Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Egyptian TV anchor mocks 9/11 ‘American wailers’
A video from the Middle East Media Research Institute shows an Egyptian television news anchor, on the eve of September 11, bluntly mocking Americans. Published September 12, 2017
Senate, led by frightened GOP, passes worthless anti-KKK resolution
Senators on Capitol Hill passed this week with both speed and unanimous voice a resolution that condemns white supremacist groups and that suggests President Donald Trump ought to do the same. This strikes as a frightened, "Hail, Mary" move to save their own political seats. Published September 12, 2017
Pizza Hut manager, drunk on power, tells Irma workers: ‘You cannot evacuate’
A Florida Pizza Hut manager, apparently drunk on the power of his pie-making position, threatened his employees with a chilling notice that stated those who evacuated would be punished. Talk about a guy who needs to get a life. Published September 12, 2017
Christians outpace FEMA in aid to hurricane victims
Faith-based groups -- Christian nonprofits, specifically -- have been busy bees of late, providing more aid to hurricane victims than even FEMA, the federal agency that's supposed to swoop to the scenes of natural disasters, assess the situation and speed the recovery and rebuilding process. Just goes to show: Where charity exists, government is not needed. Published September 12, 2017
Stifling free speech, one Pamela Geller-Robert Spencer-Michael Savage at a time
Conservatives of the country, take note: Voices are being squelched. Viewpoints are being stifled. Free thinking is being vilified. The First Amendment is being choked. And it's all being brought about by a leftist's favorite tool -- controlling in the name of protecting. Published September 12, 2017
Steve Bannon-CBS takeaway: Swamp creatures are winning
Steve Bannon, in an interview with Charlie Rose on "60 Minutes" on CBS, said elites in the Republican Party have been steadily working to "nullify" the results of the 2016 election, and cast President Donald Trump to the side. It doesn't get any clearer -- or more honest -- than that. Published September 11, 2017
‘Trump betrays everyone’: Republican strategist goes hypocritical
Republicans aren't reacting so well to President Donald Trump's step across the political aisle to Democrats -- something that came about, if truth be told, only after the GOP failed time and again to work with the White House on long-promised agendas, like Obamacare. Published September 11, 2017
Upset about Trump’s Harvey debt-ceiling deal? Republicans, you brought this on yourselves
Republicans on Capitol Hill are said to be reeling from President Donald Trump's reach-out to Democrats on fiscal matters. But they have nobody to blame but themselves. Published September 9, 2017
Maxine Waters, unfiltered: Alt-right wants ‘to kill me and others’
Rep. Maxine Waters, the California Democrat known best, perhaps, for her repetitive calls for impeachment of President Donald Trump, has found a new schtick, and it goes like this: The alt-right is coming to kill me. Published September 8, 2017
Jennifer Lawrence: Hurricanes ‘Mother Nature’s rage’ over Donald Trump
Hollywood's Jennifer Lawrence, who won an Oscar for best actress in 2017, took a dive into U.S. politics to basically blame President Donald Trump for the hurricanes. Published September 8, 2017
Donald Trump accused of siding with George Soros on DACA
The Americans for Legal Immigration PAC has sent out a statement accusing President Donald Trump of siding with billionaire George Soros on DACA. This is probably not true. Published September 8, 2017
Betsy DeVos, like Donald Trump, dinged for ‘cruel’ leadership
The left has found its newest talking point, and it's one that goes like this: All you Republicans are simply cruel and heartless -- vicious, even. That's what they're calling President Donald Trump, for DACA. That's what they're now saying about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Published September 8, 2017
D.C. school stabbing highlights outrages of diplomatic immunity
A girl police say stabbed a boy at her D.C. school is going to escape criminal charges -- at least for the time being -- because she is the daughter of a diplomat and therefore, seen as exempt from normal U.S. laws. Published September 7, 2017
ISIS scum call for jihad hits on Hurricane Harvey victims
ISIS terrorists have put out a call for jihadists to head to disaster areas in Texas and do whatever they can to put those outside the Islam faith "out of their misery." Published September 7, 2017
Donald Trump still beats Hillary Clinton, any poll day of the week
A new survey from NBC/Wall Street Journal finds that -- and this is the yada, yada, yawn part -- President Donald Trump's popularity with the American people has hit a new low. But here's the part that actually means something: The same survey found voters still like Trump more than Hillary Clinton. Published September 7, 2017
Hillary Clinton makes clear in new book: You’re all to blame
Hillary Clinton, failed Democratic nominee for president, said in her new book -- the one that's aptly titled, "What Happened" -- that conceding the White House to Donald Trump was "one of the strangest" moments of her life. Published September 7, 2017
DACA is unconstitutional and Obama’s the ‘cruel’ one
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, DACA, came into being on the wings of an unconstitutional act. That's the core theme here -- not that President Donald Trump is cruel. Published September 7, 2017
White Christians, the dwindling population
A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute finds that the number of white Americans who self-identify as Christian has fallen below the 50 percent line. Published September 6, 2017
Martha Plimpton, ‘Goonie’ actress, and her abysmal brag of ‘best’ abortion
Liberals like to say law-and-order Republicans who want to control border incursions and turn back illegals from America are cruel and heartless, haters of humankind. But they'll cheer this -- the bragging of an actress who commends Seattle for providing her the "best" abortion ever? Published September 6, 2017
Michael Reagan: My dad wouldn’t ‘kick the dreamers out’
Michael Reagan tweeted: "Fyi, my father would not kick the dreamers out of the US. He would find a way to work with Congress and lead." And now Reagan's tweet, taken out of context of several others he put out on social media, can be used to feed the narrative of the left, which wants to paint Trump as the cowboy who's riding into Illegal Town to lasso some cowering kids. Published September 6, 2017
