Personal Liberty Digest

Latest From Chip Wood April 26, 2013 Stop Washington's Latest Tax Grabs » An Internet sales tax is just one of the schemes Washington has come up with to extract more money from you. Several others can be found in the new Federal budget proposal that the White House finally released this month. More » Freedom Watch The Coming Flu Tax » Besides the fact that it doesn't work and carries harmful side effects, Congress is now poised to give you one more reason to avoid taking a seasonal flu vaccine: a 75 cent per-dose tax. Save money and your health by avoiding the flu vaccine at all costs.  More » Analysis Lawmakers Trying To Exempt Themselves From Obamacare » That's right: Congressional kleptocrats are meeting in secret to sort out a legal way they can exempt themselves from having to join the very same insurance exchange groups they created when they voted for President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010. More » Personal Liberty News SPLC Helped Gay Rights Extremist Pick Target For Attack With Politically Motivated Definition Of ‘Hate’ » In recent years it appears the Southern Poverty Law Center has fallen behind changing times and compensated by crying "hate" in the direction of any group out of line with its left-leaning philosophy. The case of domestic terrorist Floyd Corkins II is exemplary of the danger stemming from SPLC's hatred for conservatism.  More » Credit Company Ends Financing For Small Gun Shops, Cites Mass Shootings » One of the Nation's largest consumer finance companies will no longer provide consumer credit service to gun shops, citing "tragic events" and a changing financial services industry. More » Bills Requiring GMO Labels Introduced In Both Chambers Of Congress » A continuing movement against genetically modified food by consumer advocacy, environmental and business groups gained some legislative steam this week with bills introduced in both chambers of Congress that would require manufacturers to clearly label genetically altered food. More » Power Of The State Bone Up On Your Rights Before Encountering A Bad Cop A helpful video produced by Flex Your Rights, an educational nonprofit that seeks to inform Americans about their Constitutional protections against state infringement, offers some invaluable advice on how to handle an encounter with a police officer who has more on his mind than protecting and serving. The video enacts 10 different dramatic scenarios portraying encounters with aggressive, mean and just plain crooked cops that illustrate — frighteningly, at times — how innocent people have very little wiggle room when a bad cop with a sense of entitlement throws them off their guard. Aside from the immediate danger a cop with evil intent presents, victims face an equal danger in defending their actions, in the aftermath, when they have to explain their side of the story in court. More »