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With a press in thrall to every Twitter outrage du jour, and the media spotlight trained tightly on the upcoming inauguration and its opposition, there is little national attention left over for what the nation fears most. Corruption.

If you were inside the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines during the first week in January, you would have heard citizens reading from the Bible. Which book of the Bible? Which chapter? All of them.

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