Description http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/ http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/ TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:40:00 GMT Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:40:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ If you've been waiting for a guest of the show to talk more quickly than Andrew Breitbart, then yesterday was your day. Hugh interviewed Ann McElhinney, an absolute Irish dynamo who is the director and producer of "Not... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/69a18dca-5260-4d48-83f7-bbfcf2713eca http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/69a18dca-5260-4d48-83f7-bbfcf2713eca Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:40:00 GMT As of yesterday afternoon, ReverseTheVote.org had raised more than $90,000 from more than 1,600 donors in three days, all of which will go to fund GOP challengers to vulnerable Democratic Congressmen who voted for... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/7aa6c163-2b89-4500-a528-da2253eecb7d http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/7aa6c163-2b89-4500-a528-da2253eecb7d Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:57:26 GMT You know who else must be baffled, are all the good Democrats and progressives who have been telling us we're 'anti-science' for pointing out this fact. It turns out that I'm not a 'global warming denier' after all,... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/71d58dfa-af84-41c2-ac6e-b199f7c64e2a http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/71d58dfa-af84-41c2-ac6e-b199f7c64e2a Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:09:37 GMT NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions announced ReverseTheVote.org on Tuesday afternoon. This morning more than $73,000 has been raised, which will be split equally among the campaigns of the eventual GOP nominees running... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/abeefae8-e664-43fd-8353-34e0466e90d6 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/abeefae8-e664-43fd-8353-34e0466e90d6 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:58:23 GMT Arizona's Jon Kyl joined me yesterday to review Attorney General Holder's disquieting testimony from Wednesday as well as the debate ahead over Obamacare. The transcript is here. Key exchange on AG Holder and the... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/3e4d1d5a-c3af-4085-bfc2-a0cedb71383d http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/3e4d1d5a-c3af-4085-bfc2-a0cedb71383d Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:45:45 GMT Columnist-to-the-world Mark Steyn was on for a wide ranging interview yesterday (the transcript is here.)Most of the fun was the chat about his new CD with Jessica Martin, "Gingerbread and Eggnog." The hit single,... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/76f46679-73da-4484-8aef-3e5e873951e2 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/76f46679-73da-4484-8aef-3e5e873951e2 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:40:12 GMT The leverage of Ben Nelson and Bob Casey Jr. will never be greater than before cloture is secured to take up debate on Obamacare--The Reid Edition. Senator Mike Johanns urges them to refuse to allow debate to open: http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/bb45d4c0-02de-46d4-a7f7-672bfa2dd16a http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/bb45d4c0-02de-46d4-a7f7-672bfa2dd16a Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:10:48 GMT Before debate is finished on the HRC monstrosity, Harry Reid might want to have this guy come in to explain away some of the funny math coming out of CBO. http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/cf38cb71-8778-4bcd-9345-d7caae38bb38 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/cf38cb71-8778-4bcd-9345-d7caae38bb38 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:28:29 GMT Who knows what the Harry Reid 2,074 page chamber of legislative horrors holds. The Botox tax is simply the most amusing of the early finds: Desperately seeking money to pay for the legislation, Mr. Reid came up with... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9fc41016-8057-4b14-bb5e-df0c256a6a1f http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9fc41016-8057-4b14-bb5e-df0c256a6a1f Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:04:38 GMT Danny Tarkanian has the story. http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/a5800c86-7fb9-4747-bec9-6f38430f85a2 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/a5800c86-7fb9-4747-bec9-6f38430f85a2 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:54:46 GMT That was the response of Attorney General Holder to Senator Chuck Grassley's demand for information on who is advising the Attorney General on the decisions concerning the trials of terrorists. Byron York details how... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/400f9e71-e3eb-4d42-9284-dd66faf4ea09 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/400f9e71-e3eb-4d42-9284-dd66faf4ea09 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:40:40 GMT Harry Reid's version of Obamacare is now posted and available for review. http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/47675ae3-919c-431a-8159-c8a2ff334408 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/47675ae3-919c-431a-8159-c8a2ff334408 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:01:05 GMT Obamacare passed the House by a vote of 220-215. If it gets through the Senate, it will be necessary to turn at least three "yes" votes to "no" votes to defeat it.The best way to turn not just three but many more than... