May 18, 2011 10:29AM # Wednesday Links By George Scoville --- SHARE - [Next up](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=8015) for marriage equality: *Perry v. Schwarzenegger*. **Please join us at 12:00 p.m. Eastern today** as co-counsels for the plaintiffs Theodore Olson and John Boies join Center for American Progress president John Podesta and Cato chairman [Robert A. Levy](https://www.cato.org/people/robert-levy) for a panel discussion on marriage equality, exploring legal and moral questions dating back to the landmark 1967 *Loving v. Virginia* decision that ended state bans on interracial marriage. If you cannot join us here at Cato, please [tune in to watch a live stream](https://www.cato.org/live/) of the event. - “Republicans have an opportunity for a much more important debate, which will frame the election campaign [next year](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13111).” - In President Obama’s [next speech](http://nationalinterest.org/blog/security/the-presidents-speech-5323), Cato director of foreign policy studies [Christopher Preble](https://www.cato.org/people/christopher-preble) hopes “that the president reaffirms the importance of peaceful regime change from within, not American-sponsored regime change from without.” - What will former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s [next position](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13116) on health care be? - Like cleanliness next to godliness, so is democracy [next to tyranny](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/16/saving-the-american-dream-164342378/). - The U.S. hit the debt limit–[what’s next](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/video-highlights/chris-edwards-discusses-debt-ceiling-cnns-situation-room)? [![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/).