City flings legal net to control house; Gaddys fight for constitutional rights
A logging truck passes in front of the law offices of city attorney Stephen Greer in Dunlap, Tenn. (Photo David Tulis) Dunlap mayor Dwain Land, a big gun lover with several rifles behind him in a glass case, signed the initial sworn civil complaint against the Gaddy family in February 2015. (Photo David Tulis) An […]
Hixson water utility injects risky chemical to save parents trip to Walgreens
Staffers at Hixson Utility District raise the federal flag just before the group’s board meeting Friday in which it insisted on keeping up fluoride injections in drinking water supplies as a token of its goodwill to the drinking, bathing, cooking and gardening public. (Photo David Tulis) The refusal of the Hixson Utility District to abolish […]
Hixson Utility District board persists in mass medical treatment by water
Rebecca Hunter of the Hixson Utility District, Gov. Bill Haslam’s personnel director, impatiently listens to clean-water petitioners as she goes into the office for a bottle of water. She and other board member reject calls to end the injection of a government-approved industrial waste into water used for drinking, bathing, cooking and gardening. (Photo David […]
Dunlap mayor says sad over Gaddy ‘inspection’ fight
Dwain Land signed the initial complaint in the Gaddy case in Dunlap, Tenn., where the city is demanding a search without taking the trouble of drafting an affidavit of probable cause. (Photo David Tulis) The mayor of Dunlap says he regrets the escalating conflict over property rights in his southeast Tennessee town. “I hate anything […]
Patriots at Dayton dinner hail Trump, assert blessings of constitution
Though they love the U.S. Bill of Rights, men and women rise and salute the federal banner as if it still represents their interests in lawful government. (Photo David Tulis) Homeschooled teenager Jake Griffin, 15, and Jillian Edmonds, 16, listen to Jake’s grandmother, June Griffin, address the Bill of Rights dinner in Dayton, Tenn. (Photo […]
Hammond defends probe into East Ridge police execution of plumber
Sheriff Jim Hammond, the most powerful man in Hamilton County, Tenn, says his deputies are trained to de-escalate tense encounters that otherwise might end in a police shoot-down of a citizen. (Photo David Tulis) Sheriff Jim Hammond defends his investigation into the slaying of Todd Browning, East Ridge plumber armed with a metal rod whom […]
DA Pinkston, state excuse police execution of East Ridge resident
East Ridge employee Daniel Stephenson executes plumber Todd Browning in front of his house in East Ridge, Tenn. (Photo YouTube) Chattanoogans have had two reminders in the past nine days that the state is superior to them and that its violent acts against citizens are to be overlooked in light of its pretense of noble […]
Tall-in-saddle Crockett straddles localist-globalist divide in mayor bid
David Crockett seeks to oust Democrat lawyer Andy Berke from being mayor of Chattanooga. Jet-setting former city official David Crockett has picked up qualifying papers for a mayoral bid that promises he would be a busy, activist chief executive focusing on municipal solutions to national woes. The former three-term city council member is known for […]
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 […]