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TelePrompter Trips Biden Up 'I'm learning to speak without a TelePrompter, Joe's learning to speak with one.' Daniel Halper March 21, 2014 10:38 AM Vice President Joe Biden has some problems speaking with a TelePrompter today at the National Association of Community Health Centers 2014 Policy and Issues Forum: "Stop moving that, that, that, that, uh, you know, what's this thing called? You know, a TelePrompter," said Biden. "Barack always kids when he says, 'Joe Biden,' he said, 'I'm learning to speak without a TelePrompter, Joe's learning to speak with one.'"

Surely with so many terror plots developing around the world in recent days, it's understandable that someone might miss one, right? Well, for ordinary Americans, sure -- but you're held to a different standard if you're the head of U.S. intelligence. That's why U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is having a very bad day Wednesday. Clapper appeared to draw a blank when ABC's Diane Sawyer asked him about the arrests hours earlier of 12 men accused of plotting an al-Qaida-type attack in London. What, Me Worry? YOU BETCHA!

On Fox News Sunday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs predicted the Democratic health-care reform plan will be passed and signed into law by next weekend. "We'll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week," Gibbs said, and by next Sunday claimed we "will be talking about healthcare not as a presidential proposal but, I think, as the law of the land." Gibbs also said that Democrats look forward to campaigning on the passage of the health-care bill in the 2010 midterm elections. "[O]nce it passes, we're happy to have the 2010 elections be about...

Write the president and tell him this cease fire brought on by his administration is just another attempt to appease the terrorist. Terrorist win yet again. Iran is still trumping around in Lebanon, the UN with no real authority has no real powers to disarm hezbollah who has NOT agreed to disarm. Iran still has agents in Iraq running death squads and terror cells. Muqtada-AL-Sadr being the most famous one. When will the US buckle up and do what finally needs to be done instead of worry about oil prices? We all know what this cease fire will bring. Take...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (news - web sites) (D-Ma) reacts as a campaign staffer misses the catch on a baseball thrown by the candidate while playing catch with staff members on the tarmac at the airport in San Antonio, Texas, March 6, 2004. Kerry is heading to campaign in Mississippi as he continues his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination on the heels of his Super Tuesday election wins. REUTERS

   Twins announce rebirth of Homer Hanky September 5, 2002 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The streaking Oakland Athletics will meet two formidable foes Friday night: the Minnesota Twins and the Homer Hanky. ADVERTISEMENT The A's, on an AL-record 20-game winning streak, begin a road trip at the Metrodome where the Homer Hanky will make its return for the first time in 11 years. The waving towels were a staple during Minnesota's world championship runs in 1987 and 1991. The Twins went 8-0 in World Series games in the deafening dome, beating the St. Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves. Minnesota...