Robert Novak's Heaven

— By Daniel Schulman

| Tue Aug. 18, 2009 8:50 AM PDT

Robert Novak has died at the age of 78, after battling brain cancer for the past year. There are plenty of remembrances of the legendary conservative columnist popping up (see here, here, and here), but Think Progress has unearthed a priceless quote from Novak discussing his vision of the hereafter in 2007: “I’m going to a place where there are no blogs.”

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Robert Novak's Heaven

Submitted by Dredd (not verified) on Tue Aug. 18, 2009 9:39 AM PDT.

I am sure that our thoughts go out to his family during this time of their loss.

Mr. Novak had a sense of humour and was feisty.

I was wondering, since he died of brain cancer, whether mental health care will be included in the health care being debated in congress and everywhere else it seems?

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