Cheryl K. Chumley

‘In God We Trust’ splashes into Florida’s public schools

God is definitely not dead -- particularly in Florida. Beginning this week, all public schools around the state will be required -- required! -- to display signs on their campuses that read "In God We Trust."

August 15, 2018

Omarosa Manigault Newman’s sad and ineffective political pirouette

It's not that Omarosa was fired. It's that she was ever hired in the first place. Let the underscoring begin.

August 14, 2018

A.I. goes eye-gazing for personality traits

Researchers have discovered a way to stare artificial intelligence deep into the windows of humans' souls and emerge with a score card on personality as it pertains to four traits: neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness. Eye-gazing -- technology's next venture toward omniscience.

August 13, 2018

Antifa, BLM: The left’s version of free speech

Say free speech to a Republican and you get a very different definition than when you say free speech to a Democrat.

August 13, 2018

‘Hate speech’ is sneaky leftist censorship, not law

The left's censorship argument dangles precariously on the meaningless claim that in America, there's no room for hate speech. And I say meaningless because first off, nobody can define what constitutes hate speech and second off, even if they could, there are no criminal laws against speaking one's mind in this country -- except in cases of inciting riots.

August 10, 2018

Laura Ingraham run through shredder of lying national media

Fox News host Laura Ingraham sparked massive backlash around the country when she opened a monologue by calling for the lynching of all black people, the gunning down of illegals at the border, the ripping of little brown-faced babies from their mommas -- "not gringos," she called them -- and the chicken cage incarceration of any documented citizen that couldn't produce proof of membership in either the KKK or the NRA. Oh wait. She didn't really. My bad. But in the twisted minds of the left, she might as well have.

August 10, 2018

Title VII solution for social media censorship

All this social media censorship talk that's been fueling conservative angst in recent months has had the distressing effect of putting the ideological right exactly where the left wants it -- in a regulatory box with nowhere to go. The solution? The ideological right needs to create a new battlefield. How about Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?

August 9, 2018

Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO: We don’t ‘shadowban’ conservatives — ‘period’

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a radio show reported by The Hill that his company does not engage in shadow banning of conservative voices -- "period." Case closed, move on, nothing to see here, "period." Oh, but au contraire, says none other than the president of the United States.

August 9, 2018

Rashida Tlaib, Michigan’s Muslim in the House, a crown jewel of anti-Donald Trumpism

Rashida Tlaib is poised to become the first Muslim woman elected to Congress. She's also massively anti-President Donald Trump, and that, combined with her gender, her religious beliefs and her progressive leanings, makes her the new darling of the Democratic Party, the new speed dial on mainstream media's approved list of political pundits.

August 9, 2018

Alex Jones is Michael Savage — is John and Jane Q. American

First came Alex Jones, and the outright booting of his Infowars news product from several top social media sites. Then came headlines of Sebastian Gorka, facing a so-called "soft ban" at Fox News. But really, radio rock star Michael Savage has them both beat. He's been banned by Britain; booted from various markets. And all that -- despite the fact he's a top ratings draw, a major market asset, a proven voice who's weathered many a storm.

August 8, 2018

Chris Murphy, Democratic senator, a classic case of what’s wrong with politicians

Sen. Chris Murphy just made national headlines for suggesting that social media giants like Facebook and YouTube shouldn't stop at Alex Jones and Infowars, but rather go forward and censor, censor, censor until all signs of objectionable speech are removed from the Internet. Here's a guy who doesn't belong in political office.

August 8, 2018

A.I. leaders (naively) vow no lethal autonomous weapons

More than 160 companies with divisions dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence just signed on to a pledge to "neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons," or LAWS, the text states. That's nice; very peace-keeping-ish. But that's also a bit naive.

August 8, 2018

Alex Jones takedown makes him martyr of censorship cause

Alex Jones of Infowars has been booted from YouTube, Apple, Spotify and Facebook for what the tech giants consider his rampant hate speech. And with that, Jones has become the face of the censorship fight. This seems counterproductive to those who would silence him, yes?

August 7, 2018

Making sense of Ana Navarro and other fake conservatives

Ana Navarro is about as much a conservative as Barack Obama is a potato. At the risk of being misunderstood, that's to say -- not. Yet Navarro happily masquerades as CNN's token Conservative in the House pundit.

August 7, 2018

NAACP to sell Donald Trump as racist to score election points

The NAACP has found the Democratic Party's new campaign message -- and land ho, it's all about President Donald Trump's so-called racism. Guess Nancy Pelosi's "Resistance" and Maxine Waters' "Impeach" weren't working so well.

August 6, 2018

Donald Trump, unlike Barack Obama — not a food stamp president

Barack Obama was dubbed the food stamp president -- and for good reason. President Donald Trump is anything but.

August 6, 2018

Would you hire this face? Facial recognition technology says — maybe not.

To test Biometric Mirror's biases, and to see how artificial intelligence might rate my personality based on a snapshot fed into facial recognition software, I submitted a photo to Wouters for analysis. The findings were inaccurate, to say the least.

August 3, 2018

This war on the Bible must stop

America's colonists were predominantly English -- predominantly Catholic or Protestant -- and that meant their book of worship, no matter how you slice it, was the Bible. So it's not just disconcerting on the Christian front to see the war being waged in this country against public shows of the Bible. It's actually historical revisionism.

August 3, 2018

Jim Acosta, CNN: Maybe journalists should march and chant, ‘We’re not the enemy of the people’

Jim Acosta of CNN fame -- the guy who just suffered a rather rude chant of "CNN sucks" while trying to broadcast live from President Donald Trump's rally in Tampa, Florida -- went on a rather wild rant with fellow CNNer Brooke Baldwin about this White House's characterization of the press as the enemy of the people. And in short: He shouldn't have.

August 3, 2018

Donald Trump’s approval numbers put Barack Obama’s to shame

A new poll from Rasmussen Reports -- the same outlet that correctly predicted the Electoral College winner of the November 2016 presidential election -- finds that 50 percent of likely U.S. voters approve of President Donald Trump's job performance. That's more than Barack Obama touted at this time in his own presidential history.

August 3, 2018