Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Bob Knight is one of the greatest basketball coaches in history.  Who?  I am sure is asked by many.  Of course most great basketball coaches like Adolph Rupp, John Wooden, Dean Smith have faded into historical footnotes – but Coach Knight, equally on a par with any of them, is more than likely a footnote on their footnote.  Despite one of the best records in college basketball history he was fired in disgrace by Indiana University after 29 years for, frankly, being the same guy he was when they hired him.  He was irascible, and demanded much of his players.  He was a strict disciplinarian – and somewhere over the 29 years he was at IU, such traits went from laudable to disgraceful, hence his dismissal.. . .

Friday, October 10, 2025

So, yesterday, more uncomplimentary video of Katie Porter acting the diva emerged.  You remember Ms. Porter – the miserable human we discussed yesterday morning.  This latest release is not nearly as damning as those that preceded it, but it does illustrate, once again, that the woman is ill-tempered, unpleasant and clearly not actually gubernatorial material.. . .

Thursday, October 9, 2025

My wife and I are headed back to California in a few weeks to look in on friends and loved ones for a few days.  As much as we love and care for those we will visit, the trip still remains troublesome to contemplate.  Now, finally, I have a way to explain it in a nutshell.  It was big news yesterday.. . .

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

For years and years we were told marijuana is no different than alcohol.  And yet, as post legalization numbers start to roll in a very different picture is developing.  Over 40% of fatal car crashes involve a driver with weed in their system.  The same statistic for booze stands at roughly 30%.  There are roughly 100 traffic fatalities daily in the U.S.  So, 10 more people or so a day are dying because of marijuana as compared to alcohol.  Not pretty, not pretty at all.  Certainly a very different picture than was painted by all the rhetoric that preceded and accompanied the legalization movement.. . .

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

I had intended to write about the 10/7 anniversary this morning, but the host has done such a thorough and masterful job that there is nothing left to say.  Here is the key sentence, “That Israel has conquered all its enemies, on all seven fronts, should not dull the sense of shock about what happened two years ago.”  Read it all.  Consequently, I’ll turn my attention elsewhere.. . .

Monday, October 6, 2025

It is not just about anti-social individual violence – we have a real problem with people generally.  Riots after sports championships have grown commonplace.  What we once considered a “soccer hooligan” problem just in Europe has come to the United States in force – especially after the NBA decides its champion.  There are more examples from the weekend just ended.. . .

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Big story yesterday when ten cars of thugs surrounded a vehicle carrying federal law enforcement officials and gunfire ensued.  This was a seditious act.  But that is not what bothers me. What bothers me is let’s assume the actors were convinced the officers were gestapo hunting Jews.  The fact that they were not gestapo is proven by the fact that they walked away.  The actual gestapo would have hosed them down with large caliber machine guns and left them dead in the streets.  And given that, would not the better act of rebellion be to, ala Anne Frank, hide the people being hunted?  No this was not merely seditious, this was an act designed and intended to execute violence of government officials.  This fact belies any claims to this being a legitimate rebellious act taken in the defiance of government injustice.. . .

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Some days.  Read this, “I Spent 491 Days as a Hostage of Hamas. This Is My Story.”  Now contrast it with this, “Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury.”  The later, published not long after the killings in Manchester makes passing reference to them, but then focuses on this person being the first Archbishop of Canterbury.  And so we see a church lost.  Confronted with direct, evident evil, the church focuses on far more trivial matters.. . .

Friday, October 3, 2025

Yesterday I encountered what has to be the most California story ever.  Read on and learn why.. . .

Thursday, October 2, 2025

It is a beautiful early fall morning.  The usual commuter traffic drives by.  The birds are chirping, the sun is rising and other than the complaining and kvetching on Facebook, I would have no idea the federal government is shutdown.  Hmmmmm…. . .