Moore orders probate judges to uphold marriage in Alabama
While the Alabama supreme court in Montgomery weighs a defense of marriage, chief justice Roy Moore is ordering that the state’s marriage law be obeyed. By David Tulis In a bid to uphold Alabama’s marriage law and end confusion among probate judges, Alabama’s chief justice and court system administrator, Roy Moore, has ordered marriage to […]
Wealth-building ideas counter state-induced dependency
Planners in Hamilton County use a democratic gloss to wiggle forward with their ideas about cities and their residents. By John Anthony In spite of President Obama’s slick candor and a sympathetic media, the devices he uses to create his centrally “governed” society are vulnerable. Like an underdeveloped nation torn between wealthy landowners and the […]
Obama gun rule turns every gun seller into merchant
An emotional federal president unveils a plan to commercialize the sale of every firearm — to eliminate local economy in buying and selling firearms, and to save lives. The Tennessee constitution Article 1 bill of rights, noted below, reserves many liberties for state citizens, if only they’ll let it. By Duke Cumbelich As has been […]
Gun ban tailored to keep blacks suppressed
The U.S. transportation safety administration seized this revolver in September from a passenger’s carry-on bag at the Chattanooga airport. (Photo The TSA blog) American laws to suppress the right to bear arms have a distinctly colorful past. That is, they were imposed by people of white skin against people of black. Tennesseans are ruled by […]
‘Fiddle man’ vows appeal after jury rejects constitutional protections
The claim and exercise of a constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime. — Miller v. U.S. 230 F 486, 489. Q What is sin? A Any thought, word or deed that breaks God’s law by omission or commission. — Questions from First Catechism, Biblical Truth for God’s Children It’s our goal to enhance […]
Is there war on police, or war on people, local economy?
A “civilian” is wowed by the military gear shown off by a Cleveland, Tenn., police officer hidden from view by a knightly shield. (Photo Cleveland police department) By Adam Dick There has been much talk about a “war on police” in 2015. The story goes that police in America are in great danger from a […]
Apps like Peacekeeper will let local economy draw down warrior cop
The cartel of peacekeeping run by police departments is under threat from the same nonsystems that are tearing apart the hotel, taxi, newspaper and music industries. That is the smartphone app. In the case of police, developers are working on the Peacekeeper app that lets people call other people in the peacekeeper network if they […]
Neighborly acts weakly contradict warrior cop trend
Officer David Cogburn and a Chattanooga centenarian. (Photo Fred Fletcher on Facebook) By David Tulis Chattanooga chief of police Fred Fletcher adheres to the theory called community policing. This idea sees police officers as becoming personal and social fixities in their assigned neighborhoods, being friends with all the residents, being intimates among shopkeeps, homeowners, traders, […]
If we were a free people, how would we pay?
David Tulis asking a delicate question to his listener at AM 1240 Hot News Talk radio in Chattanooga. 20 minutes. Tweet Pin It
Swayed by envy, 12 on jury convict Hirsch of trying to live as free man
Arthur Jay Hirsch, a devout Christian in Lawrence County, Tenn., is leaving home for trial Dec. 22, 2015, in Lawrenceburg. The “fiddle man” was convicted for operating on the presupposition that constitutional liberties can be exercised by individual Americans. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis Won over by an appeal to envy, a jury convicted […]