A new book about Tennessee football

By Tom Mattingly Over the years, more than 20 books about Tennessee football have been written by such journalists as Tom Siler, Russ Bebb, Marvin West, Haywood Harris and Gus Manning, Tony Barnhart, F. M. Williams and Jeff Hanna, Clay Travis, Barry Parker and Robin...

Publisher’s Positions

By Steve Hunley Bias, Hypocrisy and Evil As the Leftists shake and quiver about the return of Justin Jones to the Tennessee House of State Representatives, none of the national or local media have carried a statement made by Jones regarding colleague Sabi Kumar....

Why do white people hate white people?

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com   Even though I have lived amongst white people since I was 17 years old, I don’t pretend to understand them. Why do whites condemn white supremacy if they are white? It seems to me that if whites are...

Everything Looks Easy From A Distance

By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com   When I first started writing this weekly column for The Knoxville Focus, Steve Hunley asked me to come up with a name for my column. I thought back to many years ago when my Dad told me “Everything looks easy from a...

Analogies

Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime. Joseph Stalin’s secret police chief, Lavrentiy Beria. By Dr. Jim Ferguson Do you find it curious that President Trump’s Manhattan arraignment was during Holy Week? President Trump is no Jesus. He is a sinner like me....