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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 WebsiteGet ready for a long slog to the GOP nomination
When then Vice President Aaron Burr shot and killed potential future president and key Revolutionary figure Alexander Hamilton in a duel, the careers of both men were over. Now another “big guy” New Yorker — as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush referred to Donald Trump on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” — is taking aim at another would-be...
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’13 Hours,’ like Benghazi itself, notable for Obama’s, Clinton’s absence
When the blockbuster movie “13 Hours” opens this week there will follow a hard few days for President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Hard, but not as hard as the years that have followed the families of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
The movie mentions neither the president nor the...
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Some advice for the candidates
My last bit of ghost-writing for a candidate was in 2012, and though my career as a secret scribbler stretches back to Richard Nixon’s The Real War in 1980, I’m pledged to neutrality this year until the GOP has a nominee. Then I’d be pleased, for free, to work on the Cleveland convention acceptance speech, just to make sure the nominee hits the...
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Did Trump kill the bump?
Did Donald Trump kill “the bump”?
Not the infamous dance from the ’70s (though, who knows? It is possible). No I mean the “bump” that successful candidates get from winning The Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary, a step up in attention and respect that fuels a candidate’s ambitions (and opens donors’ pockets)...
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Follow W’s lead, Mr. President
The New York Times’ Saturday story on the details of Wednesday’s terrorist attack contained a remarkable paragraph buried deep in the report:
In a Dallas suburb, about a dozen protesters congregated outside the Islamic Center of Irving last month, some covering their faces with bandannas and carrying hunting rifles, tactical shotguns and AR-15s. The...
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The nine saints of Charleston
The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in D.C. is celebrating its 175th anniversary as the parish in the center of the nation’s capital. Mass has been celebrated in the current church since 1895. The cathedral has stood through war and peace, through World War I and the Depression, through Pearl Harbor and 9/11, and it has been the place where many great...
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Hillary’s Backward Looking, Avoidance Campaign
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Greece’s continuing economic woes threaten to send the European Union into chaos. China creates islands in the South China Sea on which to build military bases to threaten our allies. ISIS claims more of Iraq and the White House contemplates another influx – don’t call it surge – of “military advisors” and bases to...
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Attorneys general are the first line of defense
Martha’s Vineyard is a surprising venue for a gathering of the Republican Attorneys General Association (or “RAGA,” as it’s affectionately known), but given the ubiquity of political surveillance these days, perhaps a geographical head fake is good operational security.
Not that a DNC tracker would have been surprised by much they heard...
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Congress’s shameful Patriot Act brinksmanship
The four-mile stretch of beach from 55th Street in Newport Beach, California, to the end of the Huntington Beach Pier may be the happiest and zaniest place on earth on Saturday mornings. It certainly was this past weekend, with an Olympic-distance triathlon, the “Pro Plan Incredible Dog Challenge,” a vast women’s volleyball tournament and the...
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The Wrong Question on Iraq
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Over the past week, presidential aspirants Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have been bedeviled by the questions of whether or not President George W. Bush erred by invading and liberating Iraq, and whether they too would have launched an invasion. Jeb Bush, admirably loyal to his brother, has struggled to issue a coherent response to...
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‘The Great War of Our Time’
Michael Morell spent 33 years in the CIA, rising to be its acting director for a time, and finishing a distinguished career as the Agency’s Deputy Director.
There are few truly “must read” books out there, but along with Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, Morell’s new The Great War of Our Time is one of them. Combine...
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Advice to graduates: Don’t take our way of life for granted
The rising 20-somethings graduating this month look forward to a future of American national wealth and prosperity. Why should they not be optimistic? All around them are the astonishing complexes built by their grandparents and parents in the 70 years since Hitler’s defeat. It is hard, from where they stand, to imagine national failure.
But their parents...
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Beyond Winning, Who Can Lead?
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
As the ever growing field of GOP presidential candidates storms the country seeking supporters and funds, each contestant has pledged to undo what President Obama has done and has sought to discredit Hillary Clinton’s record and her positions. All well and good; how the GOP candidates would handle the misbegotten policies of...
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Ex-Im Bank: American soft power at its best
Monday’s radio show will feature a debate on the Export-Import Bank and whether the Congress ought to “reauthorize” it — which means keep the 81-year-old agency alive and assisting America’s exporters in a variety of ways to sell their products overseas.
This usually means a loan guarantee. A private bank loans the money to make the...
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Meet the candidates for 2016
On the Transcripts page of my website are the 36 relatively recent interviews I have done with the men and woman who are at least seriously thinking of running for president in 2016.
There are 16 who have been on the other side of the microphone from me at least once — some multiple times — since the New Year. Using last names, in alphabetical order, they...
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Where the West begins
Out where the handclasp’s a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That’s where the West begins; Out where the sun is a little brighter, Where the snows that fall are a trifler whiter, Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter, That’s where the West begins
It’s been almost a century since cowboy poet and...
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