April 8, 2011 10:45AM 

# Friday Links 

By George Scoville 

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- “Now the United States is [a party to a civil war](http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/07/the-war-in-libya-and-the-arab/2).”
- The *United States v. Comstock* decision didn’t really [change the course of Necessary and Proper Clause doctrine](https://www.cato.org/pubs/articles/Shapiro-ComstockArticle.pdf).
- [Collectivism fails](http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/04/07/why-were-cathie-blacks-corporate-skills-not-enough-to-run-a-school-system/business-success-is-easier) the test of human reality.
- “For post-Cold War America, [military adventures forever beckon](http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20110408_When_intervention_is_easy.html) — and their lessons are quickly forgotten.”
- Cato Daily Podcast host Caleb Brown spoke with the junior Senator from Tennessee yesterday about his [CAP Act legislation](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/fix-entitlements-fix-budget-mess):

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