WASHINGTON - Ideologues are a dime a dozen. What made people read Robert Novak’s columns — and sometimes fear them — was that his combative conservatism came laced with things they didn’t know and Washington didn’t want to tell.

Novak traced his impatience with “claptrap” to an episode in 1936, when he heard Franklin Roosevelt boast from a rail car in Joliet, Ill., that times were getting better. “You could have fooled them,” he said of the hard-luck crowd listening to the president. Novak was 5.

The irascible journalist, dead Tuesday at age 78, devoted a contentious career to the idea that people shouldn’t get fooled again. He thrived on “making life miserable for hypocritical, posturing politicians.”

NEW YORK - What would a Spears administration as president? Apparently, very fragrant.

Britney Spears appeared on David Letterman’s “Late Show” on Tuesday for a top ten list of possibilities, it would be otherwise if it was the President.

“Free cake for all,” said Spears.
For the No. 10 on the list, Spears said she was “the first president since Nixon to wear eye shadow.”

The star appeared buff want to show their new position. It has the list in a bikini.