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Robert Knight is an author, senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a frequent contributor to Townhall.
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Robert Knight (May 22, 2012)
Kansas is one of those schizophrenic states that produce movers and shakers on both sides of the aisle, plus a lot of moderates like Bob Dole.
The same state that now has... more
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Robert Knight (May 15, 2012)
After having done everything in his power to undermine marriage, Barack Obama has come out of the closet, so to speak, with his announcement that he’s now for brideless or... more
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Robert Knight (May 13, 2012)
God Almighty needs an editor, according to a federal judge in Virginia. At least, He does when the Ten Commandments are on government property.
The ACLU had sued the Giles... more
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Robert Knight (May 09, 2012)
What do Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico have in common?
They comprise the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region VI. They also constitute the... more
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Robert Knight (May 01, 2012)
Barack Obama’s 2006 bestseller The Audacity of Hope gave us a number of clues as to how he would govern based on his worldview.
We can’t say we weren’t warned.
Amid the... more
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Robert Knight (Apr 24, 2012)
Like many liberal causes that have gone mainstream, powered by a partisan media, Earth Day had some very radical beginnings.
First, it’s on April 22, the ruthless... more
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Robert Knight (Apr 17, 2012)
The Titanic went down 100 years ago, on April 15, 1912. It took just two hours and forty minutes for the sea to swallow the ship that “God Himself couldn’t sink.”
It’s... more
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Robert Knight (Apr 03, 2012)
If Oscars were awarded for liberal hysteria, California’s Barbara Lee would be a perennial contender for Best Blamer.
On March 27, at a congressional forum on the shooting... more
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Robert Knight (Mar 20, 2012)
What would you call it if some Americans went overseas to the UN’s Human Rights Council and gave aid and comfort to some of the most repressive regimes on the... more
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Robert Knight (Mar 14, 2012)
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... more
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Robert Knight (Mar 06, 2012)
Liberals love coercion. And 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... more
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Robert Knight (Mar 01, 2012)
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.... more
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Robert Knight (Feb 14, 2012)
I get a lot of news online, but I still love to read real newspapers, too.
For one thing, you can physically flip pages with gusto to show your contempt for what some... more
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Robert Knight (Feb 04, 2012)
Maryland’s proposed Civil Marriage Protection Act, which would legalize same-sex “marriage,” is not about tolerance.
It’s about using the law... more
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Robert Knight (Jan 31, 2012)
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.
The story was... more
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Robert Knight (Jan 24, 2012)
Checking his sundial and solar-powered calendar, Barack Obama has decided that he did not
have enough time to study the impact of the $7 billion XL pipeline from Canada, so... more
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Robert Knight (Jan 17, 2012)
America lost an unsung hero on January 8 with the passing of Thomas H. Landess, Ph.D.
To say that Tom was an accomplished Southern academic would be like... more
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Robert Knight (Jan 10, 2012)
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 press... more
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Robert Knight (Jan 04, 2012)
The most consequential election in our lifetime is still 11 months away, but it’s clear from the Obama administration’s order halting South Carolina’s new photo ID law that... more