by design | Feb 20, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Bob Yarbrough, the very popular host of a morning show on WOKI, hit the nail on the head recently when he said what some people were calling misinformation today should more accurately be called disagreement. Some on...
by design | Feb 13, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I find it almost impossible to understand polls I have seen that say a significant percentage of young people today believe in socialism. The only way that could be is that they have been brainwashed by left-wing college...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A recent Drudge Report had an article from a San Francisco publication which said 25 major corporations had moved their headquarters from California to Tennessee since June of 2018. The report said 150,000 more people had...
by design | Jan 9, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com CNBC published a report at the end of the year that said middle- and lower-income people spent about $3500 more for the same products in 2021 that they had bought in 2020. This was from the highly-respected Penn Wharton...
by design | Jan 2, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com When I was in Congress, one of the parts of the job that I enjoyed the most was visiting with the thousands of my constituents who came to see me while on visits to Washington. Many times, usually at least once or twice a...
by design | Dec 26, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com My father told me many years ago that people forget you when you leave office faster than the ripples disappear when you throw a rock in the water. Former Congressman John Kasich said a friend of his told him, “When you...