Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Hillary Clinton’s astonishing post-State access to top secret docs
Hillary Clinton may have resigned her secretary role at the State Department in 2013 -- but her access to top secret and classified information didn't end then. This is outrageous, particularly when the reasons for her continued access were tied to this: to pen her memoir. Published March 31, 2017
Jeff Sessions hints at more punishments for sanctuary cities
Jeff Sessions said sanctuary cities may face more backlash from the administration than a loss of funding -- that the White House is considering other punitive measures, as well. Good. No punishment is too small for sanctuary cities that go out of their way to help the criminal element. Published March 31, 2017
Trump’s mental fitness under snarky media attack
The snarky mainstream media, apparently tiring of Russia and frustrated over Devin Nunes' refusal to remove himself from his House Intelligence Committee chairmanship, has decided to revisit an issue that's lagged a bit -- the notion of President Donald Trump's mental fitness. But what of King Barack Obama's absolute hubris? Published March 30, 2017
Tomi Lahren invite triggers student calls for violence
Some students at East Carolina University have vowed to go on a rampage and trash stuff if Tomi Lahren, conservative firebrand, is allowed to come and speak. 'Cause that's what the college kids do these days when they don't get their liberal way. Published March 30, 2017
Obama ethics lawyer slams Ivanka hiring as unethical
Oh good. We were all wondering what Barack Obama's people thought of President Donald Trump's decision to hire his daughter, Ivanka, for an official White House job -- and now we can sleep again. According to Norman Eisen, the former ethics lawyer to Obama, yep, it's nepotism alrightee. Published March 30, 2017
North Carolina tries for reputation repair, repeals bathroom bill
Enough with the bathrooms already. Fact is: No amount of legislation can change a boy into a girl, and a girl into a boy. But North Carolina lawmakers are back at it, trying to please businesses, LGBTQs and those who see bathroom gender laws as discriminatory with a so-called repeal -- that doesn't make anyone happy. Published March 30, 2017
Nikki Haley’s full-bird flip to the United Nations
Oh, Nikki Haley. What a gem you've become. The South Carolina flag-flap is forgiven -- so, too, the endorsement of Marco Rubio for president. Kicking it hard to the United Nations has lit up her political star once again. Published March 30, 2017
Luis Gutierrez goes off reservation to defend sanctuary cities
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Democrat from Illinois, has gone the proverbial off the reservation -- out to lunch, into the Twilight Zone, off his rocker, what have you -- in a Wednesday morning CNN "New Day" defense of sanctuary cities. He calls them Fourth Amendment cities, and says ICE has no legal right to intrude, absent a warrant. Published March 29, 2017
Hillary Clinton’s scold of Trump forgets Obama’s own faults
Hillary Clinton overcame her months of self-imposed silence to take the national stage and denounce President Donald Trump as a misogynist who's harming America -- while forgetting, at least publicly, Barack Obama's own White Male Only administration. Published March 29, 2017
Michael Moore warns: Donald Trump’s snuffing human life
Michael Moore, that Hollywood walk of famer who rose to national prominence by making movies showing why conservatives suck, now has a new exclamation mark to add to that sentence: President Donald Trump is destroying the world and extinguishing all of humanity. Oh man, this is bad, very bad. Published March 29, 2017
DNC shake-up, as Tom Perez puts entire staff on chopping block
To say the Democratic National Committee is going through a staff shake-up would be an understatement -- more like a house cleaning. Sorry, Dems, it's not enough. Might I suggest a "Do Not Burn Police Cars" policy? Published March 29, 2017
Maxine Waters likens anti-Trump fight to patriotism
Rep. Maxine Waters, who's been heading up the call to impeach President Donald Trump for weeks, now has a new way of patting the anti-administration movement on the head and cajoling them along: by telling them they're true patriots. The hits do keep on coming with Waters, don't they? Published March 28, 2017
Devin Nunes tarred as criminal in astonishing Democrat attack
A California Democrat, Rep. Eric Swalwell, who also serves on the House Intelligence Committee -- there's an oxymoron for ya -- called for his chairman, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes to step down, saying his interactions with the White House seem a "cover up." A "cover up" for what, exactly? As Swalwell suggested: for criminal behavior. That's an astonishing claim. Published March 28, 2017
Brexit chiefs eye 2-state solution for California — Calexit
Cut California in two -- that's the message from the primary Brexit deal-makers, Nigel Farage and Arron Banks, who have joined with key Republicans to split the state along liberal versus regular folk lines. Good: California's been a thorn in conservatives' paws for far too long. Published March 28, 2017
Donald Trump mistakenly turns to Democrats for Obamacare deal
President Donald Trump is getting ready to pull off the deal of the decade -- and the fact that he's jumping in bed with Democrats to do it isn't exactly comforting. Published March 28, 2017
Donald Trump’s kiss-off to Obama-era climate change
President Donald Trump is poised to shred Barack Obama's whole climate change rule book on Tuesday. But he needs to make sure he goes far enough. The EPA has been nothing but a regulatory bully for the last eight years. It's time to boot the bully from the playground. Published March 28, 2017
AP’s hope-and-prayer hit at North Carolina bathroom bill
The Associated Press came out with a cost estimate of how North Carolina's so-dubbed "bathroom bill" -- you know, the one that makes clear that boys must stay in their own restrooms, and girls, likewise -- is going to cost the state $3.76 billion over the next dozen or years. What the estimate is based on is the hope and prayer that nobody asks questions. Because under scrutiny, the numbers pretty much crumble. Published March 28, 2017
‘Religious left’ pressing for God to take on Donald Trump
Progressives with greater and greater frequency are starting to cite biblical principles to get their political ways. Published March 27, 2017
Joe Biden’s laughable, misplaced ‘regret’ of missing presidency
Joe Biden, vice president under Barack Obama, came out a few days ago saying he is sad and sorry he didn't run for president -- that yes, he regrets his decision to sit out the race. But truly, there are a host of other things Biden ought instead regret. Published March 27, 2017
United Airlines’ leggings ban stokes angry feminist fires
United Airlines, in case you missed the news cycle the last 24 hours, has stirred a major social media controversy with its demand that two little girls cover up their leggings or fly some other plane. Published March 27, 2017
