Link blag

NYT: some banks want to return government money.

Excellent. That's exactly how it should be. Stop freeloading on the taxpayers: if you can get along fine on your own and keep your cushy seven figure bonuses then by all means do it.

Drezner: Bad things are happening in East Asia, but cut the schadenfreude. Their problems interlock with ours and we need to work together on this.

Ambinder: State secret legislation has been reintroduced. (It's nice to occasionally be proud of my state's Senator)

LA Times: Solicitor general nominee says enemy combatants can be held without trial and has a pernicious view of what constitutes an "enemy combatant". Ugh.

Will Wilkinson posts about missing the point of libertarianism. I'm with Will on this, as usual.