This is my favorite of the group.
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Video: The presidential seal fell off President Barack Obama's podium and clattered to the stage as Obama delivered a speech to a women's conference Tuesday. When he realized what happened, he quipped,
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Video: Christine O'Donnell's 90's MTV Anti-Masturbation Campaign
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Video: Jimmy Carter with Brian Williams
"This country has become so polarized that it's almost astonishing.... Not only with the red and blue states... President Obama suffers from the most polarized situation in Washington that we have ever seen -- even maybe than the time of Abraham Lincoln and the initiation of the war between the states."
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Video: Ecuador's President is tear-gassed by protestors
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Video: Warren Buffett with Becky Quick
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Video: Warren Buffett part 2
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Ray Suarez speaks with Wellesley College professor Susan Reverby about her discovery of how U.S. scientists did secret syphilis experiments on Guatemalans decades ago.
Between 1946 and 1948, researchers with the U.S. Public Health Service deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans with syphilis, in most cases without their knowledge, in an effort to determine whether penicillin could prevent the disease.
The U.S. government apologized for the experiments on Friday. Wellesley College Professor Susan Reverby uncovered the documents while she was researching a book about another shameful chapter, the Tuskegee experiments.
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Video: Google CEO -- Laws are written by lobbyists
"The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists" to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic editor James Bennet at the Washington Ideas Forum. "It's shocking how the system actually works."
In a wide-ranging interview that spanned human nature, the future of machines, and how Google could have helped the stimulus, Schmidt said technology could "completely change the way government works."
"Washington is an incumbent protection machine," Schmidt said. "Technology is fundamentally disruptive." Mobile phones and personal technology, for example, could be used to record the bills that members of Congress actually read and then determine what stimulus funds were successfully spent.
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