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 […]
Why national cataclysm is just ahead, & what to do now
This hurried talk is a 10-minute elevator pitch for coming financial disaster, and a 10-minute elevator pitch that is the solution: Local economy and free markets. David Tulis sketches the coming reckoning the marketplace will impose on debt-ridden nation-states and their consumption-oriented economies. (Courtesy AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio) Let me help you be […]
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 […]
Localism over nationalism: Restoring America one county at a time
Christians and others are doing important work to develop the ideas we explore here and on AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio on the David Tulis program. Among those to provide a detailed blueprint about how reformation takes place is Joel McDurmon of American Vision near Atlanta. Here in a 2012 essay, he tells about […]
Taking care of our own people
Priscilla Clemons, a therapist, helps Marianne Tulis, 93, work a hair brush at Life Care of Hixson in Chattanooga. (Photo David Tulis) My mother Marianne is 92. She’s lived in the United States for more than 60 years, having married an American engineer whose first job was with Combustion Engineering and later the Tennessee Valley […]
If I post critique of cabin operator, I help ‘sharing economy’
Helen, Ga., draws crowds to its German themed architecture and shops. (Photos David Tulis) David and Jeannette Tulis, he of Swiss extraction (note flag, left), she of Dutch (note flag for the Netherlands) at a square in Helen, Ga. Late in the 1960s the town fathers of Helen, Ga., began to redesign their town and […]
Thanks to mom, homeschooling’s social capital will aid crisis ahead
Members of a Chattanooga-area homeschooling chapter of Heritage Girls take part in a parade. (Photo Shannon Conkle) The state has supplanted neighborliness and community with bribery and entitlements, but you know your old dad, 89, is fine for now in his little house at street’s end, and your littlest daughter brings him his morning paper […]
Local vote affects city future; national vote shares in delusions
Candidates for judge such as Mike Little of Chattanooga are susceptible to the public’s interest by standing for election. Mr. Little awaits results of the day’s balloting for criminal court judge in Hamilton County, Tenn. (Photo Facebook) Soddy-Daisy voters line up to insert their ballots into a state-owned machine that tallies their preferences on Super […]
Voters, pols helpless to alter U.S. fundamentals
Elections and politicians are incapable to altering bleak fundamentals for a government-controlled and badly damaged U.S. economy and its largely wrecked free enterprise system. Today is Super Tuesday, so-called. But whatever the results of the political media program, results can hardly be super. A new chief executive will take charge, and even the best of […]
Boys who recommend themselves go farther than those who don’t
Robert Henderson, 10, helps a deacon clean the dining hall after lunch. (Photo David Tulis) “Why are you here helping me?” I ask the boy. “I don’t know,” Robert Henderson, 10, says. “I just thought I should help.” He works broom and pan. By David Tulis As deacon, I look for young men at my […]