We recently received an angry email from a reader who was upset by the number of letters to the editor from liberals. Based on his language, he finds that most intolerable.

Such messages aren’t that unusual. In fact, critiques about letters to the editor, political cartoons and columns have long constituted the bulk of the upset calls or threats to cancel subscriptions that the Whidbey News-Times and South Whidbey Record receive. Nearly without fail, opinions about partisan politics most wrangle people’s nerves.

For the record, we don’t pick and choose letters based on any criteria or agenda. We run the letters people send us. Letters, cartoons and columns are opinion pieces that are clearly marked as such and run on the opinion page. There are obviously letters we wouldn’t run — lik

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