Robert Knight

KNIGHT: Left likes fuzzy math on Election Day

Pawing through the ashes of Mitt Romney defeat, it's clear that if the Republican Party wants to compete nationally, it has to do several things, such as re-message timeless traditional values, attract more young and minority voters -- particularly Hispanics -- and do a better job of getting out the vote.

November 23, 2012

KNIGHT: Casting blame at conservatives for Romney’s defeat

Like clockwork, traditional-values voters are being blamed for the failure of a moderate GOP presidential candidate.

November 16, 2012

KNIGHT: Why the single-issue campaign failed

"It's the economy, stupid."

November 9, 2012

KNIGHT: Faithful flexing muscles before Election Day

Economic issues seem to be dominating the 2012 campaign, but a quiet electoral revolution is brewing. The "religious vote" is on the move, and it's not going leftward.

November 2, 2012

KNIGHT: Vote suppression, real and imagined

Did you know that the uberclean United Nations, whose blue-helmeted troops have been charged with everything from rape to theft in Third World countries, is going to have an affiliate help us run our elections?

October 26, 2012

KNIGHT: ACLU says father-daughter dance ‘contrary to federal law’

If you want to see what the new normal looks like when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) calls the shots, look no further than Cranston, R.I. That city of 80,000, the third-largest in the Ocean State, is at the epicenter of the ACLU's war on the normal.

October 22, 2012

KNIGHT: Buying Obama’s whoppers

You know it's bad when the president deputizes Big Bird as his thuggish surrogate. Aside from Big Bird's checkered past as a well-to-do federal welfare recipient, wouldn't Joe Biden or Oscar the Grouch put up a better fight?

October 12, 2012

KNIGHT: Obama’s debate run-in with inconvenient truths

I didn't want to write about the first presidential debate, which has been sliced and diced by many.

October 5, 2012

KNIGHT: Suppressing the vote

During World War II, American soldiers in the Pacific listened to Radio Tokyo and other English-language programs on Japanese-run stations.

September 28, 2012

KNIGHT: Appeasement trumps First Amendment

I was driving into Washington the other day when a radio clip of Hillary Rodham Clinton got my attention. The secretary of state was emoting hotly, using terms such as "disgusting" and "reprehensible."

September 21, 2012

KNIGHT: Trashing the Constitution

Constitution Day is Monday, Sept. 17, so I compiled a non-exhaustive list of the ways Barack Obama has violated the Constitution.

September 14, 2012

KNIGHT: Democratic convention presents the ‘new normal’

If the November election is solely about the economy, why did the Democrats boot God and Jerusalem from their platform at the Democratic National Convention only to panic and then rig a vote to put them back in?

September 7, 2012

KNIGHT: Chicago does mean corruption

Chicago. Chicago. Chicago.

August 31, 2012

KNIGHT: The perils of undermining American heritage

Facebook's stock may be anemic at the moment, but the social media site is growing by leaps and bounds. It is poised to hit 1 billion users.

August 24, 2012

KNIGHT: Weighing ‘hate’ on uneven scales

When a man shot and wounded security guard Leo Johnson at the Family Research Council (FRC) on Wednesday morning, the shooter left little doubt why.

August 17, 2012

KNIGHT: Slinging mud from the Soptic tank

Public figures' records are fair game in political campaigns. It's not "mudslinging" unless it's untrue or employs "derogatory personal slurs," according to the Living Webster Dictionary.

August 10, 2012

KNIGHT: Liberals’ war on Boy Scouts, Chick-fil-A

Twelve years ago, Bryant Gumbel called me an (expletive) idiot on CBS' "The Early Show" for defending the Boy Scouts after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed their right to uphold moral standards for leaders and members.

August 3, 2012

KNIGHT: ‘Eat mor chikin’

Each day brings new evidence of the left's hatred for Christians and other traditionalists, but the smear campaign against Christian-owned Chick-fil-A sets a new low.

July 27, 2012

KNIGHT: Clueless in Minnesota and Michigan

At the Minnesota Supreme Court on July 17, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argued that Gopher State people aren't smart enough to be allowed to vote in November on whether to approve a voter photo ID constitutional amendment.

July 20, 2012

KNIGHT: Why Mayberry still resonates

"Americans loved, and still love, the notion of the small town as a manageable, non-threatening, friendly, finite community. ...The black-and-white world that Andy Griffith shaped so masterfully is there for our perusal from a distance, but it is not coming back either on television or anywhere else." - Ted Anthony, Associated Press

July 6, 2012