The baby boy, who was born just before 2 a.m.
Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital, was delivered
via a scheduled C-section.

"Kevin had a smile on his face. He looked happy
and upbeat," says an observer. (scary!)

The whole thing, says a source, was smooth - just
as the mom-to-be had predicted to PEOPLE back
in August, saying childbirth "will be a piece of
cake." (of course!!! just try to imagine how wide a very accommodating door would be!)

Spears, 24, and Federline, 28, already have a son,
Sean Preston, who was born Sept. 14 last year.
For Federline, the new arrival is his fourth child. He
also has a daughter Kori, 4, and son Kaleb, 2, with
actress Shar Jackson.

Spears first publicly confirmed this pregnancy
during a May 9 visit to the Late Show with David
Letterman. "Don't worry, Dave, it's not yours," she
joked to the host, who responded: "Oh. Well, I
think that's good news for both of us."

The birth of their second child comes as Spears
and Federline celebrate their second anniversary:
The couple wed on Sept. 18, 2004. The pair began
talking about starting a family soon after. "I can
see myself as a mom. Next year at 23, I am so
there," she told PEOPLE shortly after the wedding.

Just four days short of the couple's first wedding
anniversary, she had accomplished that goal by
having Sean Preston.

The timing of baby No. 2's arrival may have been a
surprise - Spears has said the pregnancy wasn't
planned - but expanding her brood was never a
question for the domesticity-craving pop star. Sean
Preston "is going to be traveling on the road with
me, so I think it will be good to have (a sibling)
there with him," she told PEOPLE last month.

For Federline's part, the aspiring (could you pls stop trying!) rapper told
PEOPLE after his performance at the Teen Choice
Awards last month (that I wish never hpnd!), that he planned to take time off
until after the baby was born (make it permanent dude!). "I'm really going to
kick back and wait and see when this baby is
going to come, spend my time with my family and
my wife," he said.

As for being pregnant a second time so quickly
after the first, Spears said she's been happy to
indulge her cravings for ice chips and chocolate,
but having gained some 40 lbs., has also been
frustrated at not having time to get back into the
shape she was before becoming a mom. "I feel like
I've been pregnant for 10 years!" she said.

Spears vowed that after the birth of her second
child she'd get back to the gym - and back to
work. "I'm definitely going to start working out in a
huge way," she told PEOPLE last month.

"Well-behaved" Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales
maligns the University of the Philippines yet again,
for producing "destabilizers and naked runners".

As this gentleman's gentleman is entitled to his
own opinion, U.P. is not required to respond, but
precisely because it must, it will. The University
has the right and the responsibility to dissent.

For how else may prove its worth? U.P. as an
educational institution can only affirm itself when it
puts theories into practice. Woe the day U.P.
stops talking, commenting, and thinking–which is
in contrast, the time Sec. Gonzales happily waits
for, when U.P. performs its "true role" in
government service.

U.P. is bound to defend Philippine statehood. Sec.
Gonzales must understand that U.P. does indeed,
in a manner that is idiosyncratic, sometimes
abrasive, but always with best interest at heart.
U.P. is a social critic, not a yes-man, so it will not
ask permission or forgiveness when it says it like it
is: government sucks. But U.P. is also an agent of
change, which is why, in the same breath, it
contributes thousands of its best graduates to help
make government and society better.

I will now claim the privilege to opine: Sec.
Gonzales is just rattled in his prude morality by
streaking, in his occupational delusion by U.P.'s
firm request for clear leads in Karen Empeño and
Sherlyn Cadapan's case. But I am disturbed that
this is just half of the truth, and that the whole lies
somewhere between the lines of the
military's "Know the Enemy" and Oplan Bantay-
Laya.

In the midst of all this name-calling and witch-
hunting, I am sure the thinking populace is
becoming more emboldened to stand up. I can find
more than a thousand other U.P. students who
would gladly wear a sign saying "destabilizer" just
for the pleasure of driving a point through: what's
wrong with it? If dissenting has destabilized
anything, I am comforted one example is Marcos'
regime.

He with the gall (and gallstones) to disapprove of
academic freedom, Sec. Gonzales stands now a
stalwart enemy–barring Gloria Arroyo herself–of
human liberty. But God has been kind enough to
also make him bigoted, for if he had more sense to
comprehend the essence of the Oblation Run, he
might have also joined these celebrated naked
runners.

And surely, that would have been obnoxious.