quote [ Britain's biggest union, Unite, is merging with the US-based United Steelworkers union (USW) to create a new "global" union. ]

quote [ Chiquita's funding of violent paramilitaries does not end with the right-wing AUC. The fruit giant "had been making similar payments to the leftist FARC and ELN guerrillas" since 1989... ]

quote [ The Supreme Court on Thursday embraced the long-disputed view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for personal use, ruling 5 to 4 that there is a constitutional right to keep a loaded handgun at home for self-defense. ]

quote [ "These are tax dollars that are going for no useful purpose, and it would not be responsible for us to take those dollars." ]

quote [ Australia now hails to be the world's fattest nation with 26 percent of its adults being classified as obese, according to a new report released here on Friday. ]

quote [ Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says substantial vote tallies across the country show the European Union Lisbon reform treaty has been rejected. ]

quote [ Ever since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for President, the overwhelming response from the European media and from cultural and political elites has been euphoric...I can't help noticing some aspects of this euphoric response, especially from western European elites and from the prestige news media, that are disingenuous and even hypocritical. ]

quote [ Starting on Saturday, officers will check drivers' identification and ask whether they have a "legitimate purpose" to be in the Trinidad area, such as going to a doctor or church or visiting friends or relatives. If not, the drivers will be turned away. ]

quote [ Suppose you had to choose between two candidates, one of whom spent 20 years in Congress...and the other of whom had about half a dozen years in the Illinois state legislature and 2 years in Congress. Which one do you think would make a better President? If you chose #1, you picked James Buchanan over Abraham Lincoln. You disagree with most historians, who see Lincoln as the greatest President ever and Buchanan as the second worst. ]

quote [ "We ordinary people depend on this place for a living. We came back to see if we could find a way to survive, because relying on the government to provide food and housing is no solution." ]

quote [ Until recently, “waterboarding” was something that Americans did to other Americans. In these harsh exercises, brave men and women were introduced to the sorts of barbarism that they might expect to meet at the hands of a lawless foe who disregarded the Geneva Conventions. But it was something that Americans were being trained to resist, not to inflict. ]

quote [ Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and — in a move sure to cause controversy — support their ability to hire and fire based on faith. ]

quote [ Barr scoffs at talk that he will play spoiler, saying he is in the race to win it and it won't be his fault if McCain loses. ]

quote [ The Democrat once made a conditional agreement to accept taxpayer money from the public financing system, and accompanying spending limits, if his Republican opponent did, too. ]

quote [ Many rebels are teenage boys who seem confused about what they are actually fighting for.
"We are fighting the government army so we can join them," said one young rebel soldier named Clapton, who had an AK-47 assault rifle slung over his shoulder and a steak knife tucked into his belt. ]

quote [ By reducing the work week we will be able to distribute the work load to more people and thus increase employment. ]

quote [ Why so unwilling to impeach Bush? As Democratic leaders like to say, two words: Dick Cheney. At this late stage in his presidency, Bush can still feel confident that his job is secure, if only because his foes are so terrified of the man who would succeed him. ]

quote [ “An anti-government philosophy turned out to be politically unpopular and fundamentally un-American” ]

quote [ A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful. ]