What 10th amendment says to Trump-led government
The constitution grants the U.S. government enumerated powers. But its legislature and that power’s other two branches are in continuing revolution against restraints on their power. Dear Mr. Trump, These days, a lot of people have been asking the Tenth Amendment Center to attack you, and it would be very popular to do so. On […]
Your shantytown is my housing free trade zone
Scrap lumber like this on a construction project on Main Street of Chattanooga would be recycled by homeless people for their own “free trade zone” dwellings. (Photo David Tulis) A worksite dumpster could become the “home depot” of homeless people if they could build their own dwellings in an unregulated housing free trade zone in […]
Grand jury, state excuse cop execution of driver
A dead man at the wheel, the truck of Joshua William Grubb hits a pole and stops, his executioner unhurt in the rear bed. This scene is after daylight. (Photo WBIR TV) Tyrel Lorenz’s March 13 execution-style slaying of a civilian is described as having been a necessity. A Tennessee grand jury has excused a […]
Constitution envisions militia, not militarized police
A police car, part of a paramilitary organization serving the executive branch of city government, runs its lights in Chattanooga. (Photo Wrcbtv.com) Constitutional attorney Edwin Vieira says it is mistaken to argue that police departments be disarmed, as free market commentators such as Dr. Gary North have suggested. Constitutional government has the solution to police […]
Local sovereignty, local control — how to get it back
Voters in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., line up at a recent round of polling. Elections are only a small part of regaining local control. (Photos David Tulis) Regaining local control or “sovereignty” requires a long-term interest in what happens in place such as this one, the courthouse in Hamilton County, Tenn., with its jail and sheriff’s department […]
Homeschool expo says yes to personal relationships, no to ‘machine’
Exhibitors and students talk up pedagogy at the home education expo and curriculum fair that takes place this year at Camp Jordan in East Ridge, Tenn., July 15 and 16. (Photos Faith Hamilton and Ginger Sumerlin) A tot enjoys an educational gizmo at the annual home education fair serving the free market. Moms gather at […]
Arguments against local economy
The Main Street farmers market in Chattanooga is an expression of market decentralization — and for local economy. (Photo David Tulis) We make much of local economy in Chattanooga and are excited by arrival of digital overcapacity in the Gig, real estate on the Northshore and highly touted entrepreneurial culture exemplified by Lamp Post Group […]
Why national cataclysm is just ahead, & what to do now
This hurried talk is a 10-minute elevator pitch for coming financial disaster, and a 10-minute elevator pitch that is the solution: Local economy and free markets. David Tulis sketches the coming reckoning the marketplace will impose on debt-ridden nation-states and their consumption-oriented economies. (Courtesy AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio) Let me help you be […]
Localism over nationalism: Restoring America one county at a time
Christians and others are doing important work to develop the ideas we explore here and on AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio on the David Tulis program. Among those to provide a detailed blueprint about how reformation takes place is Joel McDurmon of American Vision near Atlanta. Here in a 2012 essay, he tells about […]
Bill asks U.S. congress for marriage remedy, rejects common law solution
Rep. Mark Pody’s defense of marriage bill — stuck in a Tennessee subcommittee — continues to be the focus of pro-marriage Christians. But their ranks are divided. A pro-family critic of interposition helped kill it with talk about its potential cost in lost U.S. cash. Marriage belongs to every man and to every woman as […]