QUESTION: WHO IS AMERICA'S JOKE? ANSWER: JOE BIDEN!

Everyday Joe Biden Blunders, Bloopers, and Barbs

WASHINGTON -- We all need a good laugh now and then, especially at the expense of big-shot politicians who open their mouths and remove all doubt about their inherent idiocy, their lovable lunacy, or their daffy demeanor that again and again makes them a late-night TV punchline. And when it comes to goofy gaffes and dimwitted declarations, nobody does it better than America's most beloved uncle figure, smilin' Joe Biden. Biden at his verbally vapid worst is at his all-time best in Biden Time: In His Own Words. Recently released by WND Books, this collection of the current VP's most memorably moronic or misfired quotes over the last forty-plus years paints a picture of a man notoriously at odds with saying what he means. Since 2008, Biden, as U.S. vice president, has served at the pleasure of President Barack Obama. At times the pleasure has been all ours as we await the next inevitable faux pas. Chock-full of QR codes, Biden Time takes readers directly to video clips of Uncle Joe spouting his brand of rhetoric reminiscent of the classic gems we've heard before, such as: "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States – Barack America!" Biden at his first campaign rally with Barack Obama. "You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. . . . I'm not joking." Biden making a private remark to an Indian-American man. "Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya." Biden, in a public speech, to Missouri state senator Chuck Graham, who is confined to a wheelchair. "If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30 percent chance we're going to get it wrong." Biden speaking to members of the House Democratic caucus. Biden Time covers not only what Biden has said in recent years as vice president, but also goes back several decades to include scandals throughout his career. Perhaps Biden should take a cue from his boss, President Obama: speak only when there is a teleprompter in front of you. Then again, a totally teleprompted Biden wouldn't brandish the same kind of charm that makes Uncle Joe one of America's most prominent shoot-from-the-hip public personas. Biden Time illustrates how one man can simultaneously be adored by Democrats as "just one of the guys," yet delightfully abhorred by Republicans who see Biden as the poster guy for all that is misguided about the Obama administration. Mike Towle, veteran writer and author of more than fifteen books, has been writing for publication since he was fifteen years old when he covered his high school basketball team for the local paper. Over the years he has worked full-time as a reporter or editor. A native of Vermont, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, a former Army officer, and a huge fan of hyphens and big-shot foot-in-the-mouth politicians, Towle resides in Nashville. Read more about Biden Time here. More great titles from WND: The New Scarlet Letters Doesn't Include An "A" WASHINGTON -- In one passing scene from the HBO documentary Fall to Grace, former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, a self-dubbed "gay American," enters a church ostensibly more welcoming than the hidebound Catholic Church of his childhood. The message board on the church front reads, "Jesus, help us overcome the sins of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia." Had the message board been bigger, the good pastor might have added climate change denial, Islamophobia, and xenophobia. In a postmodern world that prides itself on "non-judgmentalism," these have emerged as the seven new deadly sins, and God help the man, woman, or pizza maker who commits one. In Scarlet Letters: The Ever-Increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism Jack Cashill addresses the unholy rise of progressive neo-puritanism. As in old school puritanism, worshippers achieve a sense of moral worth simply by designating themselves among "the elect"–no good works required. To validate that uncertain status, they too heap abuse upon the sinner lest they be thought indifferent to the sin. Rather than simply cataloguing the neo-puritan assaults on reason and liberty, Scarlet Letters illustrates how the progressive movement has come to mimic a religion in its structure but not at all in its spirit while profiling brave individuals like Clarence Thomas, Aayan Hirsi Ali, Camille Paglia and many lesser-known truth tellers who have dared to take a stand against this inquisition. Recently released by WND Books, Scarlet Letters shows in undeniable detail how an allegedly "liberal" movement has become so bizarrely punitive and inquisitional. New York Post columnist Michael Walsh praises Scarlet Letters, saying, "There is a slithering evil that lurks at the heart of contemporary 'liberalism'–repressive, angry, intolerant and vengeful. Born of a century of cultural, political and structural Marxism, it seeks to crush dissent, enforce conformity and suppress any idea that does not conform to its atheistic, reductionist ethos. In Scarlet Letters, Jack Cashill strips the cant from such terms as 'denier' and 'Islamphobe' and calls out the leftists for what they are: villains, not heroes." Jack Cashill is an independent writer and producer. He has written for Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, and writes weekly for WND. Jack has written ten books of non-fiction