Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Friday, October 24, 2025

The headline here is an homage to one of the beloved albums of my younger days by the Doobie Brothers – back when albums were albums, on vinyl.  I wish I could herein wax eloquent about the days sitting in a room, queueing up records, spinning them and enjoying music with friends – which is precisely how I discovered this particular album.  But we live in a different age now – an age where that album title seems prophetic and our vices are no longer viewed as they were when I was young, when vices are now just “innocent” past times, and I am forced to wonder if we are the better for it.. . .

Thursday, October 23, 2025

The legalization of marijuana was/is (depending on your location) a bad idea.  Intoxication, in any form, is not a good idea – even if we tolerate it to some limited extent.  Given that we do try to limit and control intoxication, the last thing we need/needed, is to increase its possibility.  Most argument for the legalization of weed could just as easily have been turned around and used to argue for further controls on alcohol – they are not convincing arguments.  There was; however, one good one, but it is falling apart.. . .

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

War, protests, TDS, government shutdown, Democratic candidates wishing death on their opponents – so many stories to choose from.  But every now and then a story comes along that just makes you sit back and marvel at God’s creation.  I ran into one this morning.. . .

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

We spent decades in a Cold War with the Soviet Union, but just prior to that Cold War we called them “ally” in the fight against Hitler’s Germany.  Stalin was a mass murderer of Hitlerian proportions, and antisemitic to boot.  The United States and The United Kingdom did not share values or philosophies with the USSR, but we did share an enemy and that was enough to form an alliance, but a wary one.   I wonder if, in these times, we are able to operate in a such a subtle fashion – to ally with someone while at the same time hold them as far from your heart as possible.. . .

Monday, October 20, 2025

Precisely what was the #NOKINGS protest all about?  Yes, people were very upset, but it made little to no sense really.  You can’t quite put your finger on what they were so upset about.  Oh sure, they had lots of things to talk about, but it just did not add up.  That’s when it hit me.. . .

Sunday, October 19, 2025

The article linked here is about the swine flu of 2009 as a “dry run” for the covid lockdowns.  It is not entirely unreasonable, while at the same time being a bit too conspiratorial and overwrought.  Nonetheless, it contains one of the greatest summations for what happened I have ever encountered – “…an unprecedented response was justified due to the unprecedented uncertainty of an invisible threat….”  Everything I have or am reading indicates this to be the case – that we acted out of uncertainty and ignorance, not knowledge and assuredness.  This insight is less about science and more about character.. . .

Saturday, October 18, 2025

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Friday, October 17, 2025

Not that anyone really cares, but Barack Obama did Marc Maron’s (who?) final podcast this week.  I have not listened to it, probably won’t, but the reviews are in and they are somewhat extraordinary.. . .

Thursday, October 16, 2025

I agree – “The Absurdity of #NOKINGS.”  It is amazing that the absurdity of the very idea itself needs pointing out, but in the end I just wish the absurdity ended there.  There is this, “The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in a 4-1 vote declared an emergency in response to federal immigration raids, a move usually reserved for natural disasters or other conditions beyond the control of local officials.” Which, in light of #NOKINGS is truly absurd since the point of an emergency declaration is to activate powers that give the local government incredible amounts of king-like authority to, you know, like shut everything down for a bad flu.  And the absurdity continues.. . .

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

That Christianity does not stand on the same pedestal it once did is obvious to even the most casual observer. But the depths of the disrespect, particularly on a global scale, can be under appreciated.  In Rome, a man recently urinated on the high altar at St Peter’s Basilica.  (Turns out this is the third act of desecration at the altar in the last 24 months.)  But that seems minor disrespect when you consider that Christians are being slaughtered en masse in Nigeria.  Sure America’s so-called intelligentsia dismiss those of us of faith with a derisive hand wave, but that seems almost insignificant compared to these sorts of acts.  How did we get here?. . .