Molly Ivins

Fine writers and close friends gathered Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the passions and the prescience of Molly Ivins.  read more »

The "plantation" remark seems mostly forgotten, but Arianna Huffington piles on Hillary nonetheless, countering what she sees as the conventional wisdom that Hillary is a lock. I think there may be a new "Hillary: Not Such a Lock?" bit of conventional wisdom emerging actually...and there's a lot of time for yet more conventional wisdom between now and 2007. Huffington loves the (overstated) notion that Hillary's success upstate has no bearing on national politics, and offers a usuful compendium of anti-Hillary polemics, ranging from Molly Ivins to Andrew Sullivan.  read more »