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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — A state representative will introduce a bill before the Louisiana Legislature that could establish gold and silver as the state’s currency. Generations have passed since legal tender was last created in the state of Louisiana, but Representative Raymond Crews, a pro-gun, pro-life, combat veteran Republican from District 8, is submitting HB 714 for consideration. If passed, the bill will once again establish gold and silver as currency in the state. Prior to its closure, the U.S. Mint in New Orleans stamped more than 427 million gold and silver coins. The last time it minted coins was...

Barack Obama's tax advisers recently posted a piece in the Wall Street Journal about their candidate's tax plans. Their article was designed to triangulate, painting their candidate as a tax cutter and the Republican opposition as a secret tax raiser. It was well written and well argued — not that you can really trust anything you read about what candidates will or will not do once in office. In any case, I was discussing the piece with a person whose politics are certainly left of center. She said to me something along the following lines: I'm really not sure I...

Press Release Source: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Treasury Department Claims Power to Seize Gold, Silver--and Everything Else, GATA Says Monday August 22, 8:45 am ET MANCHESTER, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2005--The U.S. Government has the authority to prohibit the private possession of gold and silver coin and bullion by U.S. citizens during wartime, and, during wartime and declared emergencies, to freeze their ownership of shares of mining companies, the Treasury Department has told the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee. ADVERTISEMENT But gold and silver owners aren't alone in such jeopardy. For the U.S. Government claims the authority in declared emergencies to seize...

When I was growing up in DC, there was no such thing as a nursing home that I was aware of, anyway. My Grandparents and Dad died without their existence being known to them. My Mom died in one, in 1981, and it was a place I didn't like to visit. Nursing homes came into existence as a virtually new business, when Medicaid and Medicare came on the scene in the late 1960's, and have flourished ever since. They're expensive. Very expensive, and today, a really nice one goes for maybe $1,000 a week or even more. We all get...