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At a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on Global Human Rights on Thursday, five young women testified about their fathers, all of whom have been jailed in Communist China for their activism, religious beliefs or political activities. The women asked for the Obama administration and Congress to intervene on their behalf. … Peng Ming, who was living in the United States on transitional refugee status, traveled to Thailand in 2004 and was kidnapped by Chinese agents and taken to China where he was sentenced to life in prison for “organizing and leading a terrorist organization,” according to information provided by...

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...

Chinese youths should challenge authority and reject conformity, US Vice President Joe Biden said today. Mr. Biden took a stand for the American mindset shortly after arriving in China for a two-day visit, as he addressed a group of visa applicants at the US Embassy in Beijing. The Vice President urged Chinese exchange students to challenge their government, teachers and religious leaders, and take inspiration from the attitude of young Americans. …

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

Today is good 'ol Joey B's birthday. So I thought I'd do a round up of my favorite/most popular meme's I've done with the guy over the years.They're in no particular order.

The Affordable Care Act that Joe Biden referred to as “a big you-know-what deal” has turned out to be a toweringly stupid scheme. It was not only a Brobdingnagian undertaking; It was stupid. Really, really stupid. It was stupid because government-run health care is unnatural to a free people. Doctors, hospitals, ambulance services, and insurance companies are having to change the very way they do business for their customers. And the only reason that all of these free-enterprise agents are adapting to decreased efficiency is out of respect for law. There is no right way to implement Obamacare. In the...

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...

It’s impossible to say how or why these people got so misguided, but the result is absolutely hilarious. These are the dumbest things that have happened in the history of man and, although it’s funny, it could make anyone lose their faith in humanity. Every new generation is apparently worse than the last.

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...

U.S. President Barack Obama never considered the idea of dropping Vice President Joe Biden from his 2012 re-election team and replacing him with Hillary Clinton, the White House said on Friday. “Double Down,” a new book on the 2012 campaign, says Obama’s top aides considered the notion but decided not to pursue it because it did not materially improve Obama’s odds. White House spokesman Jay Carney, pressed on the issue at his daily news briefing, did not deny that such an idea was floated within Obama’s re-election campaign. …

Vice President Joe Biden joined the president and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in apologizing for the Obamacare enrollment site, saying he and President Barack Obama are not “technology geeks.” “Neither he and I are technology geeks, and we assumed that it was up and ready to run,” Biden said in an interview with HLN on Wednesday. …

I gotta ask: Since Joe Biden has been missing for the past several weeks, could he be off the wagon again? If anybody has spotted Joe Biden let us know. Here is a VIDEO to help ID the missing Veep.

DUBAI/VIENNA -- Iran on Sunday rejected the West's demand to send sensitive nuclear material out of the country but signaled flexibility on other aspects of its atomic activities that worry world powers, ahead of renewed negotiations this week. Talks about Iran's nuclear program, due to start in Geneva on Tuesday, will be the first since the election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who has tried to improve relations with the West to pave a way for lifting economic sanctions. Rouhani's election in June to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised hopes of a negotiated solution to a decade-old dispute over Iran's...

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

Vice President Joe Biden’s son is one of the luminaries who have lent their name to a pro-abortion event NARAL is sponsoring designed to get more men to promote abortion. NARAL is hosting the first annual [sic] “Men for Choice” gathering at a D.C. restaurant. Hunter Biden, the vice president’s second son and a partner at the Rosemont Seneca Partners law firm, lent his name to the event, according to NARAL’s promotional flier. The younger Biden, like his father, is promoting abortion and the radical pro-abortion group despite his Catholic faith. Hunter Biden received a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University...

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

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden recently reiterated his support for same-sex marriage at an annual fundraising event for Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), calling same-sex marriage the "issue of our day." While speaking at Harkin's annual steak–fry fundraiser in Indianola, Iowa on Sunday, Biden told the crowd of Harkin supporters: "A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any more." Biden was referencing a 2012 "Meet the Press" interview with host David Gregory, when the vice president said he is "absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men,...

That's the most interesting thing we learned from today's New York Times piece on the vice-president and former secretary of State's working relationship, longstanding friendship, and possible upcoming battle to become the Democrats' presidential nominee.

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...