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Vice President Joe Biden is pledging more funding for mental health as the first anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting approaches. The White House says $100 million will become available to increase access and quality of mental health services. Biden will announce the funds Tuesday when he meets with relatives of Newtown victims at the White House.

Can you blame him? 13 hours on a plane with Joe Biden is not exactly a dream getaway. 85 year-old Merrill Newman, a war veteran, declined a ride home on Air Force Two with Joe Biden. Newman was deported after being detained over his role in special forces operations in the Korean War six decades ago. (Daily Mail) The Daily Mail reported: An 85-year-old U.S. tourist detained in North Korea for six weeks for alleged ‘war crimes’ has landed back in San Francisco after catching a flight from Beijing. North Korean state media said Saturday that Merrill Newman, a war...

**SNIP** But no sooner had Biden arrived at his first stop in Tokyo on Wednesday than his aides were greeted with a nightmare series of headlines and cable TV shout-fests back in Washington over whether the vice president is a sexist with old-fashioned, patriarchal attitudes toward women. The evidence in question was a comment Biden made during a carefully staged photo op with female employees at a Japanese Internet firm. Sliding into a booth next to five young women, Biden opened his small talk with them by asking, “Do your husbands like you working full time?”

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) — President Barack Obama has high praise for potential 2016 contenders Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “I think Joe Biden will go down in history as one of the best vice presidents ever, and he has been with me, at my side, in every tough decision that I’ve made,” Obama told MSNBC in an interview Thursday held at American University. “Hillary, I think, will go down in history as one of the finest secretaries of state we’ve ever had, and helped to transition us away from a deep hole that we...

The press covering Joe Biden's trip Asia caught an unusually frank comment from the vice president. Biden, speaking about himself, reportedly said that his "profound insights on policy are vastly exaggerated, but we do have profound respect for the people of South Korea." Biden also insisted that America does what it says it's going to do -- always. "I want to make one thing absolutely clear: President Obama's decision to rebalance to the Pacific basin is not in question. The United States never says anything it does not do," said Biden. "Let me say that again: The United States never...

President Barack Obama says both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden would make outstanding presidents. And beyond that, he's staying out of the debate about who should succeed him in 2016. That was the message Obama laid down in an interview on Thursday with MSNBC's "Hardball" program when host Chris Matthews asked him to compare and contrast the two. "Not I chance am I doing that," he said.

Vice President Joe Biden encouraged a group of Chinese people applying for visas to the United States to “challenge the government” on Wednesday during his trip to China. Biden’s trip to China is meant to ease tensions over the Chinese air defense zone it declared that covers islands controlled by Japan. He told the audience, “innovation can only occur where you can breathe free,” according to the BBC. Additionally, he told the group that “children in America are rewarded—not punished—for challenging the status quo.” He said the Chinese government needs to be challenged in order for positive change to occur.

US Vice-President Joe Biden has begun a trip to China by encouraging people to "challenge the government". Mr Biden told a group applying for visas to the US that "innovation can only occur where you can breathe free". [snip]Mr Biden told his audience that "children in America are rewarded - not punished - for challenging the status quo".For positive change to come, people needed to "challenge the government, challenge religious leaders," he went on.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, talks with employees of DeNA during his visit to DeNA Co., Ltd, a global Internet company providing web services for mobile devices and PCs, in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013.While touring a Japanese Internet company Tuesday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden asked a group of women, “Do your husbands like you working full-time?” Mr. Biden asked the question while sitting with five women in the DeNa cafeteria in Tokyo. Their responses couldn’t all be heard by reporters. “Can anyone work from home?” Mr. Biden asked. One woman replied, “Yes, under certain conditions.” The vice...

Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday told Chinese President Xi Jinping the country’s relationship with the United States needs to be based on trust. Biden commended Xi by describing President Obama’s previous meetings with the Chinese leader as candid and constructive. "As we've discussed in the past, this new model of major-country cooperation ultimately has to be based on trust, and a positive notion about the motive of one another," Biden said after a bilateral meeting in the country that ran an hour and 15 minutes over schedule. Biden is on a weeklong trip to the region — making stops...

<p>TOKYO—Providing assurance to an ally facing an spiraling territorial dispute with its powerful neighbor, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden strongly condemned China's recent decision to establish a new air defense zone over the contentious waters of the East China Sea Tuesday as he warned that "the prospects of miscalculations and mistakes are too high."</p>

December 02, 2013, 06:58 pm Biden goes on mission to China By Julian Pecquet Vice President Biden has been thrust into the center of an escalating standoff with China that is testing him on the global stage ahead of a possible presidential run in 2016. President Obama dispatched Biden to Asia, where he will deliver a strong warning to China for declaring an air defense zone over islands that are also claimed by U.S. ally Japan. “This is an opportunity for Vice President Biden to raise our concerns directly with policymakers in Beijing and to seek clarity regarding the Chinese...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A Washington state man who fired a shotgun in the air to scare off car prowlers has refused a plea deal and says he's sticking with what's become known as the "Joe Biden defense." Jeffrey C. Barton of Vancouver told The Columbian (http://bit.ly/1is4B7e ) he will not admit any wrongdoing for the incident last July because he was protecting his family, within his Second Amendment right, and following advice from the vice president. In response to a question about home defense, Biden told an interviewer in February Americans don't need semi-automatic weapons because a couple of blasts...

