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Columns by Robert Knight

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Culture clash in the high country

Just because the mountain air is thin at 7,800 feet and the New Age is evident in various ways doesn't mean that Coloradans have totally lost their sense of reality.

August 5, 2013
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KNIGHT: When government grows like kudzu

The federal government is growing like kudzu. That's the Japanese ivy plant that's taking over roadsides all over the south and is even invading the north.

July 22, 2013
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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.

July 15, 2013
Illustration: IRS shakedown by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.

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."

July 8, 2013
Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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.

July 1, 2013