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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ When President Obama signed off on the new HHS regulations that demand every Catholic institution in the country not officially designated a "church" either shut down or offer its employees subsidized sterilization,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2012/02/09/the_presidents_anticatholic_duck 91a345e9-6066-41aa-bb6f-d990ac2e1e3b Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT To the Members of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops: It may have taken a few days to sink in, but by now you should all have realized that President Obama has opened a massive assault on the Roman... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2012/02/02/memo_to_the_catholic_bishops 32004328-d3ac-47ef-84ce-2f484c1321be Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:47:00 GMT The single biggest storyline out of Florida and concerning the GOP presidential nomination isn't getting much attention. It is the attempt by President Obama and his allies to pick the Republican nominee. It is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2012/01/26/40_years_after_the_1972_campaign_dirty_tricks_no_longer_matter_to_msm d1bb0f18-3079-4a0b-ae67-84e82617a912 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Will ABC's interview of Marianne Ginrich matter in the South Carolina primary? Will Mitt Romney's wealth and "effective tax rate of 15%" hurt him in the Palmetto State? Will the endorsement of Rick Santorum by key... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2012/01/19/msm_and_the_13_state_election 565f6f78-2efd-4ce4-ab81-d95715770585 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:24:00 GMT Rick Perry isn't giving up and isn't going home, and some folks in South Carolina have noticed. The New York Times followed the Texas governor around some his stops in the Palmetto State and reported back to their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2012/01/12/rick_perrys_long_march b1e2ca10-214d-4425-824c-e9a4de932ed3 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:44:00 GMT Either Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee by early February, or we have a replay of the 1976 GOP primaries on our hands. Both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum had great nights on Tuesday. Both can say an earnest... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2012/01/05/romney_v_santorum_1976_all_over_again 9a13451f-ad0f-4916-9179-bbe643aaec7f Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:06:00 GMT Mike Allen and Evan Thomas have written a wildly interesting, very compact eBook that perhaps got lost in the run-up to Christmas. If you like politics, you will love The Right Fights Back. And if you are a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/12/29/game_change_again c58c28b0-8d50-47fd-ab38-348706c2b12a Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:24:00 GMT Columnist-to-the-World Mark Steyn and I chat on air almost every week. The transcript of those interviews are always posted, both at HughHewitt.com and SteynOnline.com. Here's a lengthy excerpt from yesterday's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/12/23/ron_pauls_truther_squad_includes_everyone_who_votes_for_him_in_iowa 2743954c-959a-4c46-bc41-a8422aacb527 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:15:00 GMT Will the Manhattan-Beltway media elite cover for President Obama throughout 2012? Of course they will. The only question is whether they will even be self-aware about the blocking they are doing for the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/12/15/appeasement_journalism 0302e418-c8ce-4ce4-8c54-a0c41d245738 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:28:00 GMT Can Newt take the country when all of his one-time Beltway allies are pounding him with arrow, cannon and missiles from their permanent encampment on the Potomac? It is one thing to take on the vast legions of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/12/08/newt_as_terminator_or_joey_garza 4f2018e6-4c33-482e-be0c-42de6a5d7291 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:16:00 GMT I began Thursday's radio show by playing the clip of Newt Gingrich telling ABC's Jake Tapper that he would be the GOP nominee --not once but five times in various ways in less than 60 seconds. I then asked for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/12/02/hot_newt_vs_cool_mitt 384175b5-421a-4d4b-ae19-df678e32ca11 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:21:00 GMT On Veteran's Day my radio show featured interviews with more than a dozen seriously wounded Marines and Navy personnel who are beneficiaries of the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund (www.SemperFiFund.org.) Since its... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/11/24/in_thanksgiving_for_the_guardians_on_the_wall 84731277-f9d9-4d81-88ee-e1ecb6c81536 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT There are three "keystone deductions" in the IRS code that matter more than all others to Americans who itemize deductions. They are keystone deductions because they help the middle and upper middle class and they... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/11/18/breaking_the_back_of_the_gop_base 87e5bce8-8ed0-4213-b928-6e08abe36090 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:27:00 GMT In case you were thinking that the GOP would-be nominees had pretty much been obliged to exchange pleasantries with every single talking head on every cable network, think again. Here's the schedule of debates left in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/11/11/the_debate_circus 50d5f63e-5e90-425c-bb76-a5d8ff6fdd75 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:56:00 GMT There are at least five debates scheduled for the entire GOP field in the balance of November, and one "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate between Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain as well, set for tomorrow in Texas. While... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/11/04/the_debates_ahead_time_for_the_national_security_questions 1bce8199-e5f8-4398-aa20-65099172e381 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:03:00 GMT "We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge..." That was President Obama on Tuesday, October 25, 2011, speaking to a fundraiser in San... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/10/27/the_decline_and_despair_president 1edce801-72c3-4e81-854f-24c3100aba59 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:08:00 GMT Presidential debate nights have been nerve wracking for the GOP since the first of two Reagan-Mondale debates of 1984. The first debate did not go well for the Gipper that year, as he looked and sounded... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/10/14/the_presidents_debatable_abilities 4a5a5b9f-0f53-4d85-b021-31e9ed9dde3b Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:09:00 GMT Finally there is clarity about the GOP field in the race to take on President Obama in the fall of 2012. The field is fixed. There are no more "possibles" out there. Governors Christie and Palin have closed the door,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/10/06/counting_to_270 7273be95-3626-44b1-8221-bf98f1a4e67a Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:14:00 GMT There's a stimulus plan that President Obama could put forward that would attract strong bipartisan support and which would also produce great jobs at great wages while strengthening the nation's defenses. He could... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/09/29/a_stimulus_we_all_could_or_should_support db4da8db-b7a2-4bdc-80c6-b40449e5595a Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT "These debates do have winners," wrote the Wall Street Journal's Neil King in that paper's "Washington Wire" column last night after keeping up a running commentary on the GOP gathering in Orlando. "And more than... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/09/23/the_end_of_the_beginning 72bc5b3b-2eca-41bf-9c08-9fe7d7c72d26 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:28:00 GMT Justice Breyer is worried. Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Stephen Breyer came though California this week, with stops at Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace and in my radio studio. In both... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/09/16/a_conversation_with_justice_breyer 49a48fe6-61e0-4988-9e3f-2dedde067510 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:47:00 GMT President Obama's speech on Thursday night bordered on parody. His repetition of long-overused talking points combined with his repeated attacks on job creators and his incessant demand to "pass it right now" produced... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/09/08/the_speech_that_broke_the_patience_of_the_country a77d11e4-1654-4174-b904-a38778faf12b Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:56:43 GMT President Obama thought he would open his 2012 re-election campaign with a bit of big-footing that would show the GOP presidential candidates gathered at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley next week who was going to set... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/09/01/president_obama_starts_re-election_campaign_with_a_pratfall 0b447f1e-e74f-44a5-8685-e999303db6d9 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:01:00 GMT "I hope," I told Stuart Varney on his excellent Fox Business Network program yesterday, "that President Obama watches the preparations for Hurricane Irene closely." "People are battening down their hatches, boarding... