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Sorry Orson

By Rod Dreher

About Rod Dreher

April 20, 2004 1:31 AM

A couple of readers wrote to correct my assertion

that Mormon sci-fi demigod Orson Scott Card is a conservative. They tell me

he’s more like a blue-dog Democrat. My bad. My sci-fi fan friend who sends

me smart stuff OSC writes on politics from time to time must only be sending

me the right-wing stuff.

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