Grim police state, urban societal breakdown ahead as U.S. runs down

Police officer shoulder their rifles in a dramatic pose illustrating the rise of the warrior cop and the decline of entrepreneurial liberty. (Photo WRCB TV12) By Ron Paul If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize […]

In quashed Fed indictment, 23 grand jurors explain why 2015’ll be lousy

A U.S. prosecutor quashed an indictment of the Fed in 1982 in this federal court house and post office in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo GSA.gov) There is more work to be done to ensure that all Americans can share in the accelerating recovery. — Jason Furman, council of economic advisers, White House By David […]

To block rays reaching city, aircraft apply solar prophylactic, dim the sun

A crabby day in Jacksonville, Fla. Sky striping, some say, is an unuttered blasphemy against nature, hidden in the silent thoughts of the deep state and, in the ears of the public, making sound only in the throb of distant jets. (Photo Facebook) A jet trail over my house in Soddy-Daisy casts sideward and upward […]

How private money, inflation entail chicanery, fraud, coming wreck

Justice Stephen J. Field, a dissenter of paper money disaster By David Tulis The disaster of national economy that awaits us here in the hinterlands has its makings in ideas that are ultimately religious in nature. More immediately the wreckage caused by ballooning and unpayable debt is based on a ideas that take the form […]

How do you want ‘to be policed’? Abusive cops in age of corporate state

Police enjoy virtual legal immunity in taking human life. (Photo Page A7 Chattanooga Times Free Press Dec. 6, 2014) By David Tulis Once I made an effort to quit the newsroom and learn other parts of the newspaper business in which I’d worked two decades. In an interview with the head of the Times Free […]

Orphaned by fire, Lockhart children face providence of God

Randall and Candy Lockhart with, from left, Haley, Mark and Rebecca. (Photo David Carroll at Chattanoogaradiotv.com) By David Tulis It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and a fire races through a small house at 220 Houser St. in north Chattanooga. Three children spill into the yard. But inside, a mother and father are unable to escape […]

The orphaned right: How states squelched Americans’ right to travel

States by myriad efforts to regulate the use of cars like these on Brainerd Road in Chattanooga slowly whittled away the right to travel by car, converting its use to a privilege. Attorney Roger Isaac Roots is a legal scholar, criminologist and civil liberties activities who lives in Livingston, Mont. He has written many scholarly […]

FBI cements Republican, Democrat stranglehold on national state

John Whitehead [Local economy holds the results Tuesday’s balloting for officeholders as a matter of indifference. The success of either Republican or Democrat in Washington promises no relief, no reform. Indeed, national government’s and national economy’s problems are unreformable. The U.S. is run by a duopoly, and behind that a more clearly evident deep state. […]