Evan McMurry
New York, NY
evanmcmu
Politics
Selections of articles, columns, and blog posts.
Did Obama Actually Link Vaccines to Autism in 2008?
Jeb Bush's New PAC Pretends George W Bush Never Existed
Mitch McConnell’s Obamacare Comments Were Not a ‘Gaffe'
The Surprising Reasons for Ayn Rand's Longevity
Cantor’s Defenders Argue His New Wall Street Gig Doesn’t Even Pay That Much
‘Who Politicized Benghazi?’ A Play in Infinite Acts
One Year After Being Declared a Train Wreck, Obamacare’s on a Roll
GOP: It’s Cool For Us to Treat Obama Terribly, Because We Were So Much Worse to Clinton
Wrongest Man in Politics Says Jeb Bush Will Never Be the GOP Nominee
Here's How Critics Will Try to Undermine Obamacare's 7 Million Enrollment Number
Watch Ted Cruz and Rand Paul Quote Ronald Reagan at Each Other
The Law Works, So Let's Get Rid of It: Behold the New Conservative Logic
POLITICO Calls Out Everybody's Apocalypsticles But Their Own
Ted Cruz Will Reprise His Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship, This Time Just Cuz
Sunday Show Round Up: 'Obama's Katrina' Edition
Why Cuccinelli Lost, and What It Means for the GOP
Guess What's Wrong with Darrell Issa's Anti-Obamacare Cat Listicle
How VA Gubernatorial Race Really Affects the 2014 Midterms
The Essential Debt Ceiling Reading List: What Will Happen, How Bad It'll Be, and How We Can Save It
Enough With the Neville Chamberlain References
How Donald Rumsfeld Became Donald Rumsfeld
Israel Strikes Iran...On LinkedIn
The 11 Most Enjoyable Things We Learned From GQ's Ted Cruz Profile
This House Committee's Press Release Might Kill GIFs Forever
Chamber of Commerce Figures Out Tea Partiers Suck, After Helping Get Them Elected
Six Must-Reads to Catch Up on the Syria Conflict
Wall Street Journal Issues Kinda Important "Clafirification" to its Syria Op-Ed
The War on Terror Won't Be the Cold War With That Attitude
"I Have a Revisionist Dream": National Review Tries to Make Dr. King's Speech an Ode to Conservatism
Don Lemon Talks to Mediaite About CNN's March on Washington: "This Shows Us the Fight"
MSNBC Panel Chastises Media For 2016 Speculation, Then Proceeds to Do it Anyway
Someone Finally Called Out Oprah for Buying a $38,000 Handbag
Did the Sequester Create Edward Snowden? The Unintended Consequences of Budget Cuts
"Meet Carlos Danger"? New York Post Fails to Achieve Weiner Joke, Disappoints Entire Internet
Al Qaeda's Employees Just as Shiftless as Ours, Which Means We Won
#ObamaSufferedProfilingWhen: "What Twitter Would Have Looked Like in the 1950s"
Caught in a Storm: What Sharknado's Ratings Say About How We Consume Media—Or Don't
Conservatives Bravely Blame Obama, Not Sequester, For Fireworks Cutbacks
Marco Rubio Needs to Borrow Your Womb to Get His Conservative Cred Back
Why You Shouldn't Sign a Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden, Especially If You're Rooting For Him
ObamaCare is Already Working: Three Things You Need to Know About the Future of Health Care
John Cornyn Forgets How to Do Job, Maybe Never Knew
The Phenomenology of #BENGHAZI
Austerity is Still Hurting the Recovery, Part the Zillionth
Conspiracy Theories Are Even Dumber Than You Thought
So About That Study That Says Muslims Are Going to Sharia Us All...
The GOP's Candidate Recruitment Problem
Republicans Eat the Lunches They Deserve
If You Don't Count 9/11, There Were No Terrorist Attacks Under Bush
Today in Libertarian Hagiography
Obama's Salary Sacrifice is Futile
Republicans Will Yell at Silicon Valley Execs Until They Rand Up
Reince Priebus' Non-Genius Idea to Keep GOP Candidates From Sounding Stupid: Don't Ask Them Anything
The One Sympathetic Aspect of Mitt Romney's 47% Remarks
Paul Ryan to Doom Republicans, Again (Again)
Bob Woodward is Melting Before Our Very Eyes
The Obama Skeet Shooting Scandal is Stupid, Which May Be the Point
It's Only Cheating if You Use the Definition of the Word Cheating
Does the GOP Think That If a Woman Introduces a Rape/Abortion Bill, That Makes it Okay?
Rand Paul: Abortion For Some, Missile Defense Systems for Others
That Congress is Less Popular Than Lice is Our Fault
Or Maybe the GOP Doesn't Want to Argue About the Debt Ceiling...
