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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 […]

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 […]

FBI cements Republican, Democrat stranglehold on national state

John Whitehead [Local economy holds the results Tuesday’s balloting for officeholders as a matter of indifference. The success of either Republican or Democrat in Washington promises no relief, no reform. Indeed, national government’s and national economy’s problems are unreformable. The U.S. is run by a duopoly, and behind that a more clearly evident deep state. […]