March 5, 2010 12:42PM 

# Weekend Links 

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- Joe Scarborough speaking at Cato March 18: “[Escalate or Withdraw? Conservatives and the War in Afghanistan](https://www.cato.org/events/100318conf.html).” Registration is free and open to the public.

- ObamaCare — [Now with GOP sprinkles](http://bit.ly/dtSM7W)! “Though mostly not bad, they’re hardly game changing.…At its heart, ObamaCare hasn’t changed. It still represents a top-down, centralized, command-and-control approach to reform.”

- [More broken promises](http://bit.ly/cjXlXi), PATRIOT Act edition: Obama’s Office of Legal Counsel grants fresh retroactive immunity for Bush-era telecommunication lawbreaking.

- Why the creation of a “consumer financial protection agency” would [increase the likelihood of future crises rather than reduce them](http://bit.ly/9YJkOs).

- Podcast: “[The Intangible Right of Honest Services](http://bit.ly/bgbx5h)” featuring Timothy Sandefur.

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