Columns by Robert Knight
During spring renewal, when flowers blossom, grasses begin to green and a billion Christians celebrate a peerless Resurrection that occurred nearly 2,000 years ago, it's a good time to reflect on one of Christendom's most significant contributions to civilization: establishing hospitals.
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March 29, 2013
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Over the past few weeks, the "war on marriage" has turned into a blitzkrieg.
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March 25, 2013
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You can't keep a good theophobe down.
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March 18, 2013
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In 1919, back when the United States was a constitutional republic, Congress passed a child-labor law imposing a 10 percent excise tax on companies that violated it.
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March 11, 2013
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One of Bill Cosby's best-loved routines is "Tonsils."
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March 4, 2013
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has lost its six-year campaign to tear down a Ten Commandments monument at the Dixie County, Florida, courthouse.
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February 25, 2013
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What's the real message behind Barack Obama's call in his State of the Union speech for taxpayer-funded "universal" preschool and his trip to a Georgia preschool last Thursday for photo ops?
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February 18, 2013
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Michael Schwartz, a great man who passed from this earth last weekend at age 63, was an anomaly.
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February 11, 2013
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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.
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February 4, 2013
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Lying is no big deal. It's just something that we Americans have to live with.
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January 29, 2013
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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.
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January 25, 2013
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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.
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January 21, 2013
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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.
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January 14, 2013
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The Republicans caved and Barack Obama is celebrating in Hawaii while planning his next step in creating an irreversible welfare state.
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January 4, 2013
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With the "fiscal cliff" looming, Washington is looking under every rock for new forms of "revenue."
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December 22, 2012
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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.
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December 14, 2012
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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.
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December 7, 2012
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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.
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November 30, 2012
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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.
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November 23, 2012
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Like clockwork, traditional-values voters are being blamed for the failure of a moderate GOP presidential candidate.
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November 16, 2012
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