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Nuke the Filibuster? Nuke the Country.

by design | Feb 13, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:

  By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Happy Valentine’s Day. In the January 17, 2022, Knoxville Focus I wondered if there were really any moderate democrats. Of course, moderate is a relative term. Although several democratic senators...

Are There Really Any Moderate Democrats?

by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com One of my closest friends was bemoaning the fact that the republican leadership has trouble keeping their caucus together. On the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, 19 republican senators voted for the...

Why does the Left want Open Borders?

by design | Jan 9, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Just to make sure that I am fair and balanced, I read some of the left-wing press. It seems to think that the border crisis is some made up right wing fantasy concocted to keep the base inflamed. I wonder...

Can Anyone in this Government tell the Truth about COVID?

by design | Jan 2, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Happy New Year. Joe Biden just punted on COVID. After campaigning blaming Donald Trump for every death and stating that only he could fix the problem, he has now given up. The COVID deaths on his watch...

Immigration lowers inflation? Say it ain’t so

by design | Dec 26, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I am disappointed in the generations that have come after mine. When I was teaching, I would tell my students that the world was made up of three types of people: the one percent that make things happen,...

The Pandemic of the Poorly Governed

by design | Dec 19, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Merry Christmas. There is little doubt in my mind that we are governed badly at the federal, state and local levels. Recent history simply reinforces that certainty. I no longer trust the judgment of the...
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