Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor with The American Spectator.
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The Stalinist Jan. 6 committee rages on. During Donald Trump’s first two impeachments, his supporters cross-examined witnesses and provided exculpatory evidence. But the recent proceedings of… Read More
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Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act bears the fingerprints of Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Their 725-page monstrosity belies its… Read More
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Next week will mark one and a half years since Joe Biden became president on Jan. 20, 2021. On July 20, every American should look… Read More
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Those who argue that critical race theory is a conservative hallucination need look no further than Los Angeles to see that the right is right—yet… Read More
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Is any aspect of American life safe from President Joe Biden and his battalions of intrusive, dim-witted federal bureaucrats? COVID-19’s embers are not yet cold…. Read More
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On Monday, America marks our second Juneteenth national holiday. Some will focus on the severe pain and death that slavery inflicted on blacks between 1619… Read More
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California is infested with violent crime, failing schools, America’s highest gasoline prices (a stunning $9.60 per gallon in Mendocino), and a 1,200-year-record drought. Al fresco… Read More
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As Americans start the summer driving season this Memorial Day weekend, they face gasoline prices that are memorable—for all the wrong reasons. The national average… Read More
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“The fact is that our borders are not open,” according to Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus. You could have fooled me. Notwithstanding this… Read More
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President Joe Biden’s bad idea factory just belched out a doozy: The Disinformation Governance Board rolled off the assembly line to the sound of shrieks… Read More
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Like an incantation at high Mass, Democrats chant their claim that election fraud does not exist. “Vote fraud is almost incalculably rare in the United States,” according… Read More
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Florida lawmakers voted last week to end the Walt Disney Co.’s special self-government privileges, which it never should have received. Since 1967, Disney has operated… Read More
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Top Democrats claim that nothing in America is more dangerous than white racism. As President Joe Biden said Oct. 21: “According to the United States… Read More
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Just as I predicted in August 2020, Joe Biden has declared war on school choice. When he ran for president, Biden told voters in Georgetown, South… Read More
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“Identifying” as someone who one is not has become all the rage. If you think you’re somebody you’re not, the whole world is expected to… Read More
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As Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman oversees professional boxing, kickboxing, and wrestling. But those are hardly the most contentious items on her docket. As… Read More
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Editor’s note: The president nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court on the day after Deroy Murdock filed this commentary. President Joe Biden… Read More
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Imagine that a well-respected federal prosecutor’s courtroom filing revealed the following: Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign paid a pro-GOP law firm to hire technical experts… Read More
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NEW YORK — I recently was delighted to sue New York City’s Board of Elections. In conjunction with the Public Interest Legal Foundation, co-plaintiffs Phyllis… Read More
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PARK CITY, Utah—President Joe Biden’s no-border policy has detonated an explosion of illegal-alien apprehensions and got-aways at the southern “frontier.” Millions of Americans consider this… Read More
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America’s surge in grotesque, random mayhem has become a coast-to-coast crime epic. Some examples: •Indianapolis, Philadelphia, and 10 other cities set new murder records last… Read More
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Former President Donald Trump’s friends and foes alike can agree on this: He fulfilled an astonishing number of promises. During his first year in office,… Read More
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Vulgar. Disgusting. Repugnant. These are three of the more charitable adjectives that describe President Joe Biden’s execrable speech on Tuesday. He flew to Atlanta to… Read More
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Yet again, Democrats have mastered psychological projection. Rather than brighten the darkness in their own souls, they accuse Republicans of practicing Democrats’ sins. Their latest… Read More
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Democrats are responding in typical fashion to Sen. Joe Manchin’s promised “no” vote on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act: They are foaming at… Read More
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Dear Santa Claus: Here is what I want for Christmas: The longest-possible time behind bars for Jussie Smollett. A tungsten-stiff prison sentence for the convicted… Read More
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President Joe Biden is the kind of man who deliberately would steer his car into a ditch, crawl from the wreckage, and then probe the… Read More
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Approximately 808,000 “noncitizens” may vote in future New York City elections, if the City Council welcomes them to do so, as early as December. These… Read More
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The Democratic Party’s so-called moderates have had it with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; and other members of the “squad.”… Read More
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No means no. From the White House to school boards across America, voters on Tuesday screamed at Democrats: “No!” to reckless spending, meddlesome bureaucrats, bear… Read More