The vice president went to pick up sandwiches Thursday for himself and President Obama but didn’t have enough money to pay the bill. Luckily, the veep doesn’t travel alone — he called on an aide, who reached into his pocket for a 10-spot so that Biden and his boss wouldn’t go hungry.

Vice President Joe Biden visited a protest this morning being held by illegal aliens demanding amnesty.The protest is being held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Illegal aliens and their supporters are holding a fast to call attention for their demand for amnesty.Photos were posted on Twitter by "Fast for Families".In a tweet by Fast for Families retweeted by the official Obama administration Spanish language account, Biden was quoted as telling the protesters: .@VP: The 11 million people in the shadows are already Americans. #Fast4Families pic.twitter.com/tYecF6Mwo7

Vice President Joe Biden was on campus Friday, raising money for Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. **SNIP** Biden told donors at the event that Hagan is able to work across the aisle with Republicans. “The only way to break through this gridlock is with people who can earn the trust of people on the other team, that’s why she’s so valuable,” he said. Biden also criticized the Tea Party at the event and said he hoped the Republican Party would move away from far-right politics.

I’m beginning to think that Gerard is just a trouble maker.First, I see Petee’s latest pic of Big Guy and Joey B - which I’m sure you’ve all seen – in his American Digest post: Those Magic Moments It's sweet when two hearts and hands entwine: Obama, Biden Hold Hands in Immigration Prayer - Fox Nation White House photographer Pete Souza tweets this picture of President Obama and Vice President Biden holding hands "during a prayer at end of mtg w faith leaders on immigration reform." [And afterwards it was back to the residence for a tickle fight!] I was...

Secretary of State John Kerry has told US lawmakers any new sanctions against Iran would risk ruining talks over Tehran's nuclear programme. He told a Senate banking committee that the US might lose negotiating partners if it imposed economic penalties. The panel has been considering a fresh package but legislators are divided on the measure. Mr Kerry has told the BBC that Iran and world powers had come "extremely close" to a deal at the weekend. Before Wednesday's closed-door meeting with senators, Washington's top diplomat told reporters: "What we're asking everybody to do is calm down, look hard at what...

While speaking on a conference call to Catholic clergy members on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden inexplicably uttered unsuitable language while referring to a US Congressman. Reacting to the assertion that Steve King (R-Iowa) made regarding illegal immigrants carrying drugs across the US southern border, Biden condescended, “He may be a good Christian, but his comments sure the hell aren’t, excuse my language.” Prone to making these types of faux pas (remember "This is a big f------ deal"), the Vice President’s comments seem even more inappropriate given his audience. Additionally, Biden fears that immigration reform may be defeated as was...

After Democrat Martin Walsh won Boston's mayoral race on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden called to congratulate him. The problem? He called the wrong Martin Walsh. “You son of a gun, Marty! You did it," Biden told the not-mayor-elect Walsh, according to the Boston Globe. But the vice president wasn't the only one to make the mistake. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak all called political consultant Martin Walsh and not mayor-elect Walsh, according to reports. A White House phone operator even rang asking him to hold for President Barack Obama before Walsh explained...

The first I'd heard from him in a long time was when he called the wrong winner of last nights Boston mayoral race...clearly he's distracted with other things...

Just minutes after the election returns arrived in Boston Tuesday night, Martin Walsh’s cellphone rang. It was the vice president of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, offering his congratulations. “You son of a gun, Marty!” he thundered. “You did it!” The only problem was, it was the wrong Marty Walsh. Biden had called the cellphone of Marty Walsh, a former aide to US Senator Edward M. Kennedy who is now the president of Gateway Public Solutions, a government relations firm in Boston

Just minutes after the election returns arrived in Boston Tuesday night, Martin Walsh’s cellphone rang. It was the vice president of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, offering his congratulations. “You son of a gun, Marty!” he thundered. “You did it!” The only problem was, it was the wrong Marty Walsh. Biden had called the cellphone of Marty Walsh, a former aide to US Senator Edward M. Kennedy who is now the president of Gateway Public Solutions, a government relations firm in Boston. At the time, this Marty Walsh said, he was sitting on the couch with his wife at...

