‘Sustainable development’ for ’Nooga not lococentric, but globocentric
Don Casey defends genuine local economy in a Chattanooga lecture. The following is an abstract of a talk by a noted free market advocate March 16 in Chattanooga. Don Casey lectures worldwide about global agendas foisted on American states and cities under the theory of “sustainable development.” He touches our interests on several important points. […]
By joining U.S. workforce, boy, 16, allows presumptions against interest
Tonight a son asks me to look over papers he will submit to a corporate employer. The arrangement for him to make sandwiches for you and other customers brings him to a legal apex, a balancing point. If he steps ahead, submits the papers, is engaged, has his name placed on the schedule and receives […]
It’s easy to talk in vain repetitions of liberty; willing to sit in cell for it?
From left, spokesman Mike Dunne and Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger chat with a constituent outside Hamilton County courthouse in January. (Photo Facebook) The puerility of the freethinkers consists in believing that a free society can maintain itself and keep itself together without a common faith. *** If liberty is to be saved, it will […]
How localist perspective accounts for aliens, illegals in Chattanooga
King Solomon, seen here wisely settling the dispute over the prostitute’s baby, prayed that when God’s people go into an alien land as captives in punishment for sin, their masters will treat them kindly; “[G]rant them compassion before those who took them captive, that they may have compassion on them” (1 Kings 8:50). By David […]
Mr. Kiesche, tootling about in auto, insists not ‘driving a motor vehicle’
Eric Kiesche insists on a difference between a motorist and a driver. A legal quibble? Or a point of substance? (This essay is the second of two parts. Please read Part I for a review of controlling court cases.) By David Tulis Eric Kiesche stands before city court Judge Sherry Paty, he says later, surrounded […]
Judges’ trick on ‘right to travel’ defied by hard-of-hearing motorists
Tennessee courts have ruled that every use of a car is “the driving of a motor vehicle,” and that this act is subject to licensure and regulation, regardless of whether the motorist is operating in commerce. A Hixson man is challenging this claim. By David Tulis The battle of local economy is one in which […]
Noose continues to tighten, but no government or empire lasts forever
People drop mail off at the Hixson branch of the U.S. Postal Service, a legal monopoly that in September hit its F$15 billion borrowing limit from Uncle’s treasury department. To argue against such coercive state monopolies is to enter into the perspective of ”voluntaryism,” a helpful framework for viewing liberty. By Carl Watner, Voluntaryist.com Voluntaryists have […]
2 empty promises — Gigabit mall, ‘compliance systems’ for churches
By David Tulis / Noogaradio 1240 AM 101.1 FM Some Friday mornings at Panera Posse the company is scarce, though the conversation never is. Today Chris Davis, a traffic engineer at Volkert, and I launch out of the town square in pursuit of the stolen booty. I arrive first, and in tidying up my briefcase […]
Ambiguous words from prosecutor as he cheers Chattanooga mosque
“And when they arose early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the Lord The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only Dagon’s torso was left of it. *** We know that an idol is […]
The nobility of dissent; we say no to status quo, urge alternative
I am thinking today about the 193-page court opinion on Obamacare — National Federation of Independent Business vs. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services — and how to avoid adding to the cloud of commentary that many worthies have offered. But before I can take the hours to read it, I give a […]