October 2, 2009 5:35PM 

# Weekend Links 

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- Bush-era surveillance powers are set to expire at the end of this year. Julian Sanchez explores the [efforts to revise the PATRIOT Act](http://bit.ly/2jsGj9).

- More on the [medical professionals who aided in acts of torture](http://bit.ly/pWwa2).

- Doug Bandow: Ireland is holding a [second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty](http://bit.ly/W7vnF) on Friday. If the Irish say yes, the European Union will be stronger. But will anyone notice?

- How [urban planners caused the housing bubble. ](http://bit.ly/2SWxha)

- The aftermath of “Cash for Clunkers” [hits automakers](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100103573_pf.html). Looks like it just might have been the “[dumbest program ever](http://bit.ly/L13mr)” after all.

- Podcast: “[Three Felonies a Day](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=996)”

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