Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Saturday, February 21, 2026

In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood’s iconic Dirty Harry Callahan, “Go ahead, make my day.”  Newsom has access to massive money and all the “slick” Hollywood could ask for, but his record as Governor of California is so abysmal, and growing worse by the day, that a POTUS run would make Kamala Harris’ recent attempt look good.  Harris was a blank slate onto which Dems tried to paint a pretty picture, but there is nothing blank about Newsom.  Newsom’s predecessor – Jerry Brown – was once renown as “Governor Moonbeam” for his left-leaning tendencies, but he knew how to run a state.  Newsom takes all that left-leaning enthusiasm and combines with an absolute and total absence of capability to actually run things, leaving California in a dysfunctional pile.  Newsom’s record as California Governor is a cudgel with which the Republicans could beat him on a repeated basis throughout a presidential campaign.  Who needs oppo research when your opponent has  record like Newsom’s?. . .

Friday, February 20, 2026

The president will not “prepare” the people of the nation for the impending conflict with Iran.  He is in a no-win scenario when it comes to getting his message out to the American people – at least in a one speech sort of setting.  For one, that is not his personal messaging strength.  Secondly, he will meet resistance with such a message from many corners that think it impossible for him to ever do anything right – and one of those corners is legacy media.  His messages come in small snippets and his policies are confirmed by realities not words.  It is said of Winston Churchill that he “mustered the English language and sent it into battle.”  This president is the opposite of that – he will win the battle and let others write about it in eloquence.. . .

Thursday, February 19, 2026

I.C.E. is not separating families nor using children as “bait.”  The host explained it all when Obama repeated this lie.  Neither the Trump administration nor Bari Weiss forbade Colbert from airing an interview.  Jim Geraghty explains that quite thoroughly.  It seems clear to me that Trump Derangement – hatred actually – is turning memes and spin into lies, then those are morphing into conspiracy theories and the Trump paranoid are biting – hook, line, and sinker.  Which makes me wonder just how much weed is being consumed by the average Trump hater.  One must begin to consider if Trump Derangement can reach levels of pathological mental health.. . .

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

On Monday the host marched through the interview former POTUS Barak Obama did over the weekend and noted how often the former president just flat out lied.  It is disheartening.  The day before, in church, one of the pastors repeated one of the lies Obama told, not citing the former president, but simply presenting the lie as fact.  Think about the lies and fraud we live in.  People defraud the government.  Smaller government defrauds bigger government.  We’ve been lied to about weed for years now.  The entire Biden administration was a lie – it wasn’t the Biden administration; we’re not sure whose administration it was, but it sure as heck was not Joe Biden’s.  Sometimes it seems as if we are afloat in a sea of lies.. . .

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

There is no shortage of news these days.  China is increasingly stepping up the nuclear arms race – something we thought we had left behind.  Iranians are once again, and this time at much greater risk of personal harm, taking to the streets.  Jesse Jackson is dead – leaving behind this magnificent public appearance.  It can be overwhelming – sometimes we need to turn our attention to things smaller and closer to home. And so this morning I shall.  In a religious outlet this morning appeared a piece that contends environmental stewardship is Biblical.  Fair enough – it is, but there ends all the guidance the Bible has to give us and therein lies the rub.. . .

Monday, February 16, 2026

If you were paying any attention to things geopolitical over the weekend then you know SecState Rubio delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that may prove as pivotal in setting the world’s course for the next few decades as Winston Churchill’s “Sinews of Peace” address at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri once did.  (For the uninformed that is the speech in which Churchill coined the phrase “Iron Curtain” and set the course for the Cold War.)  The speech has won nearly universal acclaim not just from punditry but from those in attendance who gave it a standing ovation.. . .

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Ran into an interesting article just this morning, “Americans rank clergy at record low in honesty and ethics ratings: Gallup.”  The poll cited does not delve much into the reasons, but it does note that the same is true for most institutions and those that work in them.  The piece also examined a Barna poll that was more revealing.  The polls were insufficient to say this as fact, but it did seem like the slip in perceived trustworthiness was as much about expectations as it was job performance.  What’s going on?. . .

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Yesterday, the host and John Ellis discussed a possible conflict between China and Japan.  Earlier this week, I wrote about China conducting nuclear weapons testing, possibly of fourth generation weapons.  There is some good news about China:. . .

Friday, February 13, 2026

All of modernity, and all the modernization that proceeded it, has flowed from two primary and basic “inventions” – the wheel and fire.  The wheel is the basis of all mechanics and fire is the basis of all energy making.  Fire is a chemical reaction called an “oxidation reaction” – oxygen being one reactant, some carbon-based material being the other, universally resulting the production of CO2.  Respiration is the basis of all animal life.  Animals take in oxygen, and in an internal, biological oxidation reaction produce energy to make their bodies function and release CO2.  This whole production of CO2 is a fundamental of life.  Which made 2009’s “endangerment finding,” by the Obama administration E.P.A., deeming CO2 as a pollutant, endangering human health and the environment, a power-grab of god-like levels and a denial of life itself.. . .

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Yesterday we looked at how, in so many areas, policy was driven by “bullying,” not reason.  In areas like weed legalization, D.E.I., climate and covid everybody knew the policies were just a tad bit over the line, but social pressure (these days called bullying) was used to enforce the policy too far.  In the last 24 hours I have run into a couple of articles that offer a simple solution.. . .