by design | Nov 20, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
I Am Amazed At How Fast Time Goes By By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I am always amazed at how fast time passes. At the end of next month, I will have been retired for five years. When I announced in 2017 that I was going to retire at the end of the next...
by design | Nov 13, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Will It Take 10,000 More To Be Killed? By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” – General Dwight Eisenhower in a speech to the Canadian Club in...
by design | Nov 6, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
U.S. Should Demand End To Bombing Of Women And Children By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com “Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.” Matthew 5: 9 “Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.” Psalm 34: 14 “Let him turn...
by design | Oct 30, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
House Republicans Finally Elect A Speaker By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Thank goodness the Republicans in the U.S. House finally got tired of fighting each other and elected Mike Johnson, a constitutional lawyer from Louisiana, as speaker of the House....
by design | Oct 23, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Grows Worse By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com On September 13, 1993, I had the privilege to attend the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House. It was a peace agreement between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of...
by design | Oct 16, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Most Universities Hire Only Far-Left Professors By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com This past June I wrote about how most major universities have now become leftist brainwashing factories. They will almost never hire a conservative to teach a subject that...