by design | Mar 31, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Should prescription drugs be advertised? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com For the longest I wondered why prescription drugs are advertised on TV. The ads target the public and not doctors. You cannot walk into a pharmacy and...
by design | Mar 24, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Anchor babies, Anchors away? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com How do you feel about birthright citizenship? That’s when any child born on U.S. soil or in its territories except American Samoa is automatically a citizen. Why American Samoa...
by design | Mar 17, 2025 | Black, Columnist
The Coming Trump Recession By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com If Trump loves tariffs so, then why doesn’t he use them to try to alter Chinese behavior? I don’t mean this piddling 10% increase either. China is a bad actor. It is the source...
by design | Mar 10, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Fortress America By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com It looks like Trump will abandon Ukraine in his pivot toward Russia. That should come as no surprise to the Ukrainians, who are accustomed to being abandoned by the United States and left...
by design | Mar 3, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Reciprocal Tariffs, Now I Get It … I Think By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I have called Trump’s tariffs “stupid,” and they are – maybe. I still don’t understand the across-the-board tariffs on Canada and Mexico, which...
by design | Feb 24, 2025 | Black, Columnist
The Trump Doctrine and Palestinian Diaspora By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Trump’s crazy talk (how my sainted mother would have characterized it) is producing results. He threatened Canada and Mexico with tariffs and they strengthened...
