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Hugh Hewitt (Dec 29, 2011)
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... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Dec 23, 2011)
Columnist-to-the-World Mark Steyn and I chat on air almost every week. The transcript of those interviews are always posted, both at HughHewitt.com and SteynOnline.com. ... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Dec 15, 2011)
Will the Manhattan-Beltway media elite cover for President Obama throughout 2012?
Of course they will. The only question is whether they will even be self-aware about... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Dec 08, 2011)
Can Newt take the country when all of his one-time Beltway allies are pounding him with arrow, cannon and missiles from their permanent encampment on the Potomac?
It is... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Dec 02, 2011)
I began Thursday's radio show by playing the clip of Newt Gingrich telling ABC's Jake Tapper that he would be the GOP nominee --not once but five times in various ways in... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Nov 24, 2011)
On Veteran’s Day my radio show featured interviews with more than a dozen seriously wounded Marines and Navy personnel who are beneficiaries of the Injured Marine Semper Fi... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Nov 18, 2011)
There are three "keystone deductions" in the IRS code that matter more than all others to Americans who itemize deductions.
They are keystone deductions because they help... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Nov 11, 2011)
In case you were thinking that the GOP would-be nominees had pretty much been obliged to exchange pleasantries with every single talking head on every cable network, think... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Nov 04, 2011)
There are at least five debates scheduled for the entire GOP field in the balance of November, and one “Lincoln-Douglas” style debate between Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain as... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Oct 27, 2011)
"We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge..."
That was President Obama on Tuesday, October 25,... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Oct 14, 2011)
Presidential debate nights have been nerve wracking for the GOP since the first of two Reagan-Mondale debates of 1984.
The first debate did not go well for... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Oct 06, 2011)
Finally there is clarity about the GOP field in the race to take on President Obama in the fall of 2012. The field is fixed. There are no more "possibles" out there. ... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Sep 29, 2011)
There's a stimulus plan that President Obama could put forward that would attract strong bipartisan support and which would also produce great jobs at great wages while... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Sep 23, 2011)
"These debates do have winners," wrote the Wall Street Journal's Neil King in that paper's "Washington Wire" column last night after keeping up a running commentary on the... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Sep 16, 2011)
Justice Breyer is worried.
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Stephen Breyer came though California this week, with stops at Richard Nixon Library and... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Sep 08, 2011)
President Obama’s speech on Thursday night bordered on parody. His repetition of long-overused talking points combined with his repeated attacks on job creators and his... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Sep 01, 2011)
President Obama thought he would open his 2012 re-election campaign with a bit of big-footing that would show the GOP presidential candidates gathered at the Reagan Library... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Aug 26, 2011)
“I hope,” I told Stuart Varney on his excellent Fox Business Network program yesterday, “that President Obama watches the preparations for Hurricane Irene... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Aug 19, 2011)
Nir Nitzan's father fought in Israel's War of Independence, and again in the wars of 1956 and 1967.
Nir fought in the first and second Lebanon wars, many actions in... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Aug 12, 2011)
The "Super Committee" of six senators and six House members can propose whatever it wants to their colleagues, and those proposals are guaranteed an up-or-down vote by both... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Aug 04, 2011)
"Both GOP congressional leaders emerged with enhanced reputations," concluded Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal today.
And depending on who you ask, he is absolutely... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jul 29, 2011)
The atmosphere in the green room at the Sean Hannity Show was amped up. On ordinary days I will banter with Beckel and talk radio shop with Sean as we both tell Levin... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jul 22, 2011)
Weekends mean the phones on the Hill don't get answered.
Twitter rolls on, however, and whether or not Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and GOP... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jul 15, 2011)
President Obama unleashed his inner Alinskyite on Wednesday, storming out of a meeting with Congressional leaders and White House staff after threatening the GOP House Leader... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jul 08, 2011)
Saturday July 9 marks the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger’s secret trip to China that began the process of opening the relationship between the United States and the... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jul 01, 2011)
Anaheim, California is a city of more than 330,000 people, the 10th largest in California, and known the world over as the home of Disneyland. On Friday July 1 it also... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jun 24, 2011)
If the country is going to make the U-turn that it needs to make in 2013, it will need not only a new president but also a Senate of at least 51 Republicans and hopefully... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jun 17, 2011)
Four years ago the Fair Tax movement helped power Mike Huckabee to a win in the Iowa caucuses. The former Arkansas governor embraced the scheme and all of its absurd... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jun 10, 2011)
Two enormous stories are waiting for the MSM when it recovers from the Weiner implosion. One concerns domestic policy and the other foreign.
