Mayor Land seeks re-election amid oppression of elderly couple
Carol and Thomas Gaddy discuss their house, under an injunction for no further work while city officials demand to search the property, though no one has sworn a warrant out for probable cause that a crime has been committed. The couple is in hiding, sought by a search warrant for contempt for not complying with […]
Pencil plant in Hamilton County partakes of ‘I, pencil’ miracle
Hamilton County pencil factory makes amazing product, in league with a million people, with only 23 people on the production line. Ray Phifer and “I, Pencil.” (Courtesy Noogardio) Tweet Pin It
Trump no help; police state tactics worsen against Americans
Chattanooga city police officers often enforce statute within the city limits in full military gear, as displayed by SWAT members along the Chattanooga riverfront. (Photo Chattanooga police department) “Policing is broken… It has evolved as a paramilitary, bureaucratic, organizational arrangement that distances police officers from the communities they’ve been sworn to protect and serve. When […]
Marceaux cases would stymie ‘police state’ enforcement in all TN cities
Basil Marceaux of Soddy-Daisy is raising explosive questions about Tennessee courts and the state’s use of inferior civil courts to process criminal complaints. (Photo David Tulis) Former gubernatorial candidate and free-range motorist Basil Marceaux will appear before a Hamilton County circuit court to argue in one of a series of criminal cases whose defense is […]
Bill would aid fugitive Gaddys in property rights fight
Thomas and Carol Gaddy speak to supporters after her release from Sequatchie County Jail on Nov. 12 on charges of contempt. She spent two nights in a cell. (Photo David Tulis) A bill sliding through the Tennessee general assembly offers unexpected aid to Thomas and Carol Gaddy, the homeowners from Sequatchie County who are in […]
Disintegration in homeschooling; cultural changes affect groups’ godly mission
An exhibitor at the home education expo in Chattanooga shows four children a printed wonder. The event is held every summer in Camp Jordan. I worked for the homeschool newsletter Esprit before I was married, and a decade ago, as the father of four children, was handed the role of editor. I’ve been thinking lately […]
Texas minister shows TN how to demand interposition in baby slayings
This building is the capitol of Tennessee government. The Rev. Steven Bratton demands officials in Texas — from sheriff’s officers, cops, mayors, lieutenant governors, governors, legislators — stand on God-given authority they possess to halt the slayings of boys and girls at abortion clinics. Babies are slain in seven clinics in Tennessee. In the Volunteer […]
Law enforcement gets tough: Forced cavity probes, taserings, shootings
A Chattanooga police officer admires machine guns belonging to the federal military. Local base commander White is at left. (Photo, Fred Fletcher Twitter) We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the […]
Basil Marceaux at gas station
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Boyd reveals ‘confidential’ details of tourism bureau
A family visiting Chattanooga enjoys a moment along the riverfront near the aquarium. (Photo Chattanoogafun.com) Tim Boyd proposes cutting the funding of the Convention & Visitors Bureau largely given by county government of which he is a commissioner. The group has a yearly budget of F$7.2 million, gets F$6.4 million or 84 percent of its cash […]