Bid to uncover harassment on state highways stonewalled
Commissioner Bill Gibbons takes part in swearing in 45 troopers June 18 in Nashville in front of the War Memorial Auditorium. (Photo Department of Safety on Facebook) Since June I have been requesting information about the state’s highway and travel control apparatus and apparent irregular treatment of certain users of the public roadways. Realizing I’m […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
One downed motorbike, one hurt son, one smart alternative to insurance
A Tulis son injured in a motorbike accident is model for this soldier drawing. A wrist injury delayed the young man’s entry into the U.S. Marine Corps. (Drawing Abigail Tulis) An event Sept. 29 in Chattanooga examined the benefits in medical crises of a cost-sharing Christian group, Samaritan Ministries, of which I am a member. […]
Rebuilding your local economy
Franklin Sanders explains how if we develop local economy we insulate ourselves from the disaster ahead in the state-run and debt-based national economy. He is a trader in precious metals and publisher of The Moneychanger newsletter. His talk is given at the the Fayette County courthouse in Somerville, Tenn., and coincides with many arguments developed […]
Marketing language for police bubbles up as chief named
Mark Gibson, police chief By David Tulis A town near Chattanooga has named a police chief, and news coverage gives the impression that scandals are now behind the Cleveland, Tenn., department with the arrival of Mark Gibson. Mr. Gibson had been the interim chief of the department, and today takes the helm. City government received […]
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 […]
No charges planned vs. Cmdr. White, Navy official says
The Tim White family in Penscacola, Fla., in 2014. (Photo on White family website by Dave & Jess Marshall) By David Tulis No charges are planned against Lt. Cmdr. Tim White of Chattanooga, the officer who used his pistol to fire back at a Muslim martyr who shot down four Marines and fatally wounded a Navy […]