by design | Jan 29, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Terrible Tragedies Continue In Unjust War By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The CBS national newscast on Jan. 20 showed the terrible anguish of a father holding a photograph of a little girl who had been killed a few days short of her first birthday by an...
by design | Jan 28, 2024 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley My Friend Mike McMillan Passes Away Mike McMillan departed this world last week and I have say he was the best school board member our community ever had. I say that having been a school board member myself. Mike was a modest...
by design | Jan 28, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Mr. Revercomb of West Virginia By Ray Hill Stephen Jones of Oklahoma was a personal friend and the biographer of Senator Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia. As Mr. Jones wrote, Revercomb, especially in his second term, looked as if he were made to wear the senatorial...
by design | Jan 22, 2024 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Nikki Haley is trying to beat Kamala Harris to become the first Asian-American president. She had better hope that Biden lives out his term. “Elite” college campuses are not the only places...
by design | Jan 22, 2024 | Columnist, Ferguson
Forecasting Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them for the fruit they produce. Jesus Christ By Dr. Jim Ferguson Becky loves snow, and so do I. Since we’re retired, we were not...
by design | Jan 22, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
The Snow Did Return By Joe Rector It snowed. I’d about decided that we humans had screwed up the environment so much that snow would never fall on East Tennessee again. I’m glad to see I was wrong. At our house, I took my tape measure and stuck it in the white stuff...
