October 23, 2009 5:48PM 

# Weekend Links 

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- [Cato v. Heritage on the Patriot Act, Round II](http://bit.ly/1EiJ3K). Today’s topic: “Where are the demonstrated examples of abuses of liberties because of the Patriot Act? Are there any provisions of the law that civil libertarians would find acceptable?”

- Comparing the Great Depression to the current recession: [Did we not learn anything?](http://bit.ly/1zuOge)

- [Re-examining the U.S. alliance with Japan](http://bit.ly/loWvI): “The current relationship remains trapped in a world that no longer exists.”

- [The human cost of delayed economic reform in India:](http://bit.ly/1gr7kj) “With earlier reform, 14.5 million more children would have survived, 261 million more Indians would have become literate, and 109 million more people would have risen above the poverty line.”

- [How the free market can save health care. ](http://bit.ly/yrPr)

- Podcast: [What we should have learned](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=1010) from our experience in Somalia. Background reading: [*Somalia, Redux: A More Hands-Off Approach*](http://bit.ly/31Xu92)

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