by design | Jul 21, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Barney Fife Day (And My Birthday) By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The date this column is published (July 21), I will have my 78th birthday. I call it Barney Fife Day because several years ago, I got a big kick out of it when I found this was also Don...
by design | Jul 21, 2025 | Black, Columnist
The monthly jobs report or how to lie with statistics By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com There are few things in life as certain as death, taxes and an inflated jobs report. The report for June says that 147,000 jobs were added to the...
by design | Jul 21, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
The Pack Mule By Dr. Jim Ferguson Every week, I wait for my weekly essay to find me, and it always seems to do so. And sometimes a picture is better than prose to introduce a message. This is why memes are so effective. My West Coast daughter and family were with us...
by design | Jul 21, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
What kind of a world are we leaving our children? By Joe Rector Not long ago, most of us were wondering if summer would ever arrive. Temperatures were unseasonably cool, and flowers that normally would be in full bloom had barely broken through the ground. The rain...
by design | Jul 21, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘The Minister of Defense’ By Tom Mattingly You may not remember it, but there was once a 9-3 Tennessee team that was not ranked by the Associated Press (A. P.) during the entire season. It’s all right there in black agate type in the “Tennessee Volunteers...
by design | Jul 20, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
I Stand With Israel By Steve Hunley The Left in this country, along with its allies in the corporate media, has made the Middle East all about Palestine, blithely ignoring the horror of October 7 and the deliberate and savage rape and murders of citizens from infants...
