Robert Knight
Columns by Robert Knight
KNIGHT: A life on the front lines of the culture war
Michael Schwartz, a great man who passed from this earth last weekend at age 63, was an anomaly. Published February 11, 2013
KNIGHT: The Boy Scouts flirtation with dishonor and destruction
Boy Scouts learn to start fires by rubbing two sticks together. Now, the national Scout leadership is playing with fire. Scratch that -- they're playing with explosives. Published February 4, 2013
KNIGHT: The allure of the lie
Lying is no big deal. It's just something that we Americans have to live with. Published January 29, 2013
KNIGHT: Skirmish won in war for religious freedom
In a victory for religious freedom, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) won't be able to make Catholic agencies fund abortions for sex-trafficking victims after all. Published January 25, 2013
KNIGHT: Obama opens a new term with a loud ‘bang’
Leave it to Barack Obama to come into his inaugural weekend with a bang, and not just on guns. He's made it clear that he intends more spending, more regulation, more radical appointees and less national defense in his second term. Published January 21, 2013
KNIGHT: Boy Scouts prevail after 11-year battle
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has a well-earned reputation as the hippiest, dippiest, most-reversed appellate court in these United States. Published January 14, 2013
KNIGHT: Don’t get discouraged — get involved
The Republicans caved and Barack Obama is celebrating in Hawaii while planning his next step in creating an irreversible welfare state. Published January 4, 2013
KNIGHT: Charity on the chopping block
With the "fiscal cliff" looming, Washington is looking under every rock for new forms of "revenue." Published December 22, 2012
KNIGHT: The left’s ongoing assault on election integrity
If you think the left is resting on its laurels after Barack Obama's re-election and the Democrats' retention of the U.S. Senate, think again. Published December 14, 2012
KNIGHT: Free speech vs. sound of silence
In George Orwell's futuristic novel "1984," a tyrannical government masks its activities through the use of Newspeak -- saying or doing something opposite of a word's meaning. Published December 7, 2012
KNIGHT: Deceitful debate over women in combat
Oblivious to important differences between men and women, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Department of Defense to lift all combat exemptions for women. Published November 30, 2012
KNIGHT: Left likes fuzzy math on Election Day
Pawing through the ashes of Mitt Romney defeat, it's clear that if the Republican Party wants to compete nationally, it has to do several things, such as re-message timeless traditional values, attract more young and minority voters -- particularly Hispanics -- and do a better job of getting out the vote. Published November 23, 2012
KNIGHT: Casting blame at conservatives for Romney’s defeat
Like clockwork, traditional-values voters are being blamed for the failure of a moderate GOP presidential candidate. Published November 16, 2012
KNIGHT: Why the single-issue campaign failed
"It's the economy, stupid." Published November 9, 2012
KNIGHT: Faithful flexing muscles before Election Day
Economic issues seem to be dominating the 2012 campaign, but a quiet electoral revolution is brewing. The "religious vote" is on the move, and it's not going leftward. Published November 2, 2012
KNIGHT: Vote suppression, real and imagined
Did you know that the uberclean United Nations, whose blue-helmeted troops have been charged with everything from rape to theft in Third World countries, is going to have an affiliate help us run our elections? Published October 26, 2012
KNIGHT: ACLU says father-daughter dance ‘contrary to federal law’
If you want to see what the new normal looks like when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) calls the shots, look no further than Cranston, R.I. That city of 80,000, the third-largest in the Ocean State, is at the epicenter of the ACLU's war on the normal. Published October 22, 2012
KNIGHT: Buying Obama’s whoppers
You know it's bad when the president deputizes Big Bird as his thuggish surrogate. Aside from Big Bird's checkered past as a well-to-do federal welfare recipient, wouldn't Joe Biden or Oscar the Grouch put up a better fight? Published October 12, 2012
KNIGHT: Obama’s debate run-in with inconvenient truths
I didn't want to write about the first presidential debate, which has been sliced and diced by many. Published October 5, 2012
KNIGHT: Suppressing the vote
During World War II, American soldiers in the Pacific listened to Radio Tokyo and other English-language programs on Japanese-run stations. Published September 28, 2012
