Cheryl K. Chumley

What a Volvo ad, a poet and America have in common

The poet e.e. cummings: Here's a guy who saw firsthand the effects of overreaching government -- and fled. That's the same spirit of freedom and quest for individualism that led to the founding of America, as well. Now comes Volvo with a television car commercial to remind us.

January 24, 2019

Franklin Graham slams ‘false’ news for stoking Covington death threats

Even Franklin Graham, weighing in on the Covington Catholic High School debacle, is calling out the media for false news now.

January 23, 2019

Medicare for All? My, oh my, far too many say yes

Oh say can you see -- all the brand new freebies? Fully 56 percent of Americans say they'd love to see a single-payer health insurance system in the nation that provided for every eligible man, woman and child at government, er, make that taxpayer, expense. Medicare for All. My, oh my.

January 23, 2019

Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin’s public servant problem

So Sen. Lindsey Graham wants to take a peek at several Barack Obama-era political curiosities, to put it kindly, that have left voters with bad tastes in their mouths -- and Democrat Dick Durbin thinks that's oh-so-stupid, worthy of mocking. But Durbin's laughter, thrown as it is Graham's way, is actually a face-slap to voters.

January 22, 2019

Notre Dame’s sad and sorry whitewash of Christopher Columbus

Notre Dame University President John Jenkins announced by email to students that he would be covering up a mural of Christopher Columbus in order to appease those who find the explorer offensive. Another hat tip to political correctness.

January 22, 2019

Arkansas takes stab at regulating human microchipping

The fact this is even a headline -- "Bill Would Regulate Microchipping Employees in Arkansas" -- shows just how far this country has fallen off its freedom scale. But the bill is a good thing, really.

January 22, 2019

Lady Gaga defines Christianity as — Not Mike Pence

Lady Gaga, in a Las Vegas concert, went on a bit of a tantrum against this White House, dropping the f-bomb at the president for the partial government shutdown and then, somewhat curiously, calling out the vice president as "the worst representation of what it means to be a Christian" because of his views of LGBTQ issues.

January 21, 2019

Rudy Giuliani — stop talking!

Rudy Giuliani is a great American, a stand-up guy and a solid law-and-order patriot who obviously loves his country, loves his president and wants to do right by both.

January 21, 2019

Education failure: Generation Z following Millennial footsteps to Big Government

Make way for an even bigger, more bloated government. Pew Research Center on Social & Demographic Trends has a new survey that shows Generation Z-ers, like the Millennials they follow in years, believe government -- not the individual, not the private sector -- is the better source to handle societal ills and solve national problems.

January 19, 2019

‘Deplorables Comedy Show’ facing bias, shunning from venues

Tour promoters and personnel of the "Deplorables Comedy Show" say they've been facing a bit of a backlash because of their conservative, pro-President Donald Trump views. Specifically, they're being turned away from certain venues in certain cities, they say.

January 18, 2019

Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan, has to make you laugh

Nancy Pelosi may brawl. She may even draw blood. But Donald Trump makes us laugh. And in the end, the race goes to the most inspiring.

January 18, 2019

Republicans finally getting it right

Republicans had two years of total control of Congress in which to pass provisions to tighten the border, in line with President Donald Trump's agenda and campaign promises. They didn't. They failed. Now? They're finally coming together on this shutdown and standing strong.

January 17, 2019

The burial of Steve King

Rep. Steve King from Iowa has become a pariah on Capitol Hill, distanced by Democrats and his own party Republicans alike for wondering aloud, during an interview with The New York Times, this question: "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization -- how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?"

January 17, 2019

CNN’s Don Lemon: Donald Trump is a bigot, America’s racist and I belong on $100 bill

CNN's Don Lemon, in a discussion with fellow CNNer Chris Cuomo about Rep. Steve King's "white supremacist" remark to The New York Times, called out President Donald Trump as a bigot, going so far to say that calling him that was not opinion, but fact. And then he suggested all of Trump supporters were the same.

January 16, 2019

Religious Freedom Day, a time to reflect — and fight

Religious Freedom Day is being celebrated at choice spots around the nation, giving Americans who take such matters for granted a brief moment in time to consider: Not all have it so First Amendment-y free and easy. In fact, a look at the statistics show most don't have it so free and easy when it comes to worshipping.

January 16, 2019

House Democrats pledge tax dollars for abortions

Well, here's a real winner of an issue for the left -- Democrats, in all their newly won legislative majority wisdom, have pledged to use their House powers to repeal a ban on federal dollars being used to abort babies. They're pledging, in essence, to use tax dollars for abortions.

January 15, 2019

Masculinity’s not the problem

Everywhere you look, masculinity is under attack. But the devil's in the definition. In a culture where masculinity's been defined more by sexual conquest than by providing for one's wife and children -- when a little black book means more than a marriage certificate -- no wonder the word "masculinity" brings a negative connotation.

January 15, 2019

Mitt Romney — but of course — demands Steve King resign

Newly-elected Sen. Mitt Romney stretched his neck across the Senate all the way to the House to issue his fellow congressional member Steve King, Iowa lawmaker, a harsh message that went like this: Resign. Now if only Romney could get as tough with Democrats as he does with Republicans -- perhaps he'd be a great senator.

January 15, 2019

Democrats + chaos = leftist control

Democrats aren't as stupid and short-sighted as they appear. For the far left -- and far leftism is what the Democratic Party of John F. Kennedy has devolved into -- the idea of government is not so much to secure rights that are inherent to the individual as it is to serve as a mechanism to advance a vision of collectivism.

January 15, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, bringing ‘gangster’ to government

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, hereafter known as the Gift That Keeps On Giving, has given yet another gift to the Republican Party -- a tweet bragging about the bills she's introduced using her best rap-happy twang.

January 14, 2019