By Steve Hunley Joe Biden, according to recent news reports, once said “F – that” when speaking to diplomat Richard Holbrooke in 2010. Biden was arguing the United States should leave Afghanistan whatever the humanitarian costs. The conversation is detailed...
By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com In 2008, Kyle Ward was a twenty-one-year-old senior in the second semester of his final year of college. Ward had plans to finish college when news came that a young man he had known for most of his life, a good...
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 Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com The left is making clucking sounds about equity. The Biden administration has wholeheartedly embraced the concept with virtually every facet of government being charged with furthering equity. The pivoting to equity from...
“We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Aesop By Dr. Jim Ferguson Lately, I’ve been asking myself, is anything working? We live in the information age, but is it even reliable? One of my axioms (Fergisms) is to “Read widely, consider...
By Bill Howard In its season-opening game at home Friday night against Webb School of Knoxville, Carter High School was down 14-0 at halftime. Twice quarterback Chandler Wilson threw touchdown passes, only to have them both called back because of penalties. The...
By Steve Williams Fulton’s football team ran hot and cold in its season opener. The Falcons sizzled, fizzled and sizzled again in their 35-0 win over rival Austin-East Friday night at Sam Anderson Field. The Jackson brothers – Marcellus and Raysean – led the way for...
By Ken Lay Brad Taylor couldn’t hide his excitement Friday night. Taylor, Karns High School’s football coach, saw his team do something it hadn’t done during his tenure at the school. “I’ve been here for six years now and this is the first time that we’ve won our...
School board rejects proposal to implement mask mandate By Ken Lay Knox County Schools Superintendent Bob Thomas will not have authority to require the district’s staff, faculty or students to wear masks on campus. Thomas also won’t have the authority to implement...
By Steve Hunley Matt Shears, chairman of the Knox County Democratic Party, is up to his typical virtue signaling. Shears sent out a press release recently with the shocking news local Democrats had cancelled their Truman Day Dinner and called on Knox County...
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