September 11, 2009 2:34PM 

# Weekend Links 

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- Jack of all trades and master of none: What happens when the government gets so big that it [fails to fulfill its most important role](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3466).

- The [hard truth](http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWFmMWJhN2EwZDZkMzQzNTU4YWQyNDIwNGZkZDI4YTE=) about end-of-life care in America.

- If current trends continue, the U.S. government will soon spend a greater portion of GDP on Medicare and Medicaid than Canada now spends on its entire single-payer government-run system. [Here’s a way to fix that](http://www.theweek.com/bullpen/column/99886/Death_panels_Wrong_name_right_idea).

- How about [a little honesty](http://www.politics.co.uk/analysis/health/comment-an-absence-of-tobacco-evidence-$1326378.htm) from time to time in the tobacco policy debate?

- More [drug-related chaos](http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=22176) along the Mexican border.

- Go North Young Man! [Will Wilkinson becomes “forever Canadian.”](http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910/canadian-citizenship)

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