http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hewitt/ en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:38:33 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391205/posts My radio pal Hugh Hewitt said to me on the air the other day that Barack Obama "doesn't know how to be president." It was a low but effective crack, and I didn't pay it much heed. But, after musing on it over the last week or so, it seems to me frighteningly literally true. I don't just mean social lapses like his latest cringe-making bow, this time to Their Imperial Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan — though that in itself is deeply weird: After the world superbower's previous nose-to-toe prostration before the Saudi King, one assumed there'd... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391205/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:38:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2358235/posts Eight Democratic senators stand between the Medicare and the destruction of the senior health care program as well as the ruin of American medicine generally. Hugh Hewitt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2358235/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 11:31:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355104/posts "SCF is a political action committee dedicated to electing strong conservatives to the United States Senate," the PAC's website declares. "We do not support liberal Republicans and we are not affiliated with any Republican campaign committee." Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355104/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:51:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314966/posts The contests for statehouses in New Jersey and Virginia are the best referenda the country could ask for on Obamacare, and Congress would be wise to wait to see how these two states vote in November before it takes any final vote on the president's plans to radically rewrite the rules of American medicine. Recent polls show that Republican Bob McDonnell in Virginia leads his opponent Creigh Deeds by double digits. An anti-Democrat trend is also shaping up in New Jersey where GOP nominee Chris Christie is also far ahead of incumbent Jon Corzine. Both New Jersey and Virginia went... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314966/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:25:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313912/posts Hugh Hewitt talks health care with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. AUDIO HH: Joined now by former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney. Governor Romney, welcome back to the program, always a pleasure.  MR: Thanks, Hugh. It’s good to be with you, Hugh.HH: Tell me what your thoughts are as we watch the debate over President Obama’s proposed radical revisions to American health care are.MR: Well, I think he’s going way beyond what the American people think is right, and way beyond what’s necessary. I think we all recognize that we have a problem, that people are worried that if they... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313912/posts#comment Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:17:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310581/posts President Obama's decision to unleash his operatives at the DNC,  surrogates like Barbara Boxer, and his staff like Linda Douglas to slander and attempt to intimidate opponents of Obamacare not only has badly backfired, it has opened another front the president now finds himself fighting on:  Does he intend to be the new Nixon, rather than the new FDR? Like Nixon, will he unleash a political operation that spirals out of control and ends his presidency? More than a million people have signed a petition to stop Obamacare, and the president and his Chicago-rules enforcers have serially insulted each one of them and every... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310581/posts#comment Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310015/posts A glimpse into the future if the DNC controls talk radio, too. Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310015/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:52:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301455/posts Hugh Hewitt talks with Charles Krauthammer regarding the Gates matter. Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301455/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:23:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251925/posts HH: Because it is Thursday and we are lucky, we begin with Columnist To the World, Mark Steyn. You can read all of Mark’s work at www.steynonline.com. Mark, an amazing press conference today by the Speaker of the House, who apparently is not opposed to waterboarding, depending upon what year you talk to her in. MS: Yes, it’s interesting to me the evolving defense mounted by Mrs. Pelosi. She’s effectively digging down, I think, here, and absolutely denying what would seem to be the version of events recounted by the CIA and other parties that she was aware not only,... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251925/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 23:36:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235677/posts My Fellow Texans, I will be moderating a very special event, Monday, April 27th, as Dallas/Ft. Worth based News Talk 660 KSKY Radio welcomes nationally syndicated talk hosts Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved, and Hugh Hewitt for their kickoff of the "Obama First 100 Days" National Tour at the Special Events Center in Garland, Texas. America has seen significant change since January 20th and Texans, like you and I, have a lot to say about the direction we’re currently headed. I am honored to have been invited to moderate this significant event, one that gives everyone an opportunity to voice their... Email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235677/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:53:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2235421/posts Hugh Hewitt, a political pundit radio personality, wants the Mormon presidential election runner Mitt Romney in the Whitehouse—very badly. He casts his pre-election vote in writing A Mormon in the Whitehouse? (Regnery, 2007). In defense of Romney, Hewitt also defends Mormonism better than some Latter-day Saints (LDS). This is strange for a Presbyterian, as what Hewitt claims for himself. It is possible and logically consistent that Hewitt could defend Romney as a republican without defending Mormonism, but he chooses otherwise. The reason that I find this strange is that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, claimed that God appeared to... Apologetics Index http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2235421/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:10:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222153/posts I'd like to know where to file my application to become one of the president's appointees to join the remade Board of Directors of General Motors. I don't know a lick about making or selling cars, but I think I have a pretty persuasive case to make for membership nonetheless. First off, in the new era biography is everything, and I grew up in a car town --Warren, Ohio. It was home to the old Packard Electric and still is the next door neighbor to Lordstown, still turning out excellent GM cars and slated to produce the Cruise in the... