Commoners take licks, hope for best as Marceaux argues before Judge Lasley
Basil Marceaux, the night’s most noted defendant, argues a point in Soddy-Daisy sessions court Tuesday as Judge Marty Lasley waits to fire back. (Photo David Tulis) Sessions court meets every Tuesday in the north Hamilton County town of Soddy-Daisy, its judge mild mannered but coming to the bench with a list of minimum expectations. (Photo […]
Bill asks U.S. congress for marriage remedy, rejects common law solution
Rep. Mark Pody’s defense of marriage bill — stuck in a Tennessee subcommittee — continues to be the focus of pro-marriage Christians. But their ranks are divided. A pro-family critic of interposition helped kill it with talk about its potential cost in lost U.S. cash. Marriage belongs to every man and to every woman as […]
GOP wrecking freedom in firepower, liberty in marriage
Rep. Mike Carter, a Republican, is a former sessions court judge. (Photo wrcbtv.com) Todd Gardenhire defeats gun “constitutional carry” in Tennessee by not voting, but the bill can be revived, John Harris of the Tennessee Firearms Association says. Meanwhile, defenders of marriage work to crowbar the defense of natural marriage act from a state house […]
If I post critique of cabin operator, I help ‘sharing economy’
Helen, Ga., draws crowds to its German themed architecture and shops. (Photos David Tulis) David and Jeannette Tulis, he of Swiss extraction (note flag, left), she of Dutch (note flag for the Netherlands) at a square in Helen, Ga. Late in the 1960s the town fathers of Helen, Ga., began to redesign their town and […]
With reforms, Christ will be brought back into courtrooms
Judges and juries in the Hamilton County, Tenn., court building dispense verdicts and opinions. Many are just. (Photo David Tulis) True servants of the Lord Jesus Christ confess that He is the Creator God of heaven and earth, Redeemer of mankind, Judge of all the earth, and King of kings and Lord of lords. All […]
Is Causeway forgetting about bureaucracy, wasting goodwill on school system?
Co.Starters for Causes is a nine-week program that helps individuals put ideas into action, and turn a passion for bettering the community into a sustainable and thriving endeavor. (Photo Causeway.org) The Chattanooga nonprofit sector is dangling gift money before people in hopes they will help improve government schools or at least lobby for their improvement. […]
Thanks to mom, homeschooling’s social capital will aid crisis ahead
Members of a Chattanooga-area homeschooling chapter of Heritage Girls take part in a parade. (Photo Shannon Conkle) The state has supplanted neighborliness and community with bribery and entitlements, but you know your old dad, 89, is fine for now in his little house at street’s end, and your littlest daughter brings him his morning paper […]
Local vote affects city future; national vote shares in delusions
Candidates for judge such as Mike Little of Chattanooga are susceptible to the public’s interest by standing for election. Mr. Little awaits results of the day’s balloting for criminal court judge in Hamilton County, Tenn. (Photo Facebook) Soddy-Daisy voters line up to insert their ballots into a state-owned machine that tallies their preferences on Super […]
Boys who recommend themselves go farther than those who don’t
Robert Henderson, 10, helps a deacon clean the dining hall after lunch. (Photo David Tulis) “Why are you here helping me?” I ask the boy. “I don’t know,” Robert Henderson, 10, says. “I just thought I should help.” He works broom and pan. By David Tulis As deacon, I look for young men at my […]
Was slavery in the South inherently sinful, evil?
Slavery is a human condition attended with many evils, but the federal government says in its archive of interviews of former slaves that 80 percent spoke well of their former masters and that the comity between the races prior to the war is unmistakeable as historical fact. The issue has emerged in Nashville after a […]