by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson By Dr. Jim Ferguson I find it easier to write when something comes to mind rather than waiting for perhaps a more noteworthy topic closer to deadline....
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass By Dr. Jim Ferguson Did you watch it? I didn’t. I never liked watching the annual Presidential SOTU addresses, but I always felt it was my duty as a citizen. That...
by design | Feb 27, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. J. O’Rourke By Dr. Jim Ferguson As many of you already know, Tennesseans are getting new automobile license plates. I am envious of my wife because she is already sporting her...
by design | Feb 20, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
We made the best of times in the worst of times. Kathryn Limbaugh By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is a famous scene in the movie “A Few Good Men” where actor Jack Nicholson, portraying a marine colonel, shouts, “You can’t handle the truth!” in defense of his murderous...
by design | Feb 13, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
America is a land of systemic reform, not systemic racism. Dr. Carol M. Swain By Dr. Jim Ferguson This week it’s hard to know where to begin. There is so much to consider. Admittedly, my essays often present a variety of seemingly unrelated topics. Yet a theme is...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything. G K Chesterton By Dr. Jim Ferguson The one indisputable truth of the pandemic is there’s a new kid on the block. Human coronavirus infections have been known since the 1960s....
