To nation waiting for sign, aerial visitation no better than hieroglyph
Billboards along Highway 58 in Chattanooga are backdropped Feb. 6, 2015, by brilliant aerial injections. (Photo David Tulis) Baarn, Netherland, inhales under a patchwork of earth-cooling plumes that climate engineer David Keith says exist only as computer simulations. (Photo Earth-matters.nl) SRM, or solar radiation management, injects aluminum particulate in the sky over Poway, Calif., Feb. […]
U.S. lacks authority to redefine ‘fundamental right’ of marriage
By David Tulis The federal supreme court is expected to rule in June on the claims by gay activists that state jurisdiction over marriage is a constitutional wrong that deprives them of a fundamental right. The gay argument is for unitary government that overrules the will of the people in each respective state that upholds […]
Body cams will make cops more visible as standing army
Body cameras on cops may prevent violent acts by policemen, but add another layer of surveillance. Tests in early 2015 in Chattanooga of body cameras for police officers and sheriff’s deputies is widely considered a way to reduce the number of police officer attacks upon members of the public and the severity of other abuses. […]
Modest Obama omits mention of heroic weather modification effort
Jets race over Chattanooga Jan. 20, 2015, in an unheralded program to murk up the sky to “protect the one planet we’ve got,” as President Obama states it later that day. (Photo David Tulis)Stripes like these Tuesday near Dandridge, Tenn., are not left by coincidence or happenstance. This agonized sky is part of a federal […]
New system promises to bypass TOR, a trap for privacy-minded Web users
Chattanooga-area programmer John Kozlowski’s secure email service is named after the Russian matryoshka nesting dolls. [Startmail.org promises snoop-free messaging — “StartMail lets you take back your right to communicate privately,” its website says. Reagan.com makes a similar offer: “Unlike some of the largest email service providers like Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail, @Reagan.com will not […]
Freedom assailed in U.S. twilight, but liberty movement grows, II
(Photo Leon County, Fla., sheriff’s department) By Ron Paul The economic and moral decay of American society is reflected in the loss of liberties. This problem affects all Americans and not just the poor in the inner city. Gradual erosion of personal and economic liberty has proceeded for a century. The loss of our liberty […]
Grim police state, urban societal breakdown ahead as U.S. runs down
Police officer shoulder their rifles in a dramatic pose illustrating the rise of the warrior cop and the decline of entrepreneurial liberty. (Photo WRCB TV12) By Ron Paul If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize […]
Resisting arrest a constitutional right lost in rise of Progressivism
Las Vegas cop beat a restaurant patron because he doesn’t clear out quickly enough. (Photo copblock.org) See Part I of Mr. Roots’ essay here. The rise of policing despite constitution; or how cops became legally superior By Roger Roots Nothing illustrates the modern disparity between the rights and powers of police and citizen as much […]
Give a hand to Thrive 2055 for ‘regional vision’ over free markets
The rippling water staircase has, for now, dried up in downtown Chattanooga. (Photo Chattanooga Visitors Bureau) By David Tulis The marketplace is that great mass of men and women who interact in commerce for the benefit of their customers and in their own self-interest. Its power to produce wealth rests in the fact that it […]
In quashed Fed indictment, 23 grand jurors explain why 2015’ll be lousy
A U.S. prosecutor quashed an indictment of the Fed in 1982 in this federal court house and post office in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo GSA.gov) There is more work to be done to ensure that all Americans can share in the accelerating recovery. — Jason Furman, council of economic advisers, White House By David […]