Cheryl K. Chumley

DACA is unconstitutional and Obama’s the ‘cruel’ one

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, DACA, came into being on the wings of an unconstitutional act. That's the core theme here -- not that President Donald Trump is cruel.

September 7, 2017

White Christians, the dwindling population

A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute finds that the number of white Americans who self-identify as Christian has fallen below the 50 percent line.

September 6, 2017

Martha Plimpton, ‘Goonie’ actress, and her abysmal brag of ‘best’ abortion

Liberals like to say law-and-order Republicans who want to control border incursions and turn back illegals from America are cruel and heartless, haters of humankind. But they'll cheer this -- the bragging of an actress who commends Seattle for providing her the "best" abortion ever?

September 6, 2017

Michael Reagan: My dad wouldn’t ‘kick the dreamers out’

Michael Reagan tweeted: "Fyi, my father would not kick the dreamers out of the US. He would find a way to work with Congress and lead." And now Reagan's tweet, taken out of context of several others he put out on social media, can be used to feed the narrative of the left, which wants to paint Trump as the cowboy who's riding into Illegal Town to lasso some cowering kids.

September 6, 2017

Virgin Islands, poised for Irma, preps to seize guns, fight NRA

In the Virgin Islands -- the government's coming for your guns.Why? Hurricane Irma's on the way, and the governor thinks the National Guard, not you, ought to have them.

September 6, 2017

Regnery’s New York Times shot heard ‘round the publishing world

Regnery, the nation's premier publisher of conservative books, has cut ties with The New York Times over long-simmering allegations the newspaper took a decided left-leaning slant in picking which books to feature on its best-seller lists.

September 5, 2017

First Amendment on skids as free expression falls to fears of discrimination

A recent poll from Virginia Commonwealth University found that half of the state's residents think freedom of speech should play second fiddle to concerns of discrimination. Another way to put it: A growing number of U.S. citizens say censorship is a good thing.

September 5, 2017

New York Times seeks readers who’ve stopped ‘supporting Trump’

The New York Times has a new feature on its opinion pages, and it's one that goes like this: "Did You Stop Supporting Trump? We Would Like to Hear From You." Funny, but if memory serves, the newspaper didn't put out a call to such masses when Barack Obama was president.

September 5, 2017

Utah nurse vs. cop shows dangers of militarized police

A standoff between a Utah nurse and a local detective shows the slippery slope of awarding police departments military cast-off equipment -- and the aggressive mindset that can result.

September 5, 2017

Nikki Haley puts foot down: ‘Enough is enough’; North Korea ‘begging for war’

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley put out a blunt assessment of U.S.-North Korea relations that went like this: The regime is "begging for war," she said.

September 5, 2017

Hillary Clinton, Lindsey Graham: Standing tall together for DACA

President Donald Trump is expected to put a halt to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but only after allowing Congress six months to create a replacement. And now RINOs are tripping all over themselves to join forces with the Democrats to save young illegals from deportation.

September 5, 2017

Donald Trump’s poll showing: Candid, but non-‘presidential’ — but that’s all good

President Donald Trump, according to a new poll from Fox News, gets high marks when it comes to speaking his mind, decent marks for competency, and not-so-great marks for displaying a "presidential" manner. This is good news. Simply put: Who cares if America's top leader is perceived as cooperative and -- worse -- nice?

September 2, 2017

Donald Trump, amid whispers of ‘hard time’ with John Kelly, tweets only praise

President Donald Trump, according to various media reports -- which, to be fair, always paint this White House as a stumbling block of inefficiency, infighting and chaos -- is having a tough time adjusting to his Chief of Staff John Kelly's way of doing business. Is this the media's way of suggesting Trump's about to fire another?

September 1, 2017

Forget ‘Father’s Day’ — snowflakes seek ‘Special Person’s Day’

First came Mother's Day. Then came Father's Day. And now, if a so-called "early child activist" -- whatever that means -- has her way, Australians everywhere will sub out the "father's" for the phrase "special person's."

September 1, 2017

Sheriff David Clarke a ‘fascist,’ New York mag slams

Sheriff David Clarke suddenly resigned his post as chief of Milwaukee County's law enforcement, ostensibly to take a job within President Donald Trump's administration. And New York magazine promptly wrote a piece slamming him as a "fascist."

September 1, 2017

Texas high school dumps ‘Robert E. Lee’ name for ‘student safety’

A school in Texas has dropped the "Robert E. Lee" from its high school name out of concerns for "student safety," administrators said. Student safety -- ha. That's code for: We don't want antifa- and Black Lives Matter-type thugs storming the campus.

August 31, 2017

Kamala Harris, potential presidential runner, pushes for single-payer

Kamala Harris, the California senator who first rose to national fame by over-aggressively interrogating Jeff Sessions during attorney general confirmation hearings and, second, by hinting at a 2020 presidential run, has found a new cause: Pressing for single-payer health care, a la socialist style.

August 31, 2017

Donald Trump stutter-steps Obamacare, border for tax reform — yawn

President Donald Trump has turned political attention in recent days to tax reform, promising via Twitter to make the "so badly needed" cuts and changes that Americans want. Well and good. But what of Obamacare?

August 31, 2017

Donald Trump’s OK to military gear for cops a cautious optimism, at best

President Donald Trump has announced that police may indeed scarf up surplus military equipment for local community law enforcement uses -- a reversal of restrictions put in place by Barack Obama back in 2015. This isn't, as the saying goes, necessarily cause for cheer.

August 31, 2017

Warren Love, Republican lawmaker, suggests lynching for Confederate statue vandal

Title this: What not to do in politics. A Missouri Republican lawmaker, state Rep. Warren Love, for the Osceola district, suggested on Facebook that the vandal of a Confederate statue in Springfield National Cemetery ought to be lynched.

August 31, 2017