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The public is sitting there thinking I can’t believe the Hoosiers are about to lose at Penn State when the truth was the Hoosiers had never won at Penn State.

The 1963 rupture of a city dam, releasing a deluge that destroyed 260 homes and killed six in the community below, set in motion a slow-moving campaign to extract a public benefit from the disaster.

Like then, the public today is desperate for security, and unselfish, service leadership — not that of “economic royalists,” as FDR described them.

Once the race truly begins, Newsom will be probed and prodded in ways he hasn’t experienced since his last physical exam, all in full public view.

Conversely, the Becket Fund usually defends the rights of those seeking to increase faith’s role in public life.