The rise of policing despite constitution; or how cops became legally superior, apart
Protesters in dowtown Chattanooga join thousands around the country in late 2014 protesting police slayings of unarmed people. (Photo Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson on Facebook) Police work is often lionized by jurists and scholars who claim to employ “textualist” and “originalist” methods of constitutional interpretation. Yet professional police were unknown to the United States in 1789, […]
To block rays reaching city, aircraft apply solar prophylactic, dim the sun
A crabby day in Jacksonville, Fla. Sky striping, some say, is an unuttered blasphemy against nature, hidden in the silent thoughts of the deep state and, in the ears of the public, making sound only in the throb of distant jets. (Photo Facebook) A jet trail over my house in Soddy-Daisy casts sideward and upward […]
Uber promises horizontal economy of future vs. vertical one in taxi rules
Operators of Nation Taxi and others in Chattanooga face marketplace challenges of centralized, government-controlled enterprises. (Photo Facebook) Please read my essay at Chattanoogan.com Tweet Pin It
Shall we toss corporate charter? Yes, church governors say in 5-0 vote
State government graciously gives a small Presbyterian church a new and eternal life, that of a state corporation. It happened May 7, 1954. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. — Psalm 118:8, 9 […]
How do you want ‘to be policed’? Abusive cops in age of corporate state
Police enjoy virtual legal immunity in taking human life. (Photo Page A7 Chattanooga Times Free Press Dec. 6, 2014) By David Tulis Once I made an effort to quit the newsroom and learn other parts of the newspaper business in which I’d worked two decades. In an interview with the head of the Times Free […]
Samuel warns us: Ask for king, get taxes, conscription, national economy
An Israelite king, Jehu, bows before Shalmaneser III, the Assyrian terror king, in 841 B.C., paying tribute. Slavery and kings were the lot of a the ungodly children of Israel. (Image Wikipedia) By David Tulis The promise of Christianity is that if men submit to the counsels of a loving God they and their kingdoms […]
If licensing scheme runs on consent, ‘illegals’ may be freer than citizens
Immigrants and free citizens who use the roads without driver’s licenses are charged with a crime under Title 55 of the Tennessee Code Annotated. [I have been giving time to digesting Tennessee Code Annotated Title 55, covering “motor and other vehicles.” It seems to pose no threat to Hispanics and immigrants in Tennessee who use […]
Freedom for whites, blacks entails liberty for Mexican immigrants
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream and Hot News Talk Radio 1240 Opposed to a free market in labor and free movement of peoples, progressives in the Republican party have little choice but to impose a draconian personal identification law that goes beyond the driver’s license. What is the Christian and free market perspective on […]
Obama cajoling hysterical Republicans to pass national ID law
By Bojidar Marinov There is no good move for the Republicans on immigration now. First, despite all the screams to the contrary, they know that Obama is within the limits of the law when he made his announcement. Yes, unlike the millions of clueless conservatives, I read the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) currently in […]
Despite SROs, walled compounds bring violent intruders on themselves
Monteagle, Tenn., officers and deputies from Grundy and Marion counties make a sweep of an elementary school Nov. 17, 2014. They are holding toy guns. (Photo WRCBTV.com) Please read my essay at The Chattanoogan Tweet Pin It