by design | Mar 25, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
A Hard Lesson to Learn By Joe Rector Maybe I’m a bit “touched” in the head, but at the age of 70-plus, I signed up for singing lessons. Part of the reason I agreed to take the lessons was to help a friend. Also, I wanted to sing better than I do now. The dates were...
by design | Mar 25, 2024 | Columnist, Ferguson
In the News The more you have thought and written…the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands. Henry David Thoreau By Dr. Jim Ferguson My schedule was off last week because my daughter’s family from Oregon was with us. And that’s a...
by design | Mar 24, 2024 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Liberal Woke Politics Destroying Our Country By Steve Hunley Wake up, America. The hallmark of Leftists seems to be gaslighting. The mainstream media and Leftist Democrats join hands and insist everything is just hunky-dory and wonder why the majority of the American...
by design | Mar 24, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Mr. Chairman: Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina By Ray Hill Robert Lee Doughton was born while America’s bloody Civil War still raged. His name can best be explained by the fact his father, Jonathan, was a captain in the Confederate army and named his son after...
by design | Mar 18, 2024 | Black, Columnist
Some further observations on the Israel-Hamas war By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Late last year when most of the world was shocked by the barbaric attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians, there was almost universal support of Israel....
by design | Mar 18, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Guess Which President Said These Words By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Which president of the United States said this about immigration in his State of the Union address? (Spoiler Alert: It was not Donald Trump.) “All Americans are rightly disturbed by the...
