Robert Knight

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. Published 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." Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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? Published 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. Published 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. Published May 20, 2013

Benghazi’s media maze

You just knew press coverage of the congressional hearing on the Benghazi cover-ups last Wednesday would be nonexistent or squirrely, right? Published May 13, 2013

KNIGHT: Benghazi’s media maze

You just knew press coverage of the congressional hearing on the Benghazi cover-ups last Wednesday would be nonexistent or squirrely, right? Published May 13, 2013

KNIGHT: Twisting words into doublespeak

America is awash in doublespeak. Published May 6, 2013

KNIGHT: An electoral-reform tsunami

Jefferson Davis County in southwest Mississippi has the distinction of being named after Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis. That's good or bad, depending on whether you regard what occurred between 1861 and 1865 as the Civil War or as the War Between the States. Published April 29, 2013

KNIGHT: Earth Day religion

Just as the word "liberal" has given way to the less-tarnished "progressive," it's hard to find "global warming" in environmental groups' materials celebrating April 22 as Earth Day. Published April 22, 2013

KNIGHT: Getting rich by selling hate

While the media cheer the Obama administration and Senate Democrats as they exploit the Newtown, Conn., school massacre to push gun-control laws that would hamper law-abiding citizens, they won't connect some more obvious dots to another shooting. Published April 15, 2013

KNIGHT: The sound of tyranny

In a remarkably short time, Germany recovered smartly from the wreckage of its defeat in World War II to become the economic strongman of Europe. Monuments to the nation's plunge into Nazism remain at Dachau and other death camps as grim reminders of the dangers of an all-powerful state with a messianic leader. Published April 8, 2013

KNIGHT: If no one can win, everyone loses

The last time I was in Ipswich, Mass., I had one of the tastiest plates of fried clams imaginable. They were fresh, full-bellied and cooked perfectly. Try getting something like this outside the Bay State. Published April 1, 2013

KNIGHT: Hope goes out of season in Seattle

During spring renewal, when flowers blossom, grasses begin to green and a billion Christians celebrate a peerless Resurrection that occurred nearly 2,000 years ago, it's a good time to reflect on one of Christendom's most significant contributions to civilization: establishing hospitals. Published March 29, 2013