by design | Dec 11, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
$77 Million To Not Coach Is Crazy By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A few months ago I wrote that I thought paying the Tennessee football coach $9,000,000 a year (over $24,400 a day) was ridiculous, and even in a way sinful. I wrote that Coach Heupel seems...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
JFK: U.S. Cannot Solve Every World Problem By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com On November 16, 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave one of his most famous speeches at the University of Washington in Seattle. The words he spoke then are even more true today,...
by design | Nov 27, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Sex On An Airplane – A Clean Story By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I would like to invite you to attend a program about my career and a book signing at the Howard Baker Center at UT from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. on Tuesday, December 5. I have written a book...
by design | Nov 20, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
I Am Amazed At How Fast Time Goes By By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I am always amazed at how fast time passes. At the end of next month, I will have been retired for five years. When I announced in 2017 that I was going to retire at the end of the next...
by design | Nov 13, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Will It Take 10,000 More To Be Killed? By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” – General Dwight Eisenhower in a speech to the Canadian Club in...
by design | Nov 6, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
U.S. Should Demand End To Bombing Of Women And Children By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com “Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.” Matthew 5: 9 “Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.” Psalm 34: 14 “Let him turn...
