Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Berkeley City Council rolls out red carpet for criminals
Berkeley City Council members, in all their wisely owl wisdom, just voted in a reform bill for police that requires them to stop issuing traffic tickets and that will, over the course of time, cut their departmental budgets by 50%. And all the criminals and would-be criminals go: Yay! Published July 17, 2020
Michael Savage hit with anti-Semitic death threats — and MS-13 defending Democrats remain mum
Radio talk show star Michael Savage has been hit with at least two vicious anti-Semitic death threats in the last couple weeks -- so vicious, in fact, local detectives have labeled them a "new level of hate and rage," he said, in an email. So where's the outrage from the Black Lives Matter fawning, MS-13 defending left? Published July 16, 2020
Anthony Fauci should be viewed with ‘skepticism and caution’
Listen up: Fauci has indeed been wrong on the coronavirus from the get-go. And he never should have been given a White House platform to push his wrong, wrong, wrong viewpoints in the first place. Published July 16, 2020
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp clamps face mask mandates, thankfully
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has just issued an executive order barring localities from mandating face masks be worn in public. And voila, freedom reigns. People's choice returns. Sanity makes a show. Published July 16, 2020
Donald Trump is the wall against anti-American globalism
If President Donald Trump doesn't win this November, and former Vice President Joe Biden takes over the White House, then it's goodbye America, hello globalism. Goodbye America, hello new world order. It doesn't get any clearer than that. Published July 9, 2020
Kanye West and the great PPP bamboozle
Kanye West is a billionaire -- and not the quiet kind. The loud, look-at-me, I've got a billion bucks to my name kind. The bragging, boasting, I-just-confirmed-a-deal-for-a mega-mansion-in-Wyoming kind. He's also the recipient of a multimillion dollar taxpayer-funded PPP business loan. Call it the great PPP bamboozle. Published July 8, 2020
DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic posts show troubling double standard
Philadelphia Eagles' wide receiver DeSean Jackson went on social media and posted some outrageous anti-Semitic comments attributed to Adolph Hitler and the response from the collective in the left-leaning media and activist and political worlds was: yawn. Oh Democrats, thy name is hypocrisy. Where is the loud leftist calls for apology? Published July 7, 2020
Scientists long ago exhausted their COVID-19 capital
Hundreds of scientists have joined forces and penned a letter to the World Health Organization chiefs to get an official, authoritative ruling that the new coronavirus is airborne, meaning transmitted by breathing contaminated air. Well, ba dum dum on that. Salt, meet grain. Why should we listen to these charlatans any longer? Published July 7, 2020
Donald Trump’s garden of heroes good — but civics class is better
The new National Garden of American Heroes proposed by President Donald Trump is a patriotic and interesting idea. But better would be if Trump used his executive powers to compel public schools around the nation to teach civics' classes, or else lose funding. Published July 6, 2020
America groans under the weight of disunity
The discord in this country has reached eerily high levels in recent times, and it's a wonder if amicable relations among differing communities, differing demographics, differing cultures can ever be restored. Published July 4, 2020
Jesus as lesbian is Hollywood’s next affront
Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris Jackson, has a starring role in an upcoming movie, "Habit," as the character of Jesus -- as a lesbian. Could the assault on Christianity grow more ridiculous? Published July 2, 2020
Socialism and secularism linked at the choke point
As former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn noted in an excellent op-ed: It's a battle of principalities taking place out there, all right, and the sooner freedom-loving Americans recognize these "dark forces" as the true enemy, the sooner freedom-loving Americans can get on with the business of winning back the country. Published July 2, 2020
Jenny Durkan, decrying socialist lawlessness, now reaps what she sows
Seattle's Jenny Durkan, the Democrat who let thugs take over city streets has accused City Council socialist Kshama Sawant of inciting behavior that led to a swarming of demonstrators inside City Hall and at Durkan's own home. And she wants an investigation; for Sawant to possibly be expelled. This is about as tit-for-tat as it gets. Published July 1, 2020
Second Amendment, amid turmoil, both blessing and comfort
It's a jungle out there. And if you're a law-abiding American citizen -- or even if you're not -- you must be counting blessings and praising founders right now for a little thing called the Second Amendment. Published June 30, 2020
With Parler, conservatives have terrific window to beat back ‘tech tyrants’
This is a wide-open window of opportunity conservatives can't afford to let close. For the seemingly first time since the whole Big Tech censorship war on conservatives has been waged, those on the ideological right are fighting back, en masse, on free market terms. Published June 30, 2020
Face mask virtue signaling and COVID-19 lies have to stop
One of the Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has a policy requiring customers to wear face masks in order to receive in-facility service -- but at the same time exempts its own employees working in the food preparation area from having to cover their faces. Why? The answer is tortured logic. Published June 29, 2020
Police for me, not for thee
Minneapolis City Council members who pressed hard to defund police have now turned around and voted themselves a private security detail that costs taxpayers roughly $4,500 a day. They've spent $63,000 so far, Fox News reported. This is hypocrisy at its worst; elitism and arrogance at its root. Published June 29, 2020
American individualism falling to socialism, globalism, collectivism
Joe Biden said that as president, he would make the wearing of face masks mandatory for every man, woman and child in America. Let freedom reign? Not exactly. This seems to be the new normal: Government ordering citizens this way and that way; government deeming what's best for individuals, and dictating accordingly. Published June 27, 2020
Parler topples ‘tech tyrant’ Twitter in Apple ‘News App’ store
Parler, the emerging social media place for conservatives -- particularly for those conservatives who've been caught by the self-righteous censors of Big Tech trap -- has just toppled Twitter as the Number One "News App" on Apple's app store. Call it the rebellion of the free speech advocates. None too soon, either. Published June 26, 2020
Marie Harf wrongly slanders Confederates as traitors
Liberal pundit Marie Harf said that "process," not mob violence, should dictate the outcomes of these structures, but that in the end, the Confederate statutes should be removed because the Confederates were "traitors" to the country. Spoken like a true elitist. Spoken like an elitist who's forgotten or worse, dismissed, historical truths. Published June 26, 2020
