Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Jeff Sessions delivers much-deserved slap to sanctuary cities
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions struck a hard tone in his sanctuary city speech from Miami, publicly lashing out at Chicago as a "sad example" of a community that's lost its law and order compass. Go, Jeff Sessions. This is music to patriotic ears. Published August 17, 2017
Charlottesville, Baltimore, Chicago: Where will it end?
Charlottesville has had a cascade effect, and cities and counties around the nation are looking to their own backyards for signs of racism, monuments of offense, statues that bring bad feelings -- and the Founding Fathers are weeping. Published August 17, 2017
Charlottesville and the loss of America’s sanity
President Donald Trump, bombarded in a speech on infrastructure with repetitive and aggressive questions about Charlottesville, made clear -- again -- that violence, bigotry and racism in all its many forms, in all its various shapes, were not to be tolerated. He dared to defend his initial Charlottesville comments, and for that, the mainstream media has determined, he must die. Published August 17, 2017
Charlottesville: The Boston Massacre, John Adams matter of modern times
In 1770, on the heels of the Boston Massacre that saw occupying British troops shoot and kill five colonials, eight soldiers were indicted on murder charges. Now walk forward in time to 2017, to Charlottesville, Virginia, and parallels between the collective responses to the violence can be drawn. Published August 16, 2017
Charlottesville solution: Build more monuments
Charlottesville is coming to a city near you -- count on it. In fact, it just did in Durham, North Carolina. So what's the solution? More building; less tearing down. Published August 16, 2017
North Korea, post-Trump ‘fire and fury’ rhetoric, caves on Guam strike
North Korea just backed away from its wildly wild vow to take out Guam, turning down the heat a notch on what was becoming the media's most favored message of late -- the one that painted President Donald Trump as the crazed White House madman, steadily leading America toward a path of fire and destruction. Hmm. Guess who's red-faced now? Published August 15, 2017
George Soros hitting U.S. Lobby Town hard
Billionaire George Soros, no doubt still reeling from the White House win of President Donald Trump, has decided to pour even more money into Congress, in hopes of furthering his progressive visions, a new report finds. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you shouldn't trust any member of Congress Published August 15, 2017
Confederate statues today, book burnings tomorrow
A crowd of ignorant protesters pulled down a bronze Confederate statue that stood before a county government building in Durham, North Carolina -- the angry national backlash to the Charlottesville brouhaha over the Robert E. Lee monument. Published August 15, 2017
Donald Trump on Charlottesville Danged if he does, danged if he doesn’t
The immediate aftermath of the widely reported Charlottesville violence wasn't so much a media look at the issues, or the car-plowing suspect and victims, or even the demographics of the protesters -- that many came from out of state to stand strong against a small-town statue of Robert E. Lee -- as it was a cause to criticize President Donald Trump. But why all the angst against the president? Published August 15, 2017
Trump ex-aide threatens Drudge: I’ll ‘blow him’ up if Bannon’s fired
Holy cow, a war is waging against Matt Drudge, of Drudge Report fame, and given the Internet god's massive media presence -- it doesn't seem smart Published August 14, 2017
#FireBannon heats up Twitter, as ‘insane’ left skews Charlottesville
Batter up, the left has set its target on its next White House victim -- none other than Steve Bannon. Published August 14, 2017
H.R. McMaster, post-Charlottesville, wrongly designates most violence as ‘terrorism’
H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump's national security adviser, said during a television talk show interview the violence in Charlottesville over the fate of a Robert E. Lee statue and the fatality that resulted "meets the definition of terrorism." That's a pretty broad definition he's using. And wrongly so. Published August 14, 2017
Trump ‘fire and fury’ is justified; America won’t back down in the face of bullies like North Korea
The hand-wringers were out in full force this past week, moaning and wailing about President Donald Trump's rhetoric regarding North Korea. But why? We are America. We don't bow down; we don't quiver in fear. Published August 12, 2017
H.R. McMaster foes slammed as ‘Islamophobes,’ ‘white supremacists’
H.R. McMaster, President Trump's choice of national security adviser, has what some say is a shady record of defense of Israel -- and what others outright label as subversive to America's interests. Now, the Council on American Islamic Relations jumped to McMaster's defense. But that alone is a red flag. Having CAIR as a friend isn't exactly exonerating. Published August 11, 2017
Opioids: In defense of the pain pills
If you've never experienced chronic pain, or been around someone with a pain that just won't end, it's easy to dismiss opioids as evil and to make grand calls for their prescription restriction, or even outright bans. Published August 11, 2017
Dianne Feinstein rips Donald Trump for ‘cruel’ deportations of illegals
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, on the heels of a deportation that led to a separated family, issued a scathing statement against President Donald Trump, suggesting his border controls were beyond what's necessary for national security. She also called him really, really mean, and that she might tell his mother on him if he doesn't cut it out. Published August 11, 2017
‘Nation,’ mag of the far left, finds Russia hack nonsensical
You know it's time to pack it up and move on from a Democratic-driven political hit when even the left-of-left liberal-leaning magazine, The Nation, starts to say, hey, guys, there are no facts here. Published August 11, 2017
Susan Rice’s ridiculous North Korea recommendation to Donald Trump
Susan Rice offered up some recommendations to President Trump, on his dealings with North Korea, that went pretty much like this: Do nothing. Her advice, by way of an opinion piece in the New York Times, is titled, "It's Not Too Late on North Korea." A better title, though, is this: "Why America's So Happy Barack Obama's Gone." Published August 10, 2017
Donald Trump Twitter mock: Barack Obama’s so yesterday
And among the tensions of North Korea -- a half humorous, half reflective Twitter smackdown, courtesy of President Donald Trump, master of the 140-word-and-less messaging. Published August 10, 2017
Harvard ‘student of color’ whines white friends ‘exhausting’
A Harvard student, Ruben Reyes, who serves as editorial chair of the Harvard Crimson, whined in a recent written rant that he prefers to stick with his own "students of color" kind and ignore whites because -- get this -- whites are "exhausting" to befriend. Published August 10, 2017
