Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Friday, January 9, 2026

While we are “celebrating” the anniversary of fires, we cannot forget the Moss Landing fire of last January in Monterey County, CA.  Unlike the wildfires of Southern California, this was a “Battery Energy Storage System” (BESS) fire – basically an EV fire writ large, and we all know how very nasty those are.  Inextinguishable they must be contained and left to burn themselves out and they leave behind a toxic, nasty mess.  Moss Landing has become one of the bigger project of the E.P.A.’s list of clean-ups.  And yet, the installation of these type of facilities continues apace.. . .

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Pretty much everybody but the rabid few figured this out by end of day yesterday, The Veep had it right, so I think we can set the Minnesota thing aside for now.  Yesterday also marked the beginning of the “days of mourning” as it marked the first anniversary of the first day of the devastating  Southern California wildfires.  And largely that is what is happening – mourning.  Churches are holding services of remembrance, media is full of anecdotal stories of loss and lives forever altered.  And there is nothing wrong with any of that, but something is missing – the other side of that equation is strangely quiet.  They are still talking about rebuilding and community spirit, but little is actually happening.. . .

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

It has been reported for at least the last twelve hours that the city of Abdanan in Iran has fallen to the protesters and is no longer in the control of the Mullahs and the IRGC.  Sources as reliable as the Majority in the House Foreign Affairs Committee are reporting it and FoxNews has picked it up.  Smaller internet sources are reporting it.  But I cannot find a breath of it on any of the major news sites, foreign or domestic, other than Fox – not a hint, not a rumor report, nothing.  I get it, the reports are unconfirmed and typically the Mullahs let protesters have their way for a while before they crush them – but never in the history of the Islamic Republic have protesters seized a city – this is news.  And it is not being reported.. . .

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Mark Kelly, after participating in the heinous “unlawful orders” video, censured and perhaps losing rank and retirement benefits from the Navy.  Oops.  While you are free to speak your mind, there may be consequences.  Of course, this being the modern world, I doubt this move will mean much to Kelly personally.  I would imagine his Naval pension is an insignificant portion of his income and this will only bolster his support among the left-wing “base.”  But, unlike so many idiots that have come before him, he faces consequences for his actions.  If only we could be consistent about it.. . .

Monday, January 5, 2026

The strategic implications of the US capture of Maduro are reaching much farther than most people imagine.  The mainstream media is so blinded with Trump hatred that they cannot see what a brilliant stroke this actually is.  There is more than one way to win a war.  Reagan/Bush won the Cold War in a way I never could have predicted and did not foresee.  I think Trump may be doing the same thing with the War on Terror, begun by Bush 43, which like the Cold War before it has been dismissed and not prosecuted  by intervening administrations.. . .

Sunday, January 4, 2026

I entered the weekend expecting to write this Sunday morning, the first of the new year, about how alike Christian ministry and politics are since both require that you first raise money and how often that unfortunate fact results in corruption.  Not to mention the deep confusion between religion and politics that haunts us.  And then the capture of Maduro happened and the weekend fundamentally changed – the world fundamentally changed.  But has this post changed?  Not as much as you might think.. . .

Saturday, January 3, 2026

The world is a dirty place, but it is not about carbon emissions or some other such stuff – it’s about people.  People that kill people.  People that effectively enslave people with drugs or false religion.  Evil people.  They are what make the world filthy.  You get rid of such people and everything else will take care of itself. Two of the bigger cesspits in this world are Venezuela and Iran.  Venezuela spreading its narco-terrorist death throughout the western hemisphere and Iran wanting nothing less than the death of an entire nation and to threaten the world with nuclear destruction.  Clean those up and you have gone a long way to actually cleaning up the world.. . .

Friday, January 2, 2026

A few days ago I found myself hopelessly trying to explain to someone here in Tennessee how bureaucratic, how draconian, how 1984-ish California became during the pandemic.  I say “hopelessly” because my interlocuter just could not believe what I was telling them.  They just did not believe an American government could operate that way – especially when it came to the shuttering of churches and the enforcement of that dictate.  As the story of the now year-old and massively destructive Palisades fire in Los Angeles unfolds, I fear the same thing is happening in the rest of the nation – they just can’t believe it.. . .

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Based on the news, especially the emergent news, not a Happy New Year in the Swiss Alps.  Pray for all involved.  The headlines generally were of the Eeyore variety, but that is entirely predictable since, much to the MSM chagrin – Donald Trump is still POTUS.  But it set me thinking.  What would it take to make it different?  How could this new year begin with new thinking?. . .

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

As the fraud onion in Minnesota continues to unpeel, layer by layer, many questions are raised.  Why Minnesota?  Is this happening on other states?  (YES! – at least California, Perhaps Ohio?  And then there are the more individual levels of deadly fraud.)  Why won’t the media cover it?  And a question I don’t think most people are considering – Did these programs benefit anyone in actual need?. . .