Category: Hugh Hewitt

Environmental Issues That Matter

When the environmental “movement” began rivers literally burned, litter was far more than a nuisance, and many bodies of water coughed up scores of dead fish on a daily basis.  Those conditions are now rare, but true believers chase ephemeral “climate change,” or “pollutants” not yet proven harmful to levels that were below detection just a decade ago, as if the threats were as imminent and acute as when Lake Erie had more dead fish than live ones.  Sadly, increasingly, they do so at the expense of those environmental problems that are real and are acute.

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As The Shutdown Continues A Facade Crumbles

For decades now Democrats have operated with an air of moral superiority born largely of two things.  Firstly, they were the party of the little guy – helping the helpless, feeding the poor and freeing the oppressed.  Secondly they uncovered and investigated quite publicly “the greatest scandal in American political history” – Watergate.  These pillars are currently crumbling under their feet, leaving them teetering.

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The Cold Wars We Do Not Think We Are In Are Getting Hotter

Our Ambassador to the U.N. is getting interrupted like the Soviet Union still existed.  President Trump has announced a resumption of nuclear weapons testing.  The world is heating up.  It has been more than thirty years since the United States conducted nuclear weapons tests other than on a computer.  According to the President both Russia and China are conducting such tests despite agreements to cease doing so implemented when we ceased.  These tests are primarily an exercise in saber rattling, as opposed to weapons development.  The world is heating up in a big way.

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Our Vulgar Self Congratulatory Existence

Right now, in California, they are worried about peanut oil in the fried chicken.  No, seriously, restaurants now, by law, have to have menus that read like ingredient lists lest a customer encounter some unwanted food to which they are allergic – and California is quite proud of how civilized they are.  Yet, in Sudan, real massacres, not pretend ones like everyone has been on a high horse about in Gaza, are happening.  In Sudan entire villages are being invaded and people are being openly massacred by the thousands.  So large and so brutal is the killing that the human remains and massive blood stains on the soil are visible from space.  This being reported just two weeks after we looked at the mass killing of Christians in Nigeria.  Helping people with food allergies is fine, but dear Lord, acting like it is some sort of major moral victory when humans are being slaughtered en masse in other parts of the world is just warped.

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When The Silly Outweighs The Serious

I am beginning to think that the Democratic Party, and the legacy media it has swallowed, are an organized form of personality disorder.  They cannot tell what is important from what is not and everything is viewed through a very personal lens.  In the past 36 hours (an amazing period of time when you consider 17% of it was consumed by a single World Series game) I have encountered two very serious stories about exploitation of people, while encountering dozens about things that just don’t matter that much save in the minds of that cohort. It is actually kind of frightening.

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Mamdani Plays The Victim

So, NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani tried to play the victim over the weekend because his aunt (in a hajib) was viewed suspiciously in the aftermath of 9-11 in New York.  Was she arrested, tried, beaten or otherwise actually persecuted?  No, apparently people just looked at her suspiciously.  Now first of all, I have been

When A Bad Idea Proves It

The legalization of marijuana was/is (depending on your location) a bad idea.  Intoxication, in any form, is not a good idea – even if we tolerate it to some limited extent.  Given that we do try to limit and control intoxication, the last thing we need/needed, is to increase its possibility.  Most argument for the

What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

The headline here is an homage to one of the beloved albums of my younger days by the Doobie Brothers – back when albums were albums, on vinyl.  I wish I could herein wax eloquent about the days sitting in a room, queueing up records, spinning them and enjoying music with friends – which is

Hatred Spinning Out Of Control

Two things I love to do on Saturday – a round up of stories I did not cover during the week and make fun of California.  I am not sure I can make it funny this week – things are taking very ugly turns.  We’ll start light but we will not be able to stay