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I just heard Tony Snow say he has colon cancer.

It seems that recent analysis of Tony Blair is actually a case of missing person: A page of doodles found on Tony Blair's desk at last week's economic summit in Davos sparked a wave of excitement in the media. Psychologists and handwriting experts were drafted in by the press in the hope of getting a glimpse into the inner workings of the prime ministerial mind. Newspaper stories contained phrases such as "struggling to concentrate" and "not a natural leader". Now - and with not a little glee - Downing Street has revealed that the scribblings were not the work of...

Listen Live Online! Due to overwhelming demand, we're making "The Tony Snow Show" available online. Click the link below between 9am and noon ET to hear the show. (goto his site for the link)

WHERE IN THE WORLD I will appear on The O'Reilly Factor this evening at about 8:05 pm eastern time.

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Miami melodramaTony Blankley (archive)  September 29, 2004 | Print | Send  As the first debate looms, people are getting edgy. Bush supporters hope this will be the last hoop he has to leap through before victory. Kerry loyalists see it as his last chance before defeat.  Although presidential debates are a recent phenomenon, emerging at the beginning of politic's modern television age, there is something medieval about their presentation.  Two princes meet in a clearing surrounded by their courtly entourage -- to engage in single combat to the death. The winner's clan will gain the castle and all the...

AS British civil engineer Kenneth Bigley sat blindfolded and begging for his life at a terrorist compound somewhere in Iraq on Monday, his Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was celebrating the launch of a high-speed tilting train service in central London. Standing on a platform at Euston station, smiling for the cameras beside Virgin boss Richard Branson, Mr Blair showed no outward sign of the dilemma that surely simmered inside him. Faced with perhaps the most difficult moral decision imaginable for a politician, Mr Blair is aware he is the only man on Earth who can save Mr Bigley's life. Painfully,...

LONDON: Former US President Bill Clinton has accused Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair of betraying him during the Iraq War. According to The Mirror, a senior Labour member, after visiting Democrats in America, revealed that Clinton feels that Blair gave Bush more respectable cover for the war than he did for him (Clinton's), and added that he should have challenged Bush on the issue more. But, he made it clear that he was not going to hold a grudge against Blair because of this. The report says that the senior Democrats are petrified of the closeness between Blair, who was...

I will resign if found lying: Tony Blair Reuters London, January 11: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Sunday that he would resign if an imminent report into the suicide of a government expert on Iraq finds that he lied about the incident. Senior Judge Lord Hutton is due to publish his report into the death of weapons expert David Kelly in coming weeks and is likely to apportion some blame to the government for Kelly's death, which rocked Blair's premiership last year. Kelly killed himself in July after the government outed him as the source of a BBC...

I was worried when I heard that Chris Wallace, a long time member of the liberal media elite, was taking over as host of Fox News Sunday, but I decided to give him a chance. After viewing his pathetic debut performance, I can see that my fears were justified. In his interview of Andrew Card, Wallace acted like an aggressive prosecutor grilling a witness. He was cynical, rude and repeatedly interrupted Mr. Card, barely letting the poor man complete an entire sentence. But when Wallace interviewed Howard Dean, the tone was more like two friends chatting. Yes, he did press...

The U.S. ambassador says the rising death toll among Mexicans trying to cross the border illegally gives the issue 'a sense of urgency.' U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza on Tuesday said the U.S. Congress will likely approve limited migration reform in the next few months. Garza said the rising death toll among migrants trying to cross the border illegally has given the issue "a sense of urgency," and ventured that migration reform could come in "a couple of months, [perhaps] three months." "You'll see a lot of movement here pretty quickly," he told participants at an American Chamber of Commerce conference....

Check out who is guest hosting for Rush on Wednesday and Thursday. October 22nd and October 23rd!! I guess they got our letters and phone calls! Review this week's shows: MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY Monday, October 13th - Tuesday, October 14th Learn more about Tom Sullivanof KFBK Radio in Sacramento Monday's Show > Tuesday's Show > Wednesday, October 15th - Thursday, October 16th Learn more about Roger Hedgecockfrom KOGO Radio in San Diego Wednesday's Show > Thursday's Show > Friday, October 17th Learn more about Dr. Walter E. Williams,Professor of Economics at George Mason University...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his radio show Friday that he is addicted to painkillers and is checking into a rehab center to "break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me." "Immediately following this broadcast, I am checking myself into a treatment center for the next 30 days to once and for all break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me," he added. The show will continue during this time, of course, with an array of guest hosts you have come to know and respect. I am not making any...

The other online Tony news this week is that I'm closing down the TONY POLLS for the foreseeable future. Following several days of electronic and phone harassment, a Bush supporter...or maybe a small group of Bush supporters...tried to stuff the ballot box on our political questions. When a great number of votes come in all in a matter of an hour or so, you know someone is trying to fix the fight. I had little choice but to take all but the comics question off the ballot. I'll have more to say about this harassment in next weekend's TIPS. For...

In the next presidential election, are you more likely to vote for George W. Bush or the Democratic Party candidate? In a primary, for which of these Democratic Party candidates would you vote? Where would you like to see George W. Bush in 2005? Let's be very creative and nasty with the write-in votes.

No doubt most people who are of a particular political ideology didn’t consciously decide which side of the aisle they would sit on. It is a safe bet that other than the most unscrupulous among us, where we stand politically is not simply a whim, but rather a culmination of inheritance, experiences, education and willingness to reason objectively about a subject. However, in any attempt to describe opposing viewpoints there is always the danger of slanting descriptions and understandings in a manner that is conducive to ones own position. With that understanding, it is nevertheless apparent that Liberals, like everyone...

The Saudis presented President George Bush with a million-dollar oil painting. From the Italians he got an exquisite alabaster sculpture depicting the Allegory of the Triumph. Tony Blair gave him a toilet bag. For someone who has spent most of his presidency being reviled or ridiculed around the world, Mr Bush certainly gets a lot of presents from foreigners. The unease stirred by the Bush doctrine of military pre-emption has not stemmed the flow of official homage to the leader of the world's sole superpower. The list kept by the state department reflects the shifting fashions in official gifts which...

Grateful for the British? Thank Tony Website lets users send message of gratitude to prime minister. Despite political opposition in his own country, as well as calls from some members of the British Parliament for an inquiry into whether intelligence was inflated to justify war with Iraq, Americans wishing to thank Prime Minister Tony Blair for siding with the U.S. in the conflict can now do so. British Prime Minister Tony Blair A Massachusetts man has launched a website that gives Americans the opportunity to send Blair a note of gratitude for putting British troops in harms way alongside American...

LONDON (CSM) - It was heralded as the biggest gamble of his career, a huge political risk, a make-or-break moment. So with the Iraq war now over, has the gamble paid off for Prime Minister Tony Blair? While Blair has earned admiration and respect in the U.S. for supporting President Bush's campaign to oust Saddam Hussein, it has been a very different story at home and in Europe. Though broad opinion polls have swung back in his favor ever since the first shots were fired in Iraq, Blair has alienated an important segment of his own Labour Party, offended Muslims,...

LONDON, April 14 (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair was set to brief members of Britain's parliament Monday on the fall of Saddam Hussein and the rebuilding of Iraq before the House of Commons rises for an Easter break. Blair was to address parliament at 1:30 pm (1230 GMT) as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw continued a four-nation swing through the Gulf ahead of an EU summit in Athens on Wednesday. Straw's deputy for Middle East issues, Mike O'Brien, was meanwhile due Monday in Damascus, amid stern US warnings to Syria not to give safe haven to fleeing members of Saddam...