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Columns by Robert Knight

President Donald Trump talks with reporters aboard Air Force One on a flight to Andrews Air Force Base, Md.,, Thursday, April 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The anti-Trump media caravan rolls on

One of the most vexing aspects of daily life is the nonstop flow of anti-Trump propaganda masquerading as news analysis. That is, unless you hate Donald Trump, as most of the media clearly do. Fake news oozes from nearly every media pore, some of it more subtle than others.

April 8, 2018
The Return of the Prodigal Son (Rembrandt)

Wonders that never cease

Cynics like to claim that Christians at Easter unknowingly celebrate a pagan spring fertility rite that the church co-opted for its own purposes.

April 1, 2018
Workers prepare to free a trapped car from tons of debris after mudslides from heavy rain overnight caused the closure of Topanga Canyon Boulevard, a key mountain highway over the Santa Monica Mountains, above Malibu, Calif., early Thursday, March 15, 2018. No injuries were reported. The California Department of Transportation said that with more rain expected, the route through Topanga Canyon will remain closed through at least Sunday night. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

The great California train wreck

Let me just say from the outset that I still miss California. When I see news about my former state, it's like reading the details of a train wreck after having safely disembarked a comfortable time ago.

March 18, 2018
Illustration on the culture of diversity and tolerance by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Transgressing the diversity dictate

"All I know is what I read in the papers," Will Rogers used to say when opening his vaudeville act. In that spirit, here are two items in the news that shed light on our current culture.

March 11, 2018
A Maryland bill, approved by the state Senate on a 28-17 vote, would require presidential and vice presidential candidates to release the preceding five years of their tax returns to appear on the ballot.  (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Taxing America out of its liberties

As you struggle to submit something to Uncle Sam that won't send federal agents to your door, guns blazing, it's worth pondering how immoral and unconstitutional the whole thing is.

February 18, 2018
Illustration on FBI animus towards Donald Trump by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The FBI’s war on Trump

Two lovebirds and others at the FBI need to be investigated on charges of plotting to influence a presidential election and later cripple a presidential administration.

January 28, 2018
Illustration on the Hallmark Channel by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Hallmark magic in an age of anxiety

I don't know how everyone else is doing, but we're ahead of the game in at least one category: watching Christmas movies.

December 17, 2017
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Jacoby Brissett looks to throw during the second half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

NFL’s Players Coalition compact is a misguided effort

Faced with plummeting attendance and TV ratings over its boneheaded unwillingness to require its millionaire players to at least stand during the national anthem, the National Football League brain trust has come up with another beauty: Let's throw millions of dollars at left wing political causes.

December 10, 2017
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, leaves the Fort Bragg courtroom facility as the judge deliberates in a sentencing hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C., Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. Bergdahl, who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Bergdahl liberals blur line between honor and dishonor

I thought later about the women's admiration of Mr. Obama while reading about Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl's light, dishonorable discharge without incarceration for leaving his post in 2009 and causing severe injuries and possibly related deaths of several fellow soldiers in Afghanistan. Sgt. Bergdahl's return was procured by Mr. Obama in 2014 in exchange for five Taliban commanders who have gone back to plotting the destruction of the United States and our allies.

November 12, 2017
CORRECTS TO HOUSTON NOT CHAMBERS STREET A passerby pauses at a makeshift memorial near a bike path that honors victims of an attack who were stuck and killed by a rental truck driven by indicted suspect Sayfullo Saipov last Tuesday, at Houston and West Streets in New York, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017. Saipov is accused of using the rental truck to mow down pedestrians and cyclists along the busy bike path. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Marxism destroys traditional values

The deadly Islamic terrorist truck attack in New York City on Halloween exposed a caldron of issues, from national security to immigration policy.

November 5, 2017