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Friday September 21, 2007 Yoni Tidi, Victor Davis Hanson, Dennis Prager With Hugh Hewitt Hewitt: Hour 1 - Hugh shares his outrage at the decision by Columbia University to invite Iranian president and terrorist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at their college next week.     Length: 00:34:03 Transcript: HH: Professor Hanson, thanks for making a quick stop by. What do you make of Columbia’s decision? VDH: Well, I think it’s a mistake, because it’s not just a lack of common sense, it’s a lack of common decency. This is a man that probably was involved in the terrorist kidnapping in 1979....

September 6, 2007Posted by: Hugh Hewitt  at 9:55 AMThe most comprehensive report on Fred Thompson's cancer I have seen is here.  (HT: Politico.)  Key graphs: ``The nature of the disease is that it tends to relapse,'' said David Fisher, a lymphoma specialist and assistant professor of medicine at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. ``How long one can live with the disease varies considerably.'' ... Thompson's cancer is an uncommon form called nodal marginal zone lymphoma, which accounts for 2 percent to 4 percent of all cases, according to Owen O'Connor, chief of the lymphoma service at Columbia Presbyterian Medical...

Hugh Hewitt Interviews Ron Paul supporters at the Townhall.com Texas Republican Straw Poll...

Exclusive: Pulitzer Prize Winning NY Times Writer: Pelosi, Reid are Wrong, The Petraeus Surge is Working The EditorsAuthor: The EditorsSource: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.Date: August 9, 2007  John Burns, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recently commented about fears of a Tet-like offensive by al Qaeda’s fighters and possible attacks by radical Shiia militias prior to the Petraeus report. Radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Burns if there have been warnings about such threats. Pulitzer Prize Winning NY Times Writer: Pelosi, Reid are Wrong The Petraeus Surge is Working  By the Editors Radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt recently conducted an extensive interview with...

The netroots is reveling in Chicago, and the natural reaction is to ask, “Where’s our YearlyKos?” It’s a good question, but ultimately a short-sighted one from an historical perspective. Go back and re-read the TNR piece on the netroots from May. Especially this part: The Democratic leadership and the liberal intelligentsia seemed pathetic and exhausted, wedded to musty ideals of bipartisanship and decorousness. Meanwhile, what the netroots saw in the Republican Party, they largely admired. They saw a genuine mass movement built up over several decades. They saw a powerful message machine. And they saw a political elite bound together...

Much has been said in the mainstream media about how the Bush presidency is essentially over, a lame duck mired in controversy. Thursday, however, George W. Bush demonstrated that when he does wish to use the bully pulpit, especially with powerful allies like Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, he very much can move legislation through in a very timely fashion. Throughout this week in both houses of Congress, there has been consideration and negotiation on a piece of legislation submitted by Vice Admiral Mike McConnell, the National Director of Intelligence, who very clearly spelled out in Congressional testimony...

A Wartime President Hugh Hewitt President Bush invited ten talk hosts into the Oval Office for an hour of conversation today --Glenn Beck, Bill Bennett, Neal Boortz, Scott Hennon, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larson, Mark Levin, Michael Medved, Janet Parshall and me. This was an off-the-record conversation, and so I won't be quoting the president. I will say on today's show that I am confident about the course of the war and about the momentum in Iraq, as well of the president's absolute commitment to doing right by the troops and his concern for every lost and wounded soldier and their...

Tune in today to the Hugh Hewitt show. If you can't get him on local radio, the steam can be found at KRLA 870 DOT COM Peter and I will be on the show at approximately 3:20pm, Pacific. Hillary, Bill, Howard Wolfson, Kelly Craighead, Chelsea, Rendell, McAuliffe, etc, I hope you are listening. We will see all of you under oath. Streisand, are you ready to raise your right hand? Hillary, you claim to not recall anything, but you are going to be watching five hours of home video and asked to explain. I'll bring you some popcorn. Yeah, in...

President Bush made an excellent speech this week, laying out the case that al Qaeda in Iraq is a subsidiary of al Qaeda in Waziristan. He went further, and delineated the differences between the various terrorist organizations which share an ideology. His central premise --a retreat in Iraq means a huge win for al Qaeda everywhere it organizes-- was carefully constructed and reasoned and simply cannot be argued by the war's critics, only ignored. Which is exactly what Congressional Democrats and the anti-war zealots have proceeded to do. There is a certain panic in the anti-war leadership as they see...