Marco Rubio's Fiscal Cliff Statement Was The Worst Thing Ever
Gun Nuts Are For Affirmative Action, Apparently
Exercises in Bad Policy, School Shootings and Oil Spills Edition
House Intransigence Just Helps the Executive, Which Helps Nobody
Planned Parenthood Wiped the Floor With Karl Rove in Election Spending
Dick Armey Gets $8 Million Payout Cuz Austerity
Vaccination Issue Could Be Moment of Truth for GOP Candidates
'To Learn Who Rules Over You': Viral Voltaire Quote Probably Originated with White Supremacist
New Poll Claiming Massive Swing in OR Governor’s Race Is Bollocks
GOP Candidates Turn U.S. Border into Psychotropic Muslim Ebola Fear Vortex
No One Really Believes John Kerry’s Hot Mic Moment Was Unintentional
Everything You Need to Know About the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Case
Rick Perry’s Theft of Toyota from CA Is Not a Triumph of the Market
What the Hatred of David Gregory Says About the Media, and Us
Kathleen Sebelius' Quiet Victory Lap
The Latest Alarmist Obamacare Numbers Are Bunk
Conservatives Are Quietly Giving Up on Repealing Obamacare
'I Think I Am Listening to a Madman': Errol Morris Discusses His New Rumsfled Documentary
Here Are All the People Who Think Putin Has Straight Up Lost His Mind
Everything You Need to Know About the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Case
The NFL Is Looking for Unpaid Interns to Perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show
"I Am Alive, and So Must Live"
NY Post's Second Obama-Selfie Column Worse, More Hitler-y Than the First
Spinning Syria, Two Months Out
It Was a Dark and Stormy Game Change
The GOP is Keeping the Government Closed to Stop Its Own Ideas
Behold the GOP's Terrifying New Debt Ceiling Theory: Default is Inevitable
The New Democratic Strategy to Force a Clean CR Has a Built-in Timebomb
@Horse_ebooks is Human, and Guess Where He Works...
Mediaite's Sunday Show Round-Up, Ted Cruz Has a Sad Edition
These New Anti-ObamaCare Ads Are the Creepiest Things You'll Ever See
Did John Kerry Just Accidentally Solve the Syria Crisis?
Why Jeff Bezos Won't Fire Richard Cohen, Even Though He Really Should
What The Atlantic's Millenial Article Gets Wrong About Twentysomethings
How Many Corrections Did the Times Make to Maureen Dowd's Column?
Behold the New 70-Vote Majority
Don't Trust the Founder of Bleacher Report With a Website For Women
Peggy Noonan: Obama Should Endorse Rodeo Clowns, Because ObamaCare
Bette Midler Slams Larry Summers on Twitter, Settles Fed Chair Debate
Ken Cuccinelli's Facebook Post Requesting Supporter Feedback Got Quite the Pro-Sodomite Response
Tom Friedman Solves Unemployment With "Sharing Economy": Just Rent Everything You Own!
Dem. Advisor Dropkicks Bush Aide Over Obama's Travyon Comments: "Don't Know What You're Smoking"
@BarackObama Follows a Porn Site, Maybe Should #BeMoreCareful
Despite "Worst Rollout Ever," Mitch McConnell's Opponent Could Give Him a Run for His Money
National Zoo Loses Red Panda, Twitter Makes Every Snowden Joke Imaginable
Fake Crises Bad, Says Senator Who Fakes Crises, Fakely
Obama Scandals Are GOP Shiny Toys
The Coming Debt Ceiling Hostage Negotiation Meltdown Spectacular (Now With Abortions!)
Impeach Darrell "Richard Nixon" Issa or Something!
Fire Someone, Anyone, That Guy, the Janitor, Maybe
Someone Needs a Credulity Vaccine
Is Our Conservative Think Tanks Learning, Massive Racism Edition
Behold the Only Anti-Gun Control Argument Left: Penises
The Changing Politics of Gun Control
Today in Totally Believable, Non-Delusional Excuses for Sexism
George W Bush is Basically Voltaire (If You're Peggy Noonan)
Please Please Please Let George W Bush Have a Comeback
The GOP is Against Entitlement Cuts Now That Obama is For Them
"Without the other side, there is no war."
The Worst Point About Gay Marriage You'll Read (Today)
Rand Paul is Just Another Politician, Part the Infinity
The Market Works, Blogger-Bribery Edition
Peggy Noonan's Hotel Room Was So Bad It Turned Her Into a Keynesian
Guns to Solve Illegal Immigration, Everything Else
Adventures in Senatorial Epistemology
Is Paul Clement Secretely a Dumb-Dumb?
Bill Kristol Word Scramble: Women Combat Reagan Panama Reagan!
The Most Important Part of Obama's Address Never Got Said
Watch Manti Te'o Lose His Faith in Three Sentences
GOP Obstinacy is Emboldening Filibuster Reform
Mark Thiessen: Republicans Should Stop Being So Moderate
George Will: Spending Is Decadent, Except When I Support It, Which I Don't, Except When I Do
Race to the Bottom, Michigan Edition
The Value of Blaming Video Games for Mass Shootings
George Will and Grover Norquist for Progress!
Who's Afraid of Teachers? Breitbart Reporters, Apparently
Adventures in Empathy: Hank Paulson and Unusual Birds
The Unintentional Side Effects of Mitt Romney's Business Experience
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