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By the way, I always get a kick out of commenters on these articles who complain, as they frequently do, \u201cBut Peterson (or Hamblin and Peterson) didn\u2019t address this<\/em>, didn\u2019t mention that<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Every one of these columns, stretching back, if I\u2019m not mistaken, to early 2011 \u2014 by now, there\u2019ve got to be something approaching five hundred of them \u2014 has come in at a length of between 736 and 739 words. \u00a0No more. \u00a0No less. \u00a0No exception that I can recall. \u00a0There\u2019s only so much that an author or authors can cram into so few words.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Another hateful and dishonest screed from Hamblin and Peterson: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865684394\/The-rise-and-fall-of-religious-liberty.html \u00a0 By the way, I always get a kick out of commenters on these articles who complain, as they frequently do, \u201cBut Peterson (or Hamblin and Peterson) didn\u2019t address this, didn\u2019t mention that!\u201d \u00a0 Every one of these columns, stretching back, if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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