Hugh Hewitt: Most of the ‘news’ from D.C. is thin gruel indeed
Fulfilling a lifelong wish, my wife and I walked Omaha Beach this past week, as well as Utah Beach, the Pegasus Bridge and many other places familiar to anyone who has read a book or watched a movie...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: A special counsel needs to investigate the FBI and Justice...
The Washington Post reported that a former top FBI official, Peter Strzok, who had been assigned to and then removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, had “exchanged politically...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: Trump’s huge impact on the federal bench
Some day, conservative critics of President Donald Trump will have to reconcile their vehement opposition to him with their love of the Constitution, The latter is most definitely benefiting from the...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: Trump is sabotaging a successful presidency
President Donald Trump — always confident, always exuberant, always selling – crashes forward with the policies and people he embraces until he hits a shocking obstacle and falls back, at first stunned...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: Trump’s best Supreme Court option
The search for Gorsuch 2.0 is underway at the White House. The best choice for the opening is Judge Raymond Kethledge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. The 51-year-old judge...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: Across America’s political spectrum, there’s a purple drought
The color purple is in short supply. There is a “Blue America” and a “Red America” — two banks on either side of a very broad river of disinterested people, with a handful of purple bridges across....
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: Mitch McConnell has saved the Constitution
Call it the “McConnell Miracle.” It is not an overstatement to say that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has saved the Constitution as we know it. By that I mean the Constitution as it...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: C’mon, liberals. Take a break from the bubble.
A year ago, Hillary Clinton joined me on my radio show for a long discussion about her memoir of the 2016 presidential race, “What Happened?” In September, John Kerry – like Clinton, a former secretary...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: Know who would love impeachment? Trump.
If you were born at the right time, you will get to fully observe three presidential impeachment fights. The first two were high dramas over high crimes and misdemeanors, and the third episode, likely...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: 2020 will be a national security election
No matter how long this government shutdown lasts or how many more follow, 2020 will be a national security election. We cannot ignore the world no matter how much some wish we could. In the wake of...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: The 2020 election isn’t going to be close
The first-quarter gross domestic product growth rate of 3.2 percent sets up the first reality that will be noted in November 2020 because it telegraphs where the economy will be then: not in recession....
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: Where’s spotlight on ‘Spygate’?
If and when journalists read the best analysis to date of the second part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, they’ll be in for a shock. Part one of the report, though heavily redacted, has a...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: America’s enemies are on notice about this president
America’s enemies are on notice: The president is no longer an eloquent pushover professor-president but a ruthless real estate developer and television network brawler-president whose principle...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: A chief justice’s underappreciated legacy comes into focus
Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the swearing in of St. Paul native Warren Burger as chief justice of the United States. Yet only now is his underappreciated legacy coming into focus. A chief...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: Trump chose exactly the national security adviser he and the...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday made a superb selection to be his new national security adviser. Robert C. O’Brien has been the president’s special envoy for hostage affairs since May 2018 and has...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: Impeachment-minded Democrats, welcome to Al Capone’s vault. Look...
Underpromise. Overdeliver. It’s the best advice to everyone in any business, on any subject, but especially true in media and politics. Put another way: Don’t get caught opening Al Capone’s vault and...
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