March 12, 2010 2:49PM 

# Weekend Links 

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- Andrew Coulson [on national education standards](http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-false-premise-of-national-education-standards/): “The whole idea of imposing a single set of age-based standards on all students rests on a false premise: that children are identical widgets capable of being dragged along an instructional conveyor belt at the same pace, benefiting equally from the experience.”

- Question of the day: Would Obamacare end corruption—[or expand it](http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/11/would-obamacare-end-corruption%E2%80%94or-expand-it/)?

- Making things worse: How [increasing the minimum wage will kill even more jobs for black teens](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11438), a group already facing 45 percent unemployment.

- The [unintended consequences of a National ID card](https://www.cato.org/2010/03/11/senator-grahams-inexplicable-national-id-support/). (Now with support from both sides of the aisle.)

- Podcast: “[Bad Statutes, New Crimes](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=1110)” featuring Marie Gryphon.

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