R.I.P. Tony Snow. The former White House press secretary and conservative pundit died today after a long battle with colon cancer. Here is the story from Fox News, where Snow worked as a TV anchor:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381250,00.html

My fondest memories of Mr. Snow date back to the days when he was a sometime guest host on Rush Limbaugh's radio program. I remember him once saying that life is basically simple when you do what you are supposed to do. It's when you try to weasel your way out of doing the right thing that life becomes complicated. He used Bill Clinton as an example, recalling the times when Clinton tried to defend his actions by attempting to redefine such common words as "sex" and "alone" and "is", and by trying to find loopholes in the Ten Commandments. If you do what you are supposed to do in this world, Snow said, then there is no need to complicate things so much.

Those words have stayed with me for years, and I have often repeated them to people. Much to my surprise, people sometimes give me a puzzled-looking expression when I say it! I would think that people would basically agree with this sentiment. Unfortunately, we live in a world where many people have a tendency to try to weasel their way out of doing the right thing. And, personally, I live in a very liberal city where it almost seems to be the norm! The sad thing is that when people try to "get over", as the saying goes, they not only complicate their own lives, but they complicate things for the rest of us as well. It seems to me that liberalism in general tends to complicate things that are simple, because the simple truth about things often refutes what liberals want to believe.

I thank Mr. Snow for articulating that important life lesson which has helped to stiffen my moral spine over the years, and has helped me to better understand liberalism. May God rest his soul.

Media buries story about Saddam Hussein's WMD program. Which, of course, is what they have been doing for five years. Investor's Business Daily reports:

Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should you? It doesn't fit the media's neat story line that Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003. It's a little known fact that, after invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined into nuclear weapons or nuclear fuel, at a facility in Tuwaitha outside of Baghdad. In recent weeks, the U.S. secretly has helped the Iraqi government ship it all to Canada, where it was bought by a Canadian company for further processing into nuclear fuel---thus keeping it from potential use by terrorists or unsavory regimes in the region. This has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Yet, as the AP reported, this marks a 'significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy.' Seems to us this should be big news. After all, much of the early opposition to the war in Iraq involved claims that President Bush 'lied' about weapons of mass destruction and that Saddam posed little if any nuclear threat to the U.S. This more or less proves Saddam in 2003 had a program on hold for building WMD and that he planned to boot it up again soon...Saddam acquired most of his uranium before 1991, but still had it in 2003, when invading U.S. troops found the stuff... That means Saddam held onto it for more than a decade. Why? He hoped to wait out U.N. sanctions on Iraq and start his WMD program anew. This would seem to vindicate Bush's decision to invade.

Iraqis lead final purge of al Qaeda. It would be nice to read this great article in an American publication, but it actually appears in the Times of London. I'm glad the Brits are still on our side, unlike the American left. Here is the article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article4276486.ece

Here is the first uplifting paragraph:

American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.

Yes! Did you hear that, American media? The Iraq war is the main front in the U.S. war on terror, and we have won one of its "most spectacular victories" in Iraq. Anyone who calls themselves "American" should be overjoyed. Here's more from the article:

After being forced from its strongholds in the west and centre of Iraq in the past two years, Al-Qaeda’s dwindling band of fighters has made a defiant “last stand” in the northern city of Mosul.

A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10.

Operation Lion’s Roar, in which the Iraqi army combined forces with the Americans’ 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, has already resulted in the death of Abu Khalaf, the Al-Qaeda leader, and the capture of more than 1,000 suspects.

I hope you are as proud as I am that we are winning this war that so many people said we could not win. Just remember: if Barack Obama becomes our next president, and he pulls U.S. troops out of Iraq prematurely (on whatever type of timetable he is talking about this week), all of these great gains could be lost.