Here’s a delicious conspiracy theory. Idaho’s Constitutional Defense Fund – a taxpayer-funded account to pay for the state’s culture-war legal battles – is actually an elaborate, stealth operation to funnel money to organizations and attorneys supporting abortion, gay marriage and Occupy Boise. It is a secret strategy for Idaho lawmakers to finance the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and teachers unions. Of course, Idaho isn’t actually funding those causes – it’s simply losing, over and over, in its court battles against them and being forced to cover their legal costs. Since it was formed in 1995, the Constitutional Defense Fund has paid out $2.1 million, “nearly all of it spent on losing legal battles,” according to reporting by Rebecca Boone of the Associated Press/Shawn Vestal, SR. More here.

Ironic, no?