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9334bfa5-9251-4955-b277-0da90a86e876 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9334bfa5-9251-4955-b277-0da90a86e876 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:08:15 GMT The National Republican Congressional Committee has launched exactly the right tool --a website collecting money for the GOP nominees who are running against the 24 most vulnerable Democrats who voted for Nancy Pelosi's... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/7818b267-9be6-4b06-a553-a6ba9c44743f http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/7818b267-9be6-4b06-a553-a6ba9c44743f Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:30:00 GMT Report from LondonBy Clark S. Judge, managing director, White House Writers Group, Inc. A week ago Monday Henry Kissinger addressed a dinner in London sponsored by The Atlantic Bridge, an organization dedicated to the... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/d163994a-80f4-437d-926f-d6956cc26e8b http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/d163994a-80f4-437d-926f-d6956cc26e8b Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:03:50 GMT Columnist-to-the-world Mark Steyn has a new Christmas CD out. Order it here: http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/e6f34f86-314b-4191-8972-01ec64881723 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/e6f34f86-314b-4191-8972-01ec64881723 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:32:46 GMT My Washington Examiner column focuses on all the real jobs President Obama could save or recreate by ordering the resumption of year-round water deliveries stopped by his Department of the Interior.The Obama... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/d2672cfe-041c-40c4-b300-5bac3e21104e http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/d2672cfe-041c-40c4-b300-5bac3e21104e Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:57:57 GMT The chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services --a non-partisan oversight agency of the federal government-- has analyzed the Obamacare bill passed by the House. The Hill links to the full report... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/b63b2ea9-44af-4efc-b799-6fbc3794d2a2 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/b63b2ea9-44af-4efc-b799-6fbc3794d2a2 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:34:26 GMT Yesterday's broadcast from Fresno was wrenching. Tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs and thousands of farmers are in deep financial distress because of absurd interpretations of a 1971 law, the Endangered... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/8f2f67fd-d60e-4489-81cc-fb4c990468a9 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/8f2f67fd-d60e-4489-81cc-fb4c990468a9 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:48:28 GMT Media-culture warrior Andrew Breitbart continues to amaze with his willingness to get in the middle of a story. Read about his experience yesterday crashing an ACORN "protest" on the west side of Los Angeles. While... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/27426b16-b09a-4e67-9b34-4b8fa932ba20 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/27426b16-b09a-4e67-9b34-4b8fa932ba20 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:30:50 GMT I will broadcast Friday from Fresno and devote the show to the judge-ordered drought in California's Central Valley. More than 40,000 people have lost their jobs because of water delivery restrictions imposed by a... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/009e61c0-a6e3-4a4b-9bfd-3d1cc2f0e21b http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/009e61c0-a6e3-4a4b-9bfd-3d1cc2f0e21b Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:06:35 GMT My new Townhall.com column focuses on next week's big vote in the Senate and the ability of any one of Indiana's Evan Bayh, Colorado's Michael Bennet, North Dakota's Byron Dorgan, Louisiana's Mary Landrieu,... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/99af835c-3a96-40ee-a4fc-a29cee070a97 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/99af835c-3a96-40ee-a4fc-a29cee070a97 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:42:20 GMT TalkPac.com gets it.Still waiting on the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.With the Senate's first key vote looming on Obamacare next week, the GOP should be... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/296213fd-40d9-47ff-834e-e3febada5b7d http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/296213fd-40d9-47ff-834e-e3febada5b7d Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:12:23 GMT Sue Lowden pounds away at Harry Reid. http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/2aac2ffd-079e-4158-a5a6-47dcf794d001 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/2aac2ffd-079e-4158-a5a6-47dcf794d001 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:08:59 GMT Thanks to all veterans, active duty and retired.The annual Veterans Day show will feature wounded Marines (and a soldier and a sailor) who are in the courses of their recoveries. Each year the Injured Marine Semper Fi... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/dcc13a09-78c1-45fa-90da-c808f90e2629 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/dcc13a09-78c1-45fa-90da-c808f90e2629 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:56:18 GMT On every Veterans Day I wonder how our living veterans feel about the state of world affairs and our place in them. The Commander-In-Chief of our armed forces seems to have spent the past months in a kind of war... