June 2, 2011 11:08AM 

# Thursday Links 

By George Scoville 

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- Few GOP presidential candidates have proposed [specific budget cuts](http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/268458/budget-dodgers-michael-tanner).
- “Peace is in the interest of Taiwan, China, and the U.S. … But the U.S. should view continuing arms sales to Taipei as perhaps the best means to [maintain stability and peace](http://spectator.org/archives/2011/06/01/squaring-the-triangle-america#) across the Taiwan Strait.”
- [Market liberalization has transformed](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/31/free-markets-flower-as-war-memories-fade/) newly independent states that formerly comprised Yugoslavia.
- President Obama is simply [the new standard-bearer](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13152) for the bipartisan contempt for constitutional limits on power.
- Cato chairman [Robert A. Levy](https://www.cato.org/people/robert-levy) makes the [libertarian case for marriage equality](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-video/robert-levy-presents-libertarian-case-marriage-equality):

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