Bloomberg reports that legislatures in more than a dozen states are moving bills to recognize gold and silver as legal tender. Though the measures are mostly symbolic, they are the result of growing concern over Fed Chief Ben Bernanke’s forever stimulus. Read more at Bloomberg. 

Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Iron Lady, and the last of the great anti-Communist trio which also included President Reagan and Pope John Paul II passed away Monday at the age of 87. The NYT, Guardian, and WaPo report. And George Will quotes, “Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will […]

Don’t like standing in line for over an hour with luggage with the guy next to you yakking on his cell phone only to lose your shoes and take all your electronics out for the world to see at the end of the line? Twelve years after 9/11, POLITICO reports the Department of Homeland Security […]

The Washington Post goes in-depth and in-video describing how the Afghan Army is taking on the Taliban without the help of the United States anymore. The WaPo’s reporters follow an Afghan Army unit into the Tangi Valley, a Taliban stronghold nicknamed ‘IED Alley,’ just 60 miles from Kabul.

 As NoKo dictator Kim Jong Un continues his recent pattern of belligerence, top officials in the Obama administration promised an immediate and proportional response to any aggression. The NYT reports American security officials are planning an “immediate but proportional ‘response in kind’” to any action taken by NoKo. The AP reports South Korean officials are […]