Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Monday, November 3, 2025

Spent a great deal of time yesterday on airplanes.  Watched movies.  One of them was entitled “Americana.”  The movie is described as a “neo-western” which is why I decided to watch it.  It was a critical and box office flop.  But I did watch it from beginning to end, which I cannot say about the newer Liam Neeson version of “The Naked Gun.”  I think the movie  very revelatory of how Hollywood views middle America.. . .

Saturday, November 1, 2025

When the environmental “movement” began rivers literally burned, litter was far more than a nuisance, and many bodies of water coughed up scores of dead fish on a daily basis.  Those conditions are now rare, but true believers chase ephemeral “climate change,” or “pollutants” not yet proven harmful to levels that were below detection just a decade ago, as if the threats were as imminent and acute as when Lake Erie had more dead fish than live ones.  Sadly, increasingly, they do so at the expense of those environmental problems that are real and are acute.. . .

Friday, October 31, 2025

For decades now Democrats have operated with an air of moral superiority born largely of two things.  Firstly, they were the party of the little guy – helping the helpless, feeding the poor and freeing the oppressed.  Secondly they uncovered and investigated quite publicly “the greatest scandal in American political history” – Watergate.  These pillars are currently crumbling under their feet, leaving them teetering.. . .

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Our Ambassador to the U.N. is getting interrupted like the Soviet Union still existed.  President Trump has announced a resumption of nuclear weapons testing.  The world is heating up.  It has been more than thirty years since the United States conducted nuclear weapons tests other than on a computer.  According to the President both Russia and China are conducting such tests despite agreements to cease doing so implemented when we ceased.  These tests are primarily an exercise in saber rattling, as opposed to weapons development.  The world is heating up in a big way.. . .

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Right now, in California, they are worried about peanut oil in the fried chicken.  No, seriously, restaurants now, by law, have to have menus that read like ingredient lists lest a customer encounter some unwanted food to which they are allergic – and California is quite proud of how civilized they are.  Yet, in Sudan, real massacres, not pretend ones like everyone has been on a high horse about in Gaza, are happening.  In Sudan entire villages are being invaded and people are being openly massacred by the thousands.  So large and so brutal is the killing that the human remains and massive blood stains on the soil are visible from space.  This being reported just two weeks after we looked at the mass killing of Christians in Nigeria.  Helping people with food allergies is fine, but dear Lord, acting like it is some sort of major moral victory when humans are being slaughtered en masse in other parts of the world is just warped.. . .

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

I am beginning to think that the Democratic Party, and the legacy media it has swallowed, are an organized form of personality disorder.  They cannot tell what is important from what is not and everything is viewed through a very personal lens.  In the past 36 hours (an amazing period of time when you consider 17% of it was consumed by a single World Series game) I have encountered two very serious stories about exploitation of people, while encountering dozens about things that just don’t matter that much save in the minds of that cohort. It is actually kind of frightening.. . .

Monday, October 27, 2025

So, NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani tried to play the victim over the weekend because his aunt (in a hajib) was viewed suspiciously in the aftermath of 9-11 in New York.  Was she arrested, tried, beaten or otherwise actually persecuted?  No, apparently people just looked at her suspiciously.  Now first of all, I have been to New York many times, never in a hajib, and someone always looks at me suspiciously – it’s New York for crying out loud.  Looking at people suspiciously is just being smart.  Yet when the Vice President pointed out what I just pointed out, perhaps even with less grace than I did, in Mamdani’s mind it is more proof racial/religious animus.  Mamdani is running a playbook here, one we should recognize.. . .

Sunday, October 26, 2025

As I read through the headlines this morning, most of them once again proclaiming the latest Trumpian outrage that wasn’t actually that outrageous, I thought of what I wrote yesterday, “But Trump is doing it so it must be wrong!”  I grew astonished at how much energy some people were putting into watching every move this man and his administration make just so they can say “It’s wrong!”  Then I thought about some ugly relationships I have seen in my life – relationships that professionals have labelled as “co-dependent.”. . .

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Two things I love to do on Saturday – a round up of stories I did not cover during the week and make fun of California.  I am not sure I can make it funny this week – things are taking very ugly turns.  We’ll start light but we will not be able to stay there.  For starters – the new White House ballroom – so much handwringing, finger-wagging and consternation over something that has a long history.  But Trump is doing it so it must be wrong!  Like I say, I wanted to be funny and at this point start parodying, “If Trump does it it must be wrong.”  Had a lot of funny ideas, but sadly, reality overrides it.. . .

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.. . .