Chattanooga 2.0 school scheme’s missing ingredient
Conflicting economic presuppositions between state school activists written up in the Times Free Press and free market and voluntaryist analysis by contrarian Charles Hugh Smith. (Photo David Tulis) Jared Bigham explains the goals of the group Chattanooga 2.0. (Photo Chatt2.org) The Sunday editions of the Chattanooga Times Free Press tell of a winning goal: “Smartest […]
Will cop be held accountable in false arrest, double perjury? Pinkston mulls case
Neal Pinkston, district attorney (Photo wdef.com) I would like to follow up on my suggestion of Aug. 24. It concerns the abuse of Hanson Melvin by officer David Campbell of the Chattanooga police department. The internal affairs division of the police department is reviewing the claims Mr. Melvin has made against officer Campbell. By David […]
City’s best ad, ‘Angry Man,’ touts Shooter’s Supply
A customer looks at a rifle at Shooter’s Supply in north Chattanooga. (Photo YouTube) One of my tasks as observer and booster of local economy and free markets is encouraging people to shop local. Inherent in the idea of local economy is self-government under God and constitutional government, which further implies the armed citizen. By […]
Jet videos show aerosol injections over cities, countryside
This brief presentation by environmentalist Dane Wigington of Geoengineeringwatch.org says that aerosol injections by jet are polluting the air, heating up the planet and are increasingly more difficult for the world’s political establishments to hide. Chattanooga and other Tennessee cities are regularly dosed with these toxic white tattoos that leave featureless skies, weird cloud fronts […]
Uriah the Hittite, honorable man, model for local economy
Uriah the Hittite is faithful to the army of Israel and to King David, even though his lord betrays him and orders his death. (Photo Fearfulthings.co.za) When Christians on the Lord’s Day hear a sermon about King David’s adultery with Bathsheba, they are often left in the dark about Bathsheba’s husband. Uriah the Hittite was […]
Since fluoride ‘advantageous to health,’ dentists want all to take
Drs. Robert and Mandy Shearer, dentists in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., supported water fluoridation at a May public meeting of the local water board. But they have maintained good relations with patients by avoiding a strong push for fluoridation, another compulsory government program that angers many people. (Photo Soddy-Daisy Smiles advertising mailer) Area tooth doctors favor mass […]
Homeschool expo says yes to personal relationships, no to ‘machine’
Exhibitors and students talk up pedagogy at the home education expo and curriculum fair that takes place this year at Camp Jordan in East Ridge, Tenn., July 15 and 16. (Photos Faith Hamilton and Ginger Sumerlin) A tot enjoys an educational gizmo at the annual home education fair serving the free market. Moms gather at […]
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 […]