Lunch time links

• Fewer than 3 in 10 Americans trust the government. Far more democrats than republicans trust the government. And, for the first time, a majority of Americans see the federal government as a threat to individual rights.

• Freedom of the Press Foundation publishes the complete audio of Bradley Manning’s statement in military court last month.  Daniel Ellsberg salutes Manning in a Guardian op-ed.

• New York Mayor Bloomgerg’s ban on large soft drinks was shot down by the New York Supreme Court, calling it “arbitrary and capricious”.  There was no explanation for what makes this particularly more “arbitrary and capricious” than about ten gazillion other nanny-state laws.

• What do the Aryan Nations, the Ku Klux Klan and the home of Spokane’s Singing Nuns have in common?

• Which Presidents presided over the largest increases in government spending?