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/cb755835-7e2f-4394-81ef-b56eaec06a69 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/cb755835-7e2f-4394-81ef-b56eaec06a69 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT So what do President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid think about Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey's idea of stripping the tax exempt status from Catholic bishops with opinions on abortion contrary to those of... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/a7141e21-f88f-4fa3-a2cd-a8c6b6bd0441 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/a7141e21-f88f-4fa3-a2cd-a8c6b6bd0441 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:18:17 GMT Andy McCarthy did not hear what he wanted from President Obama. http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9be3f7f4-796a-4922-bcad-fdd39f8045c4 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9be3f7f4-796a-4922-bcad-fdd39f8045c4 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:05 GMT The Fort Hood massacre/terrorist attack is best seen through the looking glass of what has become our crippling adherence to political correctness, rather than the prism of a 2nd Amendment debate. Still, when Chicago's... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/216c764c-8378-430e-bd68-fe5a649df1b1 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/216c764c-8378-430e-bd68-fe5a649df1b1 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:04:27 GMT Bishop Thomas Tobin of the Diocese of Providence writes an open letter to Congressman Patrick Kennedy. http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/6f20bee1-e392-44ab-83b6-488baa0c9618 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/6f20bee1-e392-44ab-83b6-488baa0c9618 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:36:50 GMT The Washington Examiner's lead editorial today calls on the National Republican Congressional Committee to get going with a campaign to target the 16 Democrats who voted for Obamacare on Saturday night who hail from... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/048bf1cf-b3d1-4cf1-8474-decf7de7d8d8 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/048bf1cf-b3d1-4cf1-8474-decf7de7d8d8 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:17:37 GMT Happy USMC Birthday to the members of the Corps. Here's a guest post from Ronny, who served six years as a Marine Corps officer, including two tours in Iraq: Hope is not security "Mr. President, it is natural to... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/ebcf33fc-1746-4dda-9f5d-ded84e7a672b http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/ebcf33fc-1746-4dda-9f5d-ded84e7a672b Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:13:16 GMT On today's important anniversary, I suggest we consider one of the remaining victimes of the Cold War, the island/prison nation of proud people sitting only 90 miles off the Florida Coast. The Cuban blogger Yoani... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/49a8ab9f-7461-4a9b-bca9-316bfc79afc5 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/49a8ab9f-7461-4a9b-bca9-316bfc79afc5 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:34:54 GMT I wrote on this last night and do so again to urge the NRSC and NRCC seize the moment.Jim Geraghty is pulling together the sort of list and sort of information that the NRCC should be shoveling onto a website that will... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/ba681b34-2e44-48a2-b12c-3f9236593acc http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/ba681b34-2e44-48a2-b12c-3f9236593acc Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:01:29 GMT Bill Bennett writes at The Corner this morning on the bringing down of the Berlin Wall and of the terrorists who was allowed to remain in the Army.Contrast Bennett's paragraphs with this piece from yesterday's "think... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/75822336-81e6-42d7-911a-aa00599d9cf7 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/75822336-81e6-42d7-911a-aa00599d9cf7 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:55:55 GMT The Monday morning column from Clark Judge: Reviewing the Health Overhaul BiddingBy Clark S. Judge, managing director, White House Writers Group, Inc. Let's review the bidding now that Obama/Pelosicare has passed the... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/4a299a8b-4564-4f87-aae6-dcff1cddc99e http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/4a299a8b-4564-4f87-aae6-dcff1cddc99e Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:38:01 GMT My Washington Examiner column asks the leaders of the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee to use fundraising to send a message about the votes on Obamacare, and... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9b58aa8a-38b5-4046-b716-035ea6bc2edf http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9b58aa8a-38b5-4046-b716-035ea6bc2edf Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:10:16 GMT As Congress shrugs off the stunning level of unemployment and busies itself with the next step in the job-destroying takeover of American medicine, it will do everyone a great bit of good --especially Members of... