by design | Jul 5, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com In the upside-down world of today, a person can sometimes get in more trouble and controversy for saying something that is true than for saying some politically-correct falsehood. This happened recently to James Patterson,...
by design | Jun 27, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I don’t blame anyone for cashing any of the Covid Relief checks sent out in 2020 and 2021, but everyone would have been better off if all this money had not been sent out. Everyone is paying for it now in the inflation that...
by design | Jun 20, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Not many are bragging about voting for Biden now. I doubt you could find more than just a tiny percentage of the American people who would say they were proud they voted for Joe Biden for president. In fact, one poll taken...
by design | Jun 13, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I suppose the only people happy about the high gas prices are American environmental radicals and the leaders of OPEC. Our environmental extremists have wanted much higher gas prices for many years so people would be...
by design | Jun 6, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com On my first day as judge in 1982, Gary Tulloch, then the Chief Probation Counselor for East Tennessee, told me that 98% of the defendants in felony cases came from broken homes. He would have been much more accurate...
by design | May 31, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com In my Focus column of May 9, I wrote about the wide variety of jobs I had, both full and part-time, while I was a student at Holston, U.T. and George Washington University. I think every job, even when I was a bat-boy for...
