December 11, 2009 3:03PM 

# Weekend Links 

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- Health care insurance mandates: Why [it is unconstitutional](http://bit.ly/8wcyRV) for the government to force you to purchase a product you don’t want to buy.

- [Should malpractice reform be included](http://bit.ly/6Gs2fy) in the pending health care bill?

- The end of globalization? Cato’s trade policy expert Daniel Griswold [debates](https://www.cato.org/mediahighlights/index.php?highlight_id=990).

- Doug Bandow on [the minaret ban in Switzerland](http://bit.ly/61qcb1): “Swiss voters underestimated the impact on religious liberty when they voted to ban minaret construction. But Muslims whose nations persecute Christians, Jews, and other religious minorities have no standing to complain. The Islamic world needs to respect religious liberty at home before lecturing the West about intolerance, racism, hatred and Islamophobia.”

- More debate over Hayek and spontaneous order at [Cato Unbound. ](http://www.cato-unbound.org/)

- Podcast: “[Obama’s nation-building in Afghanistan](http://bit.ly/8znGcn)”

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