Little says possible to be ‘just judge,’ says courts not machine for skinning poor
Public defender Mike Little says there is no conspiracy within the court system to oppress the working poor who run afoul of the state’s many “victimless crime” rules.(Photo 2012 David Tulis) By Esther Taj Attorney Mike Little has worked in the Hamilton County public defender’s office 1 ½ years and is a candidate for criminal […]
Passport Challenge event in city brings Hispanic right to travel into view
Gladys Pineda-Loher and Jim Coppinger, the mayor of Hamilton County, Tenn., promote a Latin event under the heading of “passports.” (Photo Facebook) Part of the prosperity and security of people in the home county here in Southeast Tennessee is the right of free movement. By that I mean not just the power of relocation and […]
The coming meltdown & how to survive it
10 minutes in, 10 minutes out. I sketch the coming reckoning the marketplace will impose on debt-ridden nation-states and their consumption-oriented economies. Key: Families, local investment, thrift, thinking of “the other.” (Hot News Talk Radio) Tweet Pin It
Activist grower unites city dwellers, 9 Mennonite farmers in area
Farmer Steve Bontekoe tells about his Harvest Box program in which city folks subscribe to him and his nine Mennonite farmers and receive every week a bulging container of fresh vegetables grown and harvested in a sustainable way. (AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio). Tweet Pin It
‘Momma bears’ shed tears of Esau as test snoops crash
The Momma Bears of Tennessee circulated this image to complain about the digital crackup of the state’s testing program. By David Tulis Digital potholes rattled Tennessee’s school testing program to pieces. At least at the point where the program meets the student body. But the shards of paneling, stray screws and smashed server coils of […]
Tulis talk explores ‘bright prospect’ amid national calamity
The Chattanooga chapter of the Freedoms Foundation celebrates constitutional liberties for which men froze to death at the encampment at Valley Forge, here inspected by Gen. George Washington. (Painting by Dunsmore) By David Tulis David Tulis is editor of Nooganomics.com. The American people face a day of reckoning that will require of them continual exercise […]
Gays get 7% of marriage licenses in Hamilton County, 2% elsewhere
The confetti falling to celebrate the gay conquest of marriage is thick, but doesn’t obscure the prospect of an American return to common law marriage. By David Tulis More than a hundred people in a homosexual relationship have received marriage licenses from Hamilton County clerk Bill Knowles. The licenses were issued from June 26 through […]
Hitchcock gives ‘direct care’ relief for national economy constipation
Dr. Rick Hitchcock chats with a senior citizen in his new “direct care” medical practice in Hixson. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis Dr. Rick Hitchcock and other Chattanooga doctors are living out the local economy response to a bad case of constipation in the national economy. With ObamaCare effectively nationalizing the medical insurance industry, […]
‘Fiddle Man’ of Lawrenceburg demands verdict be overturned, right to travel
A woman gets a ride on a tractor at a fair in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., in which a court on Thursday will consider grinding a free user of the public roads beneath its treads. (Photo Yesterdaystrators.com) The man convicted by a jury on four criminal counts is Arthur Jay Hirsch, 65, a bachelor whose livelihood is […]
Questions drive parents to consider homeschooling option
By Calvin Beisner I often ask people, “Who in his right mind ever thought it made any sense whatever to entrust to the government the shaping of the minds of the people by whose consent it is supposed to govern?” Rarely have they entertained that question before, but usually they get the point immediately: Government-run […]