by design | Oct 30, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
House Republicans Finally Elect A Speaker By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Thank goodness the Republicans in the U.S. House finally got tired of fighting each other and elected Mike Johnson, a constitutional lawyer from Louisiana, as speaker of the House....
by design | Oct 23, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Grows Worse By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com On September 13, 1993, I had the privilege to attend the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House. It was a peace agreement between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of...
by design | Oct 16, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Most Universities Hire Only Far-Left Professors By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com This past June I wrote about how most major universities have now become leftist brainwashing factories. They will almost never hire a conservative to teach a subject that...
by design | Oct 9, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Some World Series Memories By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com In my column last week, I wrote that the World Series was huge back in the ‘50s and early ‘60s, at least in part because college and pro football and basketball were not nearly as popular back in...
by design | Oct 2, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com It is almost time for the World Series. When I was a boy and young man, the Series was by far the biggest sports event of the year. Nothing else was even close. The first Super Bowl, which Green Bay won by a score of 35 to...
by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
On Almost Everything, Follow The Money By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Almost everything the federal government does can be traced back to a very old saying: “Follow the money.” According to Wikipedia, the saying was popularized almost 50 years ago...
