Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

My goodness it is hard to sort the news from the nonsense these days.  Depending on your source the big story of the day yesterday was something about some birthday book – which definitely was NOT news,  Or it was the Israeli strike against Hamas leadership in Qatar.  I am not even going to begin to unpack that strike – I will leave that up to three pieces from The Free Press – One – Two – Three.  The implications of this are massive. Relatedly, this is stupid.  It so deeply cheapens the Holocaust as to be disgusting.  But I think the real news is the news and the increasingly evident lack of rational thought that has lead to confusion about what is and is not news.. . .

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

A woman is brutally stabbed to death on a commuter train in Charlotte, N.C. and it sparks a political debate.  Finding the square footage of a vegetable garden – calculating a simple number – has been turned into a political battleground.  Politics has become monstrous, consuming all in its path, blurring lines between right-and-wrong, making the quite simple very complex, creating havoc wherever it raises its ugly head – which is, unfortunately, everywhere.  The murder of Iryna Zarutska, on security camera, is a whole lot of things but mostly it is tragic, lamentable and horrific.  That ought to be enough for a week or more.  But no rather than digest the awfulness of it, we start pointing fingers at political opponents.  What in the world is wrong with us?. . .

Monday, September 8, 2025

“A new law will require all public and charter school students in Tennessee to learn firearm safety….Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-6-1016 passed during the 2024 session, making Tennessee the first state to enact such a law.”  This is the most sensical response to demands for so-called gun control I have seen – ever.. . .

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?”. . .