County’s biggest business: School system with $416 million budget

Battle Academy and other schools cost Hamilton County half of its public spending. By David Tulis Even though the Hamilton County Department of Education is a separate entity from Hamilton County, it is a major financial drain on the county. With 6,265 employees and 42,837 students, the department of education’s operating budget for fiscal year […]

Easter aerial visitation outside purview of U.S. Form 17-4

The U.S. government’s war on climate change escalates across Tennessee on Easter Sunday, as here in Antioch. (Photo Brian Mac) Easter Sunday begins bright and blue, but aggressive sky striping casts virtually every quadrant of the sky over Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., and Chattanooga under a gray murk. (Photo David Tulis) Like Chattanooga, Knoxville is given a […]

Exposure of sky striping program will come through local economy

Bill Binney in his interview with TragedyandHope.com says phone and Internet surveillance is a project of totalitarian government and that it insulates the state from having its illegal acts revealed by whistleblowers and men of conscience. https://vimeo.com/117440574 By David Tulis The disk from the federal government contains two files. The data covers two days in […]

Gay theory, progressivism, public schools; why Christians quietly accept

Pietism lets Chrisians quietly accept gay theory and its fruits. (Photo Massresistance.org) By Matt Trewhella Pietism was a movement which originated in the late 17th century. Pietists believe Christianity or God’s Law has no place for the governance of society. They view involvement in pubic policy matters to be “unspiritual.” They believe Christianity should be […]

In bold statement, Tennessee defends marriage, federalism, society

Demonstrators in Montgomery, Ala., declare their support for marriage Feb. 21, 2015. (Photo Sanctity of Marriage Alabama on Facebook) “States enjoy exclusive authority over family law . . . because of the fundamental role of localism in the federal design.” —Anne C. Dailey, Federalism and Families, 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1787, 1790 (1995) By […]

Gnome awaits indictment on driving without license

A Tennessee motorist has been charged with driving without a license. (Photo Interstatedrugbust.com) By David Tulis The Gnome of Strawberry Plains has been cited to court for driving without a license, opening the prospect for a renewed effort to show that Tennessee’s driver license regime, out of respect for the state bill of rights, is […]

Credit card world and its woes; finding our way to cash economy

Perhaps plastic is the real world, and liquidity and honest money are not? (Photo qbservices.net) By David Tulis My dissent from debt-based national economy is visceral. Meaning, I feel it in my bones as if it were a physical force. Because it touches not just the intellect, but emotion, I catch myself being ungracious to […]

Home Depot dons orange Sunday best, preaches LGBTQ religion to staff

Timothy Noffsinger, a Home Depot worker in a town just west of Denver, says the company is preaching the religion of queer theory. His open letter shows how heartless and alienating American corporations have become and that they have no soul. He makes, indirectly, the argument for local economy and free markets, where in Chattanooga […]