by design | Jun 15, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Would an 11-2 record overall, along with an SEC title, a Top 10 finish, and a BCS bowl bid be satisfactory to the Vol fan base in today’s college football environment? Every game now appears to be an “elimination game,” with the perception of...
by design | Jun 15, 2026 | Columnist, Ferguson
With the possible exception of Senator John Fetterman and Harold Ford Junior, the Democrats have become more dangerous than Iran. Jim Ferguson By Dr. Jim Ferguson I have often wondered if commercials actually sell products. I suspect there is data to bolster the...
by design | Jun 15, 2026 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I interviewed for my first job as a high school English teacher in 1974. Only a week of summer was left before teachers reported for in-service training for the coming school year. Luckily, Mildred Doyle honored a request from my mother to help in...
by design | Jun 14, 2026 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The protracted delay in counting the ballots in California is a prime example of just how poorly governed the once golden state has become. It has been ages since the voter rolls were purged, and ballots are mailed to everyone – an innovation of...
by design | Jun 14, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Arthur Harry Moore is not a name familiar outside of New Jersey, but in his time, Harry Moore was one of the best vote-getters in the Garden State’s history. Three times Moore was elected to nonconsecutive terms as governor of New Jersey and was also...
by design | Jun 8, 2026 | Columnist, Ferguson
Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams 1798 By Dr. Jim Ferguson How do you know what’s right? But the question presupposes that there is such a thing as right or some standard...
