Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Illinois governor a mind-boggling blot to religious freedom
The governor of Illinois -- the Democratic governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker -- made an astonishing announcement just recently that went like this: Due to Covid-19, churches may have to remain closed for a year. A year. Dear Churches of America: This is why you don't cave to government -- ever. Give an inch, government takes a mile. Published May 8, 2020
Southern California sheriff takes heroic stand for citizen freedom
A sheriff in Southern California, Chad Bianco of Riverside County, told local supervisors earlier this week that he wouldn't enforce stay-at-home orders because, get this, he thinks citizens can think for themselves. Move over, doctors. Step aside, nurses. Bianco is much more a real hero -- not just someone doing his job Published May 8, 2020
New York COVID-19 numbers make clear it’s time to reopen America
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in recent televised press conference that the majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the state came from the stay-at-home set, not the out-and-about set -- meaning, once again, the government's projections, predictions, forecasts and conclusions on the coronavirus were, gasp, wrong. Published May 7, 2020
COVID-19 bringing devastating groupthink consequences
The most damaging and lasting effects of COVID-19 on America won't be so much ones of physical or medical as they will be mental. Where Americans once thought for themselves, the government has taken control. Where Americans once decided on their own, bureaucrats have seized the reins. Published May 7, 2020
COVID-19 ‘new normal’ of collectivism doesn’t belong in America
The standard in America is not and will not be this "new normal." The standard in America is freedom, erring on the side of individual rights not government dictates. Fight the "new normal." The "new normal" that's being pitched is not America. Published May 6, 2020
Kansas City church surveillance about as un-American as it gets
If what's going on in Kansas City right now won't get you off the couch, into the streets to protest, onto the phone to demand government accountability -- well then, nothing will. Published May 5, 2020
Executive orders are not laws
COVID-19 has shined some important light on the tendency of government to do as Founding Fathers warned -- stretch and reach and overreach, and tread into places it doesn't belong. And as the executive orders come fast and furious from governors' mansions around the nation, it's high time for a reminder: Orders are not laws. Published May 5, 2020
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: A blowhard cracking a COVID-19 whip
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened citizens and city-goers with arrest, imprisonment and fines if they dared step foot into the streets, in violation of her COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Wow. Talk about cracking the government whip. Can you say Constitution, anyone? How about 'Bite me, you blowhard, Lori" -- can you say that? Published May 4, 2020
Virginia COVID-19 smack-down means churches should open, and open now
The Department of Justice just issued a statement suggesting Virginia acted above and beyond its rightful call of COVID-19 government duty by closing churches to more than 10 people while allowing some private businesses to host untold numbers of shoppers. Quite right. Published May 4, 2020
COVID-19 threatens U.S. election integrity
For the first time in months, Democrats are looking with anticipation and excitement to November's presidential election -- and it has nothing to do with their dismal candidate, Joe Biden. It's because of COVID-19 and the chance to do some heavy Election Day damage. Published May 2, 2020
Forced face masking is a civil rights offense
Major U.S. airlines have announced that as a condition of riding their friendly skies, passengers must all put on a face mask. Let the muzzling of America commence. Let the -- hopefully! -- lawsuits against the mask nazis begin, as well. Published May 1, 2020
Elon Musk, COVID-19 hero: ‘Give people back their g—d— freedom’
Who knew Elon Musk, of Tesla CEO fame, would emerge such a freedom-loving hero from this COVID-19 disaster called Government Overreach -- but he has. In an epic earnings telephone rant, Musk called out the "fascist" social distancing measures ordered by government. Published April 30, 2020
Californians should do a ‘Stormin’ Norman’ over closed beaches
California's Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, is poised to order all beaches in the state closed because citizens dared to defy his social distancing order by flocking to the seashore, COVID-19 be danged. And this should be the collective Californian response: Storm the beaches anyway. Published April 30, 2020
YouTube censorship of doctors bucking COVID-19 crackdowns raises red flags higher
The few Americans who weren't worried about the fate of America's Constitution and freedoms and system of limited government, post-COVID-19, sure as heck are now. Nothing like some good old fashioned censorship amid a constitutional crisis to raise the red flags on authoritarianism. Published April 30, 2020
Georgia kicks off chilling door-to-door COVID-19 blood collections
Let the government-pressed coronavirus-tied blood collections of citizens begin. And begin they have. They have in Georgia at least, where officials with the state's Department of Public Health recently announced that "to learn more about the spread of COVID-19," they're going door-to-door to ask citizens for blood. Chilling. Published April 28, 2020
Coronavirus hype biggest political hoax in history
The new coronavirus is real. The response to the coronavirus is hyped. And in time, this hype will be revealed as politically hoaxed. Published April 28, 2020
Anthony Fauci should explain ‘$3.7 million to the Wuhan laboratory’
President Donald Trump's legal counsel, Rudy Giuliani, suggested a good U.S. attorney general move about now would be to investigate key members of the past Barack Obama administration on the Wuhan, China, laboratory, to see what they knew and when they knew it. And then he mentioned Anthony Fauci specifically. Published April 27, 2020
Founding Fathers rolling in graves at the COVID-19 constitutional crisis
The Founders would be shocked to see America, circa COVID-19 2020. In fact, they're probably rolling in their graves right now, watching the Constitution they so carefully created -- with regard for individual rights as bestowed by God, not government -- being crushed by a hammer of coronavirus fears. Especially on fears that are so far misplaced. Published April 25, 2020
Chicken killing sounds alarm on coronavirus threats to freedom
A farmer in Minnesota told the Star Tribune he had to kill 61,000 of his chickens because the coronavirus crisis had dried up demand for their eggs and he had no way to continue feeding them. Open the freaking country already. America must maintain self-sufficiency with the food supply, if Americans are to remain free. Published April 24, 2020
Gretchen Whitmer shows folly of executive orders
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the "I am zee law!" lady of American politics, is poised to lose some of her powers, as legislators say they're going to intervene and vote and reel her in a bit. Well, ain't that about time. Executives aren't kings. Legislators hold the true authority in determining the extent of executive powers. Published April 24, 2020
