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Hugh Hewitt: "Republican Pros Handicap 2012 Presidential Race" by Clark Judge

Hugh Hewitt
May 16, 2011 13:29

The Monday column from Clark Judge: Republican Pros Handicap 2012 Presidential RunBy Clark S. Judge: managing director, White House Writers Group, Inc. <http://www.whwg.com> ; chairman, Pacific Research Institute...

Hugh Hewitt: Run Mitch Run

Hugh Hewitt
May 16, 2011 13:21

The Los Angeles Times profiles Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and his possible candidacy. If Daniels gets in, that puts the five top tier GOP candidates --Gingrich, Huntsman, Pawlenty and Romney are the other four-- in...

Hugh Hewitt: Romney's "Repeal-by-Waiver" Obamacare Peldge and W At Ease

Hugh Hewitt
May 16, 2011 01:49

Back from Dallas and a Saturday night benefit for the Alliance Defense Fund, keynoted by former President Bush, my part in which was to introduce ADF's extraordinary founder and CEO Alan Sears and to conduct a 30 minute...

Hugh Hewitt: Vince Flynn on the Killing of Bin Laden

Hugh Hewitt
May 13, 2011 21:23

Vince Flynn's thrillers featuring counter-terrorism operative Mitch Rapp has been on the best-seller lists from the beginning of the war. The operation against bin Laden is in fact foreshadowed in the novel Memorial...

Hugh Hewitt: "They play politics very, very tough, they play it well, and they don't give a damn about what's right and what's wrong."

Hugh Hewitt
May 13, 2011 05:08

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch on how the Democrats approach politics. We also discussed the president's team's assault on Boeing and jobs and Mitt Romney's speech in Michigan.The transcript is here..

Hugh Hewitt: "You know, you've got to be able to prioritize, Hugh. That's where the moat and the alligators are needed."

Hugh Hewitt
May 13, 2011 00:37

Mark Steyn on the effective use of alligators.And the Powerline Prize..

Hugh Hewitt: Romney's Best Defense Is A Good Offense Speech

Hugh Hewitt
May 12, 2011 21:24

I will play the key excerpts of Mitt Romney's speech in the third hour of my show today. A good summary from Politico is here, including this key graph: "I recognize that a lot pundits around the nation are saying...

Hugh Hewitt: Dick Van Dyke's "My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business"

Hugh Hewitt
May 12, 2011 20:41

Dick Van Dyke will be my guest in hour two of today's program, talking about his amazing life in show business and his new memoir, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show BusinessI will also ask him about his struggle with...

Hugh Hewitt: Romney on Obamacare

Hugh Hewitt
May 12, 2011 19:01

I will play excerpts of the speech Mitt Romney gives on health care on today's program. ABC's The Note gives a good summary of the good and bad of Romney's plan in Massachusetts, but what matters much more than how...

Hugh Hewitt: More On Paul Ryan's Plan and Approach

Hugh Hewitt
May 12, 2011 16:33

Over at CommentaryMagazine.com, Pete Wehner has kind words for Paul Ryan and the conversation Ryan and I had yesterday.If I was a better interviewer, though, I would have had the good congressman plug the Powerline...