Billy’s bad day; best way teen can deal with bully officials, cops

Commercial government most frequently attaches itself to the working and traveling citizenry on the public right of way, prompting encounters that remind us of our servitude to the enterprise state. This truck is on private property — a store parking lot. (Photo David Tulis) The best way to tell boys about how men defend constitutional […]

As tyranny grows, Americans wait helplessly

In Brumidi’s painting “Apotheosis of Washington” in the federal capitol, the Americanized Virgin Mary makes war on fleeing sinners labeled Tyranny and Kingly Power. She is pictured just below a deified George Washington (not pictured here), and is equipped with pentagrams and the Roman eagle as her help. The Roman Catholic and occultic content of […]

Officer under perjury investigation for muddled tale of uppity black

Dragged to court by a perjurous police report on the day of the birth of his third child, Hanson Melvin of Chattanooga exits the Hamilton County courthouse in Chattanooga on June 14, 2016. (Photo David Tulis) This document is a sworn statement, aka a “police report,” that tells of a “screaming” and “yelling” family man […]

Arguments against local economy

The Main Street farmers market in Chattanooga is an expression of market decentralization — and for local economy. (Photo David Tulis) We make much of local economy in Chattanooga and are excited by arrival of digital overcapacity in the Gig, real estate on the Northshore and highly touted entrepreneurial culture exemplified by Lamp Post Group […]

Cabbies, haulers subject to state control; what about you, private user?

David and Jacqueline Parker run Covenant Transport, which profits from the use of the highways, and is subject to state control. The word “driver” is legally a commercial usage. (Photo Covenant Transport Inc.) Tennessee state government has authority to regulate one group of people on the public roads, but not another. The regulatory power it […]

Immunity sovereign and absolute: How the state plays god

God’s perfections include is absolute immunity from any accusation of man, or any demand by man that He justify himself. “Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why have you made me like this?’” As creator and sovereign, as prophet, priest and king of His people, he has no equal. His children […]

Regaining lost legal status as natural persons on other side of debacle

Katie and Channing Kilgore in Whitwell, Tenn., are starting a family. They’d like their children to belong to them, not the state. It’s hard to fix into the same spot questions about the coming national debacle and your personal legal status. If my reading of economic theory and free markets is accurate, the republic faces […]

If we were a free people, who would pay?

Reflections on the conviction of Arthur Jay Hirsch for the exercise of constitutional rights in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Dec. 11, 2015. You may also enjoy these related essays by David Tulis and Roger Roots Free-range motorist seeks to vaporize charges, asks they be heard ‘in agency’ ‘Fiddle man’ vows appeal after jury rejects constitutional protections Hirsch […]

With reforms, Christ will be brought back into courtrooms

Judges and juries in the Hamilton County, Tenn., court building dispense verdicts and opinions. Many are just. (Photo David Tulis) True servants of the Lord Jesus Christ confess that He is the Creator God of heaven and earth, Redeemer of mankind, Judge of all the earth, and King of kings and Lord of lords. All […]

‘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 […]