Robert Knight

KNIGHT: Replacing Holder, filling two big left-wing-tip shoes

For six years, Eric Holder Jr. has built a legacy that delights liberals and appalls conservatives, especially those who revere the Constitution.

October 3, 2014

KNIGHT: Score: Prayer 1,000, ACLU 0

After Oneida, Tenn., school officials decided not to fight the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) demand that they cease an opening prayer before high school football games, the school's cheerleaders tackled the matter.

September 26, 2014

KNIGHT: Catalist, the left’s secret electoral weapon, outguns GOP

If you're wondering how Mitt Romney could have lost the 2012 presidential election to President Obama after securing a 5-point advantage among independent voters, a good portion of the answer might be found in Catalist.

September 19, 2014

KNIGHT: Going bananas when corporations flee

Socialism in its many guises depends on the use of force. Its animating principle — envy — means seizing wealth and redistributing it.

September 12, 2014

KNIGHT: How a moral code outrages the secular left

Have you ever noticed that people who worry most about someone "imposing your morality" on them are often the same folks who speak almost entirely in moral terms?

September 5, 2014

KNIGHT: The source of civility

Even in the silence of the timeless Great Smoky Mountains, it's nearly impossible to get away from the world's aches and pains — not to mention horrors. The only way to do it is to unplug completely.

August 31, 2014

KNIGHT: Four approaches to Ferguson

Following the shooting death of 18-year-old black robbery suspect Michael Brown by a white police officer on Aug. 9, four distinctly different groups descended upon the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo.

August 22, 2014

KNIGHT: Rock the Vote’s liberal designs on the young

When I was 18, I thought I knew plenty about life and politics. I was wrong.

August 15, 2014

KNIGHT: ACLU preying on America’s better angels

For an organization that frequently goads government into advancing an atheistic viewpoint on everyone within reach, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) talks a good game about how wrong it is for some people to "impose their beliefs on others."

August 8, 2014

KNIGHT: Impeaching the truth

All this talk of Republicans being on the verge of impeaching President Obama is nonsense, stoked by Democrats whipping up their base, and a few wistful conservatives who dream aloud about what, in a sane nation, should actually happen to a lawless president.

August 1, 2014

KNIGHT: Under Jerusalem, the search for Solomon’s Temple

As conflict rages in Gaza, and anti-Semitic riots erupt in European cities, something is happening deep within Jerusalem that could change the course of history.

July 25, 2014

KNIGHT: A modest proposal for housing illegal immigrants

Attention, illegal-immigrant children, gang members and drug smugglers who are still pouring over the border into Texas.

July 18, 2014

KNIGHT: The kindness of strangers has its limits

They say the South is the friendliest place in America, and they're probably right.

July 11, 2014

KNIGHT: When moral sanity is ‘deeply disturbing’

Hillary Clinton thinks it's a "hard choice" to take a human life.

July 5, 2014

KNIGHT: As Maine goes, so goes the nation

Like a bottle tossed in a faraway sea, Washington's recklessness keeps washing up elsewhere, such as the great state of Maine.

June 27, 2014

KNIGHT: How liberals miss the mark

Let me get past the difficult part first: I'm a recovering liberal.

June 20, 2014

KNIGHT: The big idea behind Cantor’s fall

Everyone has a theory about why Tea Party upstart Dave Brat soundly beat Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Virginia's 7th Congressional District primary last Tuesday.

June 13, 2014

KNIGHT: Resisting the siren song of voting-rights ‘reform’

As the nation gears up for crucial midterm congressional elections in November, another "reform" proposal has emerged, with lawmakers hearing the predictable siren song of "go along, or be accused of racism."

June 6, 2014