Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Democrats could learn a thing from Bernie Sanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders is planning to participate in a town hall on Fox News, and for that, his far leftist cronies in the far leftist media are wrinkling noses, wondering why. But here's where the socialist-minded presidential hopeful deserves some credit: He's got guts to enter what others in his base perceive as a hostile environment. Published April 9, 2019
Iran, on cue, resumes ‘Death to America’
Iran, the nation that former President Barack Obama told us to trust, has been busily broadcasting its trademark "Death to America" chant as payback for President Donald Trump's designation of the Revolutionary Guard as a foreign terrorist organization. And now the Obama copycats are nibbling nervously at their nails. But why? Published April 9, 2019
Democrats and their odd 12-year doomsday clock
Rep. Barbara Lee, in a recent Twitter post, said her fellow House mate, the freshman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was quite right: The world has only 12 years to properly address the environment or else face total devastation. Curious. Shouldn't it be 11 years and something-something by now? Published April 9, 2019
Beto O’Rourke thinks Benjamin Netanyahu is ‘racist’
Do Democrats even know what racism is any more? They've slung the term around so much it seems as if they've forgotten its real definition. Published April 8, 2019
Quitting your job? Shh — technology may tattle
IBM has developed artificial intelligence that can predict, with a reported 95 percent accuracy, when employees are just about to quit their jobs. Super snoopy surveillance? Or smart technology that can actually benefit both business and employee? The jury's still out. It's all in the ultimate application. Published April 6, 2019
Joe Biden’s ‘hug’ joke poor taste, poor timing, poor all around
Joe Biden took the stage of the Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers event in the nation's capital, flashed his signature folksy, regular guy smile, and joked, "I just want you to know I had permission to hug Lonnie." Lonnie, being IBEW Int'l's male president, Lonnie Stephenson. Poor timing. Poor taste. Just plain poor all around. Published April 5, 2019
Google shutters A.I. ethics board after LGBTQs attack conservatives
Google dissolved and disbanded its artificial intelligence ethics advisory board, just a week or so after its creation. Why? In brief: Heritage Foundation. In brief, the LGBTQ movement couldn't stand the thought of a conservative on the council, so the LGBTQ movement cried and demanded the conservative voice be removed. Published April 5, 2019
Make way for the reparations
House legislators have brought forward a bill to form a new commission tasked with looking at the feasibility of paying black Americans for slavery -- for actually putting to law a reparations measure. You always know it's campaign time when Democrats start to turn oh-so-concerned eyes toward their black constituency again. Published April 4, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bully-tweets Donald Trump on taxes
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bragged in a recent tweet that Congress wasn't requesting, but rather demanding with expectant air the president to release his tax returns. But let's see what the Constitution says about this. Published April 4, 2019
Joe Biden’s defenders are wrong
Joe Biden has a lot of friends who've been busily explaining away his too touchy-feely behaviors lately as little misunderstandings -- that the former vice president is simply affectionate, more like a favorite family "uncle" of the effervescent variety than creepy or predatory. These defenders are wrong. Do they not have eyes to see? Published April 4, 2019
California hospital’s crazy secret filming of women giving birth
A hospital in La Mesa, California, said it wanted to catch a drug thief in the act of stealing, and that's why it put cameras in delivery rooms that secretly filmed dozens of women as they gave birth -- as they were in the throes of their most vulnerable and exposed moments of life. What a tragic violation of privacies. Published April 3, 2019
Lara Logan, ex-CBSer, slams Media Matters for ‘propaganda’
Lara Logan, former CBS correspondent, took to Fox & Friends to say that Media Matters is the "most powerful propaganda organization in this country." This is the same Logan who just courageously spoke publicly and critically about the left-leaning bias of the mainstream media. Hat tip, and hat tip once again. Published April 2, 2019
Freedom, in the hands of an algorithm
The European Court of Human Rights, in 2016, found that artificial intelligence could predict the outcomes of cases heard by human judges with a 79 percent accuracy rating. Great. But perhaps the better lead would be this: A.I. used in the European Court of Human Rights failed to accurately predict outcomes in 21 percent of the cases. Published April 2, 2019
Thomas Jefferson statue fight about seizing government
Hofstra University students have called for campus authorities to cart off a statue of Thomas Jefferson, saying the Founding Father was a slaveowner and therefore racist and therefore ought not be honored in the public sphere. Guess the Declaration of Independence he wrote ought to go then, too -- yes? Published April 2, 2019
Twitter’s ‘Unplanned’ censor ‘error’ a sign of immoral times
A true-life movie of a former Planned Parenthood executive who changed her views of abortion and jumped into the pro-life camp was just released to both box office fanfare and Twitter shunning. It's a real left-right moment. A real showdown of left-right ideologies in culture and politics. Published April 2, 2019
Kellyanne Conway’s well-deserved slap at Chris Wallace: ‘What are you, Oprah?’
Kellyanne Conway, White House counselor, gave a swift and saucy response to Fox News' Chris Wallace when he asked about the state of her marriage to vocal anti-President Donald Trumper George Conway, snapping off the one-liner, "What are you, Oprah?" It was a deserved slap-down. Published April 1, 2019
Joe Biden’s presidential aspirations go bust
Joe Biden probably wasn't going to be the Democratic Party's pick for president because of his age -- he's too old. The Dems are being taken over by youthful, progressives and socialists. And of course he hasn't yet declared -- but all signs were pointing in that direction. Then came Lucy Flores. Thud went his chances. Published April 1, 2019
Environmentalism done right
Against the backdrop of the Green New Deal and hand-wringing predictions of total global devastation within 12 years comes this, from the organization 4ocean -- a way to do environmentalism that doesn't rely on Big Government, U.N. treaties, shrieking politicians selling emission cut-backs, or taxpayer dollars. Imagine that. Published March 30, 2019
Denim panties, the jeer of the fashion world
What genius conceived this? Denim panties, high-cut with pockets, are now selling for $470 per pair, thanks be the Parisian fashionista brand, Y/Project. Let's hope this look dies a quick death. Published March 29, 2019
Southern Poverty Law Center, lefties’ favorite silencing tool, falls to race, sex scandals
The Southern Poverty Law Center has made big bucks over the years by labeling conservative organizations tools of hate and extremism. Now the finger-pointing has turned inward. Published March 29, 2019
