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 […]

Mr. Kiesche, tootling about in auto, insists not ‘driving a motor vehicle’

Eric Kiesche insists on a difference between a motorist and a driver. A legal quibble? Or a point of substance? (This essay is the second of two parts. Please read Part I for a review of controlling court cases.) By David Tulis Eric Kiesche stands before city court Judge Sherry Paty, he says later, surrounded […]

Salatin: ‘Folks, this ain’t normal’ — exit dietary crisis with local food, I

Farmer Joel Salatin tells the argument of his book, “Folks, This Ain’t Normal,” in 4 minutes. For more than 15 years I’ve known about Joel Salatin . Without exaggeration, he IS the cutting edge of the food freedom movement, the family farm’s rebirth, and the New Agriculture, holistic farming that works with nature instead of […]