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Aziz Goes to the Kurds

ArchPundit March 19, 2003 No Comments

Well hell, if we are going to treat this like a ballgame, let’s just do it.

Via Counterspin Central
First, Tariq Aziz became a free agent and signed on with the Kurds.

From Debka it looks like there are significant signs of military defections. If accurate, a lot fewer lives will be lost. God willing.

Reading down all the updates of Counterspin–we have certainly entered the fog of war period.

UP DATE: Oops, he apparently just showed up on Iraqi TV. I’m sure the first of many errors.

I hope this is simply Media Navel Gazing

ArchPundit March 19, 2003 No Comments

Waiting for the war to break out, but TNR writes that much of our problem repairing relationships with our allies other than the French may be hindered by Dubya’s bizarre sense of loyalty.

Diplomacy isn’t about feelings, it is about projecting power.

Freedom Suits

ArchPundit March 19, 2003 No Comments

Via Virginia Postrel:

Somethine I take entirely for granted, the St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project. This is a multi-university project along with multiple state agencies that preserve the Court Records from early in Missouri’s history including the Freedom Suits. Not surprising to those in St. Louis, Wayne Fields has taken a significant role.

The LA Times does a piece on it today.

Birchers?

ArchPundit March 18, 2003 No Comments

So Joe Conason calls Cheney a Bircher. Is he right? Pretty much. It is reasonable to argue that the UN isn’t perfect or to even propose a better alternative. However, as with nearly all of this administration’s foreign policy initiatives, the administration is not only trashing an international agreement, arrangement, or institution, but refusing to propose an alternative.

Perhaps that is unfair, the US unilaterally acting or acting with a small number of allies is an alternative, just not a good long term strategy.

It isn’t the criticism of an international institution that is the problem, it is the absolute refusal to offer any alternatives that is quickly pushing away those who should be our allies.

Two Post Up at Political State Report

ArchPundit March 18, 2003 No Comments

The first is a general recap of the politics of O’Hare Expansion.

The second covers Blagojevich’s inability to put together a Cabinet.

If Horowitz didn’t exist

ArchPundit March 18, 2003 No Comments

Saturday Night Live would have to invent him. He responds to Josh Marshall’s response to his ranting and calls out Marshall again.

I find it hard to determine if the whole act is just a way to get more donors as Josh Marshall has suggested previously, or if Horowitz is so incredibly dim-witted he can’t actually tell that his whole victimhood schtick is the ultimate in PC whining. Then again, either way it is pretty damn funny–well except some people actually believe him.

Strangelove Moments: Good News

ArchPundit March 18, 2003 No Comments

France won’t be nuking the US, it will be turning on Chirac once NATO and the UN crash and burn.

Of course, the bad news is that Bush gave Saddam 48 hours. There is apparently some great risk to this.

Go Read Scoobie

ArchPundit March 18, 2003 No Comments

And be truly stunned that Congressional Republicans are farther out there than Jack Chick. I wonder what the Members of Congress think about Masons?

The Daley Times unsheathes the knives

ArchPundit March 18, 2003 No Comments

The Sun-Times begins to take on some rather odd income for the Daley relatives. No one can exactly explain where much of it comes from and when they can, it is from sources that have ties to organized crime. Brown sums it up quite well.

Oh, and remember that with telecommunications reregulation, the head of SBC is Bill Daley. SBC is trying to sell it as dereg, but that is semantic vandalism. Deregulation was breaking up the monopoly of providing both service and lines into a monopoly over lines, but multiple service choices. SBC is trying to reregulate the system to effectively return their monopoly. Not only is it bad for consumers, it is bad for economic growth.

Many Thanks to

ArchPundit March 17, 2003 No Comments

Atrios and Jeanne D’Arc for adding me to the blog rolls. I’m big fans of both sites. Eschaton is one of the larger referrers since linking to me.

And of course, many, many thanks to Daily Kos, MyDD, Tom Spencer, Max,Jim Capozzola, and Cursor for consistently providing a lot of refferals. All are on the blog roll and all are worth visiting. And special thanks to Liberal Oasis who links to both this site and Blog Saint Louis.

Thanks to everyone else, and I’ll try and highlight some of those lower traffic sites over the next couple weeks.