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WASHINGTON - The Senate rejected a call Tuesday to secure the nation's borders before tackling other immigration-related concerns such as citizenship for millions of men and women in the country illegally, a victory for President Bush and supporters of a comprehensive approach to a volatile election-year issue. The vote was 55-40 against a proposal by Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga, who said that anything less than a border security-first approach amounted to "a wink and a nod one more time to those who would come here" unlawfully. Republican and Democratic supporters of the sweeping Senate bill said Isakson's approach would be...

I would like to consider myself a fair person. I think my radio listening habits reveal just how open-minded I am to alternative points of view. When I lived in NY I listened to Morning Sedition on Air America in the morning, Rush Limbaugh at noon, Bill O'Reilly in the mid-afternoons, and depending on my mood and what time I got out of work, I switched off between Randi Rhodes (again Air America) and Mark Levin. If I was in the car late at night I switched back and forth between Laura Inghram, and the Majority Report with Jeneane Garofolo...

New wrangle over Kennewick bones By Paul Rincon BBC News Online science staff The remains could reveal secrets of the settlement of the Americas The legal battle over the ancient bones of Kennewick Man has been won by the scientists, but they now face a new wrangle over access to the remains. The 9,300-year-old skeleton is among the most complete specimens of its period known from the Americas. Four Native American tribes that sought to re-bury the bones have announced they will not be taking their fight to the US Supreme Court. But they still regard the skeleton as an...

Charlie Wrangle just said to George on his Sunday show that the world cannot count on the US to honor international law and that the US people can no longer count on thier country.