‘Is it OK to be gay?’ Christianity insists on chastity
Jeremy Roberts lives out the Christian doctrine of sexual purity by being married to his wife, Charity, and being a family man. He is a minister of the gospel in Chattanooga. By Jeremy Roberts Last night, it was announced that the A&E Network has suspended Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson due to his statements in an […]
Paranoia industry makes us forget how unimportant we really are
George Washington and other founders were members of the masonic lodge. U.S. history often is not the sequence of events we learned about in school. Still, conspiracies are not sovereign over the affairs of men, and we should learn to relax in spite of ’em. (Image mountvernon.org) Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine […]
Uncle faces demand: Did you raid Gibson because owner conservative?
Henry Juszkiewicz speaks at a rally of supporters after Uncle Sam hit his Nashville guitar company with a military-grade raid in 2011. (Photo Chris Butler) From Chris Butler | Tennessee Watchdog Henry Juszkiewicz and Christian Martin run competing guitar-manufacturing companies, but their politics have nothing in common. Juszkiewicz, CEO of the Nashville-based Gibson Guitar, is […]
Disability convention, a threat to self-determination, stalls in Senate
Most federal senators vote to impose U.S. control over family and social life on Chattanooga via a U.N. convention on disabilities, but two Tennessee legislators help keep the body from passing the measure. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was defeated today in a 61-38 vote in favor of the […]
Noose continues to tighten, but no government or empire lasts forever
People drop mail off at the Hixson branch of the U.S. Postal Service, a legal monopoly that in September hit its F$15 billion borrowing limit from Uncle’s treasury department. To argue against such coercive state monopolies is to enter into the perspective of ”voluntaryism,” a helpful framework for viewing liberty. By Carl Watner, Voluntaryist.com Voluntaryists have […]
2 empty promises — Gigabit mall, ‘compliance systems’ for churches
By David Tulis / Noogaradio 1240 AM 101.1 FM Some Friday mornings at Panera Posse the company is scarce, though the conversation never is. Today Chris Davis, a traffic engineer at Volkert, and I launch out of the town square in pursuit of the stolen booty. I arrive first, and in tidying up my briefcase […]
Ambiguous words from prosecutor as he cheers Chattanooga mosque
“And when they arose early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the Lord The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only Dagon’s torso was left of it. *** We know that an idol is […]
As Gibson lowers lips to kiss hoof, Uncle, in show of grace, lifts it
These instruments are made by Gibson Guitars in Nashville, a private company that recently opened a plant in Memphis. (Gibson.com) By David Tulis I snapped up the CD edition of Gulliver’s Travels after my 9-year-old had enjoyed it and have been howling at the satire so acidly penned by Jonathan Swift, whose look at 18th […]
Group rankled by public prayers in Christ’s dread, awful name
Critics of religion have fired an opening salvo against the Hamilton County Commission for public prayers uttered before meetings by the elected representatives of the people. Ferf, or the Freedom from Religion Foundation, based in wintry Wisconsin, sent a letter this week to commission chairman Fred Skillern demanding that the civil authority cease prayers in […]
Obama assaults Commissioner Warren Mackey’s right to contract
By David Tulis (March 27, 2012) Chattanooga college professor Warren Mackey is a man of much fruit. He enjoys a rich and varied life that intersects with the lives of many people in Hamilton County. A man with family roots in Alabama, his World War II veteran dad moved to Chattanooga to work in the […]