Robert Knight

KNIGHT: Blowing hot and cold on devotion to states’ rights

Holder is cool with marijuana, but not with preventing election fraud

September 8, 2013

KNIGHT: ‘Stand your ground’ when liberals attack

Americans have a right to their beliefs without left-wing reproach

September 2, 2013

KNIGHT: The lawless and their discontents

Upon securing victory against the British, George Washington had to quell a rising movement to crown him as America's new king.

August 26, 2013

KNIGHT: Too much bull from the White House

It's obviously high time for President Obama to appoint a rodeo clown czar.

August 19, 2013

KNIGHT: Recalling what freedom of religion meant to the Founders

Ever feel like an "outsider?"

August 12, 2013

KNIGHT: Culture clash in the high country

Just because the mountain air is thin at 7,800 feet and the New Age is evident in various ways doesn't mean that Coloradans have totally lost their sense of reality.

August 5, 2013

KNIGHT: When government grows like kudzu

The federal government is growing like kudzu. That's the Japanese ivy plant that's taking over roadsides all over the south and is even invading the north.

July 22, 2013

KNIGHT: Silver linings in the ruling on Obamacare

In the latest court ruling upholding Obamacare, a three-judge federal panel in Richmond, Va, last Thursday rejected Liberty University's challenge to both the individual mandate and the employer mandate to provide health insurance.

July 15, 2013

KNIGHT: The IRS scandal’s inconvenient facts

As part of his powerful screeds against English rule, Founding Father Tom Paine had this to say about the king's appetite for his subjects' tax money: "There is scarcely a necessary of life that you can eat, drink, wear or enjoy, that is not there loaded with a tax. Even the light from heaven is only permitted to shine into their dwellings by paying eighteen pence sterling per window annually."

July 8, 2013

KNIGHT: ‘Black-robed hate group’

By accusing backers of traditional marriage of being motivated only by animus against homosexuals, the U.S. Supreme Court has become the most prominent hate group in the country.

July 1, 2013

KNIGHT: Living in the devil of a time

Given the sheer volume of bizarre cultural shifts just in the past few weeks, it's time for another "if I were the devil" column.

June 24, 2013

KNIGHT: The GOP temptation to try to fix the unfixable

It doesn't matter whether the Republican-led House passes good, workable immigration legislation.

June 17, 2013

KNIGHT: Recollecting the requirements of conscience

A 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis has given us a snapshot into the brave, new world of big government and why we should fear it.

June 10, 2013

KNIGHT: Drilled by the quill

As a longtime, ink-stained wretch, I'm actually glad that some of the Obama administration's bombs targeting our essential liberties found their way out of the Tea Party kill zone and were dropped instead on the Fourth Estate.

June 3, 2013

KNIGHT: Striking a sour note on the boardwalk

What do you do if you're a street fiddler who wants to play as loud as you want, and the cops tell you to pipe down?

May 28, 2013

KNIGHT: Turning the tables on the IRS

It's pretty clear that the Internal Revenue Service acted illegally in its abuse of Tea Party and other conservative groups and individuals since 2009.

May 27, 2013

KNIGHT: Taxing the credulity of the Americans

Barack Obama says he is angry about the Internal Revenue Service singling out conservative and Tea Party groups for rough treatment, even though it may or may not have something to do with an anti-Muslim video.

May 20, 2013