Stories by Molly Ivins
For decades, Molly Ivins wrote hundreds of columns about politics, Texas and other bizarre happenings.
That's the day the attorney general of the United States -- a.k.a. 'the nation's top law enforcement officer' -- refused to provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with his department's memos concerning torture.
Posted on Jun 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
We're constantly finding instances of programs that Bush, the candidate, proudly claims to support, while he prepares to cut them drastically.
Posted on Jun 9, 2004, Source: AlterNet
War is full of tragedy tinged with terrible irony. It's making stuff up afterward for public relations purposes that is so offensive.
Posted on Jun 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Don't you just love these heartwarming stories of adventurous, risk-taking pioneer capitalists?
Posted on Jun 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Speech from retired Gen. Anthony Zinni gave rare glimpse of intelligent thought about our quagmire.
Posted on May 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
If you look at why Abu Ghraib happened, you realize just how easy it is for standards of law and behavior to slip into bestiality.
Posted on May 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The accumulation of American errors has cost us the goodwill of the great majority of Iraqis and put everyone at greater risk of terrorist attack.
Posted on May 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
How did we get into this mess? Just ask the neo-cons who fell for Ahmed Chalabi.
Posted on May 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Realism, not pessimism: Americans oversee looting, corruption, and torture in Iraq as civil war looms.
Posted on May 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Bush tax cuts for rich leave local governments only sin to pay bills.
Posted on Apr 29, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A report from the March for Women's Lives.
Posted on Apr 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
What does it take to provide security and ultimately success in Iraq? Way more than we could ever give.
Posted on Apr 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
This Saturday's March for Women's Lives is a life or death decision.
Posted on Apr 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
America stays the course in Iraq -- making mistake after mistake.
Posted on Apr 15, 2004, Source: AlterNet
America is left in the dark about what really happend before 9/11 and what's happening now in Iraq.
Posted on Apr 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
DeLay and Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick may have achieved the near impossible by breaking Texas campaign finance laws.
Posted on Apr 8, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Deeper into the quagmire, one has to ask, 'so what do we do now?'
Posted on Apr 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The race has hardly begun and already we're in most bizarre territory.
Posted on Apr 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
There's no way to keep up with the Bush administration's assaults on the environment, they're just endless.
Posted on Mar 30, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The Bush administration bombs for peace, robs for reform.
Posted on Mar 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Pretend Republican outrage abounds over some bold comments by candidate Kerry.
Posted on Mar 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Anthony Raimondo, Bush's new man in charge of creating jobs for Americans, is a master at outsourcing the jobs of his own employees to China.
Posted on Mar 16, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Bush screwed the firefighters in a famous case of his favorite bait-and-switch tactic, and now he has the chutzpah to exploit them anyway.
Posted on Mar 9, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Candidates Bush and Kerry begin what promises to be a very interesting match up.
Posted on Mar 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
If Haiti is any indication, Bush has learned nothing from the dangerous game he played in Iraq.
Posted on Mar 2, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Deregulation threatens to turn the ballooning debt of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into another S&L nightmare.
Posted on Feb 26, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Education Secretary Rod Paige calls the largest teachers' union a 'terrorist organization' for lobbying for more resources.
Posted on Feb 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A whole lot of people who should have known better freaked out over Dean, treating a mostly mild-mannered, perfectly sensible and quite cheerful fellow as some kind of anti-establishment antichrist.
Posted on Feb 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A British citizen, Katherine Gun, faces a stiff prison term for blowing the whistle on illegal US-UK spying during the runup to Iraq.
Posted on Feb 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
On both sides of the Atlantic, folks are wondering if their leaders misled them into fighting a dangerous war.
Posted on Feb 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
There's nothing better than a huge political scrum where the front-runner stumbles, the guy everyone wrote off six weeks ago comes roaring back, an unknown emerges, and an old war-horse drops out.
Posted on Jan 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
While Bush plans to highlight his compassionate policies and his role in the surging economy, the reality is far less flattering.
Posted on Jan 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
My long-reigning favorite Bushism has now been edged out by a fresh contender I cannot resist.
Posted on Jan 16, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Bush's brilliant new immigration proposal primarily benefits one group and one group only -- big business.
Posted on Jan 14, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The resignation of David Cay signals the end of the all important search for weapons of mass destruction.
Posted on Jan 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
An annual roundup of great books.
Posted on Dec 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Unlike the Germans, the French and the Russians, Halliburton was not punished by the Bush administration for dealing with the dictator.
Posted on Dec 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Tired of holiday shopping? Skip the mall and save the world -- for just 37 cents a pop.
Posted on Dec 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Talk about the lunatics running the asylum. Former lobbyists for special interests now dominate the top of the bureaucracies -- not to regulate, but to facilitate corporate rip-offs.
Posted on Dec 11, 2003, Source: AlterNet
If 2004 is the year to be sensible, look for a winner, find a moderate and all that good stuff the expert political players do, then Dean is the man to support.
Posted on Dec 5, 2003, Source: AlterNet
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