Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor with The American Spectator.
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The just-departed polar vortex confirmed that when Mother Nature is enraged, it’s wise to have options. Maddeningly, today’s “pro-choice” Democrats want Americans to have one energy… Read More
EconomyCommentary
As if it were not painful enough for Republicans to watch the vaunted red wave merely ripple across their ankles, they now must endure 2022’s… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The white flags of surrender are flapping in the breeze, thanks to Republicans willing to accept as permanent the “emergency” election rules that Democrats demanded… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
“Election deniers overwhelmingly failed in 2022,” The Independent declared. “The most prominent election-deniers lost their races,” according to Business Insider. The Los Angeles Times crowed:… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The whole world is laughing. “US election results: When will we know who won?” the BBC wondered. AZCentral.com columnist Jon Gabriel wrote: “Friends in Hungary… Read More
LawCommentary
Democrats have no solutions to today’s crime surge. Here are four ways they shrug off the mayhem. 1.) Deep Denial Through Sept. 27, New Orleans… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
It happens every election year. While most Republicans proudly run for office as conservatives and then govern that way, Democrats typically conceal their liberal beliefs… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Democrats are napping peacefully through the U.S.-Mexico “border” crisis that they engineered. Perhaps these data will snap them from their slumber: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reports that the Mexican… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
“He’s so nice!” A key reason that Joe Biden occupies the White House is that too many voters considered him a nice guy. “It would be fun… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Strategic amnesia is a new syndrome that lets Democrats forget their being guilty of the same behavior for which they demonize Republicans—especially when the GOP… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Once upon a time, the intercom buzzed in the Oval Office. “Mark P. Mills is here, sir,” said America’s most powerful secretary. “He’s a senior… Read More
EnergyCommentary
“The Inflation Reduction Act invests $369 billion to take the most aggressive action ever—ever, ever, ever—in confronting the climate crisis and strengthening our energy security,”… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
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
PoliticsCommentary
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
PoliticsCommentary
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
EducationCommentary
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
SocietyCommentary
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
SocietyCommentary
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
PoliticsCommentary
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
EnergyCommentary
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
SecurityCommentary
“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
PoliticsCommentary
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
LawCommentary
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
SocietyCommentary
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
PoliticsCommentary
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
EducationCommentary
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
SocietyCommentary
“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
LawCommentary
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
LawCommentary
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
SecurityCommentary
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
