Blame insurance for rise of modern state; might we escape?
The state’s long effort to atomize society and make every individual bow before it without intermediary bodies to defend him is creating unbearable friction, higher costs and high levels of anomie and alienation. The rise of insurance and the insurance-like modern state. I propose we consider the sort of personal independence from the state and […]
Crockett & the coming U.S. devolution
Dave Crockett, mayoral candidate, is a backer of the idea of the citystate, which envisions a shift in government away from the standard local-state-federal rubric to a more organic and geocentric theory. Here I explore Mr. Crockett’s connection with people in this line of thinking. Also, a chat with Carol Gaddy, the feisty Dunlap, Tenn., […]
Crockett’s sweeping proposals include high-speed rail, green theory
Mayor candidate Dave Crockett says regional thinking is holistic and more realistic than that derived from maps and legal/political borders. He takes credit for many of the improvements that the city gave to itself in the 1990s and promises to be an activist lococentric mayor. (Noogaradio 1240 AM 101.1 FM) Tweet Pin It
Long backs idea of free trade zone in housing
Architectural consultant Chris Long, running for mayor of Chattanooga, says regulatory costs are stifling the housing market in the city. He tells why David Tulis’ argument for a free trade zone in housing — to help the homeless — is an idea that might work. (Photo Noogaradio) Tweet Pin It
Crockett says would be activist, lococentric mayor
Mayor candidate Dave Crockett develops some of his unusual ideas in an interview with David Tulis on Noogaradio. Tweet Pin It
New law forces TN to justify harassment by ‘occupational licensing’
More than 100 callings and professions are claimed by the state as its property in Chattanooga, requiring practitioners to be licensed. (Photo David Tulis) “The right of individuals to pursue a chosen business or profession, free from arbitrary or excessive government interference, is a fundamental civil right.” That’s how the Right to Earn a Living […]
Lawyers in bus crash lawsuits yield open secret about a lost liberty
Bus companies such as Durham School Services earn a profit from transporting people or goods for hire on the people’s roads, and so are called “common carriers” subject to regulation. (Photo secure.burlesonisd.net) A secret is being revealed by lawyers filing lawsuits on behalf of victims of the yellow school bus crash in Chattanooga that killed […]
Tall-in-saddle Crockett straddles localist-globalist divide in mayor bid
David Crockett seeks to oust Democrat lawyer Andy Berke from being mayor of Chattanooga. Jet-setting former city official David Crockett has picked up qualifying papers for a mayoral bid that promises he would be a busy, activist chief executive focusing on municipal solutions to national woes. The former three-term city council member is known for […]
Battlefield tactics: How to deny state actor’s ‘good faith’ defense
Dunlap, Tenn., city hall is embroiled in a fight to “inspect” a house apparently outside the city boundary. Dwain Land, chief executive of a municipal corporation called City of Dunlap When people hear a reference to “state actors,” they imagine for a split second a group of people all practicing grimaces, tremulous expressions of fear […]
Your shantytown is my housing free trade zone
Scrap lumber like this on a construction project on Main Street of Chattanooga would be recycled by homeless people for their own “free trade zone” dwellings. (Photo David Tulis) A worksite dumpster could become the “home depot” of homeless people if they could build their own dwellings in an unregulated housing free trade zone in […]