Anyone waiting expectantly for Vice President Biden to name check President Obama at an election eve rally Monday went away disappointed. Besides singing the praises of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe at the Northern Virginia event, Biden mentioned Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner (favorably) and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (unfavorably). He singled out McAuliffe's Republican opponent, Ken Cuccinelli, by name. Biden even referred to his own wife and his father. But there was no mention of the president. Nor any mention of health care, aside from a reference to Cuccinelli's participation, as Virginia attorney general, in conservative efforts...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is apologizing to Americans that the website for new health care exchanges wasn't ready to go when it launched on Oct. 1. Biden becomes the highest-level administration official to apologize for the website's failures. .. Biden says he and Obama were under the impression the site was ready. He says he's confident it will work by the end of November ..

BOSTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden planned to join Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy for a forum on policies that affect people with mental illness, intellectual disabilities or addiction. The two-day event marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's signing of the Community Mental Health Act. The legislation, the last signed by Kennedy before his assassination, helped transform the way people with mental illness are treated and cared for in the United States.

Vice President Biden welcomed Environmental Protection Agency employees returning to work Thursday at the agency's headquarters, providing muffins as well as handshakes and hugs. Ninety-four percent of EPA workers were furloughed during the 16-day partial government shutdown, bringing the agency's operations to a standstill. The employees entering the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building, which stands outside a Federal Triangle Metro station exit, also received a memo from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy reminding them that all government travel is canceled through Oct. 20, and they should turn off their "out of office" phone and e-mail messages. Biden, who brought high-end "Coffee...

House Republicans on Tuesday narrowed their attack on Obamacare to the issue of fairness, insisting that President Obama and his top political appointees all have to buy their insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges as part of a new bill to end the government shutdown and extend the federal debt ceiling. GOP leaders hope to put the bill on their chamber’s floor for a vote later Tuesday, with little time to spare before the Thursday deadline the Treasury Department has set for when it will run out of maneuvering room under the current $16.7 trillion debt ceiling. The new...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday took some indirect swipes at Vice President Joe Biden at an off-the-record gathering, a state representative in attendance told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I know she’s running for president now, because toward the end, she was asked about the Osama bin Laden raid. She took 25 minutes to answer,” George State Rep. Tom Taylor told the newspaper. “Without turning the knife too deeply, she put it to [Vice President Joe] Biden.”

Is Biden having gone into hiding during government shutdown negotiations evidence that he's shielding himself from any complicity for the purpose of protecting his 2016 presidential ambitions? Because Democrats place politics above all else they will detach themselves from critical events and go into hiding to protect their reputations for future political campaigns. Hillary did the same thing after the night of September 11, 2012 when terrorists attacked our consulate and Annex in Benghazi. She went into hiding with mysterious ailments and injuries not only to avoid responsibility for Benghazi, but to protect herself for her 2016 presidential run. Everybody...

Staff-level talks between House Republicans and President Obama over a government funding bill are entering into day two after no decisions were made last night, according to two sources. But one of the most interesting shifts is in who’s not involved: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Back before the government shutdown and before the fault lines of the current situation became clear, many Republicans viewed Reid, not Obama, as their most likely negotiating partner on both the continuing resolution and the debt ceiling. As evidenced by their public bickering over who wronged whom in the 2011 debt-ceiling fight this week,...

"I’m proud of you," VP called to tell the Park Ranger who was chastised by a GOP Rep today at the WWII Memorial.

10:40 am The President delivers remarks at M. Luis Construction Company M. Luis Construction Company Pooled Press ________________ 12:00 pm The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing Oval Office Closed Press ________________ 12:30 pm Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney

Vice President Joe Biden – known for his verbal gaffes — accidentally revealed the cover of a classified document codeword in a photo published by AFP/Getty Images. ~~~SNIP~~~ The binder had the word “Codeword” written across it. The contents inside the document were not revealed.

Biden appeared Monday to have absent-mindedly stood in front of reporters revealing the cover of a codeword-classified document. ... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office for a talk about Iran and Syria

(CNSNews.com) - Speaking at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden said that the international partnership he and President Barack Obama are seeking to build--including one between the United States and Mexico--are "literally going to shape the future for my country for the next 10, 20, 30, 40 years." Part of that future, Biden said, should involve letting “undocumented” people “out of the shadows” in the United States—terminology the administration and others have used to describe a policy that would legalize illegal aliens and allow them to eventually become U.S. citizens. “With regard...

Speaking at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden said the partnership he and President Barack Obama are seeking to build between the United States and Mexico will shape the future of the United States for the next four decades. Part of that future, Biden said, should involve letting “undocumented” people “out of the shadows” in the United States—terminology the administration and others have used to describe a policy that would legalize illegal aliens and allow them to eventually become U.S. citizens. …

Uncle Joe is making her life a living hell. Friends say Caroline ­Biden is a “hot mess” with a history of booze and pill addiction — and she blames it all on the tremendous pressure she faces being the vice president’s niece. “She would complain about it all the time,” a confidant, socialite Paul Johnson Calderon, said without a hint of sarcasm.

