Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Lesson 1: Be careful with your bragging.  First the host’s beloved, as he tells us constantly, Ohio State loses the Big Ten football championship (something he barely mentioned this past week) to former Big Ten doormat Indiana University (a name never mentioned in the week past) and now Indiana’s quarterback, Fernando Mendoza, wins the Heisman Trophy over Ohio State’s Julian Sayin.  Bragging just makes the eventual humiliation that much more humiliating.  Sadly, now we must turn our attention to far more consequential, and unfortunately deadly, news and lessons.. . .

Saturday, December 13, 2025

I get it all the time – usually about sports – a prompt, notification or alert about a story so astonishing that you just have to click.  And when you get there, the claims that lead you there are quite hyperbolic if not outright lies.  The internet and its primary expression, social media, are rendering shorter and shorter attention spans, making it harder and harder to attract attention and attracting attention is how you make money there.  It is therefore natural, especially when soulless and ethically devoid AI is writing the material, that hyperbole to the point of lying would become increasingly common.  But it is also highly unfortunate.. . .

Friday, December 12, 2025

In 2020 I noted “The Sad Death of A Once Great Magazine” as Scientific American did what no self-respecting science magazine should do – endorse a presidential candidate.  I concluded “Specialty journalism is officially dead – consumed by politics.”  Covid was, of course, involved in the discussion at the time wherein everyone hid behind “the science” and no one had or knew any actual science.  No longer is it merely specialty journalism that is consumed by politics, it is science itself.. . .

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Billions of dollars taken by fraud during covid in California.  A similar situation in Minnesota flowing from covid.  Both states run by Democrats.  I do not think these Democrats are corrupt, but they are inept.  Quoting Carl Sagan, billions and billions of dollars of inept.  Simply put, they cannot govern.. . .

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

The world is full of various expressions of the depravity that can be the human soul.  This kind of hatred is disgusting and history has shown us where it leads.  Human trafficking, especially with children, is a human evil I hate to contemplate.  But having just read this story about the open air drug market in Philadelphia, I cannot help but wonder if I have found rock bottom.  It tells a tale of a unique kind of human trafficking, not where people are bought and sold, but where they are indeed held as slaves without even the minimal housing and sustenance accorded to slaves that provide labor of some sort.. . .

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Politics, particularly for a nation as wealthy and well-situated as ours, is often more about opinion and personality than it is about capability and good, better, best.  When a nation struggles it needs people that do the job well, when times are basically good, things get silly.  It is not unlike picking the teams for the college football playoffs where there are a lot of teams arguably better than the ones that got in.  Things other than football ability are involved.  But there is one indisputable fact about the CFP – Indiana University beat Ohio State for the Big Ten Championship, earning the number one seed in the tournament along with the conference championship – much to the host’s chagrin.  But back to our politics of government, not football.  Three recent stories tell an interesting tale.. . .

Monday, December 8, 2025

According to the IAEA, the confinement system at Chernobyl no longer functions properly.  Unfortunately, all the reporting I have seen gives no numbers so that it could be determined just how significant the issues are.  The press release from the IAEA on which all this reporting is based does not give any numbers either.  One does not know whether to be terrified or cynical.  One should; however, be overjoyed that Indiana University (previously considered a football doormat) beat Ohio State for the Big Ten football championship Saturday night just past – much to the host’s chagrin.. . .

Sunday, December 7, 2025

I have been a regular listener to the Hugh Hewitt Show since 2001.  That’s a long time to endure the host’s unfailing, loud and unbearable braggadocio regarding the college football team that plays in Columbus, OH.  The host has not lived in Ohio for his entire adult life, just as I have not lived in the place I grew up – Indiana – for my entire adult life.  My connections to the state of my rearing remain as strong as his.  Therefore it brings me great joy, happiness (and no small amount of return fire) to announce that last night INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BEAT OHIO STATE – solidly – FOR THE BIG TEN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP.  (It was routine in basketball for many years, but not football.)  The Cleveland newspapers and Sports Illustrated are noting just how good IU actually is.  This might just get mentioned in every post moving forward for a while – but on to serious business.. . .

Saturday, December 6, 2025

New article from the increasingly valuable The Free Press excerpts a book that makes the very strong case that the digitization of the classroom is harming student performance – immensely.  The data presented in the excerpt is strong and this make intuitive sense to me.  People learn tactilely and computers rob them of that experience.  Sure it’s cheaper, less messy and less yucky to run a dissection simulation on a computer, but that same student, when confronted with an actual frog carcass might not have a clue how to proceed, despite having gotten a “A” with the simulation. – the simulation is just not that good.  But I think the problems with computers in the classroom run much deeper.. . .

Friday, December 5, 2025

Some years ago I told a friend that was very high on EVs that he could have my (multiple) V-8’s when he “could pry them from my cold, dead hands.”  Growing up in Indianapolis, IN – the center of the motorsports universe – my affection for the internal combustion engine runs deep.  It is about more than speed  it is about wrenches.  Today’s IC engines with their heavy computerization are bad enough, but at least you can still customize, power-add, tweak and fiddle.  With an EV, no such luck – they are a black box.  So it is with great joy that I note the news that the Trump administration has rescinded the ridiculous CAFE standards the Biden administration attempted to put into place and the Senate has voted to block California’s attempt to outlaw IC engine powered auto sales.. . .