Robert Novak Dead

American Voices

August 20, 2009 | ISSUE 45•34

Columnist Robert Novak, notable most recently for his role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, died Tuesday. What do you think?

I can't wait to hear James Carville loudly argue against every point in Novak's eulogy."

Will Leder
Allow Weigher
That must be why all those political shows have had a lot less of a ‘Lon Chaney’ vibe lately."

Albert Mahl
Multifocal Lens Assembler
This is further evidence that prolonged exposure to James Carville will give you brain cancer."

Carla Nachtrab
Humane Officer

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Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.