Robert Knight

ROBERT KNIGHT: ACLU religious freedom fight yields to left’s same-sex marriage empowerment

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court announced the previously unknown constitutional "right" to impose same-sex "marriage" on all 50 states, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was readying its next volley.

July 5, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Supreme Court: Housing lawsuits charging discrimination no longer need proof

Remember when Barney Frank insisted in 2003 that "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not in a crisis," and "I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation toward subsidized housing?"

June 28, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: New York’s ever-expanding electorate

"Start spreading the news I'm voting today "

June 21, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: The Magna Carta’s message to the Supreme Court

Exactly 800 years after the signing of the Magna Carta on June 15, 1215, the church-state question is still very much front-page news.

June 14, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Media let liberals off the hook

I opened the front door the other day and my daughter walked in, exclaiming, "Is everyone taking crazy pills?"

June 7, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Left’s war on police leaves communities defenseless

Since the riots over robbery suspect Michael Brown's death last summer in Ferguson, Mo., and several other deaths of black suspects, America has been awash in a "dialogue" about police and race.

May 31, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Supreme Court gay marriage vote

As the calendar slips toward the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, there's a storm cloud hanging over America that will release its thunder in late June.

May 24, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Playing the race card in court

There's more racism afoot in the land, and it fits the soft bigotry of lowered expectations.

May 17, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: The ACLU’s Louisiana pursuit

At odds with anything smacking of America's religious and cultural heritage, the American Civil Liberties Union has issued a revealing series of warnings to officials about everything from the national motto to saggy pants and boys in prom dresses.

May 14, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Tom Brady’s Deflategate tests NFL message on honesty, character

Unlike the 2014 Little League World Series champs, who lost their trophy because they fielded ineligible players, the New England Patriots are not going to lose their Super Bowl rings over Deflategate.

May 10, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Forcing gay marriage on American’s would be tyranny

While the U.S. Supreme Court held an Alice-in-Wonderland session on the nature and value of marriage, one of the nation's largest cities lay partly in ruins over the death of a black man in police custody.

May 3, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Restricting U.S. voting to American citizens

Sometimes, what appears to be complex is actually rather simple.

April 26, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: America’s gender insanity

Did someone explode a crazy bomb over America?

April 19, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: ACLU attacking pro-life Catholics

In its latest attack on religious liberty, the American Civil Liberties Union, wants to force Roman Catholic organizations to provide contraception and abortions to unaccompanied immigrant children pouring over America's southern border.

April 12, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Indiana pizza parlor victim of gay lobby’s intolerance of Christians

It took a day or two, but the intolerant left managed to turn a tiny, Christian, family-owned pizza parlor in Indiana into a useful "face of hate." Nice piece of work, during Holy Week. It's part of the left's media campaign to terrify anyone even thinking of opposing compulsory celebration of same-sex "marriage," and it comes amid a fevered debate over Indiana's joining 18 other states and the federal government last week with a Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

April 5, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Snowy winter hard on climate change theory

As much of New England continues to dig out from late winter's massive snowstorms, the climate change lobby is doubling down.

March 29, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Obama’s mandatory voting plan

It's not enough to propose liberal ideas. Eventually, you must use force against your fellow citizens if they don't embrace them. Coercion is at the heart of the liberal enterprise.

March 22, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Iran letter worth Obama embarrassment if it halts bad nuclear deal

As our republic reels under the Obama administration's lawlessness, it's heartening to see the Republican-led Congress show some backbone — at least in foreign policy. OK, with the glaring exception of illegal immigration.

March 15, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Museum of the Bible would remind visitors of God’s grace

In a time when the most basic truths and institutions are under relentless attack, it should hearten many to know that a gargantuan cultural counterstrike is taking shape in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol dome.

March 8, 2015

ROBERT KNIGHT: Senate passage of Homeland bill sign of Republican weakness

No wonder Mitch McConnell skipped this past week's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He's too busy with his day job as Minority Leader of the United States Senate.

March 1, 2015