Cheryl K. Chumley

Medicaid work requirement makes sense and builds character

President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" includes provisions to boot illegals off Medicaid and make those between the ages of 19 and 64 years old work at least 20 hours per week as a condition of receiving the benefit. These are common-sense reforms.

May 21, 2025

Bold and Blunt: Trump’s Middle East miscalculation

Donald Trump is the best president this nation has seen since Ronald Reagan days. But even he's only human, and therefore, capable of missteps. And his recent deals in the Middle East may indeed one day come back to haunt America.

May 21, 2025

Bold and Blunt: Benjamin Franklin’s advice for America

If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, what would his words be to America? Most notably, he would disapprove of the growth of government and the loss of individual liberties.

May 20, 2025

Biden has cancer. The Democrat Party is a cancer

Former President Joseph R. Biden has a prostate cancer that is so advanced that it's impossible to believe he didn't know he had it while president; his wife didn't know he had it while president; and those who surrounded him in the medical world, in the Democrat Party, in the White House didn't know he had it while president.

May 20, 2025

Democrats lied, and apologizing for Biden cover-up doesn’t change that

Van Jones, a former adviser to ex-President Barack Obama, said Democrats should apologize to the American people for misleading-slash-lying about former President Joseph R. Biden's mental and physical frailties, else the next election, and maybe the next and next and next, will go Republican. It's true. Americans don't like lying politicians and media.

May 19, 2025

Bruce Springsteen scorns blessings of being born in the U.S.A.

Rocker Bruce Springsteen jetted off to Manchester, United Kingdom, and railed against President Donald Trump as "unfit" for office, as a "incompetent," as "treasonous." Another leftist slams America, even while rising to fame and glory because of America. Yawn.

May 16, 2025

Bold & Blunt: America’s divine founding

America is great because America is good -- that's the widely quoted phrase attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville. It's wrongly attributed; this exact phrase is not found in his writings. But the theme applies nevertheless.

May 16, 2025

Imagine if ‘8647’ seashells had been ‘8644,’ for Obama

It's hard to imagine the guy who previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and as lead prosector for the federal case against John Gambino and the mafia -- whose members conceal their criminal activities with coded language -- that the term "86" threw him for a loop.

May 16, 2025

Media ought to quit whining about Trump

The problem with the press is that it's filled with members who think they know best what the rest of the world should know and not know, and that anyone who dares object to their coverage decisions should keep their criticisms quiet.

May 15, 2025

Bold and Blunt: CCP can’t stop Christianity from spreading

China has imposed new rules on foreign missionaries, saying those who want to travel to the country to spread and preach the gospel may do so, but only after they register with the government. That's akin to putting a target on their backs for the CCP to take notice -- and surveil -- and persecute.

May 14, 2025

When politicians become the enemy

Protesting and physically assaulting immigration agents who are simply carrying out their duties to protect America's borders and secure citizens' safety is not just an odd stance for a duly elected politician to take. It's what enemies of America do. It's how enemies of American citizens behave.

May 14, 2025

Democrats cheer for China to beat Trump in trade war

A new survey from the Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center at The Heartland Institute found that the majority of polled Democrats actually want China to beat President Trump's administration in the trade war. Democrats, party of communists.

May 13, 2025

America don’t need no stinkin’ Qatar plane

President Trump confirmed he is accepting a luxurious Boeing 747-8 plane from the royal family in Qatar that he will use as Air Force One -- a $400 million gift that he promised would be received as a "very public and transparent transaction." As if that makes it OK. It doesn't.

May 12, 2025

Bold & Blunt: Bold but humble, one of God’s hardest lessons

It's tough to be a Christian and live out that godly principle of being bold in the faith, yet at the same time, submissive and humble to God. It's especially hard to live that concept as an American raised to believe that winning at all costs is the way to go.

May 7, 2025

Democrats shocked — shocked! — Biden had mush for brains

Jen Psaki, the former mouthpiece for the Biden administration, doubted there was a "cover-up" of the ex-president's mental incapacities. And for no particular reason at all, here's a headline from an outlet called Forensics College: "Top 10 Signs That Someone Is Lying."

May 6, 2025

Democrats fundraise on a desperate f-bombing wing

David Hogg, the Democrats' 25-year-old pick for vice chair of their party, has a new strategy to raise money for upcoming campaign and election seasons: it's called Drop F-Bombs To Show We're Angry. And not just angry. Really, really angry. Yeah. That should do the trick.

May 5, 2025

Oh, for a government of humble public servants

A couple of small business owners just learned from court documents that the town officials who closed down their food truck did so because the couple spoke to the media in negative terms about local government ordinance. Yet another government body run amok on arrogance, pride and power.

May 2, 2025

Harvard faculty vow to tithe — but not to God

Dozens of Harvard University's faculty have promised to pay 10 percent of their salaries to resist President Trump. This is called tithing, Marxist style.

May 2, 2025

Trump is right to ignore polls

A new survey from Decision Desk HQ for NewsNation shows 56 percent of registered voters disapprove of President Trump's job performance. But Trump is quite right in ignoring the numbers and plowing ahead with his agenda. It's what principled leaders do: They lead.

May 1, 2025

Adults are back on border patrol

It's with heavy sighs of relief that Americans can say the adults are definitely back in charge of border patrol and enforcement.

April 29, 2025