Category: Family life

Marriage, family alleged to be terms searching for new uses

(Photo from Facebook) By David Tulis The debate over Chattanooga’s domestic partnership ordinance and its repeal often flings itself upon a haze of unreality. The question is quite different than what backers of the gay theory propose. The issue before the voters is not about emotion; it’s not about whether giving gay partner benefits ends […]

Grounds for suit: City’s gay ordinance outside legal authority in charter

Mayor Andy Berke holds a cute pup, but a poofter city ordinance he admires is a real mongrel. (Photo city Twitter feed) (An effort to oust city councilman Chris Anderson has failed by a lack of 421 signatures. Mr. Anderson is the inspiration of city government’s lugbutt (OK OK, LBGT) ordinance for domestic partner benefits. […]

For Chattanooga local economy to rise, rebuild waste places

Tulis boys, foreground, reload clips or fire downrange at a plinking session in Birchwood, Tenn. The weapons are a .30-cal. SKS and a .223-cal. Mini-14. An armed citizenry cannot be totally subjugated. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations […]

Neo-Nazi protest reveals family squabble with major parties

Total police presence at a protest by National Socialist Movement in Chattanooga is the real demonstration. 37 seconds. By David Tulis The coverage of the neo-Nazi protest in Chattanooga shows traditional media at its best. The story is so vital to the people of the town that only one side needs be told. And that […]

Dad, let’s rediscover the great gift of intellectual hunger

By Tammy Drennan In his excellent autobiography, My Grandfather’s Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks about discovering the joy of reading for the first time. It wasn’t as a child, nor as a grade school or high school student. It wasn’t at the colleges he attended, not even Yale. Instead, after getting hooked on […]

Coming paradigm: Certifying the student, not the institution

The Nearly Free University is available in print or electronically. [Excerpt from The Nearly Free University, by Charles Hugh Smith, available at Chattanooga bookshop Winder Binder Books & Records. David Smotherman would be happy to order it for you. He will mail it to you if you like; or you could use its arrival at […]

Administrative bloat, piles of student debt hint colleges a legacy system

The courtyard outside the library at UTC. The average debt load for students at the government university in Chattanooga is around $14,000. [This essay appears in the April 1 edition of Esprit newsletter, serving hundreds of homeschool families in the Chattanooga area. — DJT] By Charles Hugh Smith Once we accredit the student, not the […]

Lessons from Laish, a biblical city left defenseless by depraved ways

The Levite carries his slain concubine after she is sodomized to death in the lawless town Gibeah (Judges 19). Gibeah was a lawless domain of the sons of Benjamin. Laish (in chapter 18) is seized by the sons of Dan. (Image from Dore´s illustrated Bible book) By David Tulis I have been thinking about Laish, […]