by design | Sep 6, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
Hanging On Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. DH Lawrence I will fight the good fight. I will keep the faith and I will finish the...
by design | Aug 29, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
A Death in the Family This is my Father’s world. Maltbie Davenport Babcock By Dr. Jim Ferguson I am a native Knoxvillian and, except when I was in medical school and internal medicine residency, I have lived in Knoxville all my life. I went to Tyson Junior High and...
by design | Aug 15, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
If you want to find someone guilty, you will not lack evidence. Chinese proverb A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. Frederick Douglas By Dr. Jim Ferguson Well, despite being very careful, getting vaccinated,...
by design | Aug 8, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea- And that-a further–and the Three But a presumption be- Of Periods of Seas- Unvisited of Shores- Themselves the Verge of Seas to be- Eternity-is Those- Emily Dickinson By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m a stargazer,...
by design | Aug 1, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
Those things that hurt, instruct. Benjamin Franklin By Dr. Jim Ferguson Unlike leftists and wokesters, I admire the Founders of our country. Biographies are not my preferred genre, but I’ve read well-researched books about John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and Ben...
by design | Jul 25, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny. Elon Musk It is easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled. Mark Twain By Dr. Jim Ferguson It is hard for me to imagine what Joe Biden is thinking....