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After decades of attempting to dam the flow of Mexican immigrants crossing into the United States illegally, federal agents say a new crisis is emerging along the southern border and they are helpless to stop it. Non-Mexicans are spilling over the border in record numbers - some from countries with terrorist ties - and most are set free soon after being captured. Already this year, the number of non-Mexican apprehensions has far outpaced last year's total in just eight months. And while they are still a relatively small percentage compared with the number of illegal Mexicans, critics say the federal...

HILARY ROSEN -- Jack Valenti's RIAA female clone -- has now gone on record saying that as part of the fight against music piracy, ISPs should be held accountable for the actions of their users and charged a fee for giving their customer's access to services such as Kazaa or Morpheus. The result of holding ISPs liable for the ways their customers use them would be catastrophic. Should ISPs be held accountable for the actions of pedophiles? How about members of racist groups? How about groups that are legal but we wish weren't, like the KKK, Aryan Nation, and the...

AUGUSTA — Chief Barry Dana of the Penobscot Nation says he felt like a fool as he sat behind Gov. John Baldacci during the governor's inaugural speech last week. Dressed in ceremonial regalia, Dana and his uncle, Butch Phillips, had just performed a "smudging" ceremony for the new governor on the Augusta Civic Center stage. The cleansing ceremony is one of the tribe's highest honors. But during his speech that followed the ceremony, Baldacci reiterated his well-known opposition to casino gambling, and Dana could barely contain his anger. "I was in shock. I was in absolute shock," Dana said. "I...