Quickies

- Former White House Press Secretary and FOX News host Tony Snow has lost his battle with cancer.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger is quickly becoming my favorite Republican. On the Bush administration:

"This administration did not believe in global warming," Schwarzenegger told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview that will air Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

- Scott Saxton reports on his WSAZ blog that ballot access efforts for third party candidate Ralph Nader are underway in W.Va. Bob Barr's supporters are planning to kick off their signature drive Wednesday, Saxton says.

- Pete Seeger is still active at 89.

Seeger will headline a Sept. 13 New England Farm Relief Concert in Brattleboro to raise money for a new micro-loan program being developed by The Carrot Project and the organization that operates the town's annual Strolling of the Heifers.

- The Lie That Won't Die: Pennsylvania Edition!

Photo: White House spokesman Tony Snow conducts his first press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington Tuesday, May 16, 2006. Snow has died of cancer. He was 53. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)