Molly Ivins

  • Molly Ivins

    I don’t so much mind that newspapers are dying—it’s watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. Let’s use this as a handy exercise [...] Full Story

  • Molly Ivins

    It was such a relief to me to learn we are making “very, very good progress” in Iraq. As the third anniversary of our [...] Full Story

  • Molly Ivins

    So, aside from the fact that it’s politically idiotic and at least theoretically presents a national security risk, just what is wrong with the [...] Full Story

  • Molly Ivins

    Of course the jokes are flying all over Texas —what’s the fine for shooting a lawyer?—and so forth. Dick-Cheney-shooting-Harry-Whittington is fraught, as they say, [...] Full Story

  • Molly Ivins

    I’d like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president. Enough. [...] Full Story

  • The Assault on Freedom

    People should watch what they say. -White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, October 2001 We were wearing T-shirts, exercising our free-speech rights in the public [...] Full Story

  • A-men. A-women. A-Ann.

    Harry Porko first appeared in the lobby of some Wall Street firm—Smith, Merrill, Barney, & Asshole, I believe—where the treasurer of Texas had been [...] Full Story

  • Hookergate

    Of course I am above sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. So serious a servant of the public interest am I, I can fogey [...] Full Story

  • Molly Ivins

    It’s nice to know that the investigative reporter Jack Anderson is still under investigation, although seriously dead. Anderson died last year, and for 19 [...] Full Story

  • Molly Ivins

    In general, I’m against kicking ‘em when they’re down … unless really awful people are involved. I figured Tom DeLay is so awful, plenty [...] Full Story