Word: joes
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...JOE THE PLUMBER speaks on stimulus. Just fix our pipes already...
...circuit court in Escambia County, Fla., sentenced 13-year-old Joe Sullivan to a lifetime sentence for rape of a 72-year-old woman, with no possibility of parole. The grounds for Sullivan’s conviction were shaky. First, the trial only lasted one day. Second, the victim could not clearly identify Sullivan as the rapist, and biological evidence was not presented in court—and has since been destroyed. Nevertheless, even if Sullivan committed the crime, he did not deserve the punishment he received. No 13-year old child should ever be sentenced to life imprisonment without...
Obama advisers say there is still plenty of time to create a bill that can attract more Republican support. "I think you will see it get better," Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview Thursday on CNBC. "And I also think you will see Republicans voting for it." House Republican leaders also claim to be optimistic that a better compromise can be created. Just hours after the House vote Wednesday night, Representative John Boehner, who leads the GOP caucus, joined Obama at a White House cocktail reception. According to aides, Boehner told the President not to take the House...
...undermining the war effort. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer recently wrote in the Washington Post that "the problem in Afghanistan is not too much Taliban; it's too little good governance" and warned bluntly that the alliance expects Karzai to do a better job. Vice President Joe Biden visited Kabul shortly before the Inauguration and reportedly warned Karzai that the new Administration would hold his feet to the fire over governance complaints. (See pictures of soldiers in Afghanistan...
...with the piano, so did 'Fathead' with the tenor sax, on some of the greatest records ever," Joe Cocker, a British rock and blues musician Newman once recorded with, says...