Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Seattle’s ‘autonomous zone’ is ‘Mad Max’ movie mayhem come alive
In the late 1970s, a series of action movies starring Mel Gibson showed what life in Australia would be like when the inmates, so to speak, take over the asylum and societal standards of behavior utterly collapse, and motorcycle gang members with zero moral bearings are unleashed on the public. That's Seattle, circa 2020. Published June 11, 2020
And like that, America’s history is scrubbed
The left is on a rampage right now, busily tearing down any semblance of American history from America's public eye. Sadly, they appear to be winning. Published June 11, 2020
Contact tracing is here, and it’s even more frightening than imagined
Never mind former President Ronald Reagan's warning of the most terrifying words in the English language -- "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." The contact tracer's is far worse: I'm from the government and I'm here to quarantine you. Published June 10, 2020
Sen. Josh Hawley and his righteous stand for religious rights
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley petitioned the Justice Department to launch a civil rights investigation into governors who use the coronavirus as a lynchpin to keep worshippers home. In short, he wants to know: How come Black Lives Matter can fill the streets, but church-goers have to stay home? Good question. Published June 10, 2020
God’s winnowing of America
Sane people are surveying America and wondering, what's happened to this country? Call this God's winnowing of America -- a time when He takes a look at His people, decides He doesn't like what He sees and allows for a time of great testing to separate the good from evil, the worthwhile from worthless, the usable from unusable. Published June 9, 2020
Militarizing police was a mistake
Peer past the madness of Antifa thuggery and all the bricks being thrown through storefront windows right now and the fact is police have needed reform for some time. Even from a very pro-police, pro-law and order perspective, the fact is: Police have most definitely needed reform. Published June 8, 2020
Socialists, with George Floyd, get their anti-police wedge
George Floyd isn't just a black man who tragically died at the hands of a white police officer. He's become the tool by which socialists, communists, anarchists can topple our nation's police forces, thereby toppling our nation's system of law and order. Published June 8, 2020
Democrats know their time grows short
Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., in a recent interview, said Democrats are making it easy for GOP-ers this November -- that a conservative sweep, due to COVID-19 crackdown madness and George Floyd-inspired out-of-control rioting, is in the works and too bad, so sad, but that's the way the liberal cookie crumbles. He's right. Published June 6, 2020
Democrats, party of lawlessness, press to collapse police
Eighteen state attorneys general -- Democrats, of course -- have petitioned Congress for "explicit authority" to investigate local police departments for evidence of abusive and unconstitutional action. Mark this moment as an official calendar day of Democrats' quest to collapse the law and order around the country. Published June 5, 2020
George Floyd doesn’t a ‘systemic racism’ make
George Floyd, by video accounts, died a horrific, even murderously minded death at the hands of an uncaring police officer who locked his black victim against the pavement for several painful minutes, knee on neck, as the life seeped from his body. But that doesn't mean all police hate blacks. Published June 4, 2020
Drew Brees takes patriotic, righteous — lonely — stand for America
Drew Brees needs support. It's the last chance to save a U.S. pastime from devolving into a pot of anti-American vitriol where police are painted as enemies, the country is painted as inherently racist, the Constitution is pounded as unjust, and the game -- remember the game? -- is just another platform to air political grievances. Published June 4, 2020
Chief Justice John Roberts and his tortured church logic
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. had a chance to make a stand for America's founding, for America's notions of limited government, for the concept of rights in this country coming from God, not government -- and he blew it. Big time. Published June 4, 2020
Democrats love the violence
The violence taking place on America's streets right now, and for the past few days, wouldn't be -- that's to say, there wouldn't be any -- except for one small teeny-weeny bitty bit of fact: Democrats want it. Democrats love the chaos. Horrible as it seems, the riots are being used by Democrats as a crisis that shouldn't be put to waste. Published June 3, 2020
Democrats, on coronavirus vaccine, emerge as sheep
A new poll from ABC News/Washington Post found 71% of Americans would either definitely or probably take a vaccine against the coronavirus -- but that group is comprised mostly of Democrats. By and large, conservatives, Republicans and Christians said they'd refuse. The takeaway? Baa-baa. Democrats are sheep. Published June 3, 2020
George Floyd a powder keg for pent-up COVID-19 angst
Social protests on behalf of George Floyd have escalated to the point of riotous. This is what happens when video surfaces showing cavalier police abusing a suspect to the point of death. But this is also what happens when you shut down schools, shut down sports and lock an entire nation of youth in their homes for months on end. Published June 2, 2020
Face mask frenzy a boon for Antifa types
America's youth have taken to the streets in Minneapolis, in Los Angeles, in New York City, in Washington, D.C., and more, setting fires, burning businesses, looting stores, tossing Molotov cocktails and fighting police. And they're doing it with the aid and assistance of mandated, recommended or acceptably worn facial coverings. Published June 1, 2020
Executive orders are ruining the country
Enough with the executive orders already. They're killing the Constitution; destroying the rule of law; upsetting the already delicate balance among legislative, executive and judicial branches; and seriously, setting the nation's course down a path of political and cultural upheaval. They're turning the Constitution into a mockery. Published May 30, 2020
Valerie Jarrett tips COVID-19 crisis end game as nationwide ‘vote-by-mail’
Valerie Jarrett, former White House whisperer in the Barack Obama administration, said on MSNBC that "vote-by-mail" should be the way to go in each and every state for elections this November. And forever after, for that matter. And with that, the left tipped its hat to its "never let a crisis go to waste" COVID-19 end game. Published May 29, 2020
COVID-19 kills 3 kids, flu kills 176 kids: Any questions?
President Donald Trump has called for the nation's schools to open this fall; the left, predictably enough, has fought back, characterizing such a viewpoint as mad -- mad! -- in the face of COVID-19 risks to children. But Trump's right. Keeping schools closed any longer would be all politics, all fear-fueled nonsense, zero science. Published May 28, 2020
U.S. coronavirus death toll a minuscule 0.03% of American population
Look at recent headlines and it's as if COVID-19 were sweeping across the nation as some sort of grisly ghost of death, leaving piles of bodies in the morgues, piles of bodies in the nursing homes, piles of bodies in the hospitals -- even piles of bodies in the streets. But do the math and the truth is far less earth-shattering. Published May 28, 2020
