Could ‘Uber cop’ have chased, arrested carjacking suspect?

As the modern corporate state fades, so will its police departments. (Photo Police the Police on Facebook) By David Tulis Police in Chattanooga are chasing after a white Ford Focus along lamp-lit city streets after dark two days after a carjacking at UTC. Inside are three men, aware that a cruiser is behind them. They’d […]

Program to harass motorists not in statute, doesn’t exist, chief says

This letter is a response to an open records request that took 10 times longer to generate than allowed in the statute. Commissioner Bill Gibbons says no record exists; the irregular program about which I seek details is not envisioned in the statute — therefore does not exist. Do I want to unearth an extralegal […]

Tow truck driver indicted for bringing rational thinking into marketplace

An animal shelter parking lot starts to flood in Summerville, S.C. (Photo WVIC TV abcnews4.com) Robert Andrew Boland By David Tulis A towtruck driver has been indicted in South Carolina on charges that he violated a statute that prohibits “unconscionable prices during times of disaster,” and makes it a misdemeanor to raise prices during events […]

TN cop aims shotgun at pregnant woman, man with camera

Memphis police practice lethal threats to two citizens on a porch, including a pregnant woman, during the filmed arrest of a defendant. Note bad language. 3 minutes. As the modern nation-state declines, the rationale for military organizations called “police departments” fades. Police departments are perhaps the most dangerous of armed gang in any city and […]

Obama uses language of liberty, free enterprise, but rejects local economy ideal

Broad and Main streets are of little interest to the U.S. president, who in a speech to the U.N. favors global economy and global “management“ of human society. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis The arguments for local economy and free markets sometimes cannot be heard for their breathlessness, their being stifled by more powerful […]

Objective law, not subjective state of mind, undergirds constitutional government

“Good Faith Clerk” booklet is a free download My Sept. 24, 2015, letter to now-freed Rowan County, Ky., clerk Kim Davis recommending that she fortify her legal position vis a vis the gay mudslide by the simple arguments in our little booklet, “Good Faith & the County Clerk.” Dear Mrs. Davis, The story of your […]

City acted in good faith in mass evictions, reporter Cook says

Reporter Dick Cook of Eastridgenewsonline.com tells what’s happening at Superior Creek Lodge in East Ridge, a dwelling for 800 poor Tennesseans shut down by executive fiat on public safety grounds without the slightest grant of due process rights to either tenants or landlord. (Courtesy AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio) Tweet Pin It

‘Just say ‘on’; how a two-lettered word gets confused

David Alan Carmichael lives without a social security number, and his children were reared without them. He just says no. He defeated the U.S. Navy in its refusal to accommodate his religious beliefs, a conflict that led to that branch’s unlawfully giving him the boot. By David Tulis Chattanoogans may well be deserving of the […]

Parasite capitalist city wrecks poor-man hotel, hurls families from homes

Mike Williams, interim city manager of East Ridge and fire chief, second from right, joins others review conditions at Superior Creek Lodge in East Ridge. Others are fire marshal Kenny Custer, back turned; and Brian Adams, an engineer serving the property owner, left. (Photo Dick Cook Eastridgenewsonline.com) It’s an epic manmade disaster is what I […]

Purpose of Common Core: Centralize, standardize, digitize, harvest the young

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (The more that changes, the more it’s the same thing.) — French proverb In part a review of The Educator & the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation by Anthony Cody. (New York, Garn Press, 2014. 199 pages, no index. $15.30 from abebooks.com) By Franklin Sanders […]