by design | May 16, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Anyone who saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren screaming in front of the U.S. Supreme Court a few days ago saw possibly the most hateful, angry woman I have ever seen. I think probably the only ones who were favorably impressed by her...
by design | May 9, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A few years ago, I was speaking to about 100 eighth graders in the Rayburn Room at the U.S. Capitol. One of the students asked me if I liked my job. I immediately replied that I loved my job and felt very lucky to have it. I...
by design | May 2, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The Biden Administration has gone so far to the left that they have messed up about everything they have touched so far. What a record: high gas prices, highest inflation in 47 years, illegal aliens flooding in at record...
by design | Apr 25, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A few Sundays ago, I was invited to eat lunch after church at the home of Bob and Gail Winter in East Knox County. We had a wonderful lunch of pot roast, potatoes, carrots, onions, coleslaw, rolls and brownies with hot fudge...
by design | Apr 18, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com In my focus column last week, I mentioned the last national news article written about my career in Congress. Published in December of 2018 in news magazine The Week, it said: “He looked out for the interests of Main Street...
by design | Apr 11, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The last article published about my 30 years in Congress was written by a man I never met and who never interviewed me. Yet it summed up my career and the things I stood for better than anything I could have written myself....