by design | Aug 22, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. K.T. McFarland told Maria Bartiromo on August 15 that we should have gotten out of Afghanistan in 2001 shortly after we responded in a very forceful way to the attacks of 9/11. McFarland was Deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump and...
by design | Aug 15, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. On my first day as judge of the criminal court, Gary Tulloch, the chief probation counselor for 16 counties in East Tennessee, told me that “98% of the defendants in felony cases came from broken homes.” He was a little high, and it is much more...
by design | Aug 8, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. My sweet, beautiful wife, Lynn, passed away on Sunday, August 1, and there are no words strong enough to express how much I am going to miss her. I told her near the end that she had been my earthly angel and now she would be my heavenly angel....
by design | Jul 25, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. Several months ago, I wrote a column about my love of music in which I mentioned many of my favorite songs. Two of them were Elvis Presley’s versions of “My Way” and “The Impossible Dream.” Another Elvis song, not really one of my favorites but...
by design | Jul 18, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. In September of 2017, I gave a speech on the floor of the U.S. House about the war in Afghanistan. I quoted from a story that had run a few days earlier in the international edition of the New York Times. That story said “When the American author...
by design | Jul 11, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. Over the July 4th weekend, 104 people were shot in Chicago, with 18 killed, including two policemen and a six-year-old girl. This followed more typical recent Chicago weekends, one with 62 people shot resulting in three deaths, and another when...
