by design | Apr 2, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Evil… Pure Evil The shootings in Nashville’s Coventry Christian school and church are appalling, heartbreaking, and tragic. Most of us have known for some time the mainstream media smothers those stories that don’t fit their preferred...
by design | Apr 2, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Harold Knutson of Minnesota By Ray Hill By 1948, Harold Knutson had been in Congress for thirty-two years. Knutson, a Republican, had risen to perhaps the highest position a congressman could aspire to outside of the speakership; Knutson chaired the immensely...
by design | Mar 27, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Isn’t it time to fire incompetent bank regulators? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com The failure of Silicon Valley Bank sparked a mini-panic in financial markets. The word “contagion” was tossed around as if the banking system were replete...
by design | Mar 27, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Tucker Carlson A Courageous Journalist By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Those in the media who are not supporting Tucker Carlson’s release of the January 6th video tapes from inside the U.S. Capitol should be ashamed. Their silence has been deafening. In...
by design | Mar 27, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Our hearts remain restless until they rest in thee, Oh Lord. St. Augustine By Dr. Jim Ferguson Recently I told my wife, Becky, “I am no longer employable.” My regular readers know I am now retired from medical practice. In fact, I decided to let my medical license...
by design | Mar 27, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘One of the best times I’ve had in sports’ By Tom Mattingly When the Tennessee Volunteers basketball team won the SEC championship on March 6, 1967, in Starkville, Miss., Knoxville Journal sportswriter Ben Byrd gave the team a nickname, the “Fearless Five.”...
