Stingray snooping puts local cops, feds on man’s tail
Invasive surveillance brings a combat-oriented arrest in a quiet Rossville, Ga., neighborhood. (Photo WRCB TV3) With overwhelming force, deputies and officers stand at the foot of a staircase before storming a house in which they have gassed a fugitive with 20 tear gas shells. (Photo WRCB TV3) By David Tulis Local authorities arrested a fugitive […]
Corker says NSA collecting too little data on Americans
Sen. Bob Corker, whose government is collecting a woman’s cellphone call, meets with voters October 2014 in Benton County. (Photo corker.senate.gov) The program is actually not the program I thought it was. Not even close,I think you are going to see people on both sides of the aisle pushing, wondering why not more data is […]
Policy skies: Intense aerosol dosings of Tennessee cities blot sunlight
Heavy sky striping Thursday morning preceded the arrival over Chattanooga of a blank haze of official pollution that blots the sun. (Photo Blacky Darr) Jet trails put reverse tattoos over the skies of Eastern Tennessee on Thursday. (Photo Michelle Proctor) A sawed-off cloud over Bristol, Tenn., showing how negative emissions are controlled, not inadvertent. (Photo […]
Jets’ white plumes bring sun-dimming murk into skies of Tennessee cities
Intense sky striping over Nashville May 10, 2015, creates the generic haze that typifies solar radiation management activities, also called stratospheric aerosol geoengineering. A 10-hour period is condensed here into four minutes. Chattanooga endures a similar display May 9, 11 and 12, with jet trails leading to a persistent blank hazy sky. SRM results in […]
Chattanooga Declaration asks breakup of U.S. to end totalitarianism, ease bankruptcy
The Farm Stand at Chattanooga’s Crabtree Farms draws members of the public who want fresh locally grown fare. The ideas of local economy and local food have implications for the size of nations. (Photo Crabtree Farms.) By David Tulis If the concept of local economy appears quaint and inward looking, consider its “foreign policy” implications. […]
Beyond fighting Common Core, critic proposes schools exodus
Karen Bracken By David Tulis A Common Core critic in the Chattanooga area appears to have made an important conceptual break with the public school system, organizing a group that views an exodus as vital as her effort to rid the state of Common Core. Karen Bracken holds elected office as commissioner in Polk County, […]
How local economy owns constitution & how oaths breathe life into it
David Tulis explains how the constitution lives among the people. Commoners insist on its protections and demand to be respected by being belligerent claimants in person. Officials make it live by swearing oaths to uphold it. In second half, Joel Huffman, 14, tells about his lawn business. Tweet Pin It
‘F’ word flutters from justices’ lips trying to get at starting point of marriage
By David Fowler As I continue to reflect on the oral arguments that were recently made in the Supreme Court regarding marriage, I noticed that one word — an “F” word — was used more times than almost any other word other than the obvious words “people” and “marriage.” And the way it was used […]
A chief justice puts human face on doctrine of lesser magistrate
Tennessee county clerks face a possible anti-marriage ruling out of Washington in June. They should say “no, sir!” not merely on the basis of personal religious conviction, but on a firm footing in legal reasoning. To supply them with LEGAL reasons to ignore a pro-gay ruling I make available my little work, “Good Faith & […]
The inverted pyramid: How state uses consent to operate driver license scheme
Hispanic immigrants such as the Alfredo and Sylvia Perez family in Morristown, Tenn., are subject to harassment for using their cars without driver licenses. (Photo Southern Spaces) The Legislature shall have no power to suspend any general law for the benefit of any particular individual, nor to pass any law for the benefit of individuals […]