Gnome awaits indictment on driving without license
A Tennessee motorist has been charged with driving without a license. (Photo Interstatedrugbust.com) By David Tulis The Gnome of Strawberry Plains has been cited to court for driving without a license, opening the prospect for a renewed effort to show that Tennessee’s driver license regime, out of respect for the state bill of rights, is […]
Credit card world and its woes; finding our way to cash economy
Perhaps plastic is the real world, and liquidity and honest money are not? (Photo qbservices.net) By David Tulis My dissent from debt-based national economy is visceral. Meaning, I feel it in my bones as if it were a physical force. Because it touches not just the intellect, but emotion, I catch myself being ungracious to […]
Hot News Talk Radio extends reach, touts free markets, local economy
Radio veteran Sab Cupelli installs an exciter board on a transmitter as talk show star Russell Stroud awaits orders. Both work at Hot News Talk Radio 1240 AM in Soddy-Daisy. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis If you are somebody’s who’s prayed for my work in Christian journalism in Chattanooga, many thanks. God is proving […]
Marriage rational, essential to prosperity, constitutional, Alabama justices say
No court has the authority to nullify a lawful constitutional amendment like that which 81 percent of Alabamans like these, at a pro-marriage rally Feb. 7, 2015, in Montgomery, passed in favor of marriage. (Photo Sanctity of Marriage Alabama on Facebook) By David Tulis A high view of federalism as he structure of American government. […]
City bestows F$26 million on deserving companies in twinge for local economy
Helen Burns Sharp enriched my knowledge of commercial government by giving me Greg LeRoy’s The Great American Jobs Scam (2005). Commercial government puts citizens in the unenviable position of having elected officials and their appointees and friends manage economic growth apart from the free market that rightly belongs to the people themselves. The citizenry is […]
Rejecting lesser magistrate doctrine, a governor betrays state, citizens, sovereign
This book is an eye-opener to any citizen or public official keen to maintain constitutiona — even godly — government. [Here’s proof you already believe in the doctrine of interposition. You interpose yourself between your wife and danger by getting her car door. You protect your daughter from shady suitors by friendly conservation and later […]
Clerk facing gay mudslide can act in good faith, say ‘sorry, boys’
Farce and fun mark a Boston gay procession while good faith marks a quiet parade of county clerks in the South who say, “Ain’t marryin’ you guys.” (Photo Massresistance.org) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. […]
Bartleby’s ‘I prefer not to’ keeps us from schools, standardized tests
The story of Bartleby the scrivener by Melville depicts dogged noncompliance with authority. The book at right explains how Christians can flourish by being noncompliant and resisting “the good people.” [Our interest in the ideas of local economy and free markets force us to dash ourselves against the ironclad sides of the public school. Heads […]
City zoning shakeup plan sells sparkle, but flows from cruddy tap
These before-and-after photos show the intended results of form-based coding, enacted in many cities across the U.S. Below are two parts of an interview granted by regional planning agency officials John Bridger and Karen Hundt. They discuss the benefits in the change of policy that will start to undo decades of damage imposed by the […]
Thrive 2055 backer tackles my tough free market queries
Denny Mobbs, attorney and factory operator, explains why he supports Thrive 2055. (Photo Hot News Talk Radio 1240 1190 910 AM) Centralization produces apoplexy at the center and paralysis at the extremities. — Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais By David Tulis Students of the free market understand that prosperity — lower costs, more wealth, happier […]