Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

It was inevitable, I suppose.  And yet can one discuss inevitability when it comes to the statistically impossible?  Yesterday, The NBC News projection desk declared the two way runoff for Los Angeles Mayor come fall was to be between incumbent Karen “Nero” Bass and upstart Nithya “Lenin” Raman.  This projection appears despite the fact that Republican Spencer Pratt was quite solidly in the second slot for almost a week of counting.  Given what a complete mess the California election laws are these days it will be impossible to separate the legal from the wrongful from the unlawful in the conduct of the election and the count.  But it is painfully clear shenanigans have occurred.  Given the impossibility of corrective actions, what lessons can we learn from this fiasco?. . .

Monday, June 8, 2026

On Thursday, The Pentagon announced a reorganization of its religious affiliation categories.  Fair enough, the system had become unwieldy, religions come and go, adjustments do need to be made from time-to-time.  But on Sunday it began to emerge that within the changes there was one particularly boneheaded change – The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints – The Mormons – were moved out of the “Christian category” and given a separate and unique classification.  Oops – senators are protesting.. . .

Sunday, June 7, 2026

Church these days loves to remind us that “God is love,” but it is funny how little we hear about when Jesus said, “Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.”  Too often we like to use the former to justify the church looking the other way about some issue.  I thought about this as I read into Graham Platner this week.. . .

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Yesterday I wrote, “I have always considered politics a mirror of our culture.  Right now, if we are completely honest, the image is not pretty.  The image is one primarily of distaste, discord and hatred.  Our politics seeks not to build, but to oppose.”  Nowhere is this more evident than in the current scandal surrounding the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The SPLC was paying for impotent white supremists to continue their activities just so the SPLC had something to oppose….. . .

Friday, June 5, 2026

I have always considered politics a mirror of our culture.  Right now, if we are completely honest, the image is not pretty.  The image is one primarily of distaste, discord and hatred.  Our politics seeks not to build, but to oppose.  We don’t hear much about lofty goals anymore – we only hear about “Candidate X must be stopped.”  Sure Candidate X may need to be stopped because he or she is perceived to be opposed to some lofty goal, but somehow the lofty goal gets rapidly lost in the conversation, leaving only opposition.  And with the lofty goal lost that opposition quickly turns to something much worse.. . .

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Numbers are not supposed to lie.  Lord Kelvin once said, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.”  But then Lord Kelvin never met a modern day Democrat.. . .

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

After the two major, one of them deadly, chemical tank incidents of last week, the drumbeats continue to sound for increased regulation.  On Monday I covered the cultural differences between the two regions of the country.  On Tuesday I covered how one cry related to regulation was, at best, specious.  I have resisted to date speculating on the cause of these incidents.  There is simply not enough information publicly available for such comments to be other than pure speculation – at least on a technical level.  But given these drumbeats there is one aspect of causation that I think should be discussed.. . .

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Back in 2020, when they endorsed Joe Biden for president, I wrote an epitaph for the magazine Scientific American.  Sure, it is still being published, but it is now just another Trump bashing bit of media and no longer worth the effort necessary to pick it up.  I haven’t looked back, but just to prove my point they published an op-ed last Friday concerning the two tank incidents I looked at yesterday.  (A friend sent it to me, I did not go looking.  It may or may not be behind a paywall for you.  I was able to read it for a couple of days before the paywall notice started to appear.)  It is not science – it is anti-Trump drivel.. . .

Monday, June 1, 2026

Best as I can tell, everybody has heard about the near disaster related to a tank in Garden Grove, CA.  The emergency is subsided, the evacuation over.  The predicted explosion or major release never occurred.  Yes a lot of people were inconvenienced in the related evacuation, but that is the only consequence.  Litigation now flies around like a swarm of locusts and the company owning the tank will have a major clean-up on their hands.  Meanwhile, at roughly the same time, a tank in a Longview, WA paper plant mill imploded, killing 9 people and producing a fish kill in the water bodies that feed directly into the Columbia River that was affected for a period of time.  But only news junkies know about it.. . .

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Jill Biden’s contention, that she worried her husband was having a stroke during the 2024 debate is one of the most obvious lies n political history.  Lies so audacious are not born of simple attempts to “change the narrative,” cover up wrongdoing or some other self-serving reason.  Such obvious falsehoods, spoken with such apparent sincerity, are a sign of self-delusion. Jill Biden was not lying to us, she was lying to herself.  That makes it difficult to know how to react.. . .