Public person vs. private — which will be more common after meltdown?
Identity theft affects a person’s avatar, or his legal identity. Mischief against an avatar entangles a flesh-and-blood human being. (Photo Page 1, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 8, 2015) By David Tulis It’s hard to fix into the same spot questions about the coming financial meltdown and your personal legal status as a public person. If […]
Wendy’s honors claim check; Uncle doesn’t with his debased notes
A lawful bill, this receipt gives me a legal claim to five menu items at Wendy’s. Would that a dollar bill were so honest. By David Tulis Prodded by a son, 12, I agree to join other dads and sons in a Wendy’s restaurant after a hot Saturday morning of mowing, cutting and clearing trails […]
Passive, pessimistic city pulpits face invigorating conflict
By Bojidar Marinov / From Axe to the Root For anyone who has followed and understands the relationship between church leadership and civil government in the U.S. in the last 50 years, declarations of American pastors pledging civil disobedience in case the Supreme Court decides to favor sodomite “marriage” (like this one, for example, or […]
The new slave trade; how national economy sucks us dry
(Cartoon The Moneychanger) We are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them . . . we will . . . […]
Corker says NSA collecting too little data on Americans
Sen. Bob Corker, whose government is collecting a woman’s cellphone call, meets with voters October 2014 in Benton County. (Photo corker.senate.gov) The program is actually not the program I thought it was. Not even close,I think you are going to see people on both sides of the aisle pushing, wondering why not more data is […]
Policy skies: Intense aerosol dosings of Tennessee cities blot sunlight
Heavy sky striping Thursday morning preceded the arrival over Chattanooga of a blank haze of official pollution that blots the sun. (Photo Blacky Darr) Jet trails put reverse tattoos over the skies of Eastern Tennessee on Thursday. (Photo Michelle Proctor) A sawed-off cloud over Bristol, Tenn., showing how negative emissions are controlled, not inadvertent. (Photo […]
Fed-led brave new national economy: All propeller, no charts
The Zimbabwe dollar, late bastard brother to the American Federal Reserve dollar, suffers a like congenital deformation. Here, a 100 trillion dollar bill The greatest poison in your local economy and mine is the fluctuating medium of exchange known as the paper dollar and the excesses it engenders, starting with the greatest one of all, […]
What it means to divest nationally, invest locally
Work proceeds at my radio station’s tower in Soddy-Daisy. Hot News Talk Radio is offering local investors a chance to profitably bring our free market perspective to a broader audience. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis Our argument to reduce exposure to national economy and the vagaries of credit creation, central banks and Uncle Sam […]
10 questions about sky to test your powers of observation
Often nowadays we see the sun through a hazy filter. Any ideas why? (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis In covering local economy and free markets in Chattanooga I have come upon the story of “solar radiation management” as it affects weather conditions and indirectly the health of local residents. I argue that strong evidence […]
Hot News Talk Radio extends reach, touts free markets, local economy
Radio veteran Sab Cupelli installs an exciter board on a transmitter as talk show star Russell Stroud awaits orders. Both work at Hot News Talk Radio 1240 AM in Soddy-Daisy. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis If you are somebody’s who’s prayed for my work in Christian journalism in Chattanooga, many thanks. God is proving […]