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Deroy Murdock

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I reluctantly went to my first Grateful Dead show — and discovered one of Earth’s great religions

From reluctant concert-goer to devoted Deadhead, one fan's transformative journey following Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead reveals music as...

15.03.2026 10

Fox News

Deroy Murdock

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Gavin Newsom

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Gavin Newsom

If you vote for Gavin Newsom for president, what do you get? If you find out, tell him. He would love to know. The Democrat governor of California...

13.03.2026 4

Townhall

Deroy Murdock

FBI’s Fulton County Election Raid: Better 6 Years Late Than Never

The FBI’s Jan. 28 raid on Fulton County, Georgia, election offices was sorely needed. It should have happened in 2020. Americans should be proud...

07.02.2026 70

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Minneapolis ICE Haters Are Not So Into Peace, Love, and Understanding

WARNING: Images from this piece may disturb some readers. The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have put major heat on......

03.02.2026 7

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Neither Marxism nor Investment Bans Will Make Housing Great Again

As bone-chilling winds lash Manhattan, Gotham Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vaunted “warmth of collectivism” sounds almost appealing.  Almost.  The...

30.01.2026 30

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Dems Slam Trump for Family Separation … and Family Preservation

President Donald J. Trump is the most powerful man on Earth. World powers bow down before him. But the one thing that he cannot do... Read More The...

27.01.2026 3

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Dem/Left Shields Worst of Worst Illegal-Alien Rapists, Killers

The Democrat Left wants Americans to believe that excessively armed ICE agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere are kidnapping law-abiding immigrants en...

20.01.2026 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Mamdani’s New Property-Seizing Tenant Czarina Blames Whitey for Everything

Cea Weaver makes Zohran Mamdani look like Jeb Bush. New York City’s neo-Marxist mayor tapped Weaver, 37, as his Tenant Czarina. The alumna of...

12.01.2026 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

HOT Tax Would Let Liberals Pay More, Sparing Everyone Else

Former U.S. Senator Willard Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is neither the first nor the last billionaire to say that he wants to pay higher taxes, ergo,... Read...

05.01.2026 9

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Calendarcare: One Way Out of GOP’s Health Care Mess

As 2025 wanes, and 2026 approaches, the calendar itself offers Republicans a partial solution to its health care woes. Since Obamacare’s 2010...

20.12.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Dems Deserve Brickbats for State-Tax Hikes on Gop’s Federal-Tax Cuts

Filthy, vile, and disgusting. And I would add: Reprehensible, repulsive, and rebarbative. These words perfectly describe the...

15.12.2025 20

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Three Cheers for the Pentagon’s Two-Step Boat Attack

All week long, I have tried to cry for the narco-terrorists who survived a U.S. military strike on their drug-laden boat, only to be snuffed... Read...

07.12.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Five Minutes of Homework Would Spare Dems a Day of Grief

If shooting fish in a barrel is unfair, exposing Democrat failures is like shooting fish after they have been filleted. It would be more sporting......

29.11.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Democrats Love Epstein

Breaking news: The sun rose in the east today.  In an equally predictable development, Democrats screamed at Republicans for allegedly doing what...

24.11.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Democrats Love Epstein

Breaking news: The sun rose in the east today.  In an equally predictable development, Democrats screamed at Republicans for allegedly doing what...

22.11.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Democrats Blame Republicans for Multiple Democrat Failures

A key reason Democrats make so many Republicans grind our molars is that they will not take responsibility for their own gargantuan failures....

17.11.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

As Schumer Shutdown Comes to a Halt, Trump Proposal Could Turbocharge Patient Power

The 41-day Schumer Shutdown finally is winding down. Democrat intransigence petered out and not a nanosecond too soon. On Oct. 9, CNN quoted a...

12.11.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Dems to Democrat Base: Drop Dead

Democrats are fighting so ferociously to keep the federal government closed, it’s as if they were trying to kill a GOP-sponsored scheme to exempt...

03.11.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Hey, Cuomo: Get Lost! Give Gotham a Stark Choice for Mayor 

Political experts are right: Rather than today’s three-man muddle, New Yorkers deserve a clear, binary choice for mayor. So, Andrew Cuomo should...

27.10.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Gotham’s Next Mayor: A Commie, a Crook, or a Crime-Fighter

As the battle for New York’s City Hall approaches its Nov. 4 climax, Republicans and conservatives disagree on what to order from the mayoral...

19.10.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Trump is Right: Antifa Deserves Extinction

President Donald Trump correctly designated Antifa a domestic-terrorist group. “Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further...

14.10.2025 6

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Shutdown Exposes Democrats’ True Love: Illegal Aliens

It’s hard to believe, but true: Democrats love illegal aliens more than Big Government itself. The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives...

06.10.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Violent Democrat-Left Aims to Melt ICE

Joshua Jahn, 29, was just the latest perpetrator in the explosion in Democrat-Left political violence. Jahn’s assault on an Immigration and Customs...

28.09.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Zohranomics Promises Havana on the Hudson

Zohran Kwame Mamdani has had a fantastic week. The Democratic Party’s nominee for mayor of New York City, a self-avowed democratic socialist,...

20.09.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Has Long Been Target of Leftist Intolerance, Violence

“We got him.” With those words, Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox announced Friday morning’s arrest of Tyler Robinson, 22, in connection with...

