How private money, inflation entail chicanery, fraud, coming wreck
Justice Stephen J. Field, a dissenter of paper money disaster By David Tulis The disaster of national economy that awaits us here in the hinterlands has its makings in ideas that are ultimately religious in nature. More immediately the wreckage caused by ballooning and unpayable debt is based on a ideas that take the form […]
If licensing scheme runs on consent, ‘illegals’ may be freer than citizens
Immigrants and free citizens who use the roads without driver’s licenses are charged with a crime under Title 55 of the Tennessee Code Annotated. [I have been giving time to digesting Tennessee Code Annotated Title 55, covering “motor and other vehicles.” It seems to pose no threat to Hispanics and immigrants in Tennessee who use […]
Freedom for whites, blacks entails liberty for Mexican immigrants
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream and Hot News Talk Radio 1240 Opposed to a free market in labor and free movement of peoples, progressives in the Republican party have little choice but to impose a draconian personal identification law that goes beyond the driver’s license. What is the Christian and free market perspective on […]
The orphaned right: How states squelched Americans’ right to travel
States by myriad efforts to regulate the use of cars like these on Brainerd Road in Chattanooga slowly whittled away the right to travel by car, converting its use to a privilege. Attorney Roger Isaac Roots is a legal scholar, criminologist and civil liberties activities who lives in Livingston, Mont. He has written many scholarly […]
Used book sale lets you prosper as state libraries disgorge stacks
This find by Thomas Cahill at the Chattanooga library castoff sale will find a good home with me, though I already have a well-marked copy. Any book by Robert Kaplan is worth reading, as he is an expert on the American empire. This volume cost me F$2 at the Friends of the Library book sale […]
Judges give cheerful defense of democratic processes, states’ rights, federalism
Lesbians march in Boston in 2008, having converted laws and state government to their perspective. (Photo massresistance.org) By David Tulis The authority of states and their peoples to define marriage is being cheerfully upheld by an appellate opinion in Cincinnati that make clear marriage laws such as Tennessee’s are rational, imposed not with bigotry but […]
We hope in local economy because it matters not who controls U.S. senate
The walking bridge in Chattanooga is full of pedestrians during a holiday crowd, many of whose members believe GOP control of the U.S. senate is important. Charles Hugh Smith Please don’t claim anything changes if one party or the other is in the majority. Anyone clinging to that fantasy is delusional. If you really think […]
When companies export profit from local economy, negative multiplier effect kicks in
The sun sets in Hixson upon retail shops that energize two sorts of clientele. By Alfred Adask In 1999 Drs. William Heffernan, Robert Gronski, and Mary Hendrickson (professors in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri) presented a paper entitled “Concentration of Agricultural Markets” to the National Farmers Union. That paper outlined […]
U.S. jets rake Tennessee’s 4 cities; anecdotal evidence program working
Chattanooga is heavily treated Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, by aircraft that serve federal climate control programs. This scene from my churchyard in Brainerd suggests the intense program depositing tons of metallic particulate into the air over my hometown. These trails are seen from a building off Highway 58 — clawmarks in the sky. A view […]
Judges proposal urges give up gold for pyrite; an election roundup
Barbara Foster, left, of Chattanooga, and Lauren Smith of Soddy-Daisy enjoy an early voting experience Friday at Northgate mall in Chattanooga. By David Tulis Three important constitutional amendments on the ballot give us common people a chance to defy the will of the elites whose concentration of power secures their economic security and that of […]