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Promises are a hallucinatory drug; it doesn’t matter Uncle can’t pay

Ida May Fuller was the first person to get a Social Security check. She paid in$24.75. Her check is for $22.54. She collected $22,888.92 in Social Security benefits. By Gary North Garynorth.com Here is the first political jingle I ever heard. “They promise you the sky. They promise you the earth. But what’s a Republican […]

Chattanoogans, held upside-down, face thrashing; so much for change

So it was that a revolution took place within the form. Like the hagfish, the New Deal entered the old form and devoured its meaning from within. The revolutionaries were inside; the defenders were outside. A government that had been supported by the people and so controlled by the people became one that supported the […]

Yes, free market concepts affect city council job, candidate Grohn says

Larry Grohn, a tea party activist, explores his free market ideas in a bid for a seat on the Chattanooga city council. He and his wife, Carol, chat with a visitor in front of their house. Our interest in liberty and the free market takes us to Larry Grohn, who has been sitting in on […]

Meltdown at clinic: Christians buy building as landlord bankrupts (III)

Bridgehead for conquest: abortion landlord under seige Dr. Ed Perry By David Tulis Porter Yarbrough, the landlord of the Chattanooga abortion clinic, had reportedly been converted to Christianity. ‡ Dr. Bizzoco, Mike Jennings & activist DAVID MILLER met with him. Would he be willing to oust the clinic? “In that pastoral counseling, Mr. Yarbrough was informed that […]

Area power co-op a model for city investment club; profit paid as rebate

Technicians provide electrical service to a neighborhood. They work for Volunteer Energy Cooperative just east of Chattanooga. A co-op model used by VEC could be ideal for creating an internal market for capital in Chattanooga, with profits paid in terms of rebates, discounts or refunds. Chattanooga could create investment co-op along lines of Volunteer Energy […]

In 1990s, pro-life pressure against abortion clinic intensifies (II)

SIMPLE CLAIMS Two elderly women join 2,500 other right-to-life demonstrators in a “life chain” Jan. 20, 1991. Chattanooga Women’s Clinic opened in Chattanooga in 1975 and is reported to have destroyed nearly 35,000 boys and girls. The operators of the clinic ran a rough shop, with numerous injured women, numerous lawsuits for negligence, protests by […]

Noogacentric path more brightly lit in Shuman ‘local economy’ book

Michael Shuman, in this 27-minute chat, sketches out the main ideas of local economy. Local economy is about us. National economy is about them. In simplifying my theory to these few words, you see why the ideas of local economy and free markets are compelling. They aren’t about mere economics. But more. We come now […]

Disability convention, a threat to self-determination, stalls in Senate

Most federal senators vote to impose U.S. control over family and social life on Chattanooga via a U.N. convention on disabilities, but two Tennessee legislators help keep the body from passing the measure. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was defeated today in a 61-38 vote in favor of the […]