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By joining U.S. workforce, boy, 16, allows presumptions against interest

Tonight a son asks me to look over papers he will submit to a corporate employer. The arrangement for him to make sandwiches for you and other customers brings him to a legal apex, a balancing point. If he steps ahead, submits the papers, is engaged, has his name placed on the schedule and receives […]

It’s easy to talk in vain repetitions of liberty; willing to sit in cell for it?

From left, spokesman Mike Dunne and Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger chat with a constituent outside Hamilton County courthouse in January. (Photo Facebook) The puerility of the freethinkers consists in believing that a free society can maintain itself and keep itself together without a common faith.  ***  If liberty is to be saved, it will […]

Crash kills mom; 2 sons survive; troubles and how to view them

April Dawn Fryar (Photo Williamson & Sons funeral home, Soddy-Daisy) This Lord’s Day, coming home from church, we drove north along Highway 153 and came upon the Wal-Mart. Opposite the the entrance, on the left, stood a circle of a dozen people surrounding a cross. They were marking the death of April Dawn Fryar, 29, […]

How localist perspective accounts for aliens, illegals in Chattanooga

King Solomon, seen here wisely settling the dispute over the prostitute’s baby, prayed that when God’s people go into an alien land as captives in punishment for sin, their masters will treat them kindly; “[G]rant them compassion before those who took them captive, that they may have compassion on them” (1 Kings 8:50). By David […]

Alabama justice says homosexuality ‘destructive,’ makes people ‘unfit’

Chief Justice Roy Moore Alabama supreme court’s chief justice, Roy Moore, has distinct views in which he defends the freedom of the family and society by categorizing homosexual acts as violative of human nature and destructive. “We cannot continue to borrow the future of our children and our grandchildren or we will suffer the consequences,” […]

City’s self-identity via a free market might boost voter rates in outyears

The 16 percent turnout among 111,324 registered voters in Chattanooga tells of despair, but of a kind that suggests good things ahead. In the low election turnout there arises the possibility that politics have faded, that the great hope in the voice of the people has weakened, that the inspiration poured into the modern welfare […]

Food freedom lights way to exit for U.S. cultural, economic disaster, II

A boy clutches a chicken; citified boys suppose chickens come from grocery store meat departments. (Photo Growchattanooga.org) Please read Part I of Franklin Sanders’ interview with Joel Salatin. Joel Salatin is at the cutting edge of the food freedom movement, the family farm’s rebirth, and the New Agriculture, holistic farming that works with nature instead […]