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/08/26/obama_and_irene__category_four_forces_of_destruction 33c56384-371f-40b9-8343-6882c810f80d Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:55:00 GMT Nir Nitzan's father fought in Israel's War of Independence, and again in the wars of 1956 and 1967. Nir fought in the first and second Lebanon wars, many actions in between them, and his son has fought in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/08/19/the_obama_presidency_and_the_future_of_american-israeli_relations fbbaba88-6a93-4f8d-8ce2-e11eb7393563 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:00:00 GMT The "Super Committee" of six senators and six House members can propose whatever it wants to their colleagues, and those proposals are guaranteed an up-or-down vote by both chambers? No amendments. No filibuster. no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/08/12/supercommittee_is_a_chance_for_tax_reform a11a8140-5a33-4187-9851-83166124e439 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:41:00 GMT "Both GOP congressional leaders emerged with enhanced reputations," concluded Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal today. And depending on who you ask, he is absolutely correct. But the debt deal disappointed many... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/08/04/making_mitch_the_majority_leader_the_senate_candidates_to_back c9d66319-9725-4eec-80b3-f4319e1e12e0 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:42:00 GMT The atmosphere in the green room at the Sean Hannity Show was amped up. On ordinary days I will banter with Beckel and talk radio shop with Sean as we both tell Levin stories, a friend of both of ours for years. But... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/07/29/the_limit_to_foolishness_on_television 46af13b4-e54c-43c4-ad2b-cd4ea234a432 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:56:00 GMT Weekends mean the phones on the Hill don't get answered. Twitter rolls on, however, and whether or not Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy check their feeds, their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/07/22/a_twitter_tea_party_is_needed_this_weekend cdc09461-c42b-4f87-ae8f-0905d64926b6 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:19:00 GMT President Obama unleashed his inner Alinskyite on Wednesday, storming out of a meeting with Congressional leaders and White House staff after threatening the GOP House Leader Eric Cantor with a parting "Eric, don't call... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/07/15/not_an_endgame,_but_the_end_of_beginning_of_the_campaign 0b46f58f-779c-4c8c-b7cf-b2c4f50c71bf Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:21:00 GMT Saturday July 9 marks the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger's secret trip to China that began the process of opening the relationship between the United States and the People's Republic and culminated in Richard... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/07/08/on_china_by_henry_kissinger 1c5beaa2-5328-4630-b97d-f08216ec8c17 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:20:00 GMT Anaheim, California is a city of more than 330,000 people, the 10th largest in California, and known the world over as the home of Disneyland. On Friday July 1 it also becomes the home of Ronald Reagan Park. Mayor... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/07/01/the_summer_of_1979_and_the_rise_of_reagan a76aed4a-0995-4cc3-a351-b176d29f08f5 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:31:00 GMT If the country is going to make the U-turn that it needs to make in 2013, it will need not only a new president but also a Senate of at least 51 Republicans and hopefully closer to 60. To reach the first number,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/06/24/not_your_father's_republican_party f64b13d2-a636-4469-867e-fc98d0757f4f Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:39:00 GMT Four years ago the Fair Tax movement helped power Mike Huckabee to a win in the Iowa caucuses. The former Arkansas governor embraced the scheme and all of its absurd assumptions –the Constitution could be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/06/17/will_strongamericanowcom_and_lean_six_sigma_change_gop_presidential_politics 3419797c-b526-4288-93cb-72bad66bbb7e Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:00:00 GMT Two enormous stories are waiting for the MSM when it recovers from the Weiner implosion. One concerns domestic policy and the other foreign. "Fast and Furious" is the name given to a Department of Justice/Bureau of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/06/10/missing_the_news dcd573d8-a0df-435e-b48f-3779ecac9a6c Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:01:00 GMT Republican primary voters have a very strong field of potential opponents for President Obama in November 2012 from which to choose. Three governors with great executive experience -Jon Huntsman, Tim Pawlenty and Mitt... