May 2, 2011 10:29AM 

# Monday Links 

By George Scoville 

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- [Habeas corpus applies to anyone](http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff042711.php3), citizen or not, in custody under American law, no matter what President Bush and President Obama decree.
- House Republicans’ cuts to the Department of Education, which will spend over $70 billion next year, [didn’t even amount to $1 billion](http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-04-28/news/29488789_1_cuts-dozens-of-federal-programs-federal-budget/2).
- “Regardless of whether [Pakistan gets its way](http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/pakistan%E2%80%99s-boldness-reveals-america%E2%80%99s-weakness-5244), its impudence in pushing Afghanistan to abandon America exposes the real balance of power in the region.”
- “It doesn’t make a lot of sense to refer to a government [whose intelligence service assists military efforts by al Qaeda and the Taliban](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13065) against U.S. troops in Afghanistan as an ‘ally.’ ”
- Here are five ways to cut military spending **today** [*without changing our strategic focus*](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-video/christopher-preble-describes-necessary-cuts-military-spending):

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