The coming meltdown & how to survive it
10 minutes in, 10 minutes out. I sketch the coming reckoning the marketplace will impose on debt-ridden nation-states and their consumption-oriented economies. Key: Families, local investment, thrift, thinking of “the other.” (Hot News Talk Radio) Tweet Pin It
Activist grower unites city dwellers, 9 Mennonite farmers in area
Farmer Steve Bontekoe tells about his Harvest Box program in which city folks subscribe to him and his nine Mennonite farmers and receive every week a bulging container of fresh vegetables grown and harvested in a sustainable way. (AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio). Tweet Pin It
Tulis talk explores ‘bright prospect’ amid national calamity
The Chattanooga chapter of the Freedoms Foundation celebrates constitutional liberties for which men froze to death at the encampment at Valley Forge, here inspected by Gen. George Washington. (Painting by Dunsmore) By David Tulis David Tulis is editor of Nooganomics.com. The American people face a day of reckoning that will require of them continual exercise […]
‘Momma bears’ shed tears of Esau as test snoops crash
The Momma Bears of Tennessee circulated this image to complain about the digital crackup of the state’s testing program. By David Tulis Digital potholes rattled Tennessee’s school testing program to pieces. At least at the point where the program meets the student body. But the shards of paneling, stray screws and smashed server coils of […]
Gays get 7% of marriage licenses in Hamilton County, 2% elsewhere
The confetti falling to celebrate the gay conquest of marriage is thick, but doesn’t obscure the prospect of an American return to common law marriage. By David Tulis More than a hundred people in a homosexual relationship have received marriage licenses from Hamilton County clerk Bill Knowles. The licenses were issued from June 26 through […]
Geoengineering sky stripes threat to human health, study says
Jet trails muck up a blue sky in the Hixson section of Chattanooga on Feb. 4, 2016. (Photo David Tulis) Tennessee is routinely treated for its bad cases of sunlight, as here in Cookeville. (Photo Diana Carlile Lundolm on Facebook) A sky plume in Massachussetts dissolves across a blue sky — slowly turning it into […]
Hakeem looks beyond policing, policy positions to solving gang ‘problem’
City Council member Yusuf Hakeem explains why he has lost confidence in the mayor’s violence reduction program as Chattanooga city government views gang crime as a policy problem rather than a human one. (AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio) Tweet Pin It
‘Fiddle Man’ of Lawrenceburg demands verdict be overturned, right to travel
A woman gets a ride on a tractor at a fair in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., in which a court on Thursday will consider grinding a free user of the public roads beneath its treads. (Photo Yesterdaystrators.com) The man convicted by a jury on four criminal counts is Arthur Jay Hirsch, 65, a bachelor whose livelihood is […]
Hitchcock gives ‘direct care’ relief for national economy constipation
Dr. Rick Hitchcock chats with a senior citizen in his new “direct care” medical practice in Hixson. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis Dr. Rick Hitchcock and other Chattanooga doctors are living out the local economy response to a bad case of constipation in the national economy. With ObamaCare effectively nationalizing the medical insurance industry, […]
Victim of state asks Christians to witness clash at sentencing
A circuit court in rural Lawrence County is sentencing a Christian workingman for traveling at liberty on the people’s highways. He asks people to attend. (Photo Lawrencecd.org) By David Tulis A court in Lawrence County, Tenn., will sentence a devout Christian working man Thursday (Feb. 11) for exercising his constitutional right to travel. Arthur Jay […]