Robert Knight

Neutering the English language, one word at a time

Here's a Christmas present from Stanford University. They apparently won't ban the use of "American" after all. Hurray for them.

December 23, 2022

Let’s not let the doomsayers and clouds spoil our Christmas

Have you ever boarded an airliner during a rainstorm and then, minutes later, broken through the clouds to bright sunshine? It can be quite startling. People blink like moles emerging from their burrow.

December 18, 2022

American culture’s sacrifice of children for perverted wokeness

When I was young and foolish, I went to see a horror movie one afternoon.

December 11, 2022

Left hellbent on destroying mom-and-dad families

Democrats, with help from feckless Republicans, have advanced the Orwellian-named Respect for Marriage Act. They're trying to finish the job they began in the 1960s.

December 3, 2022

When old friends like Reader’s Digest go off the rails

Reader's Digest has something strangely out of place - a whiff of wokeism.

November 26, 2022

Christmas queens and the oxymoronically named Respect for Marriage Act

We've had a very serious setback this past week in the cause of freedom, courtesy of a dozen "woke" Republican senators. But first, we'll begin with a bit of pop culture that speaks to where we are as a nation.

November 19, 2022

Unreal midterm elections and the search for sanity in America

The election last week defied reality.

November 12, 2022

To Biden and the left, being an ‘election denier’ is one rung below child molester

President Biden was at it again last week, using his bully pulpit to demonize half the country.

November 6, 2022

Ignore the polls

The polls are starting to show that a conservative "wave" may be forming after all for the midterm election. No kidding.

October 21, 2022

The Democrats’ playbook: Deny, deny, deny

Last Wednesday, Maryland's gubernatorial candidates squared off in a debate. It was a microcosm of the national election.

October 16, 2022

Parents’ revolt against leftists’ education ideology should be a tsunami

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, recently signed SB 107, a bill so evil that you'll think I'm making this up.

October 9, 2022

Baseball Hall of Fame reflects the best of America

Right behind the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, is Doubleday Field, a small, magical baseball stadium (capacity 9,791). There's no cornfield, but it has a "Field of Dreams" vibe.

October 2, 2022

Fraud and pervert Alfred C. Kinsey returns

I've been trying to come up with a good analogy for something that inexplicably comes back even after you think it's long gone. Crabgrass? Rust? Dracula?

September 24, 2022

What Republicans must do to win in November

Republicans are still painting in pastels instead of bold colors.

September 17, 2022

The FBI and liberal media collusion grinds on

Someone in the FBI keeps leaking materials that agents seized during the shocking, unprecedented nine-hour raid of former President Donald Trump's Florida home on August 8.

September 10, 2022

Informed voters and honest elections are left’s worst nightmare

Lots of things today don't pass the straight face test.

September 5, 2022

Charlie Crist’s ‘deplorable’ moment

This past week Democrat Florida gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Crist shot himself in the foot.

August 28, 2022

The lies that blind American citizens

It's not healthy when citizens automatically discount whatever the government or media tell them.

August 19, 2022

Blissfully unaware in Vermont or knowingly radical?

Surveying the Green Mountain State in the height of summer, it's easy to see why visitors flock to Vermont.

August 14, 2022

Impatient Democrats hear the clock ticking

Once upon a time, Democrats were terrified that a power-mad White House would ignore the "will of the people." They warned of dire consequences if the president did end-runs around Congress.

August 7, 2022