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/8e1c3ba7-9e26-42a3-be48-bc51ee6a63d4 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/8e1c3ba7-9e26-42a3-be48-bc51ee6a63d4 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:53:51 GMT According to Politico.com, Indiana Congressman Baron Hill signed on to support Obamacare this afternoon, despite the massive cuts to Medicare it includes, despite its destruction of thousands of jobs via higher taxes... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/fb261898-9d08-46f8-b9f9-0aaf07dd0ee2 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/fb261898-9d08-46f8-b9f9-0aaf07dd0ee2 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:33:44 GMT Shrinkwrapped provides excellent background on the psychology of terrorists.And Gawker's John Cook digs up a concealed carry permit from 1996. New media running laps around old media, again. http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/c0a80a9b-8746-494b-8b96-2cbc0649b5cc http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/c0a80a9b-8746-494b-8b96-2cbc0649b5cc Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:44:31 GMT We laugh so we don't cry. As the figure hits 10.2%, Ace Of Spades has the perfect, pithy post on it, complete with the famous graph Geoff is going to have to expand to contain the curve... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/c1fb3822-0b73-4ecb-b3f0-cde4292d103b http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/c1fb3822-0b73-4ecb-b3f0-cde4292d103b Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:15:25 GMT This Washington Post profile of the killer at Fort Hood will leave many inside the Army wondering who ought to have been responsible for removing him from the military. A caller yesterday raised the question of whether... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/3cd74835-3b60-48cd-9c0e-be9959597839 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/3cd74835-3b60-48cd-9c0e-be9959597839 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:50:48 GMT I have been assured by members of the Soldiers Angels family that they have many representatives in the Fort Hood area. If you'd like to help the efforts on behalf of victims of today's massacre, you can make a... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/7eb9a2e1-b5b6-425f-9727-552b8ff637c6 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/7eb9a2e1-b5b6-425f-9727-552b8ff637c6 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:31:54 GMT Texas Congressman Carter just said on Fox News that he would be flying to Texas to visit Fort Hood and then returning to D.C. in order to vote on the health care bill. I find it very jarring that the House is remaining... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/035e2a3f-c5a0-474b-a3dc-33e156072970 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/035e2a3f-c5a0-474b-a3dc-33e156072970 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:32:06 GMT House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer announced today that Saturday is D-Day for American medicine --destruction day: Majority Leader Steny Hoyer predicts the House will pass historic health care overhaul legislation... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/b8f12489-8af4-4bd9-afd4-69f45ff98fa1 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/b8f12489-8af4-4bd9-afd4-69f45ff98fa1 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:01:33 GMT This is a book you will really, really enjoy:In yesterday's interview with Rudy Guiliani, transcript here, before turning to politics and the elections, I asked the mayor which baseball game had been the best he'd ever... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/06744440-88f7-4040-9fee-df57485cbe60 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/06744440-88f7-4040-9fee-df57485cbe60 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT Just in time for the seasonal change from 'Global Warming' to 'Climate Change', the New York Times scratches the surface of Algore's remarkable conflicts of interest, or whatever you call it when the number one advocate... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/143e3519-16d2-48a4-ae88-a3265a749d20 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/143e3519-16d2-48a4-ae88-a3265a749d20 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:41:00 GMT This Washington Times op-ed by Representatives Peter King and Charlie Dent is a must read.King and Dent begin their argument by citing the massive amount of litigation triggered by the Endangered Species Act, a subject... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/0ab5e808-5534-422b-a0cf-59d6d04c8f22 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/0ab5e808-5534-422b-a0cf-59d6d04c8f22 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:15:55 GMT Some televised reports of exit poll data last night suggested that seniors had supplied Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell with large margins in their winning campaigns. Glenn Reynolds writes this morning that the... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/745ad02d-00b5-42e5-b992-07267123b1f5 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/745ad02d-00b5-42e5-b992-07267123b1f5 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:37:32 GMT The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, who will be on today's program, is relaying that exit polls show President Obama wasn't as big a factor in today's elections as some are saying.OK, if the president's wild lurch to... http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/e21117c7-c15c-4597-b934-d295277bf389 http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/e21117c7-c15c-4597-b934-d295277bf389 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:17:52 GMT