March 25, 2011 11:04AM 

# Friday Links 

By George Scoville 

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- When is an entitlement not an entitlement, but a command? When a federal judge contradicts herself, [of course](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12914).
- As the Arab League’s influence over its own member states wanes, [of course](http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/legitimacy-libya-5069) they support the creation of an international no-fly zone over Libya.
- [Of course](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/social-security-so-far-so-good/2011/03/22/ABE0cuKB_story.html), there’s really no such thing as a “Social Security trust fund.”
- Should the United States and Saudi Arabia remain allies? [Of course](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12912)—but Washington should probably re-think the terms of the partnership.
- [Of course](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wui7bBFec), when George W. Bush was president, you couldn’t go anywhere in Washington without seeing an anti-war protest. Where have they all gone?

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