June 3, 2011 12:07PM 

# Friday Links 

By George Scoville 

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- “PBS used to ask, ‘If not PBS, then who?’ [The answer now is](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_pbs_is_public_menace_tgQvXIj1L02PV2Fn1ndoxK): HBO, Bravo, Discovery, History, History International, Science, Planet Green, Sundance, Military, C‑SPAN 1/2/3 and many more.”
- “The fiscal problem that is destroying U.S. economic confidence is not the fiscal balance, however. It is [the level of government expenditures relative to GDP](http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/06/01/the-fiscal-factoid/).”
- “The Pentagon’s first cyber security strategy… [builds on national hysteria](http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/06/02/a-military-response-to-cyberattacks-is-preposterous/) about threats to cybersecurity, the latest bogeyman to justify our bloated national security state.”
- “[How ‘secure’ do our homes remain](http://www.azdailysun.com/news/opinion/columnists/article_9551d9f4-d425-5497-96bb-0362ff9c911d.html) if police, armed with no warrant, can pound on doors at will and, on hearing sounds indicative of things moving, forcibly enter and search for evidence of unlawful activity?”
- National debt is driving the U.S. toward [a double-dip recession](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/video-highlights/richard-w-rahn-discusses-national-debt-fbns-willis-report):

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