Remembering Corryton’s Hero on Memorial Day

  By Ralphine Major The memorial is beautiful and so well deserved.  It is a lasting tribute to Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss, the last one of the thirteen American heroes killed in Afghanistan nearly two years ago.  Only steps away from where the temporary memorial...

My Rebel Life

By Joe Rector The picture with my column is several years old. I’m not sure anyone would recognize me now, although I don’t think I’ve changed one bit. Readers don’t much care what a writer looks like as long as the man or woman has something interesting to say. I’m...

The NAACP’s Travel Advisory

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com You can tell who the left fears by the hit pieces that suddenly appear in their newspapers, on their networks and their sycophants like Black Lives Matter, Move On and the NAACP. Make no doubt about it,...

I Hope Commission Will Appreciate The Taxpayers, Too

By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com During my entire 30 years in Washington, I saw two things over and over: 1) The easiest thing in the world to do is to spend other peoples’ money, and 2) It was impossible to satisfy the government’s appetite for money –...