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Not that long ago, Idaho was best known nationally for potatoes and being home to the Aryan Nations. Idaho, of course, is still famous for its potatoes -- it even says so on our license plates -- and fortunately the state has been able to expel the majority of the white supremacist group from its borders, although that brief bit of history remains a terrible stain on the state's reputation. In recent years the state - thanks to its leaders in Boise - hasn't helped itself in the image department, showing its intolerance by refusing to provide basic protections for the non-heterosexual members of our society and, most recently, attacking Muslims and spreading fear of Shariah law. Just a couple of weeks ago, a House panel killed a child support enforcement bill in a blunder that could cost the state millions in federal dollars and make it easy for deadbeat parents to flake out on child support payments, all because a few wackos -- the kind who are certain President Barack Obama is a Muslim -- believe the bill would potentially make Idaho subject to Shariah law. It'd be hilarious if it didn't have real world consequence/Devin Rokyta, Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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