Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Technology in your toothbrush, telling you how to brush
If CES 2019 tells anything, it's a story of how technology is moving into every aspect of human life, from driving to securing home and possessions to parenting to -- brushing teeth. Some of the artificial intelligence serves as an apt demonstration of overkill. Published January 11, 2019
Flying cars, coming to a city near you
Federal regulators haven't even figured out a satisfactory solution yet for dealing with drones, and here come the flying cars. Published January 10, 2019
Beto O’Rourke and his magic border beans
Beto O'Rourke -- or, as he was born, Robert Francis O'Rourke -- tweeted out a video response to President Donald Trump's border wall speech that in essence said this: There's nothing to see here, folks. Go home to your families, eat and be merry. The borders are safe, safe, safe. And then he clapped his hands, spun three times and threw down some magic beans and voila, the borders were indeed safe. Published January 10, 2019
Opioids — make way for the technology: Fighting pain the drug-free way
LAS VEGAS -- Ask legal opioid users if they'd toss their prescriptions if their pain could be managed another way and their answers would most assuredly be yes. Right? So maybe technology can help. Published January 9, 2019
Donald Trump hits all the right notes in border speech
President Donald Trump delivered a winner of a border speech to the American public, uncommonly scripted to the end as it was -- and the Democrats, in return, in response, sadly sank to their usual low levels of partisan jibbing and political jabbing. Published January 9, 2019
Tesla self-driving car mows down, ‘kills’ robot in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS -- The Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2019, opened with a bit of embarrassment for Tesla, to put it mildly, when its self-driving model car ran over and "killed" an autonomous robot, Promobot. Making matters worse: It was a hit-and-run. Oh my, you just can't make this stuff up, people. Published January 8, 2019
Rush Limbaugh: ‘Why does Trump have to go it alone?’
Radio's Rush Limbaugh took to airwaves this week to condemn the Democrats who are stymying President Donald Trump's border agenda, as well as the media, filled with members who serve as little more than lapdogs and mouthpieces for the left's talking points. But he reserved his harshest points for the Republicans. Published January 8, 2019
Donald Trump’s border stance an inspiration, no matter what polls say
President Donald Trump has taken a hard-core stand for his long-promised border wall, and this has put him in a deep, deep dump with the American people -- so go the polls. But let's remember: These are the same polls that put Hillary Clinton in the White House. By wide margins, in some cases. Published January 8, 2019
Even when leftists win, they embrace hate
Democrats, listen up: You won the House. So here's a question: Why the need to keep up the hate-filled rants against conservatives? Published January 8, 2019
New year, new chance to reclaim ‘God-given’
It's 2019 and if this new year should bring anything, it's a national reclamation of what makes this country the absolute best in the world -- the notion that here, in America, individual rights are recognized as coming from God, not government. There's a resolution worth keeping, wouldn't you say? Published January 5, 2019
Rashida Tlaib, Michigan’s newest Muslim lawmaker, sets Dem tone: ‘Impeach the mother—!’
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is Michigan's newest lawmaker on Capitol Hill, and because she's a Muslim woman raised in "southwest Detroit who didn't speak English," as she self-identified on Twitter, that makes her elevation to public office worthy of historic note. And then she crowed this, right after her swearing-in ceremony, about President Donald Trump: "Impeach the motherf--!" Published January 4, 2019
Mitt Romney’s dance with disgrace
Mitt Romney used to be a man of high moral principles -- a gentleman among the coarse, a voice of reason in the political rough. Or so it seemed. Published January 3, 2019
Michael Savage target of death threats, called ‘crypto Jew’
City, state and federal agencies are taking a look at a vicious, hateful email sent to a restaurant frequented by talk radio icon Michael Savage that threatens to shoot up the establishment if he's not denied future service. Published January 2, 2019
Biggest tech threat? The American public is unaware of the perils of A.I.
Truly, the biggest technology threat facing America is the unsuspecting, unknowing, unaware, perhaps too-trusting nature of the American people. Published December 29, 2018
Media’s military MAGA hat-signing obsession fueled by jealousy, hatred
Members of the mainstream media have been harping on President Donald Trump for signing MAGA hats brought by military troops he visited in Iraq and Germany. As if he were doing something shamefully wrong? Truly, these critics have hit bottom-of-the-bucket for reasons to hate on Trump. Published December 28, 2018
Martina Navratilova, the latest victim of transgenderism wrath
Openly lesbian tennis legend Martina Navratilova has been a hero of sorts to the LGBTQ crowd -- until now, that is, when she dared to tweet that males who simply "proclaim" themselves females to compete in female sporting events is unfair and wrong. Thing is: Navratilova only spoke the truth. Published December 28, 2018
European Union guides members to strike ‘mankind,’ ‘manpower,’ ‘man-made’
The European Union has sent a guidebook to member states telling them that words like "mankind," "manpower" and "man-made" are no longer acceptable -- that rather they should sub in "humanity," "staff" and "artificial," and any number of other genderless options. Doesn't the EU have enough to worry about, with Brexit and borders and burning fires in the streets and all? Published December 27, 2018
Michelle Obama topples Hillary Clinton in ‘most admired’ poll
For the first time in 17 years, Hillary Clinton is not the "Most Admired Woman in America," according to Gallup polling -- Michelle Obama is. Perhaps the bigger story here is that Hillary Clinton managed to hang on to "most admired" status for 17 years. Who are these people? Published December 27, 2018
Toy gun buyback for pansies
Hempstead, New York, officials, citing concerns for the safety of children, warned parents off buying toy guns as gifts this Christmas -- and also hosted a toy gun buyback event. Welcome to the new USA, home of the pansies. Summer camps, for crying out loud, used to provide BB guns to kids to fire at mounted balloons. Published December 27, 2018
Record retail sales rain on anti-Donald Trump parade
So the left has been up in arms for days now about the government shutdown, pitching wails over the Wall Street numbers and stock market showing and predicting nothing but gloom and doom and financial suffering because of President Donald Trump. Then along come retail sales and put all that blather in its place. Published December 26, 2018
