U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson is another Republican with no use for the Republicans' "loyalty oath." The 12-year congressman, running for a seventh term in November, criticized the oath, approved at the state GOP convention two weeks ago. The oath requires all GOP candidates to endorse the party's platform in full, or publicly state their areas of disagreement. "I take one oath, and that's to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, period," Simpson told the Statesman editorial board this morning/Kevin Richert, Idaho Statesman. More here.

Question: Which is a goofier idea -- a loyalty oath or protesting a "fiesta" theme at a county fair?