Blog - Hugh Hewitt

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.. . .

Sunday, September 28, 2025

About ten days ago we looked at Salena Zito looking at the influx of young people n churches in her area.  She continues to follow the story and yesterday she penned a deeper look into one of the congregations she had mentioned originally.  It’s not all about Charlie Kirk.. . .

Saturday, September 27, 2025

While we have been dealing with political violence in this nation, the world continues to spin and developments in the Israel/Gaza conflict are immense.  Turns out we have a 21-point plan to end the conflict.  Good ideas, never gonna happen.  Microsoft can provide services to whoever they want under whatever conditions they want, but this strikes me as a peevish and immature.  Speaking of peevish and immature, a bunch of delegates walked out on Netanyahu’s address to the U.N.  And suddenly it clicked, our battle with political violence and the battles in which Israel finds itself are, on one level the same battle.. . .

Friday, September 26, 2025

There is a planting patch next to my back door.  When we bought the place it was overgrown, the shrubs and flowers consumed by an ivy.  I hired a crew to clean out the bed completely and replanted a few day lilies and a red bud tree.  Only one problem – the ivy resprouts every few days.  I have to spray the bed with a mild herbicide almost continuously to keep the ivy in check.  The stuff is persistent, and I find myself struggling to know what to do..  The problem is deeper than I thought.  So it is with our problems of political violence.  It is going to take new and novel effort to eradicate them.  . . .

Thursday, September 25, 2025

I guess I am too optimistic.  I thought the Charlie Kirk assassination would represent some sort of nadir, but alas, yesterday’s ICE shooting proves me quite wrong.  Our politics are a symptom of our problems, but our problems are deep, deep in the soul of this nation.. . .

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

A simple headline count this morning would indicate the the biggest news of the last cycle was the return of a certain host to late night television – even if a significant portion of the networks affiliates did not air the show.  Disclaimer, didn’t watch – didn’t want to watch, hadn’t watched before.  Don’t really care.  But there are some issues at play here worth discussing.. . .