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Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins (1944 – 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist. She wrote monthly for The Progressive. 

"I don’t know about you, but I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had it with every calculating, equivocating, triangulating, straddling, hair-splitting son of a bitch up there, and that includes Hillary Rod... Read more

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The pure joy of the whole Karl Rove/Valerie Plame affair is in watching the massive Republican spin-control machine in operation. Here’s Rove, who has famously gone after his political enemies over the years on behalf of any candidate he ha... Read more

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When News Isn’t NewsFrom the August 2005 Issue I hope this is not too Inside Baseball for you, but I am truly hacked with what the bloggers call the MSM, or “mainstream media.” The New York Times and The Washington Post have both gone way ... Read more

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Let us celebrate spring with a roundup of the President's verbal gaffes, boners, grammatical errors, and immortal contributions to logic. Read more

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Time to settle down and drive hard for the finish, progressives. Or as they say at Harvard, fight fiercely. We are into the phase of the campaign when it's just straight-up, old-fashioned get out the vote. Ground war is what the pros call i... Read more

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The Progressive's ninety-fifth anniversary--what a lovely reason to celebrate. Read more

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Gosh, it was good to hear from President Bush's alternative universe in the State of the Union address. Read more

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I was puzzled in 2000 when so few in the press seemed interested in George W. Bush's record, and now I find there's mass amnesia on the subject again this year. Read more

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Still no weapons of mass destruction, and every neocon in America is creating elaborate rationales for why it makes no difference whatever if we were lied to about this war. Meanwhile, in a truly creative demonstration of their problem-solv... Read more

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So much competition for the hotly contested title "What Were They Thinking?" this month that, as the kids say, "Shut up!" The number of bonehead plays was so astronomical, one is inclined to wonder if there's anyone left around here with a ... Read more

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In the course of turning the Homeland Security bill from a thirty-five-page rearrange-the-bureaucracy plan into a 484-page "mon-stros-ity," as Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia kept calling it, the R's went one special interest too far. Read more

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What a campaign! Jesse Ventura took offense at someone else's manners? Mr. Etiquette, the Sensitive Male. Poor Charlton Heston, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, no shame to him, was trotted around the country and held up by both arms whil... Read more

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A win for our side! The White House ix-nayed the proposed "Office of Strategic Influence" in the Pentagon. That was the lovely notion of having an office of pro-American propaganda, which would spread stories both true and untrue. After all... Read more

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Admit it, you're wallowing in Enron. Aside from the fact that it wrecked a bunch of people's lives, it is a beautiful scandal. Read more

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I was in Paris for all of September. After the 11th, at the American Church on the Left Bank and the American Cathedral on the Right, the steps were covered with the most beautiful flowers and the most touching messages. They ranged from "G... Read more

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Small Favors | Molly Ivins A Peppy Foreign Policy What do you mean, you don't like George W. Bush's foreign policy? He's met twice now with Puddin' of Russia; he went to the G-8 deal and only one guy got killed; he met with the Popester, a... Read more

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