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 […]
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 […]
Alabama justice says homosexuality ‘destructive,’ makes people ‘unfit’
Chief Justice Roy Moore Alabama supreme court’s chief justice, Roy Moore, has distinct views in which he defends the freedom of the family and society by categorizing homosexual acts as violative of human nature and destructive. “We cannot continue to borrow the future of our children and our grandchildren or we will suffer the consequences,” […]
Food freedom lights way to exit for U.S. cultural, economic disaster, II
A boy clutches a chicken; citified boys suppose chickens come from grocery store meat departments. (Photo Growchattanooga.org) Please read Part I of Franklin Sanders’ interview with Joel Salatin. Joel Salatin is at the cutting edge of the food freedom movement, the family farm’s rebirth, and the New Agriculture, holistic farming that works with nature instead […]
What’s your lover’s love language? Or, a sweet angle on local economy
Seth Huffman, 19, and Kelsey Stansell, 18, both of Chattanooga, plan to marry in June and are reading a book on “love languages.” By David Tulis The men at Panera Posse the other morning considered the work of Gary Chapman, whose “love language” books have been such a help to Christians understanding their mates and […]
Chattanoogans, held upside-down, face thrashing; so much for change
So it was that a revolution took place within the form. Like the hagfish, the New Deal entered the old form and devoured its meaning from within. The revolutionaries were inside; the defenders were outside. A government that had been supported by the people and so controlled by the people became one that supported the […]
Meltdown at clinic: Christians buy building as landlord bankrupts (III)
Bridgehead for conquest: abortion landlord under seige Dr. Ed Perry By David Tulis Porter Yarbrough, the landlord of the Chattanooga abortion clinic, had reportedly been converted to Christianity. ‡ Dr. Bizzoco, Mike Jennings & activist DAVID MILLER met with him. Would he be willing to oust the clinic? “In that pastoral counseling, Mr. Yarbrough was informed that […]
In 1990s, pro-life pressure against abortion clinic intensifies (II)
SIMPLE CLAIMS Two elderly women join 2,500 other right-to-life demonstrators in a “life chain” Jan. 20, 1991. Chattanooga Women’s Clinic opened in Chattanooga in 1975 and is reported to have destroyed nearly 35,000 boys and girls. The operators of the clinic ran a rough shop, with numerous injured women, numerous lawsuits for negligence, protests by […]
Disability convention, a threat to self-determination, stalls in Senate
Most federal senators vote to impose U.S. control over family and social life on Chattanooga via a U.N. convention on disabilities, but two Tennessee legislators help keep the body from passing the measure. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was defeated today in a 61-38 vote in favor of the […]
Grace wipes scar on gangster’s heart, could solve growing problem in city
Cory “Ace” Stafford, a former gang member, at 22 is convinced that the power of gangs can be broken by the sway of personal relationships among youths and Christian commoners. By David Tulis Cory “Ace” Stafford, 22, is a native of Sanford, Fla., and a former gang member. He has been in Chattanooga since 2009 […]