Category: Cartels vs. liberty

To nation waiting for sign, aerial visitation no better than hieroglyph

Billboards along Highway 58 in Chattanooga are backdropped Feb. 6, 2015, by brilliant aerial injections. (Photo David Tulis) Baarn, Netherland, inhales under a patchwork of earth-cooling plumes that climate engineer David Keith says exist only as computer simulations. (Photo Earth-matters.nl) SRM, or solar radiation management, injects aluminum particulate in the sky over Poway, Calif., Feb. […]

Thrive 2055 backer tackles my tough free market queries

Denny Mobbs, attorney and factory operator, explains why he supports Thrive 2055. (Photo Hot News Talk Radio 1240 1190 910 AM) Centralization produces apoplexy at the center and paralysis at the extremities. — Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais By David Tulis Students of the free market understand that prosperity — lower costs, more wealth, happier […]

EPB’s luscious ‘eminent domain’ upon the field of marriage

EPB is a city-owned utility that teases schoolchildren with hardhats at school, and dudes by online porn flicks. (Photo EPB.net) By David Tulis EPB is the city’s electric utility engaged in the for-profit business of selling pornography through its telecom division. The 2014 earnings from this ribald public service is a meager F$101,080 and for […]

New defense for aliens, liberty lovers: No requirement to obtain driver license

An 1939 court opinion on the state driver license makes clear that it is obtained in equity, meaning by consent, application and voluntary action. Existing statute appears to recognize this prospect. By David Tulis As you pointed out in the first of our two phone conversations, “driving is a privilege.” OK. Licensed driving is a […]

Body cams will make cops more visible as standing army

Body cameras on cops may prevent violent acts by policemen, but add another layer of surveillance. Tests in early 2015 in Chattanooga of body cameras for police officers and sheriff’s deputies is widely considered a way to reduce the number of police officer attacks upon members of the public and the severity of other abuses. […]

Noninflationary payday loans fill gap caused by employers’ scoffing at Bible

ACE Checks Cashed on Brainerd Road and other payday lenders face regulation by Chattanooga city council. (Photo Google Maps) By David Tulis A plan before Chattanooga city council to restrict payday lenders touches at consequences of quick-cash loans but overlooks a cause — namely the abuse of employers’ holding back. The proposal restricts all sorts […]

Grim police state, urban societal breakdown ahead as U.S. runs down

Police officer shoulder their rifles in a dramatic pose illustrating the rise of the warrior cop and the decline of entrepreneurial liberty. (Photo WRCB TV12) By Ron Paul If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize […]

In quashed Fed indictment, 23 grand jurors explain why 2015’ll be lousy

A U.S. prosecutor quashed an indictment of the Fed in 1982 in this federal court house and post office in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo GSA.gov) There is more work to be done to ensure that all Americans can share in the accelerating recovery. — Jason Furman, council of economic advisers, White House By David […]

The rise of policing despite constitution; or how cops became legally superior, apart

Protesters in dowtown Chattanooga join thousands around the country in late 2014 protesting police slayings of unarmed people. (Photo Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson on Facebook) Police work is often lionized by jurists and scholars who claim to employ “textualist” and “originalist” methods of constitutional interpretation. Yet professional police were unknown to the United States in 1789, […]