Cheryl K. Chumley

China’s chilling surveillance shows U.S. need to slow AI roll

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken quite a beating from his critics in the press for his oft-perceived hyperbolic warnings against artificial intelligence. But the guy's got a point. Just look to China for the dark side of what could come, one day, to America.

March 12, 2018

California anti-cop coffee shop fine by me

A coffee shop in California has jump-started a national discussion over its refusal to serve police due to ridiculous perceptions the officers' presence might threaten owners "physical and emotional safety." That's fine. Let it be. Just so long as other coffee shop owners around the nation have the right to refuse service to, say, Black Lives Matter t-shirt wearers. Or, to gay couples seeking wedding cakes.

March 12, 2018

Maxine Waters back to her impeachment crowing self

Rep. Maxine Waters, who spent the better part of the inauguration season calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump -- before he even took over the White House seat, mind you -- and the better part of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation calling for the same, has found a new "let's get 'im, guys" cause to crow, and it's named Stormy Daniels. Honestly, Waters is like a parrot with a vocabulary of one word.

March 12, 2018

Donald Trump’s right — of course he can Twitter-block obnoxious peeps

President Donald Trump's private and personal Twitter account was just the topic of hot discussion in federal court because lawyers for plaintiffs who were blocked from his account say he doesn't have the right to do that. Umm -- no duh, but yes? Twitter's a private company; users can very well be private citizens, even Trump.

March 9, 2018

Survey says: Sex, not social media, gotta go

A new survey to gauge how addicted Americans are to social media shows that -- well, Americans are pretty dang addicted to social media. So addicted, in fact, that a good chunk of participants said they'd rather go a year without alcohol, a year without coffee and a year without sex before going a year without social media.

March 8, 2018

Pizza Hut pie-ordering, TV-pausing shoes ultimate in American laziness

It's one thing to want takeout, or delivery. But Pizza Hut's Pie Tops II takes this convenience to a new level. To a new level of American indulgence and laziness, to put it bluntly.

March 8, 2018

McDonald’s flips ‘M’ to ‘W’ for weird nod at International Women’s Day

McDonald's, apparently hoping to show women how much they care, has flipped its signature golden arches on all its digital channels from "M" to "W" in some sort of executive level hat tip to International Women's Day. That's "W" for women, not weird, or What The Freak, in case you're wondering. Guess it's better than handing out pink hats with female genitalia atop, a la Women's March style.

March 8, 2018

Congressional donations from AI movers, shakers make lawmakers poor watchdogs

Rep. John Delaney, founder of the A.I. Caucus, wrote that Congress needs ensure this fast-moving industry of artificial intelligence is "good for working people, good for businesses and good for our economy," he said. He might have added that A.I. is good for lawmakers looking for the next lucrative investment, too.

March 8, 2018

Sam Nunberg’s supposed ‘rough day’

Sam Nunberg told the Daily Caller in an exclusive that he's sorry for verbally unleashing on White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and calling her, among other vile names, a "fat slob." His excuse? He was having a "rough day," he said. Well, with all due respect and all, but that's not really a "rough day." That's an inner beast leaking forth.

March 7, 2018

Stephen Colbert mocks at God: Make Oprah ‘Run!’

Stephen Colbert, late-night comedian, sat down with famed talker Oprah Winfrey and turned on the charm for God to make her run for the presidency in 2020. It was a mocking bit, no biggie for atheists but at least somewhat insulting for Christians. But the deeper takeaway is the hypocrisy it reveals of the left.

March 7, 2018

Crybaby teachers get their pay raises

Here's a truth the left doesn't want to hear -- and the right doesn't want to touch: Teachers, as a group, as a collective, as a unionized body, are oftentimes a bunch of crybabies.

March 6, 2018

Nikki Haley, Israel’s best friend in years

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told a listening American Israel Public Affairs Committee audience -- and a no-doubt listening set of anti-Israel U.N. players -- that she was sick and tired of the globalists at the global body hitting unfairly at the Jewish state. It must come as at least a small comfort that America, once again, has the tiny country's back.

March 6, 2018

Scientists race to finish line for AI that reads human minds

In "Black Mirror," a Netflix series about a futuristic world moved by high-tech, scientists have found a way to peer inside human minds -- to surveil their thoughts to separate truth from lies. Well move over, TV watchers. This scenario is now a case of fiction finding reality.

March 5, 2018

Gun control stalls as cooler heads stand strong

Ahh, the beauty of a democratic-republic where laws outlast whim and the three separate branches of government serve as checks and balances upon each other. It's because of this Founding Father genius that gun control measures aimed at stopping law-abiding Americans from exercising their Second Amendment rights aren't going anywhere in Congress right now.

March 5, 2018

Donald Trump’s rocky anti-gun reelection road

President Donald Trump just announced plans to seek reelection in 2020, and as such, appointed digital guru Brad Parscale as his campaign chief. Well and good. But if Trump doesn't reel in his gun-control rhetoric, conservatives aren't going to back him for long.

March 3, 2018

Americans, nearly half, say universal basic income makes good AI sense

Nearly half of Americans support universal basic income to offset jobs lost to robots and artificial intelligence, according to a new Gallup poll. That means nearly half of Americans support using tax dollars to pay people for being alive.

March 2, 2018

Condoleezza Rice’s brilliant defense of guns

Condoleezza Rice told the largely liberal panel and audience of "The View" on ABC that had it not been for guns, her family and her neighbors would've suffered even more during the segregated society that was in place in her youth in the South. Bam. That's it in a nutshell -- this is why founders saw fit to put in place a Second Amendment. It wasn't a right to hunt they were defending; it was a God-given right to protect one's self and one's family from harm. And specifically: from harm from the government.

March 2, 2018

Walmart bans sales of toy guns

Walmart, not to be outdone by Dick's Sporting Goods, has jumped aboard the gun ban trade and sent out a corporate letter that makes clear its own stores would be restricting sales of firearms and ammunition to those above age 21. And with a sort of "oh yeah, how 'bout this" flip of the ace card, Walmart also announced it was barring sales of toy guns, too. Toy guns. Really now, is this where we are as a society?

March 1, 2018

Dick’s egregious if ‘even one life is saved’ gun control lie

Dick's Sporting Goods announced that its stores would no longer sell "assault-style" weapons and nobody under the age of 21 would be allowed to purchase firearms of any kind. But why insult the intelligence of the American people in the process? Why justify the move by using a tired leftist argument that goes like this: If only one life can be saved -- then fill in the blank?

March 1, 2018

Don Young: If Jews had guns, they wouldn’t have burned

Alaska's Republican congressman, Don Young, suggested during a speech that touched on gun control that if Jews during Adolf Hitler days in Germany had been armed, they wouldn't have been put in the ovens and killed. His words, predictably enough, generated outcry among the snowflakes on the left. But why? Tyrants and dictators hate guns in the hands of their citizenry for a reason.

February 28, 2018