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For an editor, there's nothing more entertaining than hearing two opinionated writers go at it. Today, you can join in on the fun.

Thursday, Scott Olin Schmidt wrote about health care policy saying that putting the government in charge of the nation's medical system was downright foolish. Look, he said, at Walter Reed. Scott, a pro-business Republican prefer the market-based solution.

Today, Matthew Holt, who make his living thinking about the U.S. health care system takes Scott to task. We're too polite to use the word "smack down" but you can if you like.

And in reading both posts, you'll get a good look at the arguments in play as America's health care system - its successes and short-comings - heads for center stage in the 2008 Election.

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Everyone loves to eat but, well, not everything you eat is good for you. And three of Spot-on's writers, coming at this from three different perspectives, offered their thoughts on this topic recently.

Jonathan Ansfield chimes in today with a look at what's going on in China. It's not all good, some of it's downright dangerous but in that, says Ansfield, there may be a real chance for real change in many aspects of how China does business, with its own people and outside its borders.

Kevin Weeks takes the first of a series of looks at the Farm Bill making its way through Congress. Same general idea - reform - some very different intentions.

P.J. Rodriguez writes, with some dismay, about the folks who think they know what they're cooking until they make fools of themselves on TV. His piece is a nice companion to an earlier Food Network post that Kevin did, "White Jacket, Blue Collar."

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We like to brag here - quietly, of course - about how Spot-on helps keep you ahead of the news. We say it here first, you read it over there later.

A few weeks ago, Gopika Kaul worried that the Taj Mahal wouldn't make it into a contest for the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. She worried for naught. This weekend, India's monument to love made the cut.

Mike Spinney said he was bored of presidential politics and predicted we'd all catch up soon. But then he went off to watch the debates in New Hampshire. On Sunday, the New York Times agreed: It's love-hate.

Jeanne Jackson's contemplation of the iPhone might strike you as more sensible now that they're predicted to cost half as much by Christmas.

Matthew Holt's initial take on Michael Moore's Sicko - predicting that it would get everyone thinking about health care in a new way - appears to be coming true. To fill out that thought, take a look at Nicole Martinelli's report from the (Italian) trenches.

Christopher Brauchli's "defense" of Dick Cheney and P.J. Rodriguez's defense (more heartfelt) of Paris Hilton appear to be getting traction as well. Dick's less and less popular every day while Paris sold more copies of People than almost anyone else.

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