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
The Short-Short List of Three
With Mitt Romney all but universally acknowledged as the GOP certain nominee, attention has quickly and rightly turned to speculation about the former Massachusetts governor's running mate. I say "rightly" because...
Hugh Hewitt: "Damn Few" by Rorke Denver
Rorke Denver is the Navy SEAL who had the key role in the movie Act of Valor. He is now in the Naval Reserves, and has authored a new book, Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior. It is a riveting account of where...
Hugh Hewitt: "A President Who Does Not Lead With A Strikingly Imperial Lifestyle"
My first guest host while I am away, Congressman John Campbell, interviewed Mark Steyn on Thursday's show. The transcript is here, and the title line of this post is drawn from it. The president not only has an...
Duane R. Patterson: Paul Ryan On What The Sequester Really Means
The chairman of the House Budget committee was a guest of John Campbell Wednesday while Hugh's away on vacation. What follows is much needed clarity on what the sequester means, what's ahead in the budgeting process,...
Hugh Hewitt: Speaker Boehner Spells Out The History of the Obama Sequester
Speaker of the House John Boehner very carefully lays out the history of the looming Obama Sequester in the Wall Street Journal, and everyone should read it and send it round to their friends, tweet the link, and...
Hugh Hewitt: Generals McChrystal, Petraeus, Mattis and Allen
When USMC General John Allen's retirement was announced today, I called on military historian Victor Davis Hanson to answer the question whether such a drain of military talent had occurred in our country's history...
Hugh Hewitt: "President's Second Term Prescription: Poison Pill Politics" By Clark S. Judge
The weekly column from Clark Judge President’s Second Term Prescription: Poison Pill PoliticsBy Clark S. Judge, managing director, White House Writers Group, Inc.; chairman, Pacific Research Institute FoxNews.com...
Hugh Hewitt: "Damn Few" by Rorke Denver
Rorke Denver is the Navy SEAL who had the key role in the movie Act of Valor. He is now in hte Naval Reserves, and has authored a new book, Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior. It is a riveting account of where...
Hugh Hewitt: The Obama Sequestration
The Obama Sequestration looms and the president has done nothing to avert it. Golfing with Tiger doesn't count as working the problem. Here's the short formula to avoiding it: "Chain" the CPI for Social Security Raise...
Hugh Hewitt: American Media and the Conclave
My Washington Examiner column suggests that American media have got to drop the horse-race coverage that defines presidential elections when attention turns to the upcoming conclave. Here's a handy tool with which to...
Hugh Hewitt: If You Didn't Want Immigration Reform To Pass
If you were the president and you didn't wan't immigration reform to pass this year, you'd leak an unrealistic, impossible-to-achieve "draft" designed only to shatter productive negoitations underway among serious peo
Hugh Hewitt: Why Marco Rubio Scares Democrats
Turning lemons into....boittled water and Twitter followers. The senator's Reclaim America PAC is here. .
Hugh Hewitt: The End of an (Intern) Era
A couple of weeks back on my radio show, I covered the case of the interns v. Charlie Rose. I mentioned at the time that my law firm defends employers against class actions seeking overtime wages, and that I see and...
Hugh Hewitt: Six Republicans, Seven Democrats and the Hagel Nomination
Former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination should be withdrawn, primarily because of the astonishing incompetence he displayed during his hearings. The men and women in the military deserve a leader at the...
Hugh Hewitt: Jonathan Last's "What To Expect When No One's Expecting"
Weekly Standard senior writer Jonathan Last as a very good, very funny book out, What To Expect When No One's Expecting. Imagine a merger of Mark Steyn and David Brooks with a Supreme Court imposed page limit. Last...
Hugh Hewitt: 202-225-3121
That is the number for the switchboard in the Congress. It can connect you with any of the Republican senators. Call and urge a filibuster of Senator Hagel. Five Republican senators appear ready to vote to clear the...
Hugh Hewitt: The Era of Big Gridlock
The New York Times called the SOTU “making the case for government,” but it was in fact the unveiling of gridlock, the opening of the era of Big Gridlock. Nothing the president wants as a piece of...
Hugh Hewitt: Alex Berenson's The Night Ranger
I spend hour three today with Alex Berenson whose new thriller The Night Ranger is set in Kenya and Somalia and cannot be put down. Terrific read.
Hugh Hewitt: And Now, The Season of Anti-Catholic Agenda Journalism
Because the Roman Catholic Church adamantly defends life in the womb, the oldest and most infirm and the institution of marriage, it has legions of foes spread throughout major media. Those critics will surface...
Hugh Hewitt: On Benedict and His Successor
Leave it to Pope Benedict to be a transformational figure even as he exits. I hope he is blessed with a long and productive retirement from which many good and important books issue. Here are the odds as seen from...