Gnome awaits indictment on driving without license

A Tennessee motorist has been charged with driving without a license. (Photo Interstatedrugbust.com) By David Tulis The Gnome of Strawberry Plains has been cited to court for driving without a license, opening the prospect for a renewed effort to show that Tennessee’s driver license regime, out of respect for the state bill of rights, is […]

10 questions about sky to test your powers of observation

Often nowadays we see the sun through a hazy filter. Any ideas why? (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis In covering local economy and free markets in Chattanooga I have come upon the story of “solar radiation management” as it affects weather conditions and indirectly the health of local residents. I argue that strong evidence […]

Supremacy clause puts constitution itself on top, not abusive court

Does the constitution belong to local officials who swear to uphold it, or to the federal supreme court? The supremacy clause says the constitution is the supreme law of the land, not necessarily opinions of these nine federal employees. As one man’s conscience cannot properly be deputy for another man’s conscience, so neither can an […]

EPB sales plunge as saturated porn market yields F$100,000 for year

The city’s electric power board streams pornography (aka “adult content”) in a declining market. (Photo epb.net) By David Tulis A multimillion-dollar city-owned business is selling pornography in a down market, eking out about F$100,000 in revenue in 2014 with titles such as “Hood Humpin Ho’s Getting Down & Dirty” and “Deep in your Wife.” The […]

City bestows F$26 million on deserving companies in twinge for local economy

Helen Burns Sharp enriched my knowledge of commercial government by giving me Greg LeRoy’s The Great American Jobs Scam (2005). Commercial government puts citizens in the unenviable position of having elected officials and their appointees and friends manage economic growth apart from the free market that rightly belongs to the people themselves. The citizenry is […]

As stripes dim sun over city, scientists debate mass U.S. chemtrail proposal

This evening at dusk, sky tattoos dim a sun that is already weakening in the West. Looking south toward Chattanooga. (Photo David Tulis) Chase, Md., receives a heavy dosage of jet-created cloud cover. Its effect is much like that proposed by a February 2015 government chemtrail study that says jet-sprayed particulates would act like volcanic […]

Do we need more leadership of Gov. Bentley, Supt. Daniels type? Hardly

The YMCA counters the suffocating nature of state school systems by letting young people in leadership courses learn about the real world by introducing them to courts, insurance company offices and hospitals. Learn more in my interview with Daniel Kadwell (link below). (Photo Ymcachattanooga.org) By David Tulis We have long been suspicious of the words […]

7 homeschooled children kidnapped by Arkansas to be held in state custody

Riven by the state after a heavily armed police raid, the Hal Stanley family is praying for release of its seven children. (Photo Medicalkidnap.com) By Terri LaPoint / Health Impact News It will be at least “6 more weeks of kidnapping” for the 7 homeschooled, homebirthed Stanley children, according to their father. Hal and Michelle […]

Feds propose global chemtrail program to ‘cool planet’

Such scenes as this one of solar radiation management in the Netherlands are often visible to the people of Chattanooga in their own skies, from Ooltewah to Tiftonia, from Apison to Soddy-Daisy. (Photo Earth-matters.nl) A National Academy of Sciences report on sky striping, like that taking place here in Aurora, Colo., says it is a […]

Bartleby’s ‘I prefer not to’ keeps us from schools, standardized tests

The story of Bartleby the scrivener by Melville depicts dogged noncompliance with authority. The book at right explains how Christians can flourish by being noncompliant and resisting “the good people.” [Our interest in the ideas of local economy and free markets force us to dash ourselves against the ironclad sides of the public school. Heads […]