Gladden, Coonrod traffic stop typifies commercial enforcement

Anthony Gladden speaks to an officer from behind the wheel of a car. (Photo Times Free Press / Chattanooga police department) A traffic stop June 24 involving a car owned by city councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod is a picture of commercial government and its enforcement by police. The encounter on M.L. King Boulevard that night, city […]

Judges hear claim that TN’s racist anti-gun law unenforceably vague

Appeals court judges in the supreme court building, center right, in Nashville will hear arguments from a commoner about the state’s long abuse of constitutional liberties. (Photo Google Earth) A Christian man with a ministry to shut-ins and jail inmates is challenging as unconstitutional Tennessee’s racist ban on weapons ownership. Arthur J. Hirsch, known as […]

Gun-toting free traveler argues biggest TN liberty case in 80 years

Arthur J. Hirsch may be the first appellant in 80 years to correctly understand the lawlessness of commercial government. (Photo David Tulis) A Republican governor and his attorneys have marshaled technical arguments against an appeal by a defendant whom a jury criminally convicted for exercising his “God-given, constitutionally guaranteed rights” to travel by car and […]

Tear gas, guns, riot squads: The police state’s answer to free speech is brute force

Three men are finalists to be police chief in Chattanooga. The last military encapsulation of a protest in Chattanooga was the April 2014 national socialist protest downtown. No injuries were reported. None of the three candidates are reputed to have police reform leanings. “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority […]

Homeschool expo opens world of learning for families

The home education expo at Camp Jordan July 21 and 22 is a great place for young people to meet. Every last space is used for educational exhibitors at the two-day home education expo in East Ridge that starts Friday, July 21, at 9 a.m. A former home educated student, Danielle Sacci is headed in […]

Expo lets hands shop; city event says yes to relationships, no to machine

The home education expo at Camp Jordan July 21 and 22 is a great place for young people to meet. Every last space is used for educational exhibitors at the two-day home education expo in East Ridge that starts Friday, July 21, at 9 a.m. A former home educated student, Danielle Sacci is headed in […]

Snow melt study adds to warnings on U.S. smog production effort

A well insulated sky gets a streak of reinforcement as the U.S. dulls the sun over Hamilton County, Tenn., in a purported war on climate change. (Photo David Tulis) A jet lays a string of coal fly ash over Soddy-Daisy in a program that carries on in secret, to the detriment of human populations on […]

Melvin sues cop Campbell, city for ‘outrageous’ arrest

Hanson Melvin is in a cheerful mood outside the Hamilton County courts building in Chattanooga after Judge Don Poole dismisses his criminal case on a phony charge of disorderly conduct. (Photo David Tulis) The conduct was intentional or reckless, and was so outrageous that it is not tolerated by a civilized society. *** [T]he city […]