April 14, 2011 10:23AM 

# Thursday Links 

By George Scoville 

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- [One thing](http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/264634/one-good-thing-about-presidents-speech-michael-tanner) is clear after President Obama’s speech yesterday: He envisions a smaller national debt, but a much bigger government.
- [One percent](http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/David_Boaz_C6EBDE2E-9B83-44BA-B9AE-40DC3AB5217E.html) is better than nothing, but it’s still pretty close to nothing.
- [One thing](http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/13/sell-me-your-beach-house-please/) is clear about climate change: it’s causing a rising tide of red ink in Washington. See the forthcoming book [*Climate Coup: Global Warming’s Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives*](https://www.cato.org/store/books/climate-coup-global-warming-s-invasion-our-government-our-lives-hardback) and join us for [the accompanying book forum](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=7931), featuring MIT meteorologist Richard Lindzen and American Meteorological Society fellow Bob Ryan, on **Wednesday, May 4 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern**. Complimentary registration is required of all attendees by 12:00 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, May 3. If you cannot join us in person, we hope you’ll [watch live online](https://www.cato.org/live/).
- [One cannot be serious](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12151) about reining in reckless spending without putting the Pentagon on the chopping block.
- [One need not look very far](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CcNpoJsR84) to see how similar Republicans and Democrats are:

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