Promoting his state sovereignty resolution on the floor of the Idaho House of Representatives today, St. Maries Rep. Dick Harwood declared that the United States is really a "confederacy." "To be accurate, we're a confederated republic," the fifth-term Republican then told the House. Political scientists said Harwood's dead wrong, and a longtime Kootenai County human rights activist said the use of the term "confederacy" is offensive. Harwood said, "If I'm wrong, then I guess I'm wrong. But my understanding of it all was that we were a confederated republic." He said he thought President Lincoln changed things so that states couldn't secede, but that the nation remained a confederacy. "Lots of things that have happened in the history of our country never get told in college courses," Harwood said. You can read my full story here at spokesman.com.