Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Bernie Sanders’ youths abandoned him for the bong
Sen. Bernie Sanders is finding out the hard way that getting the young people to come to a rally is one thing; getting them to the ballot boxes is entirely another. And for a generation being raised at a time when half the states have either legalized or decriminalized recreational marijuana smoking, one has to wonder: Are they just too stoned to vote? Published March 6, 2020
FISA court’s ban of Carter Page spy guys doesn’t go far enough
Federal agents who botched the whole Carter Page wiretapping process -- and by botched, of course, it's meant politicized and weaponized -- have been banned from pursuing spy permissions through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. And thank goodness for that. That's a common-sense move. Published March 5, 2020
Bernie Sanders wins, even when he loses
If socialism is an evil, which it is, then pretending this election season could sound the death to socialism with a decisive Donald Trump victory would be both fallacy and foolish. Socialism, like other evils, doesn't disappear. It just morphs into something else. Published March 5, 2020
Joe Biden squeaks uncomfortably close win over socialism in Texas
Former Vice President Joe Biden, in Texas, only squeaked out a win over socialism -- by fewer than 3 percentage points. And that's just too uncomfortably close for all of America to breathe easy. Published March 4, 2020
Beto O’Rourke is back and bobbing for Joe Biden
Beto O'Rourke, the arm-bouncing, cadence jabbering Howdy Doody of Texas -- the white Barack Obama, as some affectionately dubbed -- has come out of hiding and come back to politics. He's bobbing for Biden. Published March 3, 2020
Democrats treat black voters like they’re stupid
Democrats seem to be struggling with black voters. Has President Donald Trump, with his chugging economy and prison reform plan and immigration control stolen the left's thunder? Could be. But speaking to blacks on the campaign trail shouldn't have to drift into rapper shake-the-booty land. Honestly, it's not that tough. Published March 3, 2020
Pete Buttigieg exits, but Democratic field remains insane
Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has dropped his run for the White House, opening doors for former Vice President Joe Biden to take his votes, or maybe Sen. Bernie Sanders, or former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, or one of the women, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. It's a real potatoes, potahtoes moment for Democrats. Buttigieg was Bernie is Bloomberg is Biden is -- etc., etc., etc. Published March 2, 2020
Big Brother grows alarmingly bigger
Once upon a time, America was free. Now, it's not so free. And this story out of Coral Gables, Florida, about a man's court fight to rid his community of a privacy-dinging, constitutionally questionable automated license plate reader program, helps explain why. Published February 29, 2020
Larry Kudlow at CPAC: ‘The Lord loves free enterprise’
Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council -- meaning he's the key White House money policy guy -- said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, while sharing the stage with Ivanka Trump, that this election is, simply put, a pit of capitalism against socialism. Published February 28, 2020
Democrats, panicked at Bernie Sanders, float Michelle Obama — even Nancy Pelosi
Sen. Bernie Sanders is making the Democrats very uneasy -- so uneasy, in fact, that leftist insiders are reportedly whispering up a storm about the potential to bring in Sherrod Brown, Michelle Obama, even Nancy Pelosi and others seen as more in line with the party's values. Published February 28, 2020
Bernie Sanders, Communist Cuba’s newest newspaper tool
A newspaper in Cuba has seized on Bernie Sanders' kind comments about its authoritarian leadership literacy program and and used them for propaganda purposes to show how even a member of the U.S. government can sees the good in the Gestapo-esque. Hmm. Who would've seen that coming, right? Published February 27, 2020
Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun activism casts cold chill
Michael Bloomberg's gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety, is pouring millions upon millions upon millions of dollars into the 2020 elections -- $60 million to be exact, with $8 million alone slated just for Texas. And while leftists may cheer, fact is, freedom-minded Americans should be feeling the chill. Published February 27, 2020
The standard is the Constitution
The Democratic Party has been corrupted by socialist influences -- no doubt about that. But what's interesting is a) the Democrats brought this on themselves and b) the fact that they did has made all of America focus on the debate between democratic socialism, versus socialism, versus communism, versus whatever. We need not, however. Published February 27, 2020
Donald Trump would ‘KO’ Bernie Sanders, says Rasmussen
In a Rasmussen kind of world, in a Rasmussen kind of scenario, President Donald Trump would crush Sen. Bernie Sanders in a race for the White House if elections were held today. Two thumbs up to the man in the MAGA hat. Published February 26, 2020
Bernie Sanders stumbles on ‘authoritarian’ socialism
Even Van Jones couldn't believe Sen. Bernie Sanders didn't do a better job on the Democratic debate stage with the "socialism question" and explaining why the particular brand he favors won't lead to, well, death. Honestly, that's 'cause he can't. Socialism is to America like a square peg is to a round hole. Published February 26, 2020
Bernie Sanders should have been stopped in 1981
Sen. Bernie Sanders is the Democrats' front-runner, and the fact he's an open socialist -- hidden communist -- is the clanging of the gong, the sounding of the alarms, that this country, this land of the free, is one batch of votes from becoming the land of the lost. The fact is Sanders never should have held public office in the first place. Published February 25, 2020
Bernie Sanders admits he hasn’t a clue of the cost of his socialist stuff
In a "60 Minutes" interview with host Anderson Cooper, Sen. Bernie Sanders acknowledged that he's not yet put a "price tag" on much of the proposals he's pushed. That's kind of a big concern -- yes? So was his obvious inability to look Cooper in the eye while answering certain questions. Deceive much? It's the socialist way. Published February 24, 2020
America is in peril, with wolves prancing at the door
America stands at a crossroads. Freedom -- or not. If we can't trust our intel and law enforcement, whom can we trust? But more than that, America's government is in turmoil. America's culture is in a tailspin. Yet: Americans, if enough want, could put a sure stop to the prancing of the wolves at our door. Published February 22, 2020
Russia Collusion Two wafts into being
The New York Times just released a report about the intelligence community's concerns that Russia is winding into gear to reelect President Donald Trump this November. Make way for the Russia Collusion Two, same as the first: all lies, lots of impeachable possibilities. Published February 21, 2020
Richard Grenell critics ought to remember Leon Panetta
President Donald Trump has named Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, as the new acting director of national intelligence, and now the anti-Trumping faction is going nuts, claiming Grenell does not possess the necessary requirements to successfully serve in the position. Hmm. But Leon Panetta, ex-CIA chief, did? Published February 20, 2020
