May 19, 2011 10:29AM # Thursday Links By George Scoville --- SHARE - “Consistent bets for higher oil prices in futures markets [have not been particularly lucrative](http://www.forbes.com/2011/05/18/oil-futures-manipulation.html).” - “The vast, swaying bulk of America’s military [has absolutely nothing to do](http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/good-counterterrorism-cheap-expensive-counterterrorism-not-g-5333) with effectively combating terrorism—including the large land armies that we deploy to Muslim countries in efforts to destroy and then reconstitute their states.” - “ ‘Poking and prodding’ is what good government does to perfect strangers. And that’s what the Obama administration [has been doing](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13114), with unusual zeal, for the past 2 1/2 years.” - The [Cato 2011 State Legislative Guide](https://www.cato.org/state-legislative-guide/) is designed to help state policymakers free their constituents from the burden of overextended government and addresses **unfunded pension liabilities**, **ballooning Medicaid enrollment**, **massive budget gaps**, **failing education systems**, and other important issues. - The *Kentucky v. King* decision [has delivered a blow](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/video-highlights/timothy-lynch-discusses-kentucky-v-king-ruling-fox-friends) to Fourth Amendment protections: Read more [here](https://www.cato.org/kentucky-v-king/). [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).