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...
by design | May 23, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com This past Friday night at Eastminster Presbyterian Church, a sweet, beautiful woman named Vickie Dowling became Mrs. John J. Duncan, Jr. Vickie and I were in the Sunday School and Bible Schools at the old Park City...
by design | May 16, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Anyone who saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren screaming in front of the U.S. Supreme Court a few days ago saw possibly the most hateful, angry woman I have ever seen. I think probably the only ones who were favorably impressed by her...
by design | May 9, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A few years ago, I was speaking to about 100 eighth graders in the Rayburn Room at the U.S. Capitol. One of the students asked me if I liked my job. I immediately replied that I loved my job and felt very lucky to have it. I...
