A role unawares; how state law makes you member of Tennessee militia
State government organized what is now the Tennessee Defense Force to provide emergency manpower and a “force multiplier” during the U.S. government’s global expansion period in World War II. By David Tulis / Noogaradio AM 1240 FM 101.1 The armed Americans defending a Nevada rancher bring up an important question for state and local economy […]
Lessons from Laish, a biblical city left defenseless by depraved ways
The Levite carries his slain concubine after she is sodomized to death in the lawless town Gibeah (Judges 19). Gibeah was a lawless domain of the sons of Benjamin. Laish (in chapter 18) is seized by the sons of Dan. (Image from Dore´s illustrated Bible book) By David Tulis I have been thinking about Laish, […]
Sheriff Hammond’s program catches flak, but tells of localist orientation
Sheriff Jim Hammond explains the origins and duties of his office in a video. By David Tulis As American policing continues its long road away from peace-keeping and toward a sort of paramilitary occupation, it is refreshing to consider a development that hints at a localist — versus a federal or national — perspective on […]
Decentralization lets national, state power devolve to locale
Weston Wamp, a Chattanooga candidate for federal office, would perhaps be more interested in a county commission seat if decentralization were to gain steam in the U.S. His wife’s name is Shelby. (Photo westonwamp.com) By David Tulis Events in Ukraine are generating a great deal of huffing and puffing in Washington, as if its government […]
Thrive 2055 survey pretends to weigh concerns, pushes centralizing agenda
This scene is from a YouTube video peddling the idea of regional planning. By David Tulis Survey results by the marketing company behind Thrive 2055 help us enter into the larger agenda of having a gaggle of 16 area counties join forces to create a new identity. The government-funded program is designed to induce the […]
Chains of paper, or chains of iron; will Knowles defy gay opinion, if it comes?
Bill Knowles is Hamilton County clerk, and dispenses marriage licenses for state government. He and his wife, Marelene, are parents of grown children. (Photo electknowles.com) By David Tulis Will Bill Knowles, the Hamilton County clerk, buckle? Will this Christian man and well-known local political figure agree to issue a marriage license if two homosexual men […]
If stealing country were a tort, getting it back might be ‘action in replevin’
Wendell O’Reilly, Chattanooga attorney The difficulty in strengthening local economy comes from the economic and political interests whose success is crowned by centralization. The government school. Federal welfare. Total surveillance. The usual suspects. By David Tuls Thanks to Uncle’s control of entire marketplaces it sometimes is inconceivable that Chattanoogans will ever be their own masters. […]
It’s easy to talk in vain repetitions of liberty; willing to sit in cell for it?
From left, spokesman Mike Dunne and Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger chat with a constituent outside Hamilton County courthouse in January. (Photo Facebook) The puerility of the freethinkers consists in believing that a free society can maintain itself and keep itself together without a common faith. *** If liberty is to be saved, it will […]
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 […]