Stories by Molly Ivins
For decades, Molly Ivins wrote hundreds of columns about politics, Texas and other bizarre happenings.
It's a little silly to call for 'complete victory' without acknowledging that the war itself is not going well.
Posted on Dec 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
A one-stop, hit-the-bookstore with less than 24-hours-to-go, all-purpose Procrastinator's List.
Posted on Dec 14, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Certain politicians should do a lot more listening to the Lord, and a lot less talking for Him.
Posted on Dec 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Sad political scene aside, there's still plenty to be grateful for.
Posted on Nov 30, 2005, Source: AlterNet
George Clooney's film 'Good Night and Good Luck' echoes Texan John Faulk's own heroic struggle against McCarthyism.
Posted on Nov 29, 2005, Source: Texas Observer
According to this administration's lame attempt at intimidation, noting that the Iraq war is a disaster is the same as spitting on our soldiers.
Posted on Nov 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
While Dems slug it out over the failures of pre-war intelligence, our president tootles merrily along, hiring his clueless friends.
Posted on Nov 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Evidence shows that tax breaks have been dragging the economy down, so Republicans offer a solution: more of the same.
Posted on Nov 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
If you are dead to all sense of morality, let us still reason on the famous common ground of practicality. Torture. Does. Not. Work.
Posted on Nov 11, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Recently released emails from Michael 'Heckuva Job' Brown reveal how horrifically he bungled the Katrina response.
Posted on Nov 9, 2005, Source: AlterNet
We need a lot of help in cleaning up the disasters created by Bush's colossal ineptitude.
Posted on Nov 4, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Instead of dwelling on the ever-increasing failings of the only president we've got, let's see if we can figure out how to get out of the mess we're in.
Posted on Nov 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Diane Wilson: a shrimper mom on her own against big polluters
Posted on Oct 25, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Before we figure out how to beat the Republicans, we have to come up with some good ideas and a plan.
Posted on Oct 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Even as the Republicans' political establishment collapses, their bad policies -- among them worker pensions -- are destroying lives.
Posted on Oct 14, 2005, Source: AlterNet
After five years of letting stupefying pork and ideological nonsense slide over his desk, the first bill Bush threatened to veto was McCain's anti-torture bill.
Posted on Oct 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Everybody and his dog in the political commentating trade now agrees the Bush administration is experiencing hard times -- the going is getting tough, and Bush is getting testy.
Posted on Oct 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Big surprise, and big trouble: Bush's new Supreme Court nominee is a Texas conservative and a fundamentalist Christian.
Posted on Oct 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The troubled speaker attacks the prosecutor, then signs up a defense dream team.
Posted on Sep 30, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Bush and his cronies have turned waste, fraud and abuse into national policy.
Posted on Sep 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Bush responds to women's health official's resignation by appointing a veterinarian.
Posted on Sep 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Project Censored offers a list of stories ignored by the dailies.
Posted on Sep 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to some well-connected cronies, Texas is standing right in the path of some beneficial fallout from Hurricane Katrina.
Posted on Sep 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Congress has a chance to rethink some of the most punitive parts of the new Bankruptcy Act, in order to give poor victims of Hurricane Katrina a break. Will they do the right thing?
Posted on Sep 14, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Dubya vows to get to the bottom of of what went wrong on Katrina.
Posted on Sep 9, 2005, Source: AlterNet
While Katrina's dead have not yet been counted, it's not too soon to hammer home a point: government policies have real consequences in people's lives.
Posted on Sep 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Our well-justified paranoia about the security of our personal data is finally making politicians stir.
Posted on Aug 30, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Corporations' efforts to curb free speech through lawsuits are unfortunately succeeding.
Posted on Aug 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The White House is shielding Roberts' public record, and now he's conveniently 'forgotten' his involvement with the ultra-right-wing Federalist Society.
Posted on Jul 29, 2005, Source: AlterNet
You may think the AFL-CIO split is none of your beeswax, but if you work in this country, you owe labor, big time. And I'm talking to you, white-collar worker.
Posted on Jul 26, 2005, Source: AlterNet
As most of the country focuses almost entirely on social issues and culture wars, our economic problems are threatening to bring the country down by its foundations.
Posted on Jul 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The Rove-Plame scandal is just the most visible example of the administration's willingness to destroy anyone in order to achieve its goals.
Posted on Jul 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet
We're about to repeat a huge mistake that will let the big oil companies jack up our electric rates.
Posted on Jul 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Folks, we are being eaten alive by corruption -- and it isn't pretty.
Posted on Jul 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
People have the most remarkable ability to convince themselves that what they are doing is for the greater good -- if they are also making a great deal of money out of it.
Posted on Jun 30, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Setting up a straw man, calling it liberal and then knocking it down has become a favorite form of "argument" for those on the right.
Posted on Jun 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The drumbeat of this administration's giveaways to big corporations continues: tax breaks for the undeserving and more green lights for the exploitation of the environment.
Posted on Jun 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
I don't know if these memos represent an impeachable offense. But they strike me as a hell of lot worse than anything Richard Nixon ever contemplated.
Posted on Jun 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
A Bush-appointed political operative says he'll erase bias at PBS ... by inserting bias.
Posted on Jun 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Sometimes you look at the people the Bush administration appoints to high public office and the only possible response is, "What were they thinking?"
Posted on Jun 15, 2005, Source: AlterNet
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