Only Alabama’s newly installed Gov. Robert Bentley knows for sure whether he was sincere Wednesday when he apologized for saying, just last weekend, that non-Christians weren’t his brothers and sisters, but it was evident that he had learned another key lesson from the exercise: Word travels really far, really fast on the Internet, so you’d best watch what you say. –KA

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