Molly Ivins wrote lively, graceful tributes to other people, individuals she genuinely admired for courage and for service to the public

The testimony of three prosecution witnesses in the Libby trial has now placed Lewis Libby, as Vice President Cheney

Prolonging Vietnam, part 2: why was the Watergate bugged?     The secrecy, manipulation and deceit of the Nixon years had no larger foci than the two consuming topics of Vietnam and the Kennedys, and for President Richard M. Nixon, those two topics were joined. The inescapable conclusion is that Watergate stemmed from them.   [...]

Iraq escalation benefits Jeb Bush     It is difficult to imagine the sane person who could imagine that supporting the Bush escalation in Iraq will benefit John McCain politically. Even the cleaned-up language in which the president dressed his presentation last night (January 10, 2007) makes clear that he expects further carnage. Chilling, and [...]