Despite SROs, walled compounds bring violent intruders on themselves
Monteagle, Tenn., officers and deputies from Grundy and Marion counties make a sweep of an elementary school Nov. 17, 2014. They are holding toy guns. (Photo WRCBTV.com) Please read my essay at The Chattanoogan Tweet Pin It
The orphaned right: How states squelched Americans’ right to travel
States by myriad efforts to regulate the use of cars like these on Brainerd Road in Chattanooga slowly whittled away the right to travel by car, converting its use to a privilege. Attorney Roger Isaac Roots is a legal scholar, criminologist and civil liberties activities who lives in Livingston, Mont. He has written many scholarly […]
Capitalism, thinking of the other, is based on Christianity
Ustream and Hot News Talk Radio 1240 My show and this website argue for the simple premise that capitalism and the free market are based on the template of Christainity, which says, “I am here to help you.” 8 minutes. Tweet Pin It
Used book sale lets you prosper as state libraries disgorge stacks
This find by Thomas Cahill at the Chattanooga library castoff sale will find a good home with me, though I already have a well-marked copy. Any book by Robert Kaplan is worth reading, as he is an expert on the American empire. This volume cost me F$2 at the Friends of the Library book sale […]
Flick hints at city rain droplet mystery, one explained by good professor
A fun video about Chattanooga raises a question: Is its weather natural? (Photo Justin Hall’s “Lapsing Chattanooga”) By David Tulis This week two videos about Chattanooga come to our notice, with a short one drawing our attention to unusual weather patterns. The more significant video runs nearly an hour and 20 minutes and gives insights […]
Elites revitalize city with quiet consent of public; dissenters want more government
Robert Ashton Winslow tells how superior people of means and talent in the past 50 years have reshaped the river city into a tourist town with a pro-environment reputation. “We are so diverse and full of ideas and we do have real divisions,” the young filmmaker says. “But polarization makes us forget that we really […]
Tennesseans must be shocked to press further than Amendment 1
Volunteers for Center for Bio-Ethical Reform stand before a display in Knoxville, Tenn. By Fletcher Armstrong Now that the vote is in, there are important lessons to be learned, not just in Tennessee, but nationally as well. 1. Until we change public opinion, Amendment 1 (along with the anticipated ensuing regulations) are about as much […]
Stanford, NASA say perpetual sky-haze slows wind, cuts rainfall
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream and Hot News Talk Radio 1240 1190 and 910 AM Stanford University and NASA report that an inexplicable mass of particulate worldwide is so dense that it is slowing winds, altering and reducing rainfall, and altering the weather and making the planet drier. The study makes no mention of […]
Judges give cheerful defense of democratic processes, states’ rights, federalism
Lesbians march in Boston in 2008, having converted laws and state government to their perspective. (Photo massresistance.org) By David Tulis The authority of states and their peoples to define marriage is being cheerfully upheld by an appellate opinion in Cincinnati that make clear marriage laws such as Tennessee’s are rational, imposed not with bigotry but […]
We hope in local economy because it matters not who controls U.S. senate
The walking bridge in Chattanooga is full of pedestrians during a holiday crowd, many of whose members believe GOP control of the U.S. senate is important. Charles Hugh Smith Please don’t claim anything changes if one party or the other is in the majority. Anyone clinging to that fantasy is delusional. If you really think […]