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Why Do We Talk?  - BBC Horizon pt 1

“Talking is something that is unique to humans, yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second of his son’s first three years in order to discover how we learn to talk, the autistic savant who can speak more than 20 languages, and the first scientist to identify a gene that makes speech possible.

Horizon also hears from the godfather of linguistics, Noam Chomsky, the first to suggest that our ability to talk is innate. A unique experiment shows how a new alien language can emerge in just one afternoon, in a bid to understand where language comes from and why it is the way it is.”

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President Clinton’s address regarding his health care plan from September 22, 1993.

It is also followed by a rebuttal from Gov. Carrol CampbellSen. Connie Mack III and Rep. Nancy Johnson, all staunch opponents of the proposal and all waving fear cards. Johnson, it should be noted, received major financial support from Pfizer and Bayer Pharmaceuticals for her 2000 re-election bid. They also happen to have corporate headquarters in her home state of Connecticut.

crooksandliars via npr

…it was when Obama spoke of Senator Kennedy and the larger moral imperative of healthcare reform that this became a great speech. One for the history books, in fact. Obama reminded us that this reform was, as Kennedy believed, “the great unfinished business of our society.” That it is a “moral issue” about the fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country. It is about the human condition, about the history of our progress of our nation.


In many ways, it was Obama’s fullest, most eloquent and formal defense of liberalism and the clearest exposition of his view of government’s role.

Obama Shows His Progressive Spine by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL of the Nation