Molly Ivins

As a second-best listening alternative, one could also listen to NPR's Radio Times with Marty-Moss Coane. In the not-so-recent past, Fresh Air was noted for its interviews with mental heavyweights like Susan Sontag, Molly Ivins, Christopher Hitchens, Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton, Richard Clarke, and Al ...

Of course, if any Republican would be vulnerable in Texas, it'd probably be Cruz (watching him one is reminded of what the great Molly Ivins used to say about another Texas GOPer, Phil Gramm: "Even his friends don't like him"). But what's most notable about O'Rourke's candidacy isn't just that he has a ...

There's perhaps no other single food group that is more Texan than chili, and over the years we've tested many recipes and talked to many Tex-perts on what constitutes a real big bowl of red. Here are our favorite chili recipes from The Dallas Morning News archives, from Molly Ivins and Lady Bird Johnson ...

... to the upbeat call to action of Pots And Pans, a song inspired by renowned Texas political writer and humorist Molly Ivins. From the humorous advice of Life Of The Party to the poignantly optimistic World Full Of Love, the intensity of Ball's conviction never wavers while, simultaneously, the fun never stops.

Not disconnected is what I have described as a troika of elected officials, campaign organizers, and political donors. The late Jesse Unruh, California's Lieutenant-Governor in the 1960s, famously said that, "Money is the mother's milk of politics." Molly Ivins, the late Austin-based political commentator, wrote, ...

Alan Pogue. On Thursday, The Texas Observer and the Texas Democracy Foundation awarded Shane Bauer with the 2017 MOLLY National Journalism Prize. The competition celebrates great American journalism and honors the memory of Molly Ivins, legendary Observer reporter, columnist and former ...

The symmetry was swell, with confirmation of Perry's appearance as a dancing contestant landing on what would have been the 72nd birthday of Molly Ivins, the state's most famous connoisseur of political humor. It has been her kind of contest. Surprised as she was by the ascent of Perry — Ivins dubbed ...

My favorite left-journalist icon Molly Ivins would be celebrating her birth on August 30th if she'd been lucky enough to survive what she called a “scorching case of breast cancer” that ended her life back in 2007. As a journalist, I've always loved Molly for her wisdom, politics and wicked sense of humor.

Kathleen Turner is one of my favorite actresses and Molly Ivins was a hero. I had the pleasure of seeing Kathleen Turner in Red Hot Patriot The Kick-ass Wit Of Molly Ivins at the Berkeley Rep. Here are 10 things I learned: 1. Molly Ivins was six feet tall. 2. Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins is an ...

When 281 by-passes so many towns, they are impacted negatively, yet manage to hang on (the oil “bid-ness, as Molly Ivins used to call it, helps). I have my favorite towns, among them “Cotulla,” where Dr. Charles Cotrell, former colleague and President of St. Mary's University first encountered Mexican ...