My assertion that there’s a 70% chance that the GOP controls White House, Senate, and House in 2017 has attracted a lot of pushback. And it’s certainly possible that I’m wrong! Here’s my thinking, for what it’s worth: Since the Civil War, only two Democratic presidents have been succeeded by another Democrat. Both of them–FDR and JFK–accomplished this by dying in office. Since World War II, only four presidents have been succeeded by a member of their party. As I mentioned above, two of them accomplished this by dying in office. One of them accomplished this by resigning in disgrace...

Pat Smith, the mother of Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith who died in the September 11, 2012, attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, appeared before a congressional committee on Thursday investigating the government’s response to that attack. She insisted that she was repeatedly lied to by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta who all immediately blamed the attack on the spontaneous demonstrations arising in response to a YouTube video. “I was told a few things and they were all lies,”...

So I saw this Drudge headline and figured he must have taken Professor Ditherton Wiggleroom out of context, because there’s just no way Wiggleroom thinks we’re that stupid, or is that stupid himself. But out of fairness to Drudge, I clicked on the link to see what the Professor had actually said, and here are his actual words: “Now, this debt ceiling — I just want to remind people in case you haven’t been keeping up — raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt; it does not somehow promote profligacy....

Aaron Alexis seems to have listened to Joe Biden and taken his advice. Back in February Biden said: "You don't need an AR-15," he said. "Buy a shotgun! Buy a shotgun!" And that's what Aaron Alexis did. Back then Bided added: "I have two shotguns at home. No one is going to come and take my guns." Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHZ7zXLvOkYAaron Alexis did buy a shotgun- legally: Aaron Alexis legally purchased the shotgun he used to kill 12 people, the FBI said Tuesday. FBI Assistant Director Valerie Parlave also told reporters that Alexis only had the shotgun -- not an...

Last February, as part of a White House push for a ban on semi-automatic rifles in response to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, Vice President Joe Biden offered some advice to a mother who was concerned about losing the ability to protect her children inside their home. “Buy a shotgun, buy a shotgun,” he told the woman during a Facebook town hall event for Parents magazine. Biden explained that he had given this same advice to his wife, instructing her to take the Biden family shotgun and fire it into the air if she ever felt threatened at their home. A...

Posted by Andrea Ryan on Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 8:21 PM caroline-biden ANDREW THEODORAKIS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Caroline Biden, the niece of Vice President Joe Biden, is wheeled into an ambulance after scuffling with police while fighting with her roommate on Tuesday. Ouch! Joe Biden’s 29 year old niece, Caroline Biden, was arrested today. The highlight of the story is she threw a punch at an NYPD police officer. The police were called to Caroline’s apartment where she was reportedly having a fight with her roommate over rent. A police department spokeswoman said Biden had “an interaction with police” and...

<p>The niece of Vice President Joe Biden is in police custody in New York City.</p>

INDIANOLA, Iowa — Run for president? Who? Joe Biden? The vice president ostensibly played it cool at Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak-fry fundraiser Sunday, mugging for the crowd about how he can’t imagine why everyone would make such a fuss about his trip.

With most Democrats keeping an eye on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for hints about her 2016 plans, Vice President Joe Biden's appearance at Iowa's 36th annual "Tom Harkin Steak Fry," may one day be viewed as a telling sign of his presidential intentions. "It's amazing when you come to speak at the Steak Fry a whole bunch of people seem to take notice. I don't know why the hell that is," Biden said.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Vice President Joe Biden is heading into the belly of Democrats' anti-war opposition, venturing into a politically influential heartland state for the first time since President Barack Obama publicly endorsed a possible military strike on Syria. Biden is scheduled to headline a fundraiser in Iowa Sunday for Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, an annual steak picnic for the senator who is popular with anti-war Democrats. Even if Biden sidesteps talk of Syria, the issue will be as much a part of the backdrop as the bales of hay and smoke from the grilling steaks, and in a...

Vice President Joe Biden said Repulican opposition to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in the House of Representatives came from the "Neanderthal crowd." And he gave himself credit for coming up with the law almost 20 years ago.

Declaring that “we have not given up,” Vice President Biden warned Tuesday that lawmakers who opposed the Obama administration’s proposals to stem gun violence “will pay a political price.” Biden appeared in a White House auditorium to announce that the administration has completed or made significant progress on nearly two dozen smaller-scale executive actions aimed at strengthening existing background checks, improving record-keeping, and providing schools and communities with emergency management plans.