Robert Knight is an author, senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a frequent contributor to Townhall. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 14 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Tue, 14 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ You just knew press coverage of the congressional hearing on the Benghazi cover-ups last Wednesday would be nonexistent or squirrely, right? It was mostly the latter, so break out the nuts. After the hearing, an... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/05/14/the-benghazi-media-maze-n1594013 06291e19-a7af-4ceb-827e-3e7d87269b1a Tue, 14 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT America is awash in doublespeak. Words such as "marriage," "conservatism," "bigotry," "tolerance" and "brave," no longer have universal meaning, and this is no accident. When confusion replaces clarity, the devil... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/05/08/new-age-conservatism-and-other-doublespeak-n1590482 3553a3be-efed-479b-9467-1841a565e48a Wed, 08 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/05/03/mississippi-lawsuits-could-unleash-votefraud-reform-n1585668 1f6af2b6-6403-498c-b4a4-22788c26d19c Fri, 03 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Now that an unusually cold spring is giving way to warmer weather and Earth Day is behind us, it's a good time to revisit the campaign to turn us all into progressive environmentalists. Just as the word "liberal" has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/04/30/the-environmentalist-error-n1581811 b001f19e-bf64-4ff5-b28c-140dc78cb4fc Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT While the media cheer the Obama Administration and Senate Democrats as they exploit the Newtown school massacre to push laws that would hamper law-abiding citizens, they won't connect some more obvious dots to another... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/04/15/southern-poverty-law-center-gets-rich-by-selling-fear-n1568833 8e14194d-db0d-4915-9086-2d7b37a5d6f9 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:29:00 GMT In a remarkably short time, Germany recovered smartly from the wreckage of its defeat in World War II to become the economic strong man of Europe. Monuments to the nation's plunge into Nazism remain at Dachau and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/04/09/the-sound-of-tyranny-for-german-home-school-family-n1561552 6434f073-45f6-418a-a10b-c0c82056045e Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT The last time I was in Ipswich, Massachusetts, 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.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/04/02/if-there-are-no-winners-were-all-losers-n1554730 af8eb657-8384-4286-899c-65cf74360b1f Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Over the past few weeks, the War on Marriage has turned into a Blitzkrieg. It's all designed to sway the Supreme Court, which will be hearing arguments Tuesday and Wednesday on California's voter-approved... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/03/26/war-on-marriage-is-a-war-on-reality-n1549431 369ea963-eb8f-48a3-8928-765d32a1fbe2 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:00:00 GMT In 1919, back when the United States was a constitutional republic, Congress passed a child labor law imposing a 10 percent excise tax on companies that violated it. A North Carolina furniture maker challenged... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/03/12/libertys-obamacare-challenge-provides-glimmer-of-hope-n1531282 02b87388-2cae-4d50-a346-bd7a87e3c700 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT Comedian Bill Cosby apparently has implied that if you don't support Barack Obama, you're a racist. This comes as something of a shock since Mr. Cosby, over his long career, generally has avoided making political... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/03/06/curing-the-gops-tonsillitis-n1526310 881423dc-91dd-414e-9e0f-70319b1582fc Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has lost its six-year campaign to tear down a Ten Commandments monument at the Dixie County, Florida courthouse. They've even lost their usual extortion money for harassing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/02/27/aclu-loses-plaintiff-and-ten-commandments-case-n1521038 47948094-c450-4c7e-8464-0e225581e4ef Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT What's the real message behind Barack Obama's call in his State of the Union speech for taxpayer-funded "universal" preschool and his trip to a Georgia preschool last Thursday for photo ops? It's that the government... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/02/19/the-kidnapping-lobby-is-at-it-again-n1515120 c5164277-b91a-4085-b4e0-22c23e9bf7d8 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Michael Schwartz, a great man who passed this earth on Feb. 3 at age 63, was an anomaly. An Irish Catholic from the Duffy family, circumstances gave him a last name that suggested a different heritage. He was so... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/02/13/schwartz-a-life-lived-on-the-front-lines-of-the-culture-war-n1510729 47b33091-449a-4fc2-aa03-0a5de4c43259 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Boy Scouts learn to start fires by rubbing two sticks together. Now, the national Scout leadership is playing with fire. Scratch that; they're playing with explosives. Under consideration for a vote during a Feb. 4th... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2013/02/06/scouts-flirt-with-dishonor-and-destruction-n1505802 519309e6-0208-42e9-b802-52cd799eeff2 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT