Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

As I recover from my second total knee replacement surgery in 7 months, I have lots of time on my hands.  Pain brings with it reflections of past pains – the time I fell off a roof and broke a foot – that time I took a hockey puck in the face – that high school chemistry teacher that called me “dummy” and threw chalk at me.  Oh, the pain and trauma – woe is me.  Perhaps I should spend my entire adult life trying to overcome such difficulty and trauma.  Or, perhaps I should learn from my mistakes and move on.  And so we have just divided leading Democrats from everyone else.. . .

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

We are currently undoing a mess in Iran – a mess that started during, and in no small part was created by, the Carter Administration.  Back in 2016, John Bolton wrote a piece for AEI examining just how bad it was.  Bolton was putting Obama and the JCPOA in the same basket as the Carter policy.  Here’s the money quote, “Iran thus posed one of the first clear tests of an American administration’s devotion to abstract principles over concrete US military and political interests.”  Putting that sentence in a broader context creates some very interesting reflections.. . .

Monday, March 23, 2026

Salena Zito, yesterday, on HotAir, “It points to an even larger problem, not just on Capitol Hill but among reporters and civilians. Our relationship and understanding of our military, and military families, is broken.”  What lies at the heart of that break?  Zito contends it is that so few serve anymore.  But I think there is a deeper reason.. . .

Sunday, March 22, 2026

The title of this post is quoting the president’s response on the news of Robert Mueller’s death.  It is characteristically Trumpian in both its callousness and its blunt honesty.  It has been widely criticized and condemned.  I am sure there will be pulpit born critique this Sunday morning as from a Christian perspective death is the enemy – regardless of whose death it actually is.  But as a Christian I find myself wishing such honesty were more common in the church.. . .

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Iran has nothing left but defiance.  The regime is falling apart before our eyes.  Were reason involved they’d be raising white flags, but there is no reason here – only hatred – pure unadulterated hatred.  But then such seem to be a common denominator these days – even domestically.. . .

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Headlines are loaded this morning with the news that darling of the Left, Cesar Chavez, was not so darling – motivating some states to cancel Cesar Chavez days, and I am sure a lot of street renaming is to follow.  It is arguable, and highly politicized, as to whether Chavez did any good in this world, but that is not the discussion I think we need to have this morning.  Let’s permit, for the sake of discussion, that the movement he started did produce some good – good that is now being erased by his personal failings.  I think there are two important lessons to be taken from this.. . .

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

I am more or less retired.  My investments are therefore meant to take care of me, not grow for my future.  But it took a lot of years to get here and during those years I was truly investing in the future – like most everyone else in the world.  There are smart ways and not so smart ways to do so.  Early on, I did everything on my own and while I had net growth, there were a lot of big wins and big losses, even some total losses.  But what I was lucky.  Eventually I accumulated enough to get professional help and that was when I learned the power of divestment and steady growth.  I wonder what life would be like if we approached other things that way?. . .

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

In the spin up to this current conflict, the host asked many guests what casualty/fatality count they thought the nation could bear.  I hated the question, but understood its political wisdom.  The question is a concession to this nation’s extremely limited tolerance for difficulty.  I live in one of the earlier settled parts of the continent and all around me are signs of that early settlement.  It was a hard, difficult life.  The contrast between how difficult life was for those that founded this nation and the small tolerance we have today for such difficulty is breathtaking.. . .

Monday, March 16, 2026

Last Monday I asked “Whose War Is It?” deriding the use of the term “Trump’s War” that I had seen so frequently in the first days of conflict.  I haven’t seen that term much since I wrote that piece, but then I doubt I had much to do with it.  But I still have not seen this nation owning this war, and we have to – it has come to our shores.. . .

Sunday, March 15, 2026

The pacifist streak in Christianity is strong, and with good reason.  Jesus had all the power of God at His disposal, and yet chose death on a cross as opposed to using that power to prevent that death.  That’s about as pacifist a move as there is.  But there are also very contrary examples.. . .