Former GW Bush White House Spokesman, conservative political pundit, newspaper columnist and talk show host, Tony Snow, has died of cancer at 53.
Snow also served in the GHW Bush White House as a speech writer and Deputy Assistant of Media Affairs.
Tony will be missed.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.

Former Senator Jesse Helms, Republican from North Carolina, passed away today at 86.  He joins Thomas Jefferson and John Adams as great Americans who left this life on Independence Day.
Helms held significant roles in Congress over the years, and helped move policy to the right during his tenure.
Anything else I can say has already been [...]

In the midst of all the activity yesterday, I failed to acknowledge the passing of Tim Russert. He had a sudden heart attach at work Friday.
I have watched Tim over the years, and although I sometimes through he pursued issues that were not relevant, he was a man of integrity, he was always courteous [...]

Des Moines local news personality Michelle Parker, 52, died today. The cause of death has been stated to be heart failure, but I expect we will hear more in the next few days.
Michelle worked at KCCI-TV, the number 1 news station here in Des Moines, for 29 years. She covered a variety of [...]

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter), who starred in The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Soylent Green, The Planet Of The Apes (and most of its sequels), Earthquake, and scores of other films, died Saturday at the age of 84.
Heston was an excellent actor.  The Ten Commandments was en epic film, more a credit to DeMille [...]

A man of conservative principles passed on last night.
Mr Buckley, 82, suffered from diabetes and emphysema, his son Christopher said, although the exact cause of death was not immediately known. He was found at his desk in the study of his home, his son said. “He might have been working on a column,” Mr. Buckley [...]