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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 (Dec 29, 2011)
I was thinking about writing a novel about what might happen if a man who hates America and
wants to bring it down is somehow elected president. What would he do?
I... more
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Robert Knight (Dec 20, 2011)
Is it racist to require people to show a photo ID when they vote?
You need a photo ID for nearly any meaningful transaction, such as cashing checks, including... more
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Robert Knight (Dec 13, 2011)
Three incidents in recent days tell us all we need to know about the Obama Administration’s "values."
On Dec. 1, the story broke that Bethesda,... more
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Robert Knight (Dec 06, 2011)
The ACLU has managed to block North Carolina from issuing license plates with a “Choose Life” message because the state legislature declined to also issue... more
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Robert Knight (Dec 01, 2011)
Atheists must be the most fragile peaches in the basket.
They’re always getting bruised by the slightest exposure to public displays that remind them of Christmas, God,... more
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Robert Knight (Nov 23, 2011)
Next March, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the challenge by 26 states and the
National Federation of Independent Business to the constitutionality of the... more
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Robert Knight (Nov 09, 2011)
“In God We Trust” is the national motto, even though Barack Obama told a Jakarta, Indonesia audience last November that our national motto is E Pluribus Unum (out of many,... more
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Robert Knight (Nov 01, 2011)
Liberal press bias has been so stark and the lying by omission so blatant that it’s time to take stock again.
Here are some examples culled from the... more
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Robert Knight (Oct 26, 2011)
On Oct. 14, a federal judge blocked key portions of Alabama’s new immigration law after several groups, including the Obama Justice Department and the ACLU,... more
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Robert Knight (Oct 18, 2011)
How does paying people not to work constitute a key element of a “jobs bill?”
President Obama’s goofy, gimmicky American Jobs Act, which even the... more
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Robert Knight (Oct 13, 2011)
As a school board member in Kanawha County, West Virginia in the early 1970s, Alice Moore
ignited what might be considered the opening battle of America’s culture war in... more
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Robert Knight (Oct 06, 2011)
North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue spoke for many politicians on Sept. 27 when she suggested
suspending elections for Congress for two years to give them a free hand without... more
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Robert Knight (Sep 28, 2011)
Rodney King showed up at the United Nations on Sept. 20 and instructed everyone there to well, get along.
Actually, it was Barack Obama, but his message was the same as... more
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Robert Knight (Sep 20, 2011)
The Constitution of the United States, whose adoption we celebrate every Sept. 17, clearly lists the powers of each branch of the national government.
Let’s take... more
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Robert Knight (Sep 13, 2011)
If you were the devil, what would be your most important mission, other than inventing false religions?
It would be to corrupt innocent children.
I’d start... more
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Robert Knight (Sep 08, 2011)
The modern day faith in Science makes the most fanatical fundamentalist look indifferent by comparison.
Ever since Charles Darwin proposed his theory of macro evolution,... more
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Robert Knight (Aug 30, 2011)
We’ve got a word for people who hate Christmas.
The Grinch.
What should we call people who hate America’s Judeo-Christian heritage, even to the point of barring clergy at a... more
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Robert Knight (Aug 25, 2011)
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has done us a wonderful service with her Aug. 15 article in the Atlantic, “Is Rick Perry as Christian as He Thinks He Is?”
It’s a masterpiece of... more
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Robert Knight (Aug 20, 2011)
SILVERTON, CO – The man in the coffee shop had the look of a no-nonsense Westerner. A retired architect, he told me that he had lived in the mountains for the past few years... more
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Robert Knight (Aug 16, 2011)
Some stories have “legs.”
They don’t disappear after a day or so but stay in the news, especially if they help move a liberal agenda. Think of global warming... more
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Robert Knight (Jul 26, 2011)
Of all the bombs that liberal pundits toss at the Tea Party, none better illustrates why the GOP should actually pay attention than last Thursday’s article by E. J. Dionne... more
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Robert Knight (Jul 19, 2011)
Over the past 90 years, a relentless campaign has unfolded to overthrow Judeo-Christian morality and replace it with an amorality that says desires in and of themselves... more
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Robert Knight (Jul 12, 2011)
When Tim Geithner whipped out his pocket Constitution in May to address the debt ceiling issue, the rivers in Hades must have been packed with ice skaters.
Consult the... more
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Robert Knight (Jul 07, 2011)
During this past July 4th weekend, Americans rightly celebrated American Exceptionalism and our hard-won freedom from European dominance. That’s why Barack... more
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Robert Knight (Jul 01, 2011)
The cultural sledgehammer that’s shattering basic decency in America keeps pounding away.
Our enemies must be delighted to see us disarm morally and still expect to be... more
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Robert Knight (Jun 28, 2011)
While 22-year-old Rory McIlroy was teeing up on June 16 during the first round of his historic victory at the U.S. Open, another drama unfolded outside Congressional Country... more
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Robert Knight (Jun 23, 2011)
When I was a reporter years ago in Ocean City, Maryland, I learned the hard way that freedom of the press can be expensive.
