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Localism undoes ‘E pluribus unum,’ giving federal eagle gentle heave-ho

The imperial eagle’s scroll says “E pluribus unum,” or “From many, one.” By David Tulis On the back of the F$1 bill is an engraving of an eagle, a busy bird. On one claw is a clutch of arrows, representing war. In the other, olive branches (for military stasis). In his beak is a ribbon […]

Paranoia industry makes us forget how unimportant we really are

George Washington and other founders were members of the masonic lodge. U.S. history often is not the sequence of events we learned about in school. Still, conspiracies are not sovereign over the affairs of men, and we should learn to relax in spite of ’em. (Image mountvernon.org) Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine […]

Uncle faces demand: Did you raid Gibson because owner conservative?

Henry Juszkiewicz speaks at a rally of supporters after Uncle Sam hit his Nashville guitar company with a military-grade raid in 2011. (Photo Chris Butler) From Chris Butler | Tennessee Watchdog Henry Juszkiewicz and Christian Martin run competing guitar-manufacturing companies, but their politics have nothing in common. Juszkiewicz, CEO of the Nashville-based Gibson Guitar, is […]

Exposing your skull to wireless phone’s radiation an iffy activity

Sans wireless phone, your breakfast in the sunlight will be spared interruption, and your Cheerios won’t have a chance to get soggy. (Photo Abigail Tulis) (Mild-mannered editor’s note: Now that have switched from being a newspaperman to a radio person, I have become more self-conscious about the dangers of electromagnetic energy. My backer and ally […]

Genetic apocalypse? Monsanto ‘data’ pollutes wheat; a farmwife wonders

The protest May 22 of about 250 Chattanooga area people against the agricultural giant Monsanto came exactly a week before the U.S. department of agriculture announced what observers say is a potential agricultural and economic disaster involving the company. The USDA is launching an investigation after receiving notice from Oregon State University that gene-altered wheat […]

True signals? Hotels multiply here; Boy Scouts’ gay rule ‘contentious’

Hampton Inn is planning a hotel with 94 rooms amid a hotel room glut in Chattanooga. Chattanooga’s economy is being misled by the day’s credit boom into building hundreds of hotel rooms in a declining market. Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites and Westin Hotel Chattanooga are bringing 728 hotel rooms on line through next year, says […]

Monsanto, big food hustle ahead with altered fare in GM health nightmare

BT cotton is proving a disaster in India, causing rashes, death in animals and thousands of farmer suicides. An excerpt from the important film, “Genetic Roulette.” Note: Chattanooga-area critics of Monsanto will conduct a rally and march against GMOs on May 25, a Saturday. The group will gather at Miller Park downtown. The destination is […]

Just as eye soaks in poetry by reflex, train yourself toward lococentrism

Sam Blumenfeld explores the public policy benefits of illiteracy, but hopes his readers will find their way around the obstacles to liberty created by mass schooling. Suddenly — dreadfully — she wakes up. What has happened? Something dreadful has happened. No — nothing has happened. It is only the wind shaking the house, rattling the […]

As Times Free Press enacts paywall, Nooganomics offers more for free

The Chattanooga Times Free Press wants you and other Web readers to buy printed copies of the newspaper or pay for an online subscription in support of local economy. The Internet is destroying information monopolies and making it possible for people to be freer in their minds, to have access to a free market in […]