Baylor helps reflate economy with state-sponsored $13 million in red ink
Baylor School in Chattanooga is beneficiary of a F$13 million bond issue by the state. (Photo Baylor website) By David Tulis A government body’s creation of F$13 million in bonds for an exclusive private school in Chattanooga is a picture of commercial government writ rich. Last week a board of a state corporate subdivision known […]
The rise of policing despite constitution; or how cops became legally superior, apart
Protesters in dowtown Chattanooga join thousands around the country in late 2014 protesting police slayings of unarmed people. (Photo Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson on Facebook) Police work is often lionized by jurists and scholars who claim to employ “textualist” and “originalist” methods of constitutional interpretation. Yet professional police were unknown to the United States in 1789, […]
To block rays reaching city, aircraft apply solar prophylactic, dim the sun
A crabby day in Jacksonville, Fla. Sky striping, some say, is an unuttered blasphemy against nature, hidden in the silent thoughts of the deep state and, in the ears of the public, making sound only in the throb of distant jets. (Photo Facebook) A jet trail over my house in Soddy-Daisy casts sideward and upward […]
My Brother’s Keeper may be lofty program, but borrows from knave
President Barack Obama is doing somebody a favor in this image from the My Brother’s Keeper program on the White House website. Please read my essay at Chattanoogan.com Tweet Pin It
Retail giants care little for customer, want only his money
A newspaper flier for a major chain store in Chattanooga. By Charles Hugh Smith Will we ever tire of navigating the multiple layers of intermediaries between the customer and the provider, while corporate profits soar to unprecedented heights? If we had to summarize what’s wrong with Corporate America and the entire U.S. economy, we can […]
Uber promises horizontal economy of future vs. vertical one in taxi rules
Operators of Nation Taxi and others in Chattanooga face marketplace challenges of centralized, government-controlled enterprises. (Photo Facebook) Please read my essay at Chattanoogan.com Tweet Pin It
Shall we toss corporate charter? Yes, church governors say in 5-0 vote
State government graciously gives a small Presbyterian church a new and eternal life, that of a state corporation. It happened May 7, 1954. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. — Psalm 118:8, 9 […]
How private money, inflation entail chicanery, fraud, coming wreck
Justice Stephen J. Field, a dissenter of paper money disaster By David Tulis The disaster of national economy that awaits us here in the hinterlands has its makings in ideas that are ultimately religious in nature. More immediately the wreckage caused by ballooning and unpayable debt is based on a ideas that take the form […]
How do you want ‘to be policed’? Abusive cops in age of corporate state
Police enjoy virtual legal immunity in taking human life. (Photo Page A7 Chattanooga Times Free Press Dec. 6, 2014) By David Tulis Once I made an effort to quit the newsroom and learn other parts of the newspaper business in which I’d worked two decades. In an interview with the head of the Times Free […]
Orphaned by fire, Lockhart children face providence of God
Randall and Candy Lockhart with, from left, Haley, Mark and Rebecca. (Photo David Carroll at Chattanoogaradiotv.com) By David Tulis It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and a fire races through a small house at 220 Houser St. in north Chattanooga. Three children spill into the yard. But inside, a mother and father are unable to escape […]