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I just walked through the Scott Brown rally in the North End in Boston.

It was a good speech, better than expected, but the reality is, Mitt Romney didn’t want to have to deliver it. He had to. So let’s go straight to what Mitt was really thinking as he spoke yesterday at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M. Thank you, Mr. President, and as I reflect on what has brought me to College Station this morning, I think back to your 1988 race for president. I recall, in particular, the end of the campaign, and the famous “Saturday Night Live” skit about a party supposedly attended by both candidates, you...

This is a link to the Center Media Archives ad the David Horowitz Freedom Center. There is a video of Hugh Hewitt talking about culture, the war on terror, and politics.

The 2007 version of Rudy Giuliani defends his past support of gun control as a necessary evil to fight crime in a big city. When pressed recently about his views on the 2nd Amendment by Sean Hannity of Fox News, Giuliani attempted to tap dance around his gun-control record without alienating the 290 million Americans who don’t live in New York City. The former mayor told Hannity that gun control was “appropriate” for the city, but that states and cities should be allowed to make those decisions locally. “So,” Hannity continued, “you would support a state’s rights to choose on...

Watching the ever mounting improvised explosive device (IED) death toll it occurs to me that there is a fairly simple and effective means of combatting this primitive means of warfare. Upon taking over as mayor of NYC, Rudy Giulliani appointed Bill Bratten as police commissioner. Their tenure together was a stormy one and the perception rightly or wrongly was that Giulliani did not like the commish getting the major credit for lowering the crime rate. People can argue whether they were cooking the books or not, but the number of homicides committed in NYC declined in every one of Rudy's...