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“Time does matter, and as the saying goes: justice delayed is justice denied,” Tom Cushing writes of the impending debt default deadline in this week’s [http://danvilleexpress.com/blogs/p/2013/10/10/inheriting-the-wind Raucous Caucus]. “Rather than acknowledging their overreach and backing away from the precipice, (Tea Party-ers) have doubled-down.”

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