Another tribute to a life lived large…
Remembering Molly Ivins
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Molly Ivins, the liberal newspaper columnist who delighted in skewering politicians and interpreting, and mocking, her Texas culture, died today at her home in Austin. She was 62.

Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman,
via Associated Press
Molly Ivins in 2006.
Her death, after a long fight with breast cancer, was confirmed by her personal assistant, Betsy Moon.
In her syndicated [...]

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I don’t know about you but to me it looks to me like Bush and Cheney have seen to many police shows on TV. I mean come on guys, good cop bad cop is so lame…
We often wonder whether there is a limit to the Bush administration’s obsession with secrecy, its assault on the rule [...]

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 You have to wonder what they are putting in the Kool-Aid at the Cheney manse.
Vice President Cheney said yesterday that the administration has achieved “enormous successes” in Iraq but complained that critics and the media “are so eager to write off this effort or declare it a failure” that they are undermining U.S. troops [...]

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Some day we will be able to put the DeLay era behind us. I feel sorry for Virginia… 
AUSTIN  — A part of the criminal case that helped drive former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay from public life is hanging on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which will hear arguments Wednesday about whether a [...]

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All it took was for the ruling party to be kicked out of power. Now we have legislators actually legislating. Perish the thought, the Republican minority may have to prove that government can actually can work for the American people contrary  to anything they may have espoused in the past. In the Senate there are [...]

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Today’s papers are full of news of war and rumors of war, both real and political. There are a number of sites around the internet that will give you better coverage of this than I will. But the little, oft unremarked news stories are more problematic. This is just one small example… 
AYEAR and a half ago, [...]

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