October 21, 2009 5:18PM

Wednesday Links

• Senate Judiciary Committee abandons hope of bringing any real change to the Patriot Act. Julian Sanchez in The Nation: “The Obama administration makes vague, reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then merrily adopts whatever appalling policy George W. Bush put in place.”

• The imminent collapse of Social Security.

• Cognitive Dissonance: New poll shows rising support for a so‐​called public option in health care, even as the public continues to oppose greater government control over the health care system.

• It has been tried before: Why increasing the size of government won’t work.

• Talking with Tea Partiers.

• Podcast: The real problem with American health care: You are not the customer. More here.

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