by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. After I took the Bar Exam in July of 1973, I spent almost all my time at the Knox County Courthouse watching jury trials. I had watched several trials in my Uncle Joe’s court in earlier years while I was in undergraduate school at UT and...
by design | Aug 29, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. I have never seen, heard or read about a president who has done as much damage to this country in as short a time as Joe Biden has. Brit Hume summed it up best a few months ago when he said on Fox News that Joe Biden had a reputation as a...
by design | Aug 22, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. K.T. McFarland told Maria Bartiromo on August 15 that we should have gotten out of Afghanistan in 2001 shortly after we responded in a very forceful way to the attacks of 9/11. McFarland was Deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump and...
by design | Aug 15, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. On my first day as judge of the criminal court, Gary Tulloch, the chief probation counselor for 16 counties in East Tennessee, told me that “98% of the defendants in felony cases came from broken homes.” He was a little high, and it is much more...
by design | Aug 8, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. My sweet, beautiful wife, Lynn, passed away on Sunday, August 1, and there are no words strong enough to express how much I am going to miss her. I told her near the end that she had been my earthly angel and now she would be my heavenly angel....
by design | Jul 25, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. Several months ago, I wrote a column about my love of music in which I mentioned many of my favorite songs. Two of them were Elvis Presley’s versions of “My Way” and “The Impossible Dream.” Another Elvis song, not really one of my favorites but...
