Larry Womack

Mitt "Electability" Romney has won just one general election in nearly twenty years of politicking. His one and only term of office left him with an approval rating of 34%. Make no mistake about it: this was the best guy the Republicans had to offer this cycle.

Try...

In yet another display of cowardice that at this point should surprise no one, the White House last night announced that a widely expected executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT employees isn't going to happen -- or, rather, won't until after the general election.

If we are to consider the likely outcomes of the Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act based solely on the Justices' established interpretations of laws relating to interstate commerce and powers of the federal government, we would find at least six votes in favor of upholding...

Across the web, talk continues about the fallout from Rush Limbaugh's characterization of women who don't pay for their own contraception as prostitutes. (I suppose if they did pay for their own, they'd be Johns?) Frankly, I'd like to see that particular firestorm end.

You see, over the last few...

I've come to appreciate Rick Santorum's candidacy as this year's sole remaining window into the unvarnished reactionary id. When Santorum opens his mouth, you don't hear slick rationalizations or even muddled, fuzzy logic. You get a stream-of-consciousness monologue that is unparalleled in its perceptual simplicity.

Take two back-to-back sentences Santorum...

On Monday, Mitt Romney blasted Newt Gingrich's record by observing that, "the speaker was given an opportunity to be the leader of our party in 1994, and at the end of four years he had to resign in disgrace."

Mitt Romney, the electability candidate, has won only one general...

Arnold Dornfeld once famously told his reporters, "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." (The source of that quote is, fittingly enough, disputed.) Last Thursday, the New York Times asked readers whether or not "reporters should challenge 'facts' that are asserted by newsmakers they write...

There's a novel idea being championed by Republicans this month. Everyone, from Mitt Romney to Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, seems to believe that the problem with the tax system is not that the very rich get off too easy, but that the very poor do. In fact,...

On 30 Rock, Tracy Morgan plays a hilarious caricature of himself. In real life, Tracy Morgan plays an unfunny caricature of himself. This is news to very few people familiar with his work.

Still, Morgan's having offended many, many people in an unfunny routine ranks as the second most tenacious...

The federal government could eliminate around seventy percent of its debt by ending two costly wars, restoring tax rates for the wealthy to their already historically low pre-Bush levels and taking more serious measures to get the economy back on track. But who wants to do all that!...

George W. Bush seems to have decided that the most dignified option was to stay away from events commemorating Osama bin Laden's end. That choice may well be recorded among the best decisions he ever made.

Calls persist however, in shall we say, "certain circles" for Barack Obama...

Last night, Julian Assange's WikiLeaks posted a list of sites outside of the US that the State Department had identified as key to public safety. The list contains mostly known information about sensitive targets, and as a handy reference is basically only useful two kinds of people: Those...

I love bloggers. I love amateur journalists. I really do. On more than one occasion (and still too few,) each has played a vital role in keeping larger media outlets honest. And on more than one occasion each has answered the call when major or minor print publications have been...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is up by three points among all voters, but down by two points among likely voters. Michael Bennett looks to be narrowly leading among his constituents, but decisively losing among those who plan to actually cast ballots. Polls find Democratic upstart

A few scattered politicos across the country are still buzzing about the San Francisco Chronicle's refusal to endorse either Barbara Boxer or Carly Fiorina for US Senate. Why, they wonder, would such a reliably liberal paper refuse to endorse such a reliably liberal senator, even while conceding that her challenger...

Behold: the most profoundly pessimistic attack ad of 2010. Meg Whitman has delivered unto us a masterpiece of dirty politics.

What is most striking about this already-infamous ad isn't the boldness of its mendacity--though it certainly has that--but the cynicism of its timing. It's the sort of unabashedly...

Now that they've come out in support of Arizona's "papers please" law, isn't it time for the ringleaders of the Wingnut Circus to fold up that Freedom and Liberty Tent and retire the old "Stalinist Nazis" sideshow?

I don't think it's unreasonable to observe that you cannot support a...

It is a fantastic parting statement from the Bush administration, an effort to codify the unwritten law that this presidency years ago proved -- that rich screw-ups are this nation's nobility.

It is also essentially an act of armed robbery on a previously unheard-of scale. If the American people don't...

Those of you in the blogosphere, on YouTube, and in the media rushing to "shame" John McCain for choosing an unqualified female running mate as merely some attempt to pander to Hillary Clinton voters, I have a suggestion. Stop. Now.

This widespread reaction to the selection of Governor Palin is...

Barring a huge upset, Hillary Clinton will win Pennsylvania tomorrow by about 5-10 points. The media will act surprised, Barack Obama's campaign will say she still can't win the nomination with pledged delegates, and no new points will be scored. Clinton will then lose North Carolina spectacularly, win Indiana narrowly...