FREE SATELLITE TV: “A hit in a freed Iraq.” Hey, it would be a hit here, too.

ALPHECCA’S weekly survey of media bias concerning guns is up.

So is this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists, a collection of business- and economics-related blog posts. Enjoy! [We’ve got guns and money — all we need is lawyers! — Ed. What am I, a potted plant? But okay, don’t miss Howard Bashman’s roundup of legal news from Sunday’s papers.]

MORE FROM DAVID KAY:

The former leader of the U.S. hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction said Sunday that intelligence agencies owe the president and the public an explanation for the failure to find large stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons after the U.S.-led war.

It was obvious after 9/11 that a lot of heads needed to roll, at the CIA and elsewhere. They didn’t. They still need to. On the other hand, it seems clear that pretty much every intelligence agency in the world thought that Saddam had stockpiles of WMD. But aren’t our guys supposed to be better?

JAMES KIRCHICK offers pictures and reporting from New Hampshire. And yes, Chris Matthews was having a bad hair day. . . .

CATHY SEIPP’S monthly Maureen Dowd dissection is up. “I actually found ‘The Argyle General’ her least objectionable column in months. Wesley Clark’s plaids, Jimmy Carter’s cardigans, Michael Dukakis’s brown suede jacket…if Dowd wants to take us on a tour of candidates’ closets past and present, fine. At least she’s not being silly about Iraq.” Ouch.

JOHN KERRY IN 1971, courtesy of Doonesbury.

JOHN HAWKINS has an interview with David Frum posted. Excerpt:

The last thing America is, is an empire. My counter example is; we very badly needed and expected to have Turkish support in the war on Iraq. The Turks didn’t give it and that put a spanner in some of our planning. Now, imagine if this were the Romans. Imagine if the emperor Trajan were planning an operation in Mesopotamia and the Cappadocians told him he couldn’t use their territory. He would have lined the highways with crucified Cappadocians. That’s what empires do, they do not say, “Oh, we’ll respect what your parliament says and come from another direction”.

Indeed.