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Molly Ivins, the liberal political columnist, whose fierce criticism of President Bush marked the latter part of her career, has died of breast cancer. She was 62. Ms Ivins was renowned for her witty political critiques and toward the latter part of her career focused exclusively on Bush and his perceived failures. Her editor said that even when she knew her time was up; she still dictated her last two columns. In them she urged her readers to stand up against the proposal to deploy fresh troops in Iraq. "We are the people who run this country,'' Ivins wrote in her Jan. 11 column. "We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war.'' Ivins was born in California, but moved to Houston as a child. She completed her masters in journalism from Columbia University in New York. Her experience with newspapers began with The Houston Chronicle and The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. She was also the Denver bureau chief of The New York Times. As editor of the Texas Observer during the 1970s, Ivins became vocal against what she though were antics of the legislators in Texas.
She was something of an author as well penning two hugely successful books on George Bush. These books are titled "Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush" and "Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America." She was diagnosed with cancer in 1999. President Bush mourned her passing away in a statement calling her a Texas original, "I respected her convictions, her passionate belief in the power of words and her ability to turn a phrase. She fought her illness with that same passion. Her quick wit and commitment to her beliefs will be missed," the statement added.
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