united states

Chris Knight's avatar

Take this for what it’s worth folks…

I am starting to hear, from “the little birds”, that there are allegations of some voting fraud that took place with this past week’s election.

There are at least a couple of “conspiracy theories” that I’ve been told about since yesterday. To be honest I’m surprised that there haven’t been more than those few by now. But it’s still early so far as these sorts of things go.

One statistic that I have seen a few times in the past twelve hours or so: the number of votes that Republican House of Representatives candidates received during the last mid-term election in 2022, 54.2 million, is close to the 55.6 million that Republican candidates received this year.

The Democratic candidates for the House in 2022 got 51.3 million. This year the votes for the Dems in the House soared to 70.4 million… almost TWENTY ...

Read more

Chris Knight's avatar

Today is Election Day here in the United States. As it’s often being called, “the mid-terms”. Because it’s coming at the halfway point in the four-year term of the president.

I’ve never liked calling these elections “mid-terms”. Every election is supposed to be of grave import, not just those that might swing political power away from or (more rarely) toward whoever the President of the United States is. But for most of this country’s history we have made the president the focal point of American temporal presence. The person most empowered to define the country’s identity. And barring some drastic dislodgment from so-called conventional wisdom, that does not look to change anytime soon.

I’ve been asked quite a few times about what I think about this year’s elections. That I’m in South Carolina has made some especially interested, given the U.S. Senate race here.

What do I think is going ...

Read more

Chris Knight's avatar

Many years ago, during a particularly dark period of my life,  I wrote a one-scene play.  It was one of a number of works that I felt inspired to create.  Thankfully I seem to have come out of that melancholy for good, but there will forever be a mark on my soul from that time.  I like to think that what I’ve done since has been, for lack of a better term, “happier”.

So, about this play…

It’s a single scene.  Involving a man and a woman.  And they come to have a heated discussion involving another woman.  All throughout the play you’re wondering “who are these people?  What are they talking about?  Does this involve an affair that he’s been caught in?”

Finally, in the last moments of the play, comes the big reveal.  The object of their conversation is a woman who is about to be executed and ...

Read more

Chris Knight's avatar

This morning the website American Thinker has published my latest essay.  “Young People, Listen to Your Gen-X Elders: Communism Sucks!” is something that’s been percolating for awhile and  I suppose recent events in the American political realm made it time to deploy.  This article is a few things: history lesson (has it really been thirty-five years since I was a high school senior watching the attempted coup against Gorbechev?), recap of the rise of extreme socialism in this country, and finishing off with a stark warning to the young people of this land.  Take it from someone who was there during the height of the Cold War: communism is NOT something we should want to entertain notions of accommodating, much less adopting (or having it forced upon us).


From the article…

The ad begins with a poor Russian peon, bundled up for the harsh winter, cautiously asking a stern

...
Read more

Chris Knight's avatar

 

 

 

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive

...
Read more

Chris Knight's avatar

Two Japanese tourists, in the country for the World Cup soccer tournament, visited a Bass Pro Shop.  Somehow they found their way to the firearms department.  They could not buh-leeeeve all that magnificent firepower on sale to the general public.  The Japanese guys asked if they could touch the guns and as you can see they got the full enjoyment out of handling them.

Oh yeah, and notice that they are wearing Buc-ee’s hats.
This has to be the greatest video I’ve seen in awhile.  The look on the Japanese duo’s faces as they heft aloft various handguns, rifles and shotguns.  Doing something that is definitely not allowed in most of the world (but it should be allowed, that’s what truly free countries do).
I’ve heard lots of stories about how foreign guests here for the World Cup have been discovering the real America and being impressed by all
...
Read more

Chris Knight's avatar

Here is my father, Robert Knight, circa 1958.  He was nineteen years old at the time, serving in the United States Navy aboard the U.S.S. Northampton (at that time the flagship of the Seventh Fleet).

I’ve sometimes wondered about what it must have been like for him then, at that age, leaving the family farm to serve in the armed forces.  It couldn’t have been easy for him.  Dad volunteered for the Navy because he knew there was going to be a great chance he would be drafted anyway, and he wanted a measure of control over his life.  I think Dad also saw the Navy as being more “hands-on” technically than other branches, in terms of maintaining machinery, as that’s what much of his life experience had already entailed.  Much of his time in the Navy was spent in the engineering area of the Northampton.  And he must ...

Read more

Chris Knight's avatar

For the past few days I’ve been working on an op-ed piece focusing on the current race for mayor in New York City.  And narrowing that focus down on Zohran Mandani – the radical Islamic communist who is among other things threatening to raise taxes on white people – in particular.

I’ve wound up with bits and pieces of material worth making at least two essays of.  There is soooo much that I am feeling led to say about this race.  About how the people of the Big Apple are poised to make the biggest mistake they have ever collectively done as a community.  About how most of them have blinded themselves because of party loyalty.
Recently I heard someone describe “democracy” as “the political theory that the common people know what they want and that they deserve to get it good and hard.”  Well, that’s what the citizens of
...
Read more

Chris Knight's avatar

This is a good day to be a sensible American.

This morning the Supreme Court handed down some rulings and I was looking forward to seeing how they would go.  I am not disappointed at all.

Mahmoud v. Taylor is the case out of Maryland involving parents who wanted to opt out of having their children exposed to homosexual material in public school.  The justices went 6 to 3 in favor of the parents.  It’s a magnificent win for parental rights regarding their children.

It should have been a unanimous ruling though.  I’m going to be looking for the minority opinion.  As many would guess the three dissenting justices were Kagan, Sotomayor, and “I don’t know what a woman is” Brown.

And then there is the situation involving the Trump Administration and all of those federal judges who have been hitting the president with nationwide injunctions, effectively keeping ...

Read more