Cheryl K. Chumley

Democrats and their odd 12-year doomsday clock

Rep. Barbara Lee, in a recent Twitter post, said her fellow House mate, the freshman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was quite right: The world has only 12 years to properly address the environment or else face total devastation. Curious. Shouldn't it be 11 years and something-something by now?

April 9, 2019

Beto O’Rourke thinks Benjamin Netanyahu is ‘racist’

Do Democrats even know what racism is any more? They've slung the term around so much it seems as if they've forgotten its real definition.

April 8, 2019

Quitting your job? Shh — technology may tattle

IBM has developed artificial intelligence that can predict, with a reported 95 percent accuracy, when employees are just about to quit their jobs. Super snoopy surveillance? Or smart technology that can actually benefit both business and employee? The jury's still out. It's all in the ultimate application.

April 6, 2019

Joe Biden’s ‘hug’ joke poor taste, poor timing, poor all around

Joe Biden took the stage of the Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers event in the nation's capital, flashed his signature folksy, regular guy smile, and joked, "I just want you to know I had permission to hug Lonnie." Lonnie, being IBEW Int'l's male president, Lonnie Stephenson. Poor timing. Poor taste. Just plain poor all around.

April 5, 2019

Google shutters A.I. ethics board after LGBTQs attack conservatives

Google dissolved and disbanded its artificial intelligence ethics advisory board, just a week or so after its creation. Why? In brief: Heritage Foundation. In brief, the LGBTQ movement couldn't stand the thought of a conservative on the council, so the LGBTQ movement cried and demanded the conservative voice be removed.

April 5, 2019

Make way for the reparations

House legislators have brought forward a bill to form a new commission tasked with looking at the feasibility of paying black Americans for slavery -- for actually putting to law a reparations measure. You always know it's campaign time when Democrats start to turn oh-so-concerned eyes toward their black constituency again.

April 4, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bully-tweets Donald Trump on taxes

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bragged in a recent tweet that Congress wasn't requesting, but rather demanding with expectant air the president to release his tax returns. But let's see what the Constitution says about this.

April 4, 2019

Joe Biden’s defenders are wrong

Joe Biden has a lot of friends who've been busily explaining away his too touchy-feely behaviors lately as little misunderstandings -- that the former vice president is simply affectionate, more like a favorite family "uncle" of the effervescent variety than creepy or predatory. These defenders are wrong. Do they not have eyes to see?

April 4, 2019

California hospital’s crazy secret filming of women giving birth

A hospital in La Mesa, California, said it wanted to catch a drug thief in the act of stealing, and that's why it put cameras in delivery rooms that secretly filmed dozens of women as they gave birth -- as they were in the throes of their most vulnerable and exposed moments of life. What a tragic violation of privacies.

April 3, 2019

Lara Logan, ex-CBSer, slams Media Matters for ‘propaganda’

Lara Logan, former CBS correspondent, took to Fox & Friends to say that Media Matters is the "most powerful propaganda organization in this country." This is the same Logan who just courageously spoke publicly and critically about the left-leaning bias of the mainstream media. Hat tip, and hat tip once again.

April 2, 2019

Freedom, in the hands of an algorithm

The European Court of Human Rights, in 2016, found that artificial intelligence could predict the outcomes of cases heard by human judges with a 79 percent accuracy rating. Great. But perhaps the better lead would be this: A.I. used in the European Court of Human Rights failed to accurately predict outcomes in 21 percent of the cases.

April 2, 2019

Thomas Jefferson statue fight about seizing government

Hofstra University students have called for campus authorities to cart off a statue of Thomas Jefferson, saying the Founding Father was a slaveowner and therefore racist and therefore ought not be honored in the public sphere. Guess the Declaration of Independence he wrote ought to go then, too -- yes?

April 2, 2019

Twitter’s ‘Unplanned’ censor ‘error’ a sign of immoral times

A true-life movie of a former Planned Parenthood executive who changed her views of abortion and jumped into the pro-life camp was just released to both box office fanfare and Twitter shunning. It's a real left-right moment. A real showdown of left-right ideologies in culture and politics.

April 2, 2019

Kellyanne Conway’s well-deserved slap at Chris Wallace: ‘What are you, Oprah?’

Kellyanne Conway, White House counselor, gave a swift and saucy response to Fox News' Chris Wallace when he asked about the state of her marriage to vocal anti-President Donald Trumper George Conway, snapping off the one-liner, "What are you, Oprah?" It was a deserved slap-down.

April 1, 2019

Joe Biden’s presidential aspirations go bust

Joe Biden probably wasn't going to be the Democratic Party's pick for president because of his age -- he's too old. The Dems are being taken over by youthful, progressives and socialists. And of course he hasn't yet declared -- but all signs were pointing in that direction. Then came Lucy Flores. Thud went his chances.

April 1, 2019

Environmentalism done right

Against the backdrop of the Green New Deal and hand-wringing predictions of total global devastation within 12 years comes this, from the organization 4ocean -- a way to do environmentalism that doesn't rely on Big Government, U.N. treaties, shrieking politicians selling emission cut-backs, or taxpayer dollars. Imagine that.

March 30, 2019

Denim panties, the jeer of the fashion world

What genius conceived this? Denim panties, high-cut with pockets, are now selling for $470 per pair, thanks be the Parisian fashionista brand, Y/Project. Let's hope this look dies a quick death.

March 29, 2019

Southern Poverty Law Center, lefties’ favorite silencing tool, falls to race, sex scandals

The Southern Poverty Law Center has made big bucks over the years by labeling conservative organizations tools of hate and extremism. Now the finger-pointing has turned inward.

March 29, 2019

Jussie Smollett’s circle closes as Donald Trump sends in FBI, DOJ

Almost everyone thinks Jussie Smollett was handed a Get Out Of Jail free card after prosecutors slapped him only with the $10,000 he paid in bail and 16 hours of community service, but let go the whole false reporting of a hate crime thing. Even while claiming they had an airtight case against him. But his circle may be closing.

March 28, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, queen of annoying

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is about as annoying as they come. Given her socialist bent, it's already too much to expect Ocasio-Cortez to stay within the constitutional bounds with all her legislative goals. But it'd be nice if she could tone down the rants, rein in the hand-flinging.

March 28, 2019