Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

In the spin up to this current conflict, the host asked many guests what casualty/fatality count they thought the nation could bear.  I hated the question, but understood its political wisdom.  The question is a concession to this nation’s extremely limited tolerance for difficulty.  I live in one of the earlier settled parts of the continent and all around me are signs of that early settlement.  It was a hard, difficult life.  The contrast between how difficult life was for those that founded this nation and the small tolerance we have today for such difficulty is breathtaking.. . .

Monday, March 16, 2026

Last Monday I asked “Whose War Is It?” deriding the use of the term “Trump’s War” that I had seen so frequently in the first days of conflict.  I haven’t seen that term much since I wrote that piece, but then I doubt I had much to do with it.  But I still have not seen this nation owning this war, and we have to – it has come to our shores.. . .

Sunday, March 15, 2026

The pacifist streak in Christianity is strong, and with good reason.  Jesus had all the power of God at His disposal, and yet chose death on a cross as opposed to using that power to prevent that death.  That’s about as pacifist a move as there is.  But there are also very contrary examples.. . .

Saturday, March 14, 2026

After the Gulf War, America was proud to be American and that we had beaten back the bad guys.  In the ensuing years we were treated to a number of movies that celebrated our military, its capabilities and the fact that America was on the side of good.  Among those films was Air Force One in 1997.  Starring Harrison Ford as POTUS, the film was the story of Air Force One being hijacked and the President and family held hostage in an effort to free a truly bad guy that the administration had helped wrangle.  It is just the right mix of personal (with his family involvement), politics (with the story of defiance of administration policy) and good v evil.  I happened upon it late this morning and my reaction was quite unexpected.. . .

Saturday, March 14, 2026

I had my left knee replaced this past Wednesday, and this one is hurting more than the right one I did back in August, so I am on more pain meds and find I do not have an essay in me.  But I still have a stack o’stuff that we can go through.  We’ll start with the frightening. Records reveal hidden billions in global wealth tied to Iran’s new leader Mojtaba Khamenei.  This war may be more about them holding onto their wealth than anything else.  The conceit involved in such a revelation is mind-boggling – killing people by the thousands to hold onto more wealth than one person can spend – think about it.. . .

Thursday, March 12, 2026

By this time everyone has heard about, and forgotten, the massive Minnesota fraud, perpetrated largely by a gang of Somali immigrants.  Stories about the rampant covid-benefit related fraud in California never really caught on.  But the fraud runs both ways in California as the government continues to try and minimize or cover-up its ineptitude, if not malfeasance, in the devasting Palisades fire.  We seem to be fraught with fraud.  And yet those three stories only begin to scratch the surface, as two new stories of deeply ingrained fraud emerged this week.. . .

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

We live in an increasingly narcissistic age. Since the Christian ideal of selflessness is no longer viewed as a public virtue, we all have that friend.  You know, the one that says they are there to help, but are really there to be the star of the show – to order your world to their liking because they honestly and deeply believe that if you would only listen your world really would be better.  They are not evil, just deeply misguided and unwilling to engage in anything resembling self-examination.  But at some point their self-absorption becomes evil, even given their lack of evil intent.  Conflict becomes inevitable and while you don’t want to hurt them, in many cases you eventually have to cut them out of your life because they are beginning to produce actual damage.  I wonder if, as a nation, we have reached that point with the Left?. . .

Monday, March 9, 2026

Some movies can be watched over and over and over again.  Otto Preminger’s In Harm’s Way is one of those movies for me.  There are a lot of plots and subplots in the film and it focuses much on the politics in wartime.  John Wayne’s Rock Torrey, the chief protagonist of the film, is a war fighting Navy man through and through.  This personality had cost him a marriage to a “high society” woman that wanted him out of the Navy and in the boardroom.  During the film he discovers his son, who he has not seen for a long time, in the service acting as an assistant to a Congressman out for glory anywhere but on the battlefield.  In one confrontation, his son refers to WWII rather derisively as “Roosevelt’s War.”  I thought of that every time I saw a headline this past week talking about “Trump’s War.”  And that has been often.. . .

Sunday, March 8, 2026

In 2021, now head of CBS news, Bari Weiss burnished her already formidable journalistic reputation with a story on just how scandalous D.E.I. had become in one of L.A.’s “elite” prep schools. Yesterday, we linked to a story out of that self-same prep school about a race-based scandal that has recently erupted.  On its face this juxtaposition proves the truth of what is likely Chief Justice Roberts wisest utterance, “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”  But I think there is more to this story.. . .

Saturday, March 7, 2026

The host excoriated legacy media in a tweet late last night, “But Western legacy media is united in explaining why this is a bad idea for America. The progressive left, especially in Western legacy media, lacks even a small iota of awareness that they are in effect the embedded ambassadors of this evil, despotic regime.”  How does that happen?  It happens when the desire to “win,” in this case the political fight with the right on whatever issue, overrides reason.  (As we have discussed here this week, there simply is no reason in supporting Iran in any way shape or form.)  There were two prominent examples this week.. . .