TV spot fibbery: Amendment 2 ‘protects our right to vote for judges’
An establishment bid in Tennessee to beef up the powers of the executive and legislative branches of government is filled with clever dissimulation. For one, TV spots and fliers say voting for Amendment 2 “protects our right to vote for judges.” It protects our right to vote in Soviet-style retention election for judges after a […]
Haslam, industry titans reject marketplace, digital redo in education
A sop for defenders of a decaying business model (the public school), Gov. Bill Haslam is pushing free community college for all high school grads, as proclaimed in a mailer. By David Tulis Gov. Bill Haslam’s Tennessee Promise program of free associate degrees for high school grads is being flooded with applications, not to anyone’s […]
How by act of levitation feds turn marriage law into empty shell
Faith in high tech and a high level of public service have kept Hamilton County Clerk Bill Knowles in office. The gay revolution coming to Tennessee will test his resolve and faith as a Christian and publicly elected official. (Photo Electknowles.com) By David Tulis The debate over Amendment 1 to the Tennessee constitution brings to […]
It’s perfectly rational for Barys, other weathermen to ignore sky striping
To keep their integrity, forecasters who created this chart at a Chattanooga TV station disregard weather-altering activities of Uncle Sam. By David Tulis Governments talk up ways to “combat climate change” and have manipulated the weather with hazy factory skies for years. So why do weather forecasters reject sky striping as a developing “good government” […]
Tennessee Promise props broken system
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream Gov. Bill Haslam’s giveaway of associate degrees to high school grads seeks to intervene on behalf of a bureaucratic schooling system facing erosion from the digital marketplace where PDFs, free materials, free lectures, YouTube and online resources dominate. It’s as if he were the Fed, spewing credit into the […]
Shadow on the field of your inheritance
By David Tulis You googled “abortion chattanooga” because you are searching. You have liberty to do so. Some long while ago the Supreme Court issued a decision, Roe something-or-other, that makes abortion a fundamental right. You have a sense of thankfulness for the judges, two rows of elderly, black-robed men and women with serious, dignified […]
No, sir, our constitutional history forbids my support of Amendment 2
Gov. Bill Haslam is leading an effort to reduce from three to two the number of departments in Tennessee government. Amendment 2 deletes the people’s right to elect judges and makes members of the judiciary accountable to the executive and legislative branches. (Photo VoteYes2.org) [The following is an Aug. 25, 2014, letter by a Cleveland, […]
Horizon-to-horizon lines tell of global engineering policy that affects you
Sky striping, by all appearances, is a systematic laying down of white plumes to form clouds, as here in Northern Delaware (Photo Jeff Lasky on Facebook) Sky tattoos in various forms of decomposition mark a sky in Grury, France (Photo Frederic Delfino on Facebook) Bizarre cross formations such as this one in Stockport, Manchester, UK, […]
Baby girls in Tennessee face bleak future without Amendment 1
Voters on Nov. 4 are being asked to make the Tennessee constitution more open to the protection of preborn babies. By David Tulis By their votes Tennesseans have a chance to pare back the custom supported by many women that destroys baby girls before birth. Boys, too; but only a few care about them. Amendment […]
Amendment 2 gives judicial branch to state’s political elites
With fliers such as this one, the political establishment in Tennessee is deceiving members of the public into giving up their constitutional right to elect judges. By David Tulis Tennesseans should not be snookered by the political establishment’s power grab in Amendment 2. The constitutional revision is a concession you are asked to give to […]