13.09.2025 6

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Illegal-Alien Poster Boys Confirm Democrats’ Taste for Mayhem

Democrats sure know how to pick ’em. The donkey party’s new poster boys are not the kind of people whom most Americans would carry on their......

30.08.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Uproar as White Male Cast as Retired Robot in Broadway Hit

Actor Andrew Barth Feldman’s imminent substitution for the Tony-winning and severely talented Darren Criss in “Maybe Happy Ending” has launched...

25.08.2025 8

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Commie Mamdani’s Ugliest Words, So Far

Among the many words spewed by Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the Democratic Party’s Marxist-Leninist nominee for mayor of New York City, it’s tough to...

11.08.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Sore-Loser Democrats Fueled Trump-Hating Russia Hoax

The U.S. Justice Department is 100% justified to conduct a criminal investigation of Obama, former CIA directors John Brennan and James Clapper,...

05.08.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Dems Should Give Mammy the Duke Treatment

Democrats have a Mammy problem. The solution lies in the GOP playbook, if they are smart enough to open it. Democrats seem puzzled about how... Read...

15.07.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Being Trump Means Never Having to Say, ‘I’m on Break!’

WhiteHouse.gov, the official website of the Executive Mansion and its chief resident, features a full-screen photo that encapsulates our age....

26.06.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Trump Cannot Deploy National Guard Swiftly nor Slowly Enough to Please Democrats

“I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them... Read More The...

23.06.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Pharmacy Benefit Manager Parasites Drive Drug Costs Ever Higher

President Donald J. Trump is right. Too many pharmaceuticals are too damn high, especially compared to the flea-market prices that foreign patients...

17.06.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Caught on Tape: Democrats Once Loved Medicaid Work Requirements

According to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Republican plans to tighten Medicaid a little bit are not just unwise. They will trigger...

10.06.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Ditch COVID-19 Spending Spree: Congress Can Save $1.16 Trillion by Returning to 2019 Budget Projection Levels

Fiscal conservatives lately have argued that the federal government should spend as it did before COVID-19 ruined everything. Thankfully, the global...

03.06.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Senate Should Make House’s Big, Beautiful Bill Bigger, More Beautiful

On Thursday at 6:54 a.m., the U.S. House passed the Trump and Republican-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. (Yup, that is this 1,118-page measure’s...

27.05.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

There’s No Love Like the Democrats’ Love of Illegal Alien Criminals

What is the greatest love of all? As Whitney Houston sang, it’s “Learning to love yourself.” To poet Eman Awad, the greatest love is “The......

20.05.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

This Opinion Just in … Most Favored Nation Is a Most Flawed Notion

Last November, American voters overwhelmingly sent the GOP to Washington, D.C., to Make Government Small Again. So, why are Republicans importing...

15.05.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Six Flags Over Pennsylvania Avenue’s Latest Surprise: UN Ambassador Michael Waltz

In addition to his presidential duties, Donald Trump operates Six Flags Over Pennsylvania Avenue. This taxpayer-funded amusement park promises never...

03.05.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Fighting Oligarchy Tour Devolves Into Fueling Hypocrisy Express

Democrats can’t even do socialism right. America’s two highest-profile socialists once had real Marxist street cred. Rep. Alexandria...

26.04.2025 4

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Abrego Garcia: The Dem-Left’s Inexplicable Nominee for ‘Maryland Dad’ of the Year

Democrats and their leftist media allies treat “Maryland dad” Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia like a devoted member of a PTA chapter in College...

21.04.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Tariffs Aren’t Only Road to Reindustrialization

Today’s tariff rumbles have stirred a fascinating debate among conservatives who otherwise travel harmoniously aboard the Trump Train. Some consider...

12.04.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

As Tariffs Tank Markets, Economy Craves Tax Cuts

More carrots, please. Feeling flogged by sticks, Wall Street greeted President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” with a bellowing Bronx cheer. On...

08.04.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Atlas Network’s Private Development Efforts Abroad Put USAID to Shame

Elon Musk is helping President Donald Trump rein in profligate, reckless, and corrupt federal spending via the new Department of Government...

25.03.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Ignoring All the President’s Women, Vanity Fair Ludicrously Accuses Trump of Nazi-Style Sexism 

For a fresh look at how infantile, indolent, and insane the “Hate Trump” media have become, look no further than Olivia Campbell’s latest...

18.03.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Democrat Sore Losers Staged Epic Fail During Trump’s Soaring Speech

President Donald Trump’s triumphant address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night won the widespread approval of the American...

06.03.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Democrats Should Concede DOGE’s Diagnosis or Confirm That They Are Fools

President Donald J. Trump and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk are trying to rightsize the entire federal enterprise, just as...

04.03.2025 8

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

Why Does the Left Coddle Illegal Alien Child Rapists?

When it comes to giving illegal aliens sanctuary, services, and second chances, “Just say, ‘No’” is not in the Democrat–Left’s...

25.02.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock

No going back: The left will fail in trying to reverse Trump’s DEI death sentence

Americans bid farewell to DEI: The left is unlikely to reverse the fatal blow that President Donald Trump dealt this system of state-sponsored racism.

22.02.2025 7

New York Post

Deroy Murdock

After DEI, What’s Next?

Ding dong, DEI is dead! But what will replace it? Democrats will try to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to diversity, equity, and inclusion. But the...

18.02.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Deroy Murdock