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/06/03/the_gop_field_v_the_msm_meme_police d2a2ea64-e745-448a-a41a-4c1d651e9b90 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:01:00 GMT If every high school class in economics -basic, college-prep and AP-began their year or semester with first a brisk read and then a chapter-by-chapter study of "Your Teacher Said What?! Defending Our Kids from the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/05/26/can_a_father-daughter_team_do_what_the_house_gop_hasn't_explain_the_problem 66176733-1767-40b3-bfbc-b95838ea9593 Thu, 26 May 2011 16:09:00 GMT On Thursday, May 19 Senate Republicans refused to vote for cloture in sufficient numbers to allow the Senate to move to the consideration of the nomination of Berkeley Law School Professor Goodwin Liu's nomination to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/05/20/the_return_of_the_filibuster 7d61b841-efc2-48bd-96f2-47f5c760b404 Fri, 20 May 2011 14:09:00 GMT Newt's campaign isn't dead. It is wounded, but not in a "Monty Python Black Knight" sort of way, but rather in the sort of "if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger" way. Newt is taking a beating for his Meet the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/05/17/newt_and_the_new_media 7818de79-5f02-4daf-9727-d94591ba210d Tue, 17 May 2011 17:08:00 GMT The GOP race for the 2012 presidential nomination arguably gets underway Thursday night in South Carolina. Because front-runner Mitt Romney has declined to participate and because other significant candidates or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/05/05/national_security_and_the_republican_nominee 29ede3cb-bad9-417f-b5bb-58cd85f33753 Thu, 05 May 2011 13:01:00 GMT On my radio show Tuesday I launched The Obama Project --the attempt to list in succinct fashion the many reasons why President Obama should be defeated in November 2012. Opponents of the president's re-election... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/04/27/the_obama_project__the_case_for_change 66c1aa4d-c327-4e54-9950-c45fdde80d83 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:23:00 GMT Saturday's Tea Party Patriots gathering at the fair grounds in Sacramento was a boisterous and, as always, well-behaved and friendly event. The large crowd sat under very sunny skies and heard from Tea Party Patriots... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/04/20/the_disconnect 110f6bf8-da2b-4c75-8435-391730327c65 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:42:00 GMT My pal Dr. Eric Hunter at the National Center for Voice and Speech at the University of Utah reminds me that April 16 is World Voice Day. This is an appropriate occasion to urge the president to save his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/04/14/the_house_gop_loses_its_way 92ad30f8-5bdc-41f6-927b-c6e5832356c0 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:56:00 GMT I will speak tonight in Phoenix at the Arizona Right to Life dinner. Though planned months ago, the fund raiser is occurring even as the most important debate on abortion policy in years plays out in the United... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/04/08/a_decisive_moment_for_life 47eb8b20-2792-4020-8b80-2f9037e30d0b Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:03:00 GMT House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's fiscal blueprint for 2012 and beyond has rightly been hailed as an enormously important development in the budget wars. If the country is indeed on the brink of a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/04/06/winning_the_fy_2012_in_the_fall_budget_means_winning_the_fy_2011_showdown_now 6b721c5c-0967-40cc-a4e1-e70f4fe6bbeb Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:11:00 GMT Canny House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier went out of his way to remind me and my audience this week that House Speaker John Boehner was a "devout Roman Catholic." I hadn't forgotten that --indeed I think it is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/04/01/john_boehner_rock_or_rolled 23bee48a-89d7-4aa1-9e82-0ec614c370be Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:00:00 GMT Congratulations on a great start to your term as chair of the Republican National Committee. Past supporters are returning again to GOP.com with confidence that their contributions will be well-managed and that the RNC... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/03/24/memo_to_chairman_priebus 923cebcb-158a-488c-9417-bf2265f069e6 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:14:08 GMT George McClellan was the dashing commander of the Army of the Potomac at the start of the Civil War, whom the troops loved but whom Abraham Lincoln scorned as timid and quick to retreat. Perhaps now even Steelers... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/03/16/the_mcclellan_republicans a21d02ea-0b21-40a6-9b45-ca9f40975a7a Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:59:13 GMT As the agony of Japan continues to unfold in real time before our eyes, two thoughts for the day. First, in addition to the BBC and the Wall Street Journal, check in at Team Rubicon's website throughout the day.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/03/11/is_the_us_prepared_for_its_own_disasters ff240019-4504-4680-aefa-da8549f60bce Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:47:41 GMT