Robert Knight

Of cows and men

Are dairy cows dangerous contributors to climate change or victims of toxic masculinity?

August 16, 2019

Scary lessons from history

According to social media rules, the first person in an argument to bring up Hitler or Nazis loses.

August 9, 2019

Debate questions that might shed some light

Democratic presidential contenders have 10 more debates to go, starting up again in September.

August 2, 2019

Hit piece on Yankee Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera shows how the left attacks everything

Mariano Rivera, the New York Yankees' nonpareil closing righthand pitcher who helped them win five World Series titles, should be shunned, according to the lefty online journal Daily Beast.

July 26, 2019

In defiance of science

For years, the left has claimed to be the party of science, while casting religious conservatives as ignorant, superstitious louts.

July 19, 2019

When cultural Marxists advance their agenda everyone’s freedom suffers

Tyranny can arrive fast in the form of tanks and jackboots. Or it can come gradually, snuffing out liberty and replacing it with fear.

July 14, 2019

Democrats’ open border strategy is to flood America’s southern border with millions of migrants

So, here's the Democrats' plan: Flood America's southern border with millions of illegal aliens, hook them on government aid and eventually turn them into voters. It can't be more obvious anymore.

July 7, 2019

How socialism violates all Ten Commandments

With a couple dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls vying to see who's pinker, perhaps it's time to contrast socialism with something more helpful and permanent: The Ten Commandments.

June 30, 2019

Self-appointed cultural masters want to make a religion out of sameness

The conceit of our age is that we can alter reality at a whim. We're really that smart and powerful. We not only can control the planet's weather, but we can defy God's essential design for life, reflected in nature and cultures trillions of times a day.

June 23, 2019

Destroying a life in the womb has nothing to do with ‘reproductive health’

We are awash in weasel words, that is, euphemisms meant to distract us from reality. The most obvious ones are replacing homosexuality with "gay," taxes with "revenue," spending with "investments," sexual confusion with "gender identity" and abortion with "choice." Actually, abortion has a whole set of weasel terms.

June 16, 2019

Washington, D.C., the Democrats who run District push for statehood and a loopy agenda

Here in the Swamp, local Democrats are rattling the cage for statehood. They want to make the 61.4-square-mile District of Columbia the 51st state, right up there with Virginia, Alaska and California. Even the smallest state, Rhode Island, has 1,212 square miles, about half the size of Joe Biden's Delaware.

June 9, 2019

Since Mueller didn’t explicitly condemn Trump, Democrats are treating it like an indictment

Special counsel Robert Mueller's two-year-long fishing expedition found no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russians. So why is Mr. Mueller now hinting that Mr. Trump is somehow guilty after all?

June 2, 2019

Rejecting the Marxist version of the Constitution

The first rule of any Marxist revolution is that rules are fine if they advance the cause or cripple opponents. The rules can be discarded the minute they get in the way.

May 26, 2019

The Equality Act would turn America upside down

Democrats in the House are celebrating Friday's passage of the Equality Act, a misnamed legal jackhammer that would add "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to federal civil rights law.

May 19, 2019

Conservatives punished, censored online for violating political correctness

Brian Sims is having his 15 minutes of fame -- or notoriety, depending on your point of view.

May 12, 2019

The 22 declared candidates for president lean far to the left

Adults in the Democratic Party, who seem like flustered parents at an out-of-control toddler birthday bash, have been warning about the public's perception of them.

May 5, 2019

The left’s vision of America is a country that is constantly brawling

Kate Smith, famous for "God Bless America," has become the latest American to be jammed down the memory hole.

April 28, 2019

Co-opting Jesus Christ for unholy purposes

At Easter, the question is often raised: Who is Jesus?

April 21, 2019

In Maine, the weather lets you know who’s boss, and awakens the call of poetry

So, we left springtime behind -- Northern Virginia's 70-degree weather and cherry trees in their full glory -- to drive to Maine, where weather lets you know who's boss.

April 14, 2019

The Southern Poverty Law Center is ensnared in a scandal that threatens its survival

It appears that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is having a long overdue comeuppance.

April 7, 2019