If you don't have a local station that carries Hugh Hewitt, you can listen online. LISTEN ON FRIDAY TO HUGH HEWITT ON KRLA - BEGINS 3PM PACIFIC For the first time in a great while Peter Paul will take center stage on a national talk show to discuss Hillary Clinton and the greatest campaign finance fraud in history. I will be joining him on the show. The Hugh Hewitt show begins at 3pm, Pacific Time. Unless things are changed by the producer, we will be on at around 3:20pm. Do not miss the show and please pass it on. Perhaps...

Politico's Jeanne Cummings has a story on the dollar gap that is opening between the Dems and Republicans. It is large and growing, and a complete turnaround from the ordinary situation. So, what is going on? There are three answers. First, the top tier GOP presidential candidates are equally matched and there's a lot of money on the sidelines waiting for the main event to begin. When a strong frontrunner emerges who begins to take the campaign to the Dems, especially on the war, the contributions will flow. If Romney is that nominee, expect some serious 527 efforts as well...

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.

HH: We begin today, Thursday the 5th, as we do most Thursdays when we are lucky with Columnist to the World, Mark Steyn. Mark, a good day after Independence Day to you. MS: Yeah, and a happy day after Independence Day, and I think four days after Dominion Day for any two or three Canadians still listening. HH: I’m sure there are more than that. Thank you. I was missing your Atlantic obituary today, Mark Steyn, because I read of the death of Gottfried von Bismarck. And I assumed that you had opportunity to cover him in the past. MS:...

Dean Barnett is filling in and a caller wanted to discuss the Mexican truck issue and NAFTA super highway in ligh of todays vote. In keeping with the show, the caller was dismissed as "paranoid". The Mexican truck issue is real and they will be running over your loved ones soon if W has his way. I called and was sceened out, they aren't taking calls about that. That seems to be the pattern there. A recent caller wanted to discuss the effort to revive the "assault weapons ban". He was dismissed because Hugh doesn't think anyone should have a...

WASHINGTON — Immigration has supplanted Iraq as the leading issue on television and radio talk shows, complicating the prospects of a Senate bill desperately wanted by President Bush. Conservative talk radio's impact on the immigration debate reached new heights last week, with one host effectively writing an amendment for when the Senate returns to the imperiled bill this week. National talk-show hosts have spent months denouncing the bill as providing amnesty for illegal immigrants. Some top Republicans who support the legislation have defied the broadcast pundits. Other GOP lawmakers have tried to placate them, even to the point of accepting...

Talk shows influence immigration debate By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Immigration has supplanted Iraq as the leading issue on television and radio talk shows, complicating the prospects of a Senate bill desperately wanted by President Bush. Conservative talk radio's impact on the immigration debate reached new heights last week, with one host effectively writing an amendment for when the Senate returns to the imperiled bill this week. National talk show hosts have spent months denouncing the bill as providing amnesty for illegal immigrants. Some top Republicans who support the legislation have defied the broadcast pundits. Others GOP...

HH: Now Senator Kyl, why the attacks on talk radio from your colleagues, Senators Lott and Graham? It doesn’t, in any event, it cannot possibly help the party, and it can’t help the bill. What are they thinking? JK: You know, I hate to speak for my colleagues, but I can suggest in the case of Senator Lott, because I’ve talked to him about it, is just said in frustration. If you look at it from his standpoint and mine, there is so much misinformation, and by the way, a plug for you, whatever your feelings on the legislation, you’ve...

The first Christians were charged with blasphemy because they refused to confess “Caesar is Lord.” For this crime against the state, they were crucified, lit on fire, and served as human torches to light the evening parties in Caesar’s gardens. Jesus was the first to teach the separation of church and state. His followers were instructed to “Render unto Caesar, that which is Caesar’s, and to God, that which is God’s.” This was a direct challenge to the unified powers of Caesar as both priest and king. It was required of Roman citizens to proclaim “Caesar is Lord.” But for...

Another day of interviews and calls, and my overwhelming sense is that the immigration bill as drafted is as dead as dead can be. The president's speech on Tuesday had the effect of throwing gas on the flames, and the anger has multiplied, and it isn't nativist in the least. Could the bill be saved? Only if the Republican leadership comes back with a package of amendments which it announces beforehand and insists be voted on serially and all of which must be adopted if cloture is to be invoked on the final amended version. The choice before the Democrats...

Perhaps I am wrong. I have been many times, and I am always ready to admit it upon hearing a better argument or facts previously unknown to me. I do not see how it could possibly be a wise thing to grant probationary status to the tens of thousands --at least-- of illegal immigrants in the country who hail from countries with long standing terrorist networks and demonstrated jihadist-friendly populations. This seems to me to be the same thing as welcoming into our country tens of thousands of German, Italian and Japanese nationals in 1944 provided their fingerprints didn't show...