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Karl Rove on Novak: ‘A Principled Person’

By | 08.18.09 | 4:13 pm

The ‘Architect’ himself, the man who dodged an indictment in the Valerie Plame affair, speaks out on the late Robert D. Novak:

He was a remarkable journalist and a principled person.

Remembering Novak (the Rarely Mentioned Version)

By | 08.18.09 | 12:51 pm

Robert Novak, who died of brain cancer Tuesday at age 78, is being remembered this afternoon for his long career as a hard-nosed journalist; his much-relished Prince of Darkness persona; and his role in the scandal that found the Bush administration outing CIA operative Valerie Plame in order to discredit More…

In Praise of Robert Novak

By | 08.18.09 | 12:46 pm

“The Prince of Darkness,” Robert Novak’s memory of his reporting career — published only two years ago — is one of the best books written about political journalism. It’s not because it’s brutally honest. Lots of reporters and politicos, in their waning years, discover their consciences and reveal the uncomfortable More…

Robert Novak, 1931-2009

By | 08.18.09 | 11:45 am

Kenneth Tomlinson at Human Events, which ran the Evans-Novak Report until it was ended last year, confirms that the conservative reporter Robert Novak has died after a year-long battle with cancer. Tim Carney, Novak’s last collaborator on the report, has a remembrance up.

Novak would often tell

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