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6 days ago | 
spectator.org | Deroy Murdock
Good Friday means different things to different people. For me, it’s the day I met my only pet. This was no puppy, iguana, or goldfish. In fact, as a little boy, I had a rooster and, thus, remain partial to these majestic creatures. My family and I named him Chickadee, after hilarious curmudgeon W.C. Fields’ film My Little Chickadee. I got him in second grade, when public school teachers hatched eggs in incubators and then gave their students the ensuing baby chicks on Good Friday.
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1 week ago | 
spectator.org | Deroy Murdock
Rumors are swirling that Republicans are weighing a tax hike on $1 million-plus earners. This would create a brand new top rate of 40 percent or even higher. Such a GOP-sponsored tax increase would be an excellent tool — provided that Republicans wish to splinter their ranks, sink President Donald J. Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill, slow the economy, and sandbag themselves in the 2026 midterm elections. Aside from that, this is a brilliant idea.
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1 week ago | 
newsmax.com | Deroy Murdock
More carrots, please!
Feeling flogged by sticks, Wall Street greeted President Donald J. Trump's "Liberation Day" with a bellowing Bronx cheer.
On April 2, Trump unveiled 10% across-the-board tariffs on all imports, plus reciprocal taxes tailored to foil foreign tariffs on U.S. goods. Financial markets opened April 3 and swiftly wilted.
After China slapped a retaliatory 34% tariff on American products early April 4, the key indices dropped like bombs from a B-52.
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1 week ago | 
dailysignal.com | Deroy Murdock
Today’s tariff rumbles have stirred a fascinating debate among conservatives who otherwise travel harmoniously aboard the Trump Train. Some consider tariffs an end, not a means. They argue that tariffs could generate $600 billion in annual federal revenues. They want these funds to underwrite tax cuts or to curb the national debt.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Deroy Murdock
OPINION: More carrots, please! Feeling flogged by sticks, Wall Street greeted President Trump’s “Liberation Day” with a bellowing Bronx cheer. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump announced 10% across-the-board tariffs on all imports, plus reciprocal taxes tailored to foil foreign tariffs on U.S. goods. Financial markets opened Thursday and swiftly wilted.
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2 weeks ago | 
spectator.org | Deroy Murdock
Brown, Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton are just a few of the elite universities whose federal funds have been challenged or withdrawn by the Trump Administration. Is Georgetown University next on that list? (RELATED: Higher Education’s 7 Deadly Sins)A series of letters from Edward R. Martin Jr., U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, to the school’s leadership and faculty (and Georgetown’s guarded replies) suggest as much.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsmax.com | Deroy Murdock
Elon Musk is helping President Donald J. Trump rein in profligate, reckless, and corrupt federal spending via the new Department of Government Efficiency.
Democrats are not amused.
Left-wing domestic terrorists have responded by firing bullets into the windshields of electric vehicles at Musk’s Tesla dealerships. They have torched Tesla charging stations, set Teslas ablaze in parking lots, and used Molotov cocktails to ignite multiple Teslas beside a Las Vegas showroom.
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3 weeks ago | 
spectator.org | Deroy Murdock
Conservatives are nervous about the prospects of keeping Florida’s Sixth Congressional District in Republican hands. Former Representative Mike Waltz left this seat in January to become President Donald J. Trump’s national security advisor. (Waltz is now ensnared in the so-called Signalgate matter.) State Senator Randy Fine is running for that post in Tuesday’s special election.
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4 weeks ago | 
spectator.org | Deroy Murdock
I just ran across this fascinating article that overlaps directly with what the New York Post calls Operation Overshare, AKA the Atlantic/Signalgate/leaked “war plans” story. (RELATED: From Watergate … To This?)Jeffrey Goldberg — the Atlantic’s flamboyantly dishonest, bottom-feeding editor-in-chief — now claims that the use of the Signal e-chat service by President Donald J. Trump’s foreign affairs team was, by itself, an act of recklessness.
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1 month ago | 
dailysignal.com | Deroy Murdock
Elon Musk is helping President Donald Trump rein in profligate, reckless, and corrupt federal spending via the new Department of Government Efficiency. Democrats are not amused. Left-wing domestic terrorists have responded by firing bullets into the windshields of electric vehicles at Musk’s Tesla dealerships. They have torched Tesla charging stations, set Teslas ablaze in parking lots, and used Molotov cocktails to ignite multiple Teslas last Tuesday beside a Las Vegas showroom.
