by design | Jul 21, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘The Minister of Defense’ By Tom Mattingly You may not remember it, but there was once a 9-3 Tennessee team that was not ranked by the Associated Press (A. P.) during the entire season. It’s all right there in black agate type in the “Tennessee Volunteers...
by design | Jul 20, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
I Stand With Israel By Steve Hunley The Left in this country, along with its allies in the corporate media, has made the Middle East all about Palestine, blithely ignoring the horror of October 7 and the deliberate and savage rape and murders of citizens from infants...
by design | Jul 20, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tennessee’s Herron Pearson By Ray Hill Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District was a collection of rural counties in West Tennessee, the most populous of which was Madison County, where the county seat is the City of Jackson, named for Andrew Jackson. In 1933, the...
by design | Jul 14, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Congress Is Spending Money We Do Not Have By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com One of the most popular things a member of Congress can do is bash Congress, saying or implying that it is filled with bad or crooked, or even evil people. Yet, this is not only very...
by design | Jul 14, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Trump vs Powell – and Bessent? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com What do you think about Federal Reserve independence? Have you noticed that, for all Trump’s gnashing of teeth, name-calling, threatening and cajoling, Congress has been...
by design | Jul 14, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Innocents and Miscreants In this world, you will always have trouble (John 16:33). Jesus Christ By Dr. Jim Ferguson Just when I thought it might be safe to go out again, tragedy struck. An atmospheric high-pressure dome trapped moist air from the Gulf of America over...
