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is there any point to keeping count? still image from being there (1979). remember when politicizing a tragedy was gauche? not just among republicans inside the beltway but among fox news hosts and right-wing talkers? well, those tragedies typically involved mass shootings, often at schools. but a mass casualty event in d.c. involving an airliner and an army helicopter in…

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