by design | May 8, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Excellence in higher education is hard to define. How can you tell if a professor is doing a good job? I’ve always said that so long as my students didn’t run from the room with their hands over their...
by design | May 1, 2023 | Black, Columnist
The recurring debt ceiling ‘crisis’ By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com We have again reached another so-called budgetary crisis where the Federal debt ceiling must rise or else risk the possibility of the government defaulting on its debt...
by design | Apr 24, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Remember the joke about the guy tasting Bud Light for the first time and thought it tasted funny and sent it to a lab? The report said, “I am afraid your horse has diabetes.” Well, now Bud Light – the fake...
by design | Apr 17, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Pothole Pete, the Green New Deal and Air Safety By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I’ve written often on being governed by incompetents. The current example is the failure of bank regulators to enforce banking regulations. Another obvious...
by design | Apr 10, 2023 | Black, Columnist
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...
by design | Apr 3, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Socialism: Caveat Emptor By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Socialists hate capitalism because it works so well. Capitalism’s critics living in capitalist economies complain and whine because capitalism produces prosperity. Socialism...
