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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 WebsiteWinter isn’t coming
One more week of Beltway Christmas parties, followed by a week of faith, and football, and then the nation’s capital reconvenes in a still-stunned state.
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Pruitt and Puzder: A pair of brilliant nominees
With two nominations late last week, President-elect Trump has telegraphed seriousness about a frontal assault on the out-of-control regulatory state.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is a brilliant, principled, amiable and effective chief legal officer of a state and former state legislator (as well as minor league baseball team owner). He’s also on...
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Does Gen. Mattis have a strategy for shaping the ‘media battle space’?
Donald Rumsfeld served his second tour of duty as Secretary of Defense from Jan. 20, 2001, to Dec. 18, 2006. He is one of America’s most accomplished public servants. And he was arguably the best prepared secretary of defense, having not only served in that job before, from Nov. 20, 1975 to Jan. 20, 1977, but having also been White House chief of staff,...
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Deep breaths, everyone. All will be well.
It stood to reason that 2016 has a few more surprises up its very large sleeves, and that The Ohio State University’s double-overtime 30-27 win over Michigan’s Wolverines would be among them.
Not that the Bucks’ winning The Game is a jolt. Ohio State has won 12 of the schools’ last 13 meetings. But there had never been an overtime in the...
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The ‘Constitution Spring’
Long-time residents of California know what the aftermath of a major quake is like. Even those completely uninjured and complete strangers to personal or property loss are jittery for weeks or even months. They hate to be stuck under overpasses. They loathe being in Los Angeles’ very tall buildings when the inevitable aftershocks roll through. It’s...
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The choice
Former Missouri Senator Jim Talent made a comprehensive five part closing argument for Donald Trump for president here.
Larry Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College — speaking for himself and not his community of teachers, students and staff at Hillsdale — made an argument about both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump which ought to be read or listened to in...
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Francona’s example for GOP: Stick with what has worked in the past
If 2016 trends stay true, the “Sweet Meteor of Death” (#SMOD on Twitter) will hit the earth — specifically, at Progressive Field in Cleveland — in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 with the score tied and the Cleveland Indians’ Mike Napoli at bat.
The Cubs’ Jon Lester will have dueled with the Tribe’s Corey Kluber through...
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The GOP’s crisis
Political parties have been around since politics emerged from the stranglehold of the strongest and extended out to even the most limited of franchises.
“Parties” existed even within the courts of absolute kings. “Factions” are how Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay referred to them in “The Federalist Papers,” and...
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Hillary’s contempt for Bernie’s folk
Basement-dwelling baristas of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your “I’m With Her” signs. “Bernie Sanders is the real deal,” you thought, but Clinton just thought you hopelessly naive, underemployed at best with few prospects, and oppressed by Obamacare premiums that no one expected to have to pay. You, said Clinton,...
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Welcome to the new Sunday morning
An IED — or two or three — in New Jersey intended to blow up runners in a race to support Marines wounded in the wars.
An IED — or two or three — in New York City intended to kill or maim civilians.
A suspected “home-grown, self radicalized” jihadist dresses as a security guard and slashes a half dozen or more innocents in St. Cloud,...
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How New Media Undermines Old Hillary & Old Media
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
A seismic shift is underway in how Americans, especially younger Americans, consume news. The changes may radically increase political accountability and undermine the old media’s role as protector-in-chief of dishonest Democrats.
Pew Research recently reported that 62% of American adults get news on social media and 66% of...
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When Hillary’s Supreme Court decides redistricting cases
Voting has begun in the 2016 election as North Carolina opened its (very) early balloting by absentee on Friday. Voting is said to be heavy among the half of Donald Trump supporters who Hillary Clinton has categorized as being in a “basket of deplorables.”
It seems irrational to vote this early in an election cycle in which jarring slanders on...
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How to Lose Allies & Alienate Supporters, by Barack & Hillary
How to Lose Allies & Alienate Supporters, by Barack & Hillary
By Garrett Fahy
The political world is focused on Trump’s Immigration Plan, Hillary’s ongoing email saga (prediction alert: we’ll be discovering emails she tried to wipe off her server for months), and her interview with the FBI. But in the background, the newest installment...
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The resentment election
Some presidential elections are fueled by fear. Ronald Reagan won in 1980 because the country was afraid of developments at home and abroad.
Some contests run on gratitude and hope, including Reagan’s re-election and President Obama’s first win. Some, as with the election of George H.W. Bush and President Clinton’s re-election, are simply safe...
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Once more into the Supreme Court breach
Third time’s a charm.
Or not.
Over the last two weeks I have tried to use this space to persuade #NeverTrumpers that their opposition to Donald Trump, no matter how deeply principled on their part, should yield to the manifest damage that would be done to the rule of law in the United States by even one, much less two or more, appointments to the U.S....
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Counting the cost of a Supreme Court lost to the Left
A week ago in this space I wrote in support of Donald Trump. I gave three reasons for voting for Trump, beginning with the most important: the fate of the United States Supreme Court.
The fact is that the confirmation of even one Hillary Clinton nominee to the Supreme Court will turn the court in a hard left, almost certainly irreversible direction. This...
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