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Tony Snow, Former White House Press Secretary and FOX News Anchor, Dies at 53 — Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary and conservative pundit who bedeviled the press corps and charmed millions as a FOX News television and radio host, has died after a long bout with cancer. He was 53.
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CNN:
Former Bush spokesman Tony Snow dies — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former White House press secretary Tony Snow — who once told reporters “I'm a very lucky guy” — died at the age of 53 early Saturday after a second battle with cancer. — Snow, who had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments …
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Michelle Malkin:
Tony Snow, R.I.P. — Heartbreakingly sad news this morning. Tony Snow has died. He was 53. He was a true mensch, multi-talented-and one of the kindest people I had the honor to meet in the news business. — Tears: … Indeed, he was. Here's Tony jamming with his band at the National Press Club:
Associated Press:
Tony Snow, Former Bush Press Secretary, Dies — Watch friends and colleagues pay tribute to Tony Snow. — WASHINGTON — Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President Bush's press secretary, died Saturday of colon cancer.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow Dies — Tony Snow, 53, the former television and radio talk show host who became President Bush's chief spokesman and redefined the role of White House press secretary, died early this morning after losing a high-profile battle with cancer.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow Dies — Tony Snow, the slick, telegenic conservative writer and broadcaster who left Fox News to become White House press secretary and who was generally well-liked by the press, has lost his long — and highly public — battle with colon cancer:
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The Carpetbagger Report
Amity Shlaes / Washington Post:
Phil Gramm Is Right — “In serious consideration for ambassador to Belarus.” That's the role John McCain joked that former senator Phil Gramm might have in a McCain administration. Gramm is McCain's most senior economic adviser, the one best qualified to lead the finance team of a McCain presidency.
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Barack Obama doesn't rule out Hillary Clinton for vice president — In a phone conversation with a Democratic donor, he says Bill's potential role makes the decision ‘complicated.’ — WASHINGTON — Barack Obama told a potential donor to his campaign that Hillary Rodham Clinton is on his list …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Polls: Obama ahead by eight
Polls: Obama ahead by eight
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
A Blind Eye to Guantanamo? — Book Says White House Ignored CIA on Detainees' Innocence — A CIA analyst warned the Bush administration in 2002 that up to a third of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake, but White House officials ignored the finding and insisted …
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Peter Viles / L.A. Land:
Feds cite Schumer in collapse of IndyMac — An important angle in the IndyMac failure that may get lost in ominous headlines tonight and tomorrow: federal regulators pointedly cited U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in explaining the bank's failure. In simple language, federal regulators blamed Schumer for a run on the bank.
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Don Surber
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Andrew Cline / Wall Street Journal:
Environmentalists Say Yes to Offshore Drilling — On the morning of Jan. 28, 1969, a Union Oil drilling site six miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., sprang a leak. The ensuing spill stretched for miles, killed thousands of birds, and gave America the image of wildlife and shorelines covered in black crude.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Liberal Shock Troops — While he is a skilled candidate, Barack Obama's ability to surprise, stun and sweep over the vaunted Clinton Machine to capture the Democratic nomination was rooted in his background as a community organizer. He's now turning those skills to the general election.
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Hot Air
Jo Mannies / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Obama leads McCain slightly in latest Missouri poll — Missouri voters are frightened about the economy, hurting over high gas prices, disillusioned with the war in Iraq and convinced the nation is headed in the wrong direction. — Such a pessimistic view of the country is prompting …
Jennifer Rubin / Weekly Standard:
The Quotas That Won't Die — Neither party has the nerve to take on the scandal of preferential set-asides in government contracts. — Forty years ago, the Nixon administration (building on the Johnson administration's attempt to transform the Small Business Administration into a weapon …
Guardian:
Zimbabwe sanctions vetoed by UN — British and US efforts to apply punitive pressure on Robert Mugabe were abruptly undermined last night when Russia and China vetoed a UN security council resolution seeking sanctions against Zimbabwe. — The resolution, calling for an arms embargo …
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
2 Vetoes Quash U.N. Sanctions on Zimbabwe
2 Vetoes Quash U.N. Sanctions on Zimbabwe
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Lawyers, Guns and Money
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama's latest flip-flop: Death penalty for bin Laden! Update: Double flip-flop with a global test? — Just three weeks ago, Barack Obama said that he would not make Osama bin Laden into a martyr if he was captured. Today, Barack Obama suddenly thinks the death penalty would be keen-o for OBL.
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