Simulator teaches ‘necessity’ of police violence as Fletcher argues against gulag

Nancy Mason, surrounded by seven sheriff’s deputies, was tased during booking at Hamilton County, Tenn., jail. (Photo wrcbtv.com) TV9’s Latricia Thomas prepares for police simulator training to make clear how dangerous is the trade of cop. (Photo Newschannel9.com) To this day if I see a policeman, do you know what it does to me? I […]

Sen. Gardenhire’s fallacious claims about mass schooling

Sen. Todd Gardenhire The rooster crows immediately before sunrise, therefore the rooster causes the sun to rise. — Sample of poplar fallacy By David Tulis The marketplace in educational services has been stifled in Chattanooga for decades thanks to a taxpayer-subsidized cartel that is loaded down with corporate hangers-on and profiteers. But others support public […]

In state factory school, pressure builds against Muslim propaganda

After a stabbing, police cars gather at Lookout Valley Middle/High school in January. (Photo wrcbtv.com) The whitewash of Islam is provoking a mild backlash among public school parents in Tennessee. Their children spend hours every day in a state system where propaganda for Muslims is one of many types imposed by state government upon them. […]

Could ‘Uber cop’ have chased, arrested carjacking suspect?

As the modern corporate state fades, so will its police departments. (Photo Police the Police on Facebook) By David Tulis Police in Chattanooga are chasing after a white Ford Focus along lamp-lit city streets after dark two days after a carjacking at UTC. Inside are three men, aware that a cruiser is behind them. They’d […]

Program to harass motorists not in statute, doesn’t exist, chief says

This letter is a response to an open records request that took 10 times longer to generate than allowed in the statute. Commissioner Bill Gibbons says no record exists; the irregular program about which I seek details is not envisioned in the statute — therefore does not exist. Do I want to unearth an extralegal […]

Tenn. county shuts schools in step toward decentralization

On a page scarred by show prep notes, this clipping from Chattanooga Times Free Press tells of Clay County’s closing public schools for a month while those in Alcoa, Tenn., get a new facility. Schools look like prisons, but this one has aliens landing a flying saucer on its pate. (Photo David Tulis) By David […]

Jets dim sun over U.S. by spraying plumes of coal ash, scientist says, sickening people

Tennessee is the target of an intense program of artificial cloudmaking for which has been made “no public admission, no understanding, no academic investigations, no informed consent, and no disclosure as to the nature of the toxic substances being dispersed into the air,” a critic asserts. (Photo Tennessee Skywatch Facebook) The skies over Chattanooga are […]

Schooling empties souls; but we can still educate children

Using a variety of media, an American mom named Linda educates six children ages 10 to 17 at home and writes a blog about family life and learning. (Photo Training6hearts4him) By Tammy Drennan I’ve been trying to get my head around the American attitude about education (and I’m American). I sometimes think that we Americans […]

Obama uses language of liberty, free enterprise, but rejects local economy ideal

Broad and Main streets are of little interest to the U.S. president, who in a speech to the U.N. favors global economy and global “management“ of human society. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis The arguments for local economy and free markets sometimes cannot be heard for their breathlessness, their being stifled by more powerful […]

City acted in good faith in mass evictions, reporter Cook says

Reporter Dick Cook of Eastridgenewsonline.com tells what’s happening at Superior Creek Lodge in East Ridge, a dwelling for 800 poor Tennesseans shut down by executive fiat on public safety grounds without the slightest grant of due process rights to either tenants or landlord. (Courtesy AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio) Tweet Pin It