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Hump Day Wild Card — 3.16.11

Good grief! The Idaho House of Reps has followed Rep. Erik Simpson down the rabbit hole and OK'd the bill that would allow college students to carry guns on Idaho campuses. And some of you guys wonder why I think this Legislature has gone mad? It votes to trash public education, increase spending for prisons why slashing funding for Medicaid, and now at least one house is willing to arm students while it cuts higher education spending. Any minute now House Speaker Lawerence Denney will begin screaming like the red queen, "Off with their heads." With that happy thought, I'll post today's Wild Card ...



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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