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High Noon in Vermont

High noon in Vermont: that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Point’s Memo”. Tomorrow, Judge Edward Cashman gets a final chance to right an incredible wrong. As you may know, Cashman sentenced a guy, who raped a 6- year-old girl over a four-year period, to 60 days because the …

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Alito Against Individual Rights?

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: In Monday’s hearings, Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy expressed concern over an “academic study,” which he said showed that Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito ruled against individual rights in 84 percent of his dissents — arguing that “average Americans have had a hard …

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F— Katrina: New Orleans Hip-Hop Remembers the Hurricane

It took only two words for rapper Jerome Cosey to spark a musical evolution. The 26-year-old artist known as Fifth Ward Weebie specializes in a New Orleans style of hip-hop called bounce. He tweaked one of his songs on a hot Houston night last October to reflect the then-recent hurricane, …

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