How in local economy Sheriff Hammond’s superiority works against him

Hamilton County’s incumbent sheriff, Jim Hammond, left, has much experience in international policing. His challenger Chris Harvey listens at a tea party event. By David Tulis The sheriff’s contest in Hamilton County is between a greater man and a lesser, between an officer whose scale of experience is global vs. the other whose is more […]

For Chattanooga local economy to rise, rebuild waste places

Tulis boys, foreground, reload clips or fire downrange at a plinking session in Birchwood, Tenn. The weapons are a .30-cal. SKS and a .223-cal. Mini-14. An armed citizenry cannot be totally subjugated. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations […]

Working around roadblocks; money by phone in Africa

These slum children in Nairobi, Kenya, are listening to gospel teaching. (Photo Englewood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., website) [Leave it to Africa to find a way around the government regulation that is strangling innovation in America. I’’ve known Ken Griffith for nearly 20 years. He started a land development in Virginia for people looking […]

Decentralization lets national, state power devolve to locale

Weston Wamp, a Chattanooga candidate for federal office, would perhaps be more interested in a county commission seat if decentralization were to gain steam in the U.S. His wife’s name is Shelby. (Photo westonwamp.com) By David Tulis Events in Ukraine are generating a great deal of huffing and puffing in Washington, as if its government […]

If stealing country were a tort, getting it back might be ‘action in replevin’

Wendell O’Reilly, Chattanooga attorney The difficulty in strengthening local economy comes from the economic and political interests whose success is crowned by centralization. The government school. Federal welfare. Total surveillance. The usual suspects. By David Tuls Thanks to Uncle’s control of entire marketplaces it sometimes is inconceivable that Chattanoogans will ever be their own masters. […]

From hands of few into hands of many; free market aids Chattanooga

Public schools, like this one in Bradley County, Tenn., are a legacy system being supplanted by the free market and the World Wide Web. (Photo Bradley County schools website) The prospect for liberty in my hometown, Chattanooga, and yours is brighter. This assertion rings true despite almost daily reports about the rising police state. A […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dollar not a real claimcheck, thus weak basis for ’Nooga’s prosperity

Vic Lockman, in his delightful little book, “Money, Banking and Usury, a Biblical View,” explains why local economy in Chattanooga has huge hurdles. To take up the alarming skepticism we have of the official U.S. economy — aka the “national economy” — it is best to have a better understanding of the American dollar. No […]

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 […]