Reason Morning Links: "How Many Varieties of Corporate Welfare Can You Spot?" Edition

- Americans are losing faith in nearly every major social institution.

- AIG spends your money. (And on a related note…)

- The Federal Home Loan Banks' role in the financial meltdown.

- Agribusiness pushes to make the National Animal Identification System mandatory.

- To protect "national security," the negotiating text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is being kept secret -- unless you're a "cleared advisor." Guess who gets to be a cleared advisor?

- Peter Schiff issues a warning about credit cards.

- Secret Red Cross report: CIA interrogation methods "constituted torture."

- The man who shot James A. Garfield.

- For sale: assorted metal/plastic prisoner cages.

- This is your NCAA thread, too. Use it wisely!