Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Josh Hammer penned a RCP op-ed the other day entitled, “The Art Of The 80-20 Issue.”  It is about how Trump cuts right to the heart of issues and by doing so is restoring common sense to our governance.  And yet it gives me pause.. . .

Saturday, September 6, 2025

This: “The student debt crisis isn’t a natural market phenomenon; it’s the predictable result of decades of government interference. Since 1980, average tuition and fees have increased by 1,200 percent, while consumer price inflation has risen only 236 percent over the same period.”  Demanding that we ask, is it worth it?. . .

Friday, September 5, 2025

Much liberal progress has been made on the back of claiming to be “offended” by one thing or another.  No one wants to offend anybody and so we conservatives apologize and grant the liberals ground.  This is especially true if the liberals threaten to throw a tantrum of some sort – a riot, a protest, a tweet.  They have turned being offended into a political offense and it is coming to an end.. . .

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Yesterday’s JPost featured a recording of a resident of Gaza City telling Israeli officials that Hamas is working very hard to prevent them from leaving, which the IDF is encouraging prior to invading.  Everybody knows this, but here, now, is incontrovertible evidence.  What few Israeli hostages are left are more than likely in Gaza City – the IDF can’t rescue them for fear of countless civilian deaths in urban operations.  So Hamas is actively holding the populace hostage to protect the hostages they took.  And remember – Hamas is ostensibly the government of Gaza.. . .

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Most people know that Tennessee, where I now live, has no income tax.  It’s wonderful.  But they do have a significant value-added (sales) tax.  It is just a half-percent less than what I used to live with in L.A. and much more widely applied.  After forty years in tax-soaked California I feel like I am in heaven.  But Volunteers (people from Tennessee) love to complain about that “exorbitant” sales tax.  I can’t tell you how many times someone has tried to tell me, that taxes are not as cheap here as I might think, which I usually respond to with a bemused grin.  They don’t have a clue.  I think this needs to be examined a bit deeper.. . .

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Gavin Newsom’s poll numbers are rising as he turns, not so slowly, into a troll – just taking 160-character swipes at pretty much anything Republican.  Democrats seem to be eating it up. It would be pathetic if it were not so consequential.. . .

Monday, September 1, 2025

At least that seems to be the case in certain newsrooms (do they still exist?) these days.  I keep seeing stories about perfectly normal actions by this administration written as if said actions were so nefarious, so awful, that they threatened not merely democracy, but life on earth itself.  The latest example is from the New York Times, in which the Trump administration has appointed a lawyer that was once suing EPA to prevent an adoption of a specific rule to the EPA to oversee the reversal of said rule.  Like that does not happen everyday.  Democratic administration routinely appoint activists that have lobbied for an action for years to actually execute that action.  But somehow this conservative move is a “conflict of interest?”. . .

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Consider carefully what follows.. . .

Saturday, August 30, 2025

I do not know what’s worse – that a United States Senator would quote anything so vile about religion generally or that a United States Senator would quote a 16-year-old as authoritative – on anything.  Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota quotes 16yo Lydia in the wake of the recent shooting, “Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systematically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” Lydia will grow up, and right now she is deeply traumatized, but Senator Smith has crossed a line here – this is not disagreement, this is a declaration of hostilities.. . .

Friday, August 29, 2025

I have noted a lot more headlines after this shooting in Minnesota declaring it “evil” – AMEN.  I have only found one example of some numbskull poo-pooing “thoughts and prayers.”  (But I’ll admit to not looking too heard either.)  I could not help but think about the fact that turning to the divine is wholly appropriate when faced with genuine evil.  Despite the desires of those of a certain perspective, evil is real.  It typically operates in the dark and with subterfuge, but when it goes pubic like this is is appropriate to ask how best to respond.. . .