Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Aaron Hernandez, a tragedy of wasted talent
Aaron Hernandez, of former NFL fame, killed himself in prison, the Department of Correction reported. The former New England Patriots tight end was found hanging from a bed sheet attached to his single-cell window in his Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass., shortly after 3 a.m. What a tragedy. A tragic end to a life that had become a tragedy. Published April 19, 2017
Jessica Chastain: I want my free birth control and I want it now
No, Jessica Chastain, of Hollywood fame, the women in your family didn't get pregnant because they didn't have access to the birth control pill. They got pregnant because they had sex. Published April 19, 2017
France’s Marine Le Pen warns: ‘Behind mass immigration, there is terrorism’
France's presidential hopeful, Marine Le Pen, called for a halt to immigration, saying in the lead-up to the first round of elections that all the refugees running across the border are decimating the country's culture. It's like Donald Trump for the French, and in female form. Published April 18, 2017
Voting machines go missing in lead-up to Georgia election
Oh my, this can't be good. Four voting machines were reported stolen from a precinct manager's car just days before Georgia's special congressional election. Published April 18, 2017
Arizona university shows all that is wrong with higher learning
A professor at Arizona State University let her students choose: Take the final exam or go join in a picket protest against President Donald Trump. So guess what the students chose? Three words: Fire this professor. Published April 18, 2017
‘Shattered’ debuts, peeling back curtain on Clinton dysfunction
A new book about Hillary Clinton's disastrous presidential run hits the book shelves Tuesday, and it's as suspected: Infighting and dysfunction marked the campaign every step of the way -- even before she made it to the stage of one-on-one face-offs with Donald Trump. Published April 18, 2017
The Islam clash in America
The arrest and charge of an Indian woman, Jumana Fakhruddin Nagarwala, for performing female genital mutilation on two young girls in Michigan, brings front and center the question of whether certain religions are compatible with America's Constitution. Certain religions -- ha. Let's be blunt here. We're talking about Islam. Published April 18, 2017
Burlington, Vermont, pro-LGBTQ mayor bans travel to North Carolina
Burlington, Vermont, Mayor Snowy Van Snowflake, also known as Miro Weinberger, has issued an executive order banning officials from traveling to North Carolina on any business-tied endeavor, in protest of the state's transgender bathroom policy. Tenth Amendment, anyone? Published April 17, 2017
Mike Pence’s North Korea warning a happy moment for America
Vice President Mike Pence sent a strong message North Korea's way Monday, telling the regime the "era of strategic patience is over," a reference to the former Barack Obama's foreign policy preference of dealing with Pyongyang's aggressions by turning a blind eye and pretending all was A-OK. This is a good time to be an American. Published April 17, 2017
Credit card debt enslaving the American consumer
The Federal Reserve released data earlier this month showing that Americans owe more than $1 trillion in debt on their credit cards, up 6.2 percent from a year ago. Note to consumers: Quit signing up for slavery. Published April 17, 2017
Why America needs God
Atheists and progressives will tell you America is a secular nation, built on secular principles, and that it's the job of the rising generations to make sure politics and religion never do meet. They are wrong. Published April 15, 2017
EPA perk — $15,000 tax paid gym memberships
It's nice to be a tax paid bureaucrat, isn't it? An employee at the Environmental Protection Agency was just busted for spending $15,000 on gym memberships for 37 people. Published April 14, 2017
John Bolton’s North Korea fix: Take out regime
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton offered up a pretty blunt assessment of the North Korea thang that went like this: Want to get rid of the nuke threat from that regime? Then take out the regime. Published April 14, 2017
Markwayne Mullin, U.S. congressman, says taxpayers aren’t his boss
Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican -- which means he should know better -- told a town hall audience just this week: I don't have to be here, ya'know. It's not like you're paying me. Published April 13, 2017
Brian Terry’s suspected killer arrested in Mexico
The suspected killer of Brian Terry, the U.S. Border Patrol agent who died in 2010 amid a hail of Fast and Furious fire -- the gun-running program brought to U.S. policy shores courtesy of Barack Obama and Eric Holder -- was arrested in Mexico. This. after seven years of Obama doing, apparently, nothing. Published April 13, 2017
Lansing, Michigan, changes quick on ‘sanctuary city’ tune
In one quick week, Lansing, Michigan, went from sanctuary city to not -- from lawless to lawful. Why? Pure and simple: Because Barack Obama's not there to protect them any more. Published April 13, 2017
Cosmopolitan mag’s ‘cancer’ diet tweet: ‘Are you insane?’
Forget Atkins. Move over cabbage soup. There's a new diet in town, one -- inadvertently as it may be -- prodded into the media limelight by Cosmopolitan magazine, and its name is "Cancer." Published April 13, 2017
DC VA director demoted after IG finds veterans at ‘risk’
A director at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., was just removed from his post after a government watchdog blasted the facility for unsanitary conditions. But the director wasn't fired -- only demoted. And he wasn't even named in the VA's announcement of his demotion-- as if we're still trying to protect those who can't even protect our nation's most honorable. Published April 13, 2017
Sean Spicer’s humble apology a sign of good governance
The left is going batty over Sean Spicer's Hitler mishap, mocking and scoffing the White House press secretary for mistakenly stating the former Nazi leader "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" against citizens or using "gas on his own people" the way Syria's President Bashar Assad did. But Spicer's humble rebound is commendable. Published April 13, 2017
Hillary Clinton wins Planned Parenthood’s ‘Champion of the Century’
Hillary Clinton may have lost her shot for the White House. But she's picked up a new title just the same. She's Planned Parenthood's "Champion of the Century." What an accomplishment, one that rises her above and beyond some of America's biggest baby-killer names. Published April 12, 2017
