Coming paradigm: Certifying the student, not the institution
The Nearly Free University is available in print or electronically. [Excerpt from The Nearly Free University, by Charles Hugh Smith, available at Chattanooga bookshop Winder Binder Books & Records. David Smotherman would be happy to order it for you. He will mail it to you if you like; or you could use its arrival at […]
Despite school follies, hope of public persists
By David Tulis I am encouraging myself not to be surprised at the persistence of confidence in the state. It is more than realism. It is more than pragmatism. It goes beyond the bright fruit of university graduation. It’s a religion. The faith in the modern state in many respects is buckling. Poll numbers show […]
Bizarre March blizzard follows day of heavy chemtrailing in Chattanooga skies
A link to this page of the Chattanooga Times Free Press is below. It tells of a bizarre March snowstorm following a day of sky seeding over Chattanooga. This image from Geoengineeringwatch.org shows a break in a jet plume. I have seen such gaps in government service in Chattanooga skies. [David Tulis is host of […]
State police harass users of road with ‘driver license checkpoints’
Activists in Rutherford County, Tenn., defy highway patrol officers who stop them to demand they present their driver licenses. These are courageous men whose spirit of respectful defiance is one we hope catches. Tweet Pin It
Local economy amplifies the near, minimizes ‘the good people’ afar
Video streaming by UstreamA concern for local economy implies a healthy disregard for national evils that are unfixable by anybody in Washington. In local economy, we reorient ourselves toward positive localism. Not that we don’t understand the national disaster all about us (the Fed, Obama, the banking sector, congress), but that we keep our blood […]
Administrative bloat, piles of student debt hint colleges a legacy system
The courtyard outside the library at UTC. The average debt load for students at the government university in Chattanooga is around $14,000. [This essay appears in the April 1 edition of Esprit newsletter, serving hundreds of homeschool families in the Chattanooga area. — DJT] By Charles Hugh Smith Once we accredit the student, not the […]
From ‘religious organization’ to church; dissolving the corporate charter
(Bob Parsons in The Moneychanger) 3 brief letters to Nashville shed the artifice of the corporate church in an entanglement with the state; how to dissolve the corporation [Note: Nothing in this essay should be construed as legal advice. The material is based on my own reading of the statute and background reading of the […]
Lessons from Laish, a biblical city left defenseless by depraved ways
The Levite carries his slain concubine after she is sodomized to death in the lawless town Gibeah (Judges 19). Gibeah was a lawless domain of the sons of Benjamin. Laish (in chapter 18) is seized by the sons of Dan. (Image from Dore´s illustrated Bible book) By David Tulis I have been thinking about Laish, […]
Minority report in Chattanooga media; my work thus far
Lenders along Highway 153 reflect the end stages of long-term decapitalization of the American economy. I cover the scavenger economy on this website, Nooganomics.com, and pray for your support. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them […]
Key cultural indicator: Poverty in prayers of confession bodes ill for U.S.
Grief at sin prompts the woman at the Pharisee’s house to weep and wash the feet of Jesus while he is at table (Luke 7). [I first published this essay in November 2012. — DJT] By David Tulis The low estate of Christianity is evident in public prayers that see man as coequal with God, […]