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House Republicans have also failed to notice that the school shootings have not occurred in hotbeds of secular humanism--say, Berkeley, Calif.; Cambridge, Mass; or New York City--but in towns that Norman Rockwell and James Dobson would be proud to call home.
My wife and I had taken the train, and the Kazins offered us a ride back to the city--but only if I drove.