by design | Nov 29, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi When the 2021 football season got underway for the Tennessee Volunteers, expectations were extremely low. Jeremy Pruitt had been fired as head coach, and athletics director Phillip Fulmer was forced to retire. An NCAA investigation into recruiting...
by design | Nov 28, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com Back in 2012 in my now inactive blog (haroldblack.blogspot.com) I asked “Is Joe Biden a racist?” I noted his long history of making racist remarks. Those remarks along with a record in the Senate of opposing busing, opposing...
by design | Nov 28, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley A Strange Event Evidently Christine Cruz recently held some kind of event at Cherokee Country Club. Originally billed as a “Let Freedom Ring Fundraiser,” it was to feature Robby Starbuck from Nashville, who is a candidate for Congress. Thing is the...
by design | Nov 28, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Cordell Hull, Secretary of State under Franklin D. Roosevelt, had simmered for years with resentment due to having been marginalized by the president. Yet Roosevelt depended upon Hull’s reservoir of good will with both the Congress and the American...
by design | Nov 28, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. —Ayn Rand. By Dr. Jim...
by design | Nov 28, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com In my column last week, I wrote that my father received about 90% of the vote in Knoxville’s African-American precincts in his three races for mayor. He had led the peaceful integration of Knoxville during some very...
