Personal Liberty Digest

Latest From Chip Wood March 8, 2013 There’s Method To Obama’s ‘Madness’ » Congratulations! You’ve managed to survive a whole week since sequestration hit. And despite all of the dire warnings that were issued, airplanes didn’t fall from the skies, prison gates weren’t thrown open, the indigent didn’t lose their food stamps and essential safety personnel didn’t lose their jobs. More » Freedom Watch Is A New Guard Rising? » If the Republican Party is to have a future, Senator Rand Paul (and Senators who joined him on the floor like Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and Jeff Flake of Arizona) are it.  More » Power Of The State Physician Sought To Use Police To Force Woman Into Hospital For Birth » After giving birth four times via caesarean delivery, Lisa Epsteen wanted to have her fifth child vaginally. She found someone to help her through her high-risk pregnancy, and she thought he was on her side. That is until her doctor threatened to have police pick her up and drag her to the hospital for a surgical delivery. More » Personal Liberty News Gun Control Likely To Flop » The Senate Judiciary Committee spent Thursday considering four new gun control proposals initiated in response to mass shootings during the past year. More » Sign The White House Petition To Support Rand Paul On Drone Strikes — But First, Tell Them Who You Are » A petition on the White House's “We The People,” seeking an answer to Senator Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) call for clarity on whether the Commander In Chief can authorize drone strikes against U.S. citizens, without due process, on U.S. soil required signers to fully identify themselves. More » A Porn-Free Europe? The EU Is Considering It » A Swedish member of the European Parliament blogged Wednesday that he’d be voting against a resolution calling on 27 countries to legislate a ban on pornography across all media in the European Union. More » Chip Shots Compliance Is Costly Those expensive Federal regulations. Just how much does it cost private enterprise to comply with all of the Federal regulations that have been promulgated? According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit research group in Washington, D.C., the tab comes to more than half-a-trillion dollars a year. The CEI says the most costly agencies are the Environmental Protection Agency, whose regulations cost businesses $353 billion a year; the Department of Health and Human Services, at $185 billion; and the Federal Communications Commission, at $142 billion a year. Just think how many more jobs could be created — and taxes paid — if some of those regulatory restrictions could be eased. More »