by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. The week before last, I told the story of how I became a batboy and how Earl Weaver became a manager for the Knoxville Smokies. Weaver went on to become a Hall of Fame manager for the Baltimore Orioles. I said in that column that I thought there...
by design | Apr 6, 2026 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. On March 23, CBS News published a national poll saying that two-thirds of the American people felt the Iran War was a war of choice rather than one of necessity. The war has grown even less popular since then. I have been to many public events...
by design | Mar 30, 2026 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. One night in the summer of 1958, Joe Seymour, batboy for the visiting team playing against the Knoxville Smokies, fell and broke his arm running to get a stretcher for a player who had been hit in the head by a ball thrown by a Smokies pitcher. I...
by design | Mar 23, 2026 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. I am still very grateful to the people of East Tennessee for giving me the privilege of serving them for 30 years in the U.S. House. During each of those years, I attended the State of the Union Address by the president. I also have attended the...
by design | Mar 16, 2026 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. Reagan Carney, a really fine young man with whom we go to church, told me Sunday before last that the UT Young Republicans had a board on which members could express their opinions about the war in Iran. The board had only one question: Is...
by design | Mar 9, 2026 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. Jan. 20, 2025, in his second Inaugural Address, President Trump said: “We will measure our success not only by little battles we win, but also by the wars that end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” In April of 2016, I...
