March 18, 2011 10:46AM 

# Friday Links 

By George Scoville 

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- What are Republicans doing to stop ObamaCare? [Not much](http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/262205/obamacare-marches-michael-tanner).
- [Conflating the Taliban with al Qaeda](http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/debunking-the-taliban-al-qaeda-nexus-5038) isn’t helping our foreign policy dialogue.
- “Sitting in a Volt that [would not start](http://www.forbes.com/2011/03/16/chevy-volt-ayn-rand-opinions-patrick-michaels.html) at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, a GM engineer swore to me that the internal combustion engine in the machine only served as a generator, kicking in when the overnight-charged lithium-ion batteries began to run down.”
- The new issue of *Regulation* looks at price gouging, soda taxes, the Durbin Amendment, [and more](https://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv34n1/v34n1.html).
- Who should decide when we tap into strategic oil reserves: The president? Or [market forces](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/release-crude)?

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