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As of today, the state of Louisiana has $78.5 million dollars of money that belongs to the citizens of the Bayou State.

If it passes, teachers and students could be standing hand-in-hand around the flagpole in prayer.

It's Presidents Day. Observed on the third Monday in February, it's a day to celebrate all U.S. Presidents past and present.

It appears as if the State Department wants to wash out the mouths of the American people with a proverbial bar of soup for being so insensitive to the offensive nature of popular phrases like “hold down the fort” and “rule of thumb.”

A lot of governmental office are closed again today -- as workers take an extended New Years holiday.

In a recent story about gun rights, a reporter got a little more than he bargained for. Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas was recently interviewing state senator Lori Klein, who's unapologetically carried her pink Ruger pistol in the state's capitol building for years -- most controversially in the days directly after US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was the victim of a mass shooting in Tuscon.

With public attitudes fueled by continued economic problems, rising gas prices, vigorous opposition to the war in Afghanistan, and and little hope for political progress - confidence in the U.S. system of government has dropped to the lowest point in more than 35 years...