Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

I had intended to write about the 10/7 anniversary this morning, but the host has done such a thorough and masterful job that there is nothing left to say.  Here is the key sentence, “That Israel has conquered all its enemies, on all seven fronts, should not dull the sense of shock about what happened two years ago.”  Read it all.  Consequently, I’ll turn my attention elsewhere.. . .

Monday, October 6, 2025

It is not just about anti-social individual violence – we have a real problem with people generally.  Riots after sports championships have grown commonplace.  What we once considered a “soccer hooligan” problem just in Europe has come to the United States in force – especially after the NBA decides its champion.  There are more examples from the weekend just ended.. . .

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Big story yesterday when ten cars of thugs surrounded a vehicle carrying federal law enforcement officials and gunfire ensued.  This was a seditious act.  But that is not what bothers me. What bothers me is let’s assume the actors were convinced the officers were gestapo hunting Jews.  The fact that they were not gestapo is proven by the fact that they walked away.  The actual gestapo would have hosed them down with large caliber machine guns and left them dead in the streets.  And given that, would not the better act of rebellion be to, ala Anne Frank, hide the people being hunted?  No this was not merely seditious, this was an act designed and intended to execute violence of government officials.  This fact belies any claims to this being a legitimate rebellious act taken in the defiance of government injustice.. . .

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Some days.  Read this, “I Spent 491 Days as a Hostage of Hamas. This Is My Story.”  Now contrast it with this, “Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury.”  The later, published not long after the killings in Manchester makes passing reference to them, but then focuses on this person being the first Archbishop of Canterbury.  And so we see a church lost.  Confronted with direct, evident evil, the church focuses on far more trivial matters.. . .

Friday, October 3, 2025

Yesterday I encountered what has to be the most California story ever.  Read on and learn why.. . .

Thursday, October 2, 2025

It is a beautiful early fall morning.  The usual commuter traffic drives by.  The birds are chirping, the sun is rising and other than the complaining and kvetching on Facebook, I would have no idea the federal government is shutdown.  Hmmmmm…. . .

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

First of all – Pray for the Philippines.  Major earthquake – at least 69 dead.  The fact that I cannot find this story on “the front page” of major newspapers as of this writing is shameful.  If the Beeb has it, the world has it.  I know it is early in the morning, but don’t these big papers have any night staff?  Or do they just not care?  Either way, it is a sign of the self-absorption that possesses this nation that I was going to write about this morning anyway.. . .

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We have suffered much violence, political and otherwise, of late.  Much of it aimed directly at Christianity.  We have lamented and bemoaned the violence.  But the time has come to think about what to do.. . .

Monday, September 29, 2025

Yesterday I expressed my deep concern about the recent spate of actual physical attacks aimed at Christianity.  But we are being targeted by more than violence.  This morning the Washington Post carried an op-ed by an admitted Muslim, that seems mostly to say “Christianity is not all it is cracked up to be and Islam is not as bad as you say it is.”  But it is based on a straw man.. . .

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Hamlet – Act 1, Scene 5 – “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”  I am a Presbyterian, one of the so-called “frozen chosen.”  I am not prone to the more spectacular displays of Christian faith like “slaying in the spirit” or “speaking in tongues,”  But this morning’s blatant and deadly attack on a Mormon church in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan is enough to make me say, right out loud, that the spiritual warfare that constantly surrounds us has decidedly turned very visible and very hot.. . .