Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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? Published 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? Published 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. Published February 28, 2018
Americans by and large blame government, not guns
When it comes to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the majority of Americans point fingers for the fault at the government, not the guns. This is one small ray of sunshine out of a very, very dark well. It shows sanity can and does prevail, even when chaos and hot emotion swirls. Published February 28, 2018
San Diego college teaches how to boot Trump from office
San Diego State University is offering a one-credit course to college-goers on how they might boot President Donald Trump from office. And with that, the demise of America's once-great places of higher learning, once-unrivaled training grounds for critical thinking, is nearly complete. Published February 27, 2018
Michael Savage for Senate? He says — maybe
Talk radio genius Michael Savage may be running for U.S. Senate. He'd run on the same borders, language, culture message that's made him a must-hear on talk radio -- the one that says a country's just not a country if it doesn't focus policy on preserving those three biggies. Published February 27, 2018
Self-driving cars may be the science world’s dream, but premise is flawed
Self-driving cars have become the dream of the science world. But why? If citizen safety is the justification for the development, which is it, there are so many other options that haven't been pursued that don't call for the booting of humans from behind the wheel. Published February 27, 2018
Libby Schaaf, Oakland mayor, underscores why Democrats are nuts
By now, you've probably heard about the Oakland, California, mayor, Democrat Libby Schaaf, who actually sent out a warning to her city -- to her city's illegals, mostly -- about a looming potential raid from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Well, that right there is why Democrats are insane. Published February 26, 2018
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel too glib for his own good
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel coming off as a someone who's hunkering into self-protection mode, putting his own interests above those of others and trying at all costs to salvage his reputation and that of his department's. It's not a pretty picture. Published February 26, 2018
Secularism isn’t working
Seventeen students and staffers are dead at a Florida high school, and now the country's on fire, debating both merits and dangers of curbing Second Amendment rights in what's become the predictable political and policy talk whenever tragedy strikes in this manner. Guns are not the problem, though. Secularism is. Published February 24, 2018
NRA likened by Hollywood leftist to ISIS — to a ‘terrorist organization’
Just when you thought the rhetoric surrounding gun control couldn't get any more hyperbolic -- here comes Michael Moore, out of Hollywood's left field of fantasy dwellers. "The NRA," Moore wrote on Twitter, "is a terrorist organization." How so? Well, he went on, it's like ISIS -- just like the dang ISIS. Published February 23, 2018
Deputy Scot Peterson hid while students were shot — and this is police training?
A disturbing report from Fox News shows the deputy who was supposed to be armed and on the job at Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School -- the one who was there as the killings were taking place -- was hiding behind a concrete column, protecting not the students but rather himself. That's all caught on surveillance video; it's not a what-if. And one can't help but wonder: Is this the unfortunate result of all the police policies put forth in recent times that the number one goal of officers tasked to a scene is to get home safely? Published February 23, 2018
Kamala Harris vows fight against guns just getting started
Sen. Kamala Harris, who was named and blasted as a socialist by the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre during his Conservative Political Action Conference speech, fought back on Twitter, vowing the fight to reshape the nation and curb the Second Amendment was just getting started. Published February 23, 2018
Donald Trump: Armed teachers ‘GREAT DETERRENT!’
President Donald Trump hit back on Twitter at what he called the "Fake News" for improperly quoting him on his views of armed teachers in the classroom, saying he didn't say "give teachers guns" but rather, in more levelheaded fashion, agreed to consider the idea as a means of stopping school shootings. And so he should. Allowing teachers with concealed carry permits to bring their legally owned weapons into the classroom is one tool to fight school-place murders -- and, not only that, it's a promise this president made during campaign season. Published February 22, 2018
Marco Rubio unfairly vilified for Florida shooting
The school shooting in Florida that resulted in the killing of 17 students and staffers was a grievous and tragic act of evil. But it wasn't Sen. Marco Rubio's fault. Neither was it the Second Amendment's fault. Published February 22, 2018
Donald Trump has a point: Time to investigate Team Obama
President Donald Trump took to Twitter to ask why investigators weren't looking at Barack Obama's administration for answers to the Russia election meddling. This is a great question. And curious Americans want to know. Published February 21, 2018
Oprah, George Clooney rush to exploit Florida anti-gun exploiters
Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney each coughed up half a million dollars to donate to the "March for Our Lives" anti-gun rally that's set for Washington, D.C., on March 24, organized in part by teens at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. No word yet on whether Oprah and Clooney, both of whom plan to attend the event, will leave at home their armed security guards. Published February 21, 2018
