Blog Profile / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
| URL : | http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/ | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Conservative | |
| Posts on Regator: | 3617 | |
| Posts / Week: | 18.2 | |
| Archived Since: | August 26, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Sex and the Military
The headline on the front page of the New York Times said it all: "Women in the Senate Confront the Military on Sex Assaults." In a triumphalist article showcasing the growing numbers of women on the Senate Armed...
Economics vs. 'Need'
One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a "need" for foreign workers to do "jobs that Americans won't do," especially in agriculture. One of my most vivid memories of the late...
Fact-Free Crusades
Amid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun control laws have in fact reduced murders? Think about all the states,...
Tests and Tiger Moms
New York City's Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students. Such students are often bored to death in schools where the work is geared to the lowest common...
The Bullying Pulpit
We have truly entered the world of "Alice in Wonderland" when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a Congressional subcommittee to be denounced on nationwide television for not...
Lies About Libya
There can be honest differences of opinion on many subjects. But there can also be dishonest differences. Last week's testimony under oath about events in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 makes painfully clear that what...
Is Thinking Obsolete?
While it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative.An e-mail from one young man simply asked for the sources of some...
The Art of the Impossible
Someone called politics "the art of the possible." But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible. Those people morbid enough to keep track of politicians' promises may...
Immigration Gambles
Britain's late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has "never ceased to be dangerous," but the West has "ceased to be vigilant."Nothing better illustrates her point than the fact...
The World According to Obama According to Jake (2012 Edition)
Four years ago, I wrote a blog post detailing my suppositions for the Obamas’ worldview. I based my suppositions on things each of them had said. Well now that Barack Obama has been in the spotlight for four long...
Injustice
Floyd Corkins is up on charges of transporting a firearm across state lines and assault with intent to murder. Corkins, you may remember, is the man who shot and injured a security guard at the Family Research Center...
The Prohibition of the Free Exercise of Religion
Today, according to Mike Huckabee, all right-minded Christians are encouraged to patronize Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chicken restaurant owned by people whose Christianity is so devout that they close the restaurant on...
You Can't Ban Abortion, But...
You know, it’s funny. Those “Freedom-loving” liberals have no problem banning (this list is not comprehensive): - Sugary drinks - Driving without a seatbelt - Guns,...
Freedom or Tyranny: The Effect of the Left's Ideas about Rights
Both political parties in the United States – and both sides, Left and Right, of the political aisle around the world, for that matter – claim to promote freedom and liberty, but how accurate are those...
Remember in November
Just a couple of things to remember in November: - Remember that Barack Obama was the man who claimed that Americans who struggled through the Clinton and Bush economies “…get bitter, they cling to...
Barack Obama's "Fundamental Change" in America
As most everyone not in a cave knows, by now, President Barack Obama, and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius plan to impose a severe restriction on the free exercise of religion by the...
Random Thoughts about the Great Virginia Earthquake of 2011
So, we had an earthquake in Virginia, yesterday. Good news: no one appears to have been seriously hurt, though some buildings were damaged, including the National (Episcopal) Cathedral in Washington, DC. I can say,...
Government Spending Crushes the Economy
For over 100 years, now, we’ve seen evidence of the damage that runaway government spending can do to the economy. Whether in the extreme of the Soviet Union’s planned economy, or the more subtle entitlement...
Can a Test be Racist?
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s signature case, Ricci v. DeStephano, is in the news again. In case you’ve forgotten, in 2003, the New Haven, CT Fire Department administered examinations (oral and...
Gays attack Sesame Street
If anyone wants to know why we conservatives dislike the gay privileges movement, I’ve found a perfect example. Forget the moral arguments, neither side is likely to be persuaded the other way. Forget the...