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Columns by Robert Knight

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KNIGHT: Overplaying the hate card

If Oscars were awarded for liberal hysteria, California's Rep. Barbara Lee would be a perennial contender. On Tuesday, at a congressional forum on the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, Ms. Lee proclaimed that it was the result of "a toxic and deadly mix."

March 30, 2012
Illustration: EPA overreach by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Taming the EPA monster

Slowly, inexorably, the monster is being driven back to its lair. Its days of terrorizing villagers may soon be over. I wish I were talking about the federal government, but it's the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), better known as the Environmental Protection-or-else Agency.

March 23, 2012
Illustration: Voter ID by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Betrayal by any other name

What would you call it if some Americans went overseas to the United Nations Human Rights Council and gave aid and comfort to some of the most repressive regimes on the planet?

March 16, 2012
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KNIGHT: Will high court adopt the coercion test?

As the American Civil Liberties Union prowls the land to muzzle public prayers, rip out Ten Commandments monuments and terrify small towns over Nativity scenes, help may be on the way from the U.S. Supreme Court.

March 9, 2012
Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Power to the people’s overseers

Liberals love coercion. They think they're smarter than the rest of us. If they didn't, they wouldn't expend so much effort inventing new rules and laws for our betterment.

March 2, 2012
Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Lying because it works

This year's presidential election will be a contest between truth and lies. Don't think it's that stark? Let's compare how the media handled two incidents. On Feb. 16, philanthropist Foster Friess, a major backer and adviser to Rick Santorum, cracked a joke that became a media sensation.

February 24, 2012
Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Voter fraud in this life and the next

Did you know that according to a new Pew study, more than 1.8 million dead people are registered to vote? And that leading Democrats are fiercely opposing new laws that tighten voting requirements?

February 17, 2012
Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Paper-thin cover for liberal agenda

Although I get a lot of news online, I love to read real newspapers. You can linger forever on a particular page without getting eye strain, or you can physically flip it with gusto to show your contempt for what some editor thought should be holding your interest.

February 10, 2012
Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Keeping marriage real

Maryland's Civil Marriage Protection Act is profoundly misnamed. In fact, it should more accurately be called the Attack on Religious Freedom Enabling Act.

February 1, 2012
Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Welfare wars: Anatomy of a smear

When I was a copy editor at the Los Angeles Times, a young reporter submitted an article about a single mother having trouble obtaining government checks.

January 27, 2012
ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has been nominated to head the new Consumer Protection Bureau. But Senate Republicans say he would have too much power. Democrats, for their part, complain of political games being played in the process.

KNIGHT: Obama’s inoperative Constitution

Back in 1973, when the Nixon administration was under fire for Watergate, Press Secretary Ron Ziegler uttered an unforgettable response when caught in a lie during a news conference: "This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative."

January 6, 2012