by design | Mar 27, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Isn’t it time to fire incompetent bank regulators? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com The failure of Silicon Valley Bank sparked a mini-panic in financial markets. The word “contagion” was tossed around as if the banking system were replete...
by design | Mar 20, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com The sharp knives are out for Ron DeSantis who infuriated the leftist mob when he said that Florida was the state where woke goes to die. But DeSantis doesn’t care. He obviously feels that attacking “woke”...
by design | Mar 13, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Virtue signaling is “the act or practice of conspicuously displaying one’s awareness of and attentiveness to political issues and matters of social and racial justice, especially instead of taking...
by design | Mar 6, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Do you trust the federal government? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com More and more Americans do not trust the federal government. Since 1960, trust has fallen from an amazing 70 percent to 24 percent in 2022. The decline started with...
by design | Feb 27, 2023 | Black, Columnist
DEI: Useless or Useful? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com There is little doubt that diversity, equity and inclusion have added administrative bloat on many college campuses. Ron DeSantis has asked for an accounting of DEI on Florida’s...
by design | Feb 20, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com In case you missed it, the left’s latest jihad is the war on gas stoves. Never mind that most cooks prefer gas. Never mind that 40 million households have gas stoves (including my two cooktops). The powers...