In the dark days of winter, ad revenue was... more
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Robert Knight (Jun 14, 2011)
Even with the demise of ACORN, a lot of people are worried about voter fraud in the upcoming 2012 presidential election.
That's because the Association of... more
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Robert Knight (Jun 07, 2011)
You might have seen the vicious Mediscare video by now entitled “America the Beautiful.” If you haven’t, you should. It’s from folks who just the other day were chanting the... more
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Robert Knight (Jun 01, 2011)
Well, we’re still here despite doomsday evangelist Harold Camping’s warning of the end of the world on Saturday, May 21 at 6 p.m.
But wait. Camping says we’re not out of... more
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Robert Knight (May 24, 2011)
Every so often, a single incident epitomizes larger truths. One of these is that all issues, whether social or fiscal, are moral issues.
Former International Monetary... more
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Robert Knight (May 23, 2011)
Every so often, a single incident epitomizes larger truths. One of these is that all issues, whether social or fiscal, are moral issues.
Former International Monetary... more
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Robert Knight (May 17, 2011)
In Wymore, Neb., citizens got fed up with a councilman who kept leaving meetings. So last Tuesday, May 10, they voted him out in a recall election.
It’s part of a... more
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Robert Knight (May 10, 2011)
A couple of years ago, I let my National Geographic subscription lapse because of the magazine’s relentless earth worship. But I missed the superb photos, crisp writing and... more
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Robert Knight (May 04, 2011)
When Barack Obama is in flyover country, if you close your eyes, you can almost hear a moderate Republican on the stump.
But when he’s on the Left Coast, the real Obama... more
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Robert Knight (Apr 25, 2011)
With spring in the air, all but the truly soul-dead feel the pull of not only natural but spiritual renewal.
The surge of new life after winter’s dormancy is so... more
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Robert Knight (Apr 12, 2011)
It seems like only yesterday that progressives were warning us about "politicizing the judiciary."
That was after Iowa's voters declined last November to... more
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Robert Knight (Apr 06, 2011)
"We used to conform behavior to the military. Now we're conforming the military to behavior."
Rep. Allen B. West, Florida Republican, belled the cat... more
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Robert Knight (Apr 06, 2011)
President Obama needs to reinvent reality, so where does he go? A college campus.
And why not? With gas doubling in price toward $4 a gallon, what better place to talk... more
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Robert Knight (Mar 30, 2011)
Underneath headlines about Libya, the Japanese disaster and the Republicans’ dainty attempts to nip around the edges of our massive federal debt, the culture war is raging.... more
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Robert Knight (Mar 23, 2011)
When I was a kid, I got bullied fairly frequently because I was short. So my parents enrolled me in a Judo class. After a few unexpected flips in the hallways, the bullies... more
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Robert Knight (Mar 17, 2011)
“I’m not going to lie to you, this is going to get ugly.”
So predicts “Goldfish,” a Daily Kos blogger who boasts of spending two weekends in Madison, Wisconsin “on the Front... more
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Robert Knight (Mar 08, 2011)
I'm with Sam Alito, at least in spirit.
The Associate Justice was alone in his dissent in Snyder vs. Phelps, in which the U.S. Supreme Court in an 8-1 ruling on March 2... more
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Robert Knight (Mar 03, 2011)
It’s a good thing Barack Obama is not in charge of defending the law of gravity, or we’d all be floating up to an airless death.
Allow me to take off the gloves. As one... more
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Robert Knight (Feb 22, 2011)
Christians, orthodox Jews or anyone with traditional views of sex and marriage should be barred from state university counseling programs unless they agree to violate their... more
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Robert Knight (Feb 16, 2011)
Did you know that the nation will soon undergo a test that will determine how effectively the President of the United States can seize control of the media in the event of an... more
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Robert Knight (Feb 08, 2011)
Years ago, when I was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, I got to sit down with Martin Anderson, one of Ronald Reagan’s closest advisers.
We... more
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Robert Knight (Feb 04, 2011)
Editor's note: This article was co-authored by Susan A. Carleson and Robert Knight.
We knew things weren’t good, but nearly one seventh of all Americans on food stamps?... more
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Robert Knight (Feb 01, 2011)
Socialism – the abolishment of private property – sometimes advances at the point of a gun. At other times, it advances by co-opting the language of freedom.
In his State... more
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Robert Knight (Jan 28, 2011)
In the state where pagan natives once threw people off cliffs to placate the gods, the Hawaiian state Senate has voted to end the practice of opening its sessions with... more
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Robert Knight (Jan 25, 2011)
On any given day, scientists jolt us with new findings – and possibilities.
The white coats in China are busily creating chimeras, the offspring of humans mated with... more
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Robert Knight (Jan 20, 2011)
The first major campaign event of the 2012 presidential election was held on Jan. 12, 2011 in Tucson, Arizona.
Barack Obama, speaking at a memorial service held at the... more
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Robert Knight (Jan 12, 2011)
While the nation watches to see how the new House leadership flexes its Tea Party-enhanced muscle, the legal campaign to strip the public square of any reminders of America’s... more