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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went after former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on a local South Carolina radio show on Tuesday and questioned her "leadership" based on a tweet following the death of George Floyd in 2020. "I remember when the George Floyd riots were happening, I called out the National Guard," DeSantis told WORD 106.9's Tara Show in South Carolina on Tuesday. "I said I’m standing with police, she was tweeting that it needed to be personal and painful for every single person. I’m thinking to myself, ‘Why does that need to be personal and painful for you or me?...

The Detroit Economic Club Remarks of John KerryFor Immediate Release Detroit, MI - Thank you.  It’s great to be back at the Detroit Economic Club.  I guess you could say that since I came here last September, I’ve had a pretty eventful year.  My Patriots won another Superbowl, my Red Sox almost won the Pennant, and my Celtics…well, my Celtics made sure they didn’t get in the way of a Piston’s championship.  During that year, John Edwards and I have made our way across this country we love.  And at every stop in our journey, we have witnessed the American...

backs 'Bush-lite' Kerry Matthew Tempest Saturday March 20, 2004 The Guardian Noam Chomsky, the political theorist and leftwing guru, yesterday gave his reluctant endorsement to the Democratic party's presidential contender, John Kerry, calling him "Bush-lite", but a "fraction" better than his rival. Professor Chomsky - a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a renowned chronicler of American foreign policy - said there were "small differences" between Senator Kerry and the Republican president. But, in an interview on the Guardian's politics website, he added that those small differences "can translate into large outcomes". He describes the choice...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman argued on Wednesday that President Bush is presiding over a new economy with old thinking and failing to reward innovation in the workplace. On the same day Bush signed a 10-year, $350-billion tax cut package, the Connecticut senator highlighted job losses during Bush's tenure - 2.7 million - and last year's drop in the number of hours Americans worked. In the first quarter of this year, weekly earnings adjusted for inflation fell 1.5 percent - the biggest drop in more than a decade. ``The administration of George W. Bush has an old...