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222153/posts#comment Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:13:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215972/posts HH: It’s Thursday, that means we begin as we do on every Thursday when we are lucky with Mark Steyn, Columnist To the World. You can read all of Mark’s work at www.steynonline.com. Mark, the Senate Budget Committee today passed a plan that calls for a deficit of $1.2 trillion for 2010, and then crowed that it’ll be all the way down to $508 billion in 2014, which is more than double, it’s actually triple what George Bush’s 2007 budget deficit was. I guess elections have consequences. MS: Yes, they do, and if you remember, the Democrats were scathing about... Steyn Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215972/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:30:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174200/posts "I won." When President Barack Obama used those words to reply to Republican objections to the massive spending bill working its way through Congress, he did much more than deliver a good laugh line and declare the GOP proposals irrelevant. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174200/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:20:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159637/posts President George W. Bush departs with low approval ratings. Appraisals of presidents sometimes change over time, and sometimes they don’t. *snip* No doubt the Internet dervishes will pepper this and other assessments of Bush with their standard displays of anonymous ferocity. There are a lot of 14-year-olds with Internet connections. But when the Jon Meacham of 150 years from now goes about his task with Bush, that historian will have as much material and more, as did the author of “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.” And the verdict will be nearly the same: Here was an extraordinary... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159637/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:34:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136916/posts HH: I begin this hour as I do most Thursdays when we are blessed and thankful with Columnist To the World, Mark Steyn. Mark Steyn, you got much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving? MS: Yes, I think so. I’m thankful to be blessed to live in one of the greatest nations on the face of the Earth, and the reasons for that blessing, those blessings, are somewhat in dispute between Republican and Democrat voters, but I think we should all be able to agree that we are nonetheless blessed for whatever reason. HH: I agree. Now I do want... Steyn Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136916/posts#comment Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:41:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135706/posts The last thing you want to think about right now is the 2012 GOP primary calendar, but I am afraid you have to, if you want the RNC chairmanship contest to have meaning and the GOP to have a good chance of recapturing the White House four years down the road. Each would-be RNC leader should be asked about the 2012 presidential primaries they will be overseeing. Specific questions need to be posed, and concrete answers delivered. The RNC must begin now to consider overhauling the presidential nominating process three years hence for the simple reason that the process as... townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135706/posts#comment Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:38:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135082/posts Wednesday Nov 19, 2008 H1: Christopher Hitchens, Mitt Romney Hugh Hewitt Hewitt: Hour 1 - Hugh catches up on politics and the shape of the Obama (Clinton) administration taking shape with Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens, and then talks Big 3 auto bailout and what the Republicans need to do next with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135082/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:28:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116872/posts Hugh Hewitt just announced that Dean Barnett has died. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116872/posts#comment Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114903/posts The latest round of polls from the very reliable Strategic Survey shows John McCain ahead of Barack Obama in Ohio and Florida, but behind by seven points in Pennsylvania. McCain is likely to lose formerly red states Iowa and New Mexico, may pick up New Hampshire, and is battling for Colorado to the finish. With ten days left and the markets continuing their extraordinary volatility, voters' stomachs are churning and the country is at a decisive crossroads. Obama represents a huge, very sharp turn left. Will the voters reconsider, especially the "racist rednecks" of Pennsylvania? Democratic icon Congressman Jack Murtha... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114903/posts#comment Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:33:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109999/posts HH: Joe the Plumber is under the skin of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. To discuss the amazing Joe, Columnist To the World, Mark Steyn. Mark, what do you make of the Joe the Plumber episode in the campaign now? MS: Well, I think this is actually critical. I think Joe the Plumber is worth more than all the expensive campaign consultants that John McCain has got on his payroll, because he’s usefully crystallized what’s at issue here. You know, McCain didn’t actually explain it very well last night. Joe the Plumber does a rather better job of it. But... Steyn Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109999/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:11:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108788/posts Thanks to the now famous Joe the Plumber, all of America has been served notice of Barack Obama's plans for the American economy. Obama intends to spread the wealth around: From your accounts to those of his friends and supporters. Rarely have we had candor from Obama in this long campaign, and even rarer have been the efforts of the Manhattan-Beltway media elites to tease the details out from the Chicago machine's favorite pol. But in a matter of two minutes, Joe's objections to Obama's soak-the-small-businesses-of-America's tax plan evoked from Obama not just a rebuke about the need to take... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108788/posts#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:59:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103055/posts Yes, of course it is. Three weeks ago John McCain was ahead, and a furious attack on Sarah Palin was underway. And Americans were several trillion dollars richer. Our stocks will recover if the American economy, powered by democratic capitalism's relentless innovation and productivity, is allowed to work its magic again. That is the record of our often disparaged but inevitably triumphant attachment to economic liberty. The task for John McCain between now and the time the last vote is cast on November 4 is to speak this truth and articulate this record and thus help repair the damaged confidence... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103055/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:16:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103020/posts HH: To discuss it all and get the day started off, the hour started off, Mark Steyn, Columnist To the World. Mark Steyn, another terrible day. We’re now down to about 20% in a week, which is getting to rival the big day in 1987. What’s your sense from the experts you’ve been talking to and listening to of whether or not we’re at the bottom?  MS: Well, a few days ago, there was an argument about these swings and roundabouts in the markets as to whether they were going down because Congress wouldn’t pass the bailout package, or because... Hugh Hewitt Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103020/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:45:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101775/posts Fired Up Crowd Cheers Warning To McCain Palin About Obama-Pelosi Hugh Hewitt/fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101775/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:49:11 GMT