John Kerry is poised to be the man to challenge President Bush, yet he voted to give the President a blank check to invade Iraq, voted for his ill-advised tax cuts, voted for the horribly misnamed "No Child Left Behind" education plan, voted for the Patriot Act and voted for NAFTA. Gore represented a continuation of the rightward shift of the Democratic Party as epitomized by Clinton, and Gore's hectoring and pedantic style turned off many people. Anyone can run for president in this...

Meeting them on this remote base between Baghdad and the Syrian border was none other than Bagwan Petraeus, the current Vivekananda of counter-insurgency doctrine and the latest in a long line of Generals who will be dragged into historical ignominy by this Commander-in-Chief. Meeting them on this remote base between Baghdad and the Syrian border was none other than Bagwan Petraeus, the current Vivekananda of counter-insurgency doctrine and the latest in a long line of Generals who will be...

Democrats and unions say the murders of Colombian labor leaders and the Uribe government's links to paramilitary groups mean the Latin American nation doesn't deserve the deal. Democratic leaders, including House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel of New York, oppose the Colombia deal, which Uribe's government says would lead to a flood of foreign investment and provide farmers with a way to move out of illegal coca production. Democratic leaders, including House Ways and...

Tom Baldwin in Washington In return for their $2,300 ( 1,133) admission fee, guests were forced to leave their cars in a car park eight miles away and climb on board buses, told they must wear flat shoes to protect the sacred lawns, then stripped of their mobile phones and cameras. Tom Baldwin in Washington In return for their $2,300 ( 1,133) admission fee, guests were forced to leave their cars in a car park eight miles away and climb on board buses, told they must wear flat shoes to...

Among the dramatic changes that took place during his lifetime was the abandonment of the horse and cart in favour of the tractor, the advent of food rationing during the war and massive grain surpluses in Europe at the end of the 20th century. advertisement Mr Thurtle was already helping with the harvest in 1910, when he was photographed in a field aged five, with his father Robert. Mr Thurtle helped with harvest by carting grain with a tractor and trailer along the A148 until five years...

But I raise the topic of tolerance, or the lack thereof, on the part of some readers, because of e-mails and phone calls I recently received that gave me pause. The most strident protests came from readers angry that we published an Associated Press photo (above) of two gay men to accompany a story about an appeal of an Iowa judge's ruling ordering a county to accept marriage license requests from same-sex couples. About Chron: Variety not spice of life for some readers . Chron.com -...