February 16, 2010 4:40PM 

# Tuesday Links 

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- How the Tea Party movement [can prove its authenticity.](http://bit.ly/a1UnSO)

- Why Americans’ first loyalty must be [to the Constitution](http://bit.ly/bOYuRp)

- “Snowmageddon!” If you’ve been watching the news, recent snow storms both prove and disprove global warming, depending on who you talk to. [According to Pat Michaels, both sides are wrong](http://bit.ly/amqgDf): “The fact of the matter is that global warming simply hasn’t done a darned thing to Washington’s snow. The planet was nearly a degree (Celsius) cooler in 1899, when the previous record was set. If you plot out year-to-year snow around here, you’ll see no trend whatsoever through the entire history.”

- Did last week’s government shutdown [actually *save* American’s billions of dollars](http://bit.ly/d29AC5)?

- Podcast:“[Scrap ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ ](http://bit.ly/dmhBFs)” featuring Christopher A. Preble.

##### Related Tags 

[Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [General](https://www.cato.org/general) 

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