candidates. Bill Kristol provided...
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Game Change, Again
Mike Allen and Evan Thomas have written a wildly interesting, very compact eBook that perhaps got lost in the run-up to Christmas. If you like politics, you will love The Right Fights Back.
And if you are a publisher, welcome to the future.
I will not ruin any of the inside baseball that Allen and Thomas provide in great quantity in highly condensed fashion....
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