September 17, 2009 3:31PM # Thursday Links --- SHARE - A [new T‑shirt for Senator Baucus](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/pay_more_get_less_pv8t1tUPOnPyiNEnl9084N): I worked for six months with half a dozen members of the Senate Finance Committee, and all I got was this lousy 223-page summary of what I hope the new health care bill will look like. - Why should evidence even matter in education policy? I mean, [we’re doing this *for the children*](http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWRiNWI5NWVjZmI3OWI3MmE4YTM1NGZjYjBmYTljM2Q=). - Videos [reveal](http://biggovernment.com/) tax-funded organization being used to help those who want to open a brothel and illegally bring underage girls into the United States as “sex workers.” [Meet the two 20-somethings who exposed it. ](http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/16/the-sensational-giles-and-okeefe/) - It’s time to narrowly [define the mission in Afghanistan](http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=4318). “The United States does not have the patience, cultural knowledge or legitimacy to transform what is a deeply divided, poverty stricken, tribal-based society into a self-sufficient, non-corrupt, and stable electoral democracy.” - Podcast: The future of health insurance: [You buy it, *or else*](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=983). ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).