John Kerry

WASHINGTON - A quiet bid by Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry to visit Iran is on the verge of being publicly rebuffed by the Iranian Parliament in yet another blow to the Obama administration's policy of trying to reach out diplomatically to Iran. More on Iran  

Iran denies entry to Sen. Kerry By Bridget Johnson - 01/03/10 01:48 PM ET Iranian legislators on Sunday decided to not allow a visit from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), according to Iranian media. “Members of the Iranian parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee (a subcommittee of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission) voiced [...]  

Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts is undergoing a second hip replacement. The 2004 Democratic presidential nominee will have his left hip replaced Monday at Massachusetts General Hospital. His right hip was replaced in August.  

Iran to Massachusetts Democrat Senator John Kerry, NO SOUP FOR YOU! You mean Iran was not impressed with Kerry’s boat I guess we can say that Iran was for allowing John Kerry in to the country, before they were against it. Iran denied John Kerry access. Iranian legislators on Sunday decided to not allow a visit from Senate [...]  

Maybe the Iranian regime is not as crazy as the experts think. Today they announced a very rational thought. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast last week confirmed reports that John Kerry has filed a request for visiting Tehran. Since Kerry is part of our legislature the matter was transferred to Iran's Parliament. Iran's parliament announced today that they wanted no part of Senator Kerry.  

Phone, cable and broadcast companies can get away with a lot in DC, but they best not stand between a man and his football games. As we noted yesterday, Time Warner Cable and News Corporation are engaged in a retransmission fee fight that could wind up with Fox programming being pulled from Time Warner Cable's channel lineup. This apparently displeases football fan and U.S. Senator John Kerry, who sent a letter to News Corp. warning them that...  

Time Warner Cable and Fox still haven't settled their payment dispute , but one man is fighting to avoid a blackout: John Kerry has promised that if Fox does pull its signal at the midnight deadline, he’ll "ask the FCC to intervene and mandate continued carriage." Why is a prominent U.S. senator getting involved in the tiff? It could be because he’s the chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee...L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (subscribe) : John...  

Could his timing be any worse? Fox News is reporting that in the middle of the anti-government riots, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) has filed an application for permission to visit Iran. Sen. John Kerry has filed a formal request to visit Iran, Iranian news agencies reported Tuesday -- news made public in the middle of the government's bloody crackdown on dissidents that has left more than a dozen  

The Republican freakout over the underpants bomber has prompted a lot of good commentary about the extent to which we as a nation should actually worry about terrorism.  Which, incidentally, reminds me of a New York Times piece — written by Matt Bai and published on the eve of the 2004 election — which tried [...]  

Mammograms DO save lives! Teresa Heinz, wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry, is revealing that she has been treated for breast cancer and is coming forth with the information now because of the controversial guidelines from the U.S. Preventative Service Task Force that advise women under 50 no longer get annual mammograms! Heinz writes in the Pittsburgh [...]  

From FoxNews.com: While representatives for Kerry have so far not confirmed whether he intends to travel to Tehran, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry said the country’s parliament is already considering the Massachusetts Democrat’s official overture. The trip comes at a challenging time for the administration, as President Obama on Monday expressed support for Iranian protestors [...]  

IF international climate change talks falter this week, chances for the United States approving its own carbon pollution-reduction plan will seriously erode, US Senator John Kerry warned yesterday.  

The Senator is now in favor of more troops after he was against them.(Wall Street Journal) - President Obama unveils his new Afghanistan strategy today, and in the nick of time Senator John Kerry has arrived with a report claiming that none of this would be necessary if former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had only deployed more troops eight years ago. Yes, he really said more troops.In a 43-page report issued yesterday by his Senate...  

So shouts the headline at the Guardian. A farce indeed. First, we have US Senator John Kerry making a 100% guarantee to Copenhagen attendees that, should Copenhagen end with some sort of agreement, the US Congress will pass legislation in 2010 “that is going to have an impact on emissions.” There is one not-so-small caveat: John Kerry mentioned one key requirement that the talks had to meet in order to get US backing: China and other...  

Filed under: Celebrity Justice Senator John Kerry's daughter, Alexandra Forbes Kerry, was arrested early this morning on suspicion of DUI ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.It went down in Hollywood at 12:40 AM in Hollywood. Alexandra, a 36-year-old film producer and director, ...Permalink