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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 vetting of Hillary begins
Sunday’s “Meet the Press” was of course largely focused on Hillary’s declaration of her candidacy for the White House, and I was glad to be a part of it.
My contribution to the panel that resonated with the Twitterverse was remarking on how the latest Clinton rollout has a surreal “Weekend at Bernie’s” feel — one which...
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Spring’s distractions don’t slow America’s enemies
Wisconsin’s gritty win over Kentucky Saturday night and tonight’s match-up between the Badgers and the Duke Blue Devils are wonderful diversions for Americans from a world that horrifies far more often than it entertains.
The murder of 148 and the wounding of scores more in the massacre at Kenya’s Garissa University College campus is just the...
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Republicans vie in the Putin primary
Who among the would-be GOP presidential nominees would most alarm Vladimir Putin if he (or she) became President Obama’s successor?
Call this the “Putin Primary.” Of all the various “primaries” said to be underway 10 months before the real ones commence, this is by far the most important in terms of actual qualifications for the...
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Any Republicans who vote against higher defense spending should be fired
Let’s talk a bit about which House Republican incumbents are going to draw primary opponents in 2016. Make a note: Those GOP representatives who vote against upping Pentagon spending this week are at the top of a list that deserve to face off against an Iraq or Afghan war vet when votes are cast in primaries next spring or summer. Reckless endangerment of...
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New GOP budget will be a national security disaster and political nightmare
This week on my radio show Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said of the looming deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran that, “I believe we are at a moment like Munich in 1938.”
Many agree with Cruz. Many scoff. But among those who agree in the Congress there is coming a moment of testing of their sincerity.
Conservatives tend to forget that Neville...
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Grill Loretta Lynch about Hillary’s ‘homebrew’ email scandal
Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch is qualified to serve as the top law enforcement official in the United States, and she should easily accumulate the votes needed to enter into her job — unless she is unwilling to answer questions about her opinion on how to proceed via-a-vis former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s “homebrew” server...
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There were no losers at CPAC
A successful presidential candidacy requires competence in many skills sets and excellence in at least a few.
Think of the decathlon in the Olympics: 10 events, but winning one or even two or three doesn’t guarantee the gold. You have to be at least competitive in each of the disciplines: sprints and runs of various distances, the discus, shot put and...
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The media’s dangerous diversions
Forgive me a Spengler moment. It really belongs to someone of the stature of Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer or George Will to pen such a column, but I can’t be alone in thinking this.
On Saturday Guy P. Benson, one of conservatism’s most talented young writer/reporters/commentators, tweeted out:
“We interrupt our coverage of O’Reilly...
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Should Republicans kill the filibuster?
To invoke, or not to invoke, the “Reid Rule?” That is the singe most important question facing Senate Republicans.
Simply put, if destroying what is left of the Senate’s tradition of the filibuster would save the country from terrible crises and hardship, almost every senator of both parties would vote to abolish it.
Indeed, all but one of the...
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What Obama’s prayer breakfast comments reveal about his Iran policy
National Prayer Breakfasts are usually occasions of inspiring messages and fellowship across religious and political divides.
In recent years “Braveheart” writer Randall Wallace, Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas and Dr. Ben Carson have amped up the content with the effect of increasing the breakfast’s visibility and reach. I have played each...
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What Obama’s prayer breakfast comments reveal about his Iran policy
National Prayer Breakfasts are usually occasions of inspiring messages and fellowship across religious and political divides.
In recent years “Braveheart” writer Randall Wallace, Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas and Dr. Ben Carson have amped up the content with the effect of increasing the breakfast’s visibility and reach. I have played each...
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What Obama’s prayer breakfast comments reveal about his Iran policy
National Prayer Breakfasts are usually occasions of inspiring messages and fellowship across religious and political divides.
In recent years “Braveheart” writer Randall Wallace, Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas and Dr. Ben Carson have amped up the content with the effect of increasing the breakfast’s visibility and reach. I have played each...
Read More
What Obama’s prayer breakfast comments reveal about his Iran policy
National Prayer Breakfasts are usually occasions of inspiring messages and fellowship across religious and political divides.
In recent years “Braveheart” writer Randall Wallace, Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas and Dr. Ben Carson have amped up the content with the effect of increasing the breakfast’s visibility and reach. I have played each...
Read More
Memo To The GOP 2016 Field: Speak Out When The President Won’t, Especially On ISIS And Iran
Jordan’s swift reaction to the savage murder of its young fighter pilot –the rapid execution of two terrorists– is just the first of our ally’s responses if King Abdullah was correctly understood by members of the House Armed Services Committee.
The president’s muted response to the latest and most gruesome ISIS atrocity outraged...
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Memo To The GOP 2016 Field: Speak Out When The President Won’t, Especially On ISIS And Iran
Jordan’s swift reaction to the savage murder of its young fighter pilot –the rapid execution of two terrorists– is just the first of our ally’s responses if King Abdullah was correctly understood by members of the House Armed Services Committee.
The president’s muted response to the latest and most gruesome ISIS atrocity outraged...
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Memo To The GOP 2016 Field: Speak Out When The President Won’t, Especially On ISIS And Iran
Jordan’s swift reaction to the savage murder of its young fighter pilot –the rapid execution of two terrorists– is just the first of our ally’s responses if King Abdullah was correctly understood by members of the House Armed Services Committee.
The president’s muted response to the latest and most gruesome ISIS atrocity outraged...
Read More