Word: jose
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Frank and Lisa Smoot, a San Jose couple who missed their connecting flight to New Hampshire, thought they'd use the downtime afforded them to scope out the scene for themselves. "We're bored to death of sitting around the airport, so I thought we'd check it out," Frank says shortly after his wife snapped a digital photo of him giving a thumbs-up next to the bathroom sign. "It's just so bizarre to think that I can go stand next to where one of our 100 Senators met his political demise...
...confirmation of former Federal Judge Michael Mukasey as Attorney General. To Republicans, it certainly does. In their eyes, President George W. Bush found a candidate that everyone could agree on. The right knows he's tough on terrorism, while the left respects his ruling that granted "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla a lawyer. "Our Democratic colleagues have repeatedly told us that the central concern in all this was the health and well-being of the Justice Department," said Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. "Yet now they say they're willing to hold up the new Attorney General...
Meanwhile, WWF, formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund, has been working with producers, buyers and various NGOs since 2004 to craft voluntary industry standards aimed at minimizing or eliminating environmental damage. "This is a major priority for us," says Jose Villalon, who heads WWF's recently expanded aquaculture team. Standards will yield certifications of sustainability for a range of popular seafoods; the first, covering tilapia, is expected by the end of the year...
Meanwhile, we have had some pretty unimpressive terror “catches.” Jose Padilla, who then-Attorney General John Ashcroft labeled a “dirty bomber” with much fanfare, was recently convicted of charges unrelated to any plot to harm Americans directly. Two other terror cells supposedly smashed by American security services seemed both inept and far from able to carry out the frightening attacks that the Department of Homeland Security said they planned, including an attack on Chicago’s Sears Tower and a tunnel into Manhattan...
...that country's one-child law, which they say indicates he's weak on pro-life issues. And though he has consistently ruled with the Administration on a number of important and high-profile terrorism cases, Mukasey broke with them in an early, crucial ruling, saying that American citizen Jose Padilla had a right to a lawyer, no matter what his status in the war on terror. Mukasey is also very close to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whom social conservatives distrust...