under his own name, eight of which have been featured on Book-TV, and collaborated quietly on eight others. Jack has also produced a score of documentaries for regional PBS and national cable channels. Jack has a Ph.D. from Purdue. Learn more about Scarlet Letters here. Millennial Excavates Lost Wisdom of America's Founders WASHINGTON – Imagine you're a twenty-seven-year-old concert pianist, columnist, public speaker, and law student and have already collaborated on a No. 1 New York Times bestseller with media star Glenn Beck. What do you do for an encore? That was the dilemma Joshua Charles faced a year ago: "What have I done lately – and what can I do that no one else has done?" Charles decided to combine his passion for the more obscure and lost written works of America's Founding Fathers with his driving ambition to contribute to his nation's withering understanding of its political and spiritual roots – especially among his own millennial generation. The result, after five years of research, is a breakthrough book, Liberty's Secrets: The Lost Wisdom of America's Founders. "The goal was to allow the Founders, in their own words, unobscured by prejudice and bias, to articulate this grand system of human liberty of which they conceived in all its unknown and forgotten splendor," Charles says. "As important as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are, the Founders left behind so much more – letters, diaries, newspaper editorials, speeches, memos, pamphlets, and even books which most Americans don't even know exist and are not taught about in school." But if most Americans aren't even knowledgeable about the Declaration and the Constitution, the very framework of our system of self-governance, will they have a hunger for the lost treasures? Will it be relevant to them – especially the young? Get your copy of Liberty's Secrets here. "It is a difficult thought for the modern person to stomach that someone who has been dead and six feet underground for centuries or longer has more insightful things to say about their world than their favorite commentator they see on the screen," says Charles. "But that is precisely what one finds when one reads the writings of the Founders in any sort of comprehensive way. There is an almost breathlessly timeless quality to their writings, a perennial relevance which can't help but be compelling." In Liberty's Secrets: The Lost Wisdom of America's Founders, Glenn Beck's collaborator on The Original Argument exposes readers to the Founding Fathers as never before. Charles promises his readers will feel a sense of amazement and surprise and experience "lightbulb moments" as he did over the years he spent digging through the largely undiscovered writings. "Thus, this book will, I believe, cast great doubt on a number of ‘left-wing' and ‘right-wing' myths, myths which have proven quite useful to the agendas of both, but which nonetheless remain false," he says. "A nation can only direct itself if it knows itself, who it is, where it comes from, and where it is going. It's time to get reacquainted." Liberty's Secrets is like having a front row seat to the congresses and conventions where our Founding Fathers debated and decided the most important questions about the purpose of life and the organization of political society. Charles has researched thousands of pages of the Founding Fathers' writings and Liberty's Secrets provides an exposé of their profound yet neglected insights. He rediscovers the teachings that are most important to maintaining a free society at the time when we most need to recover them. Liberty's Secrets equips readers to use the Founders' knowledge and understanding to neutralize the politically correct myths undermining American liberty. Joshua Charles WND founder Joseph Farah praises Charles' work. "I have had the privilege of mentoring Joshua Charles over the last couple years," said Farah. "Sometimes, though, I felt like this 27-year-old was actually mentoring me. He's a very special young man. Over the last several years, he has been poring through the original papers of the Founding Fathers and discovered buried treasure. Now that treasure is available to everyone through this book. This is no rehash of quotes we have all heard. It's fresh, surprising, enlightening, inspiring. Maybe this is the wakeup call all generations need to rediscover their wisdom." Joshua Charles is the co-author, with Glenn Beck, of the No. 1 New York Times best-selling book The Original Argument. Joshua leads the "Rediscovery Project" at the Public Policy Institute of William Jessup University, is a member of the Council for National Policy, an Israel Experience Scholar, a public speaker who has spoken nationwide and around the globe, a columnist, a concert pianist, and a proud member of his beloved fraternity, Beta Upsilon Chi (BYX). He is currently earning his law degree at the Regent University School of Law, and at twenty-seven years old is one of the rising articulate voices of the Millennial generation. Get your copy of Liberty's Secrets here. More great titles from WND: END TIMES EYEWITNESS (DVD) THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST MIDEAST BEAST: THE SCRIPTURAL CASE FOR AN ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST TAKEDOWN HILLARY UNHINGED CRIMES OF THE EDUCATORS FINAL WARNING WHEN A JEW RULES THE WORLD SURVIVING THE MEDICAL MELTDOWN View all the titles from WND Books HERE.