Cheryl K. Chumley

Clemson University workshop: ‘What gender is this apple?’

"What gender is this apple?" Americo asked, in a Clemson Audio clip of the workshop posted on YouTube and at Campus Reform. "I don't know. Does it really matter?" And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why discussions that lead to considerations of more than two sexes ought to fall on deaf ears.

November 19, 2018

Stacey Abrams Stubborn: Democrats lose political capital when they can’t concede with grace

Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who admitted a week ago that she couldn't beat her Republican rival in the gubernatorial race -- after filing a lawsuit and demanding a provisional ballot recount -- still won't bow out gracefully and issue a proper congratulatory message to her now-newly elected governor, Brian Kemp.

November 19, 2018

Time to tighten absentee, mail-in and early voting rules

Until the 1980s, the majority of American voters -- save for those facing the most dire of extenuating circumstances -- had to physically travel to the polls to cast their ballots, and they had to do so on Election Day. We need to get back to those times.

November 17, 2018

Jim Acosta is smug, and no court ruling changes that

So CNN's Jim Acosta scored some court points with a ruling that orders the White House to give back his press pass, at least for the time being. But he still presents as a smug elitist.

November 16, 2018

Billy Idol, ‘80’s rocker, shows caravan how it’s done

Billy Idol, U.K.-born rocker of the '80's, became a U.S. citizen this week -- holding a tiny American flag as he took the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance. Holding the American flag. Swearing allegiance to America. Caravan-ers, are you paying attention?

November 16, 2018

Donald Trump tweets what we’re all thinking: Robert Mueller investigation ‘total mess’

President Donald Trump, in characteristic President Donald Trump fashion, took to Twitter to give voice to his latest opinion on the ongoing -- never-ending, it would seem -- special counsel investigation of Russia collusion being conducted by Robert Mueller, and said: "The inner workings ... are a total mess." Well, that's just well said.

November 15, 2018

Michael Avenatti’s arrest a good test for due process

Social media has gone into overdrive over the news Michael Avenatti, the anti-President Donald Trump trash-talking attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, was arrested for domestic abuse. But conservatives, at least, ought to save the crowing and mocking and celebrating for behind-the-scenes, at least for the time being.

November 15, 2018

Principles, honor and the coming American banana republic

Can you say banana republic? Fact is, the systems are crumbling. The gate-guards of principle are way too few and far between, way too quiet to be effective. And what's going to result from all this Election Day upset, soon enough, is a major shift in how U.S. elections will be conducted.

November 15, 2018

Google downplays ‘worst ever’ hack, as Russia, China named and blamed

Google, fresh off the farm of defending last month's leak of 500,000 or so users' sensitive information, has just been hit by another Internet hijacking -- the "worst ever," according to the company that caught the hack. And what's most eye-opening is the hack is the likely work of Russian and Chinese sources.

November 14, 2018

Monica Lewinski, the sad suicide that almost was

You have to feel sorry for Monica Lewinsky. At least a little.

November 14, 2018

Carey Hart, Pink’s hubby, all-in for 2nd Amendment: ‘Looters will be shot on sight!’

It's funny how personal tragedy can bring out the pro-Second Amendment sides of people.

November 14, 2018

Alex Trebek, Jeopardy host, talks #MeToo truths: ‘Scary time for men’

Alex Trebek, the 78-year-old long-time host of "Jeopardy," sat down with Vulture to talk politics and culture and #MeToo and more and said what we've all been thinking for some time, particularly post-Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court battle, and that's this: It's a "scary time" to be a guy. Indeed.

November 13, 2018

Michelle Obama, still hating, after all these years

Michelle Obama has a new book out where she vows she will "never forgive" President Donald Trump for spreading the birther talk about former President Barack Obama because -- her words -- it was "dangerous" and "deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks." Never forgive? That seems a bit harsh.

November 13, 2018

Hillary Clinton for president — again? Seems so, say top Dems

Hillary Clinton is supposedly running for president again in 2020. That's according to Mark Penn, a former pollster and adviser to Bill Clinton, and Andrew Stein, a leading Democrat figure from New York, both of whom penned a piece for the Wall Street Journal titled, simply, "Hillary Will Run Again." And all the Republicans go: Yes!

November 12, 2018

Jim Jordan, on the money: House loss is GOP’s own fault

Rep. Jim Jordan, in a letter to Republican colleagues, wrote that the GOP has only itself to blame for the loss of the House to the Democrats. Somebody give that man a gold star.

November 12, 2018

Science’s godless problem

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking made headlines from beyond the grave this October when, seven months after his death, his presumed last book was published bearing these words: "There is no God." And with that, the already wide gap separating science and religion, physical from spiritual, got a bit wider. What a shame.

November 8, 2018

Watch how you walk — A.I.’s got you ID’d by gait

China has just employed new "gait recognition" technology that can identify individuals by their manner of walk. This is police surveillance taken to a whole new level of frightening. Whispers are that America's airports might make a decent testing ground to bring the artificial intelligence here.

November 7, 2018

Democrats score points — but not big win

So Democrats flipped the House and won some points. But with the Senate firmly in Republicans' control, the left is hardly in a position to crow. What has to happen next is a return to proper politicking -- a laying aside of baseball bats and a call for quieter streets. Democrats, this is up to you to do.

November 7, 2018

MSNBC, on Monday, day before election, airs ‘vote counts’ of Florida with Gillum beating DeSantis

MSNBC, a day before the elections -- on Monday evening, before polls even opened for on-site voting -- put up a graphic on screen, on air, that showed the "vote counts" of the Florida governor's race with Democrat Andrew Gillum leading Republican Ron DeSantis with a 49.4 percent to 48.8 percent lead. Can you say what the heck?

November 6, 2018

Rush Limbaugh scorches in Missouri: ‘Hillary Clinton colluded with Russia’

Rush Limbaugh took to the stage in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to introduce President Donald Trump -- and in classic blunt and bold fashion, laid out the real case of why Democrats are so violent and angry these days. "The Democrats haven't even accepted that they lost the election in 2016," he said. Precisely.

November 6, 2018