"Fast and Furious" is the name... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jun 03, 2011)
Republican primary voters have a very strong field of potential opponents for President Obama in November 2012 from which to choose. Three governors with great executive... more
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Hugh Hewitt (May 26, 2011)
If every high school class in economics –basic, college-prep and AP—began their year or semester with first a brisk read and then a chapter-by-chapter study of “Your Teacher... more
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Hugh Hewitt (May 20, 2011)
On Thursday, May 19 Senate Republicans refused to vote for cloture in sufficient numbers to allow the Senate to move to the consideration of the nomination of Berkeley Law... more
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Hugh Hewitt (May 17, 2011)
Newt's campaign isn't dead. It is wounded, but not in a "Monty Python Black Knight" sort of way, but rather in the sort of "if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger"... more
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Hugh Hewitt (May 05, 2011)
The GOP race for the 2012 presidential nomination arguably gets underway Thursday night in South Carolina. Because front-runner Mitt Romney has declined to participate and... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Apr 27, 2011)
On my radio show Tuesday I launched The Obama Project --the attempt to list in succinct fashion the many reasons why President Obama should be defeated in November 2012.
... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Apr 20, 2011)
Saturday's Tea Party Patriots gathering at the fair grounds in Sacramento was a boisterous and, as always, well-behaved and friendly event. The large crowd sat under very... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Apr 14, 2011)
My pal Dr. Eric Hunter at the National Center for Voice and Speech at the University of Utah reminds me that April 16 is World Voice Day.
This is an appropriate... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Apr 08, 2011)
I will speak tonight in Phoenix at the Arizona Right to Life dinner.
Though planned months ago, the fund raiser is occurring even as the most important debate on... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Apr 06, 2011)
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's fiscal blueprint for 2012 and beyond has rightly been hailed as an enormously important development in the budget wars. If the... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Apr 01, 2011)
Canny House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier went out of his way to remind me and my audience this week that House Speaker John Boehner was a "devout Roman Catholic." I... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Mar 24, 2011)
Congratulations on a great start to your term as chair of the Republican National Committee. Past supporters are returning again to GOP.com with confidence that their... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Mar 16, 2011)
George McClellan was the dashing commander of the Army of the Potomac at the start of the Civil War, whom the troops loved but whom Abraham Lincoln scorned as timid and quick... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Mar 11, 2011)
As the agony of Japan continues to unfold in real time before our eyes, two thoughts for the day.
First, in addition to the BBC and the Wall Street Journal, check in... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Mar 03, 2011)
Four months ago the nation's voters gave John Boehner and the House GOP he leads a massive mandate to change the fiscal direction of the United States.
Nothing could have... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Feb 25, 2011)
Today I am broadcasting from the Phoenix Convention Center and the first gathering of the Tea Party Patriots (www.TeaPartyPatriots.org) since November 2’s sweeping wins and... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Feb 17, 2011)
House Republicans lost the first round of the messaging battle over the budget last week with a lame attempt to cut less than $40 billion against the Pledge to America's goal... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Feb 10, 2011)
The number of Republican Members of Congress who appeared on my radio show between their “thumpin’” in 2006 and their return to power in 2010 who admitted with apparent... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Feb 03, 2011)
Many readers don’t want to hear another horror story about doing business in California. Because I live and practice law in California, I am perhaps more sensitive than... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jan 27, 2011)
NBC and Politico.com want the ratings bump that will come from hosting the first debate among Republican presidential contenders.
So they issued a diktat that such a... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jan 20, 2011)
On my radio show on Wednesday, January 19, Dick Morris flatly declared that Mitt Romney could not win the Republican nomination for president because of the health care plan... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jan 13, 2011)
None of the candidates who seek this weekend to replace Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee are household names. Reince Priebus is the chairman... more
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Hugh Hewitt (Jan 07, 2011)
On Thursday NPR released the results of its internal review of the firing of Juan Williams. A New York law firm pronounced --surprise-- that the taxpayer-funded radio... more