Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Kansas City church surveillance about as un-American as it gets
If what's going on in Kansas City right now won't get you off the couch, into the streets to protest, onto the phone to demand government accountability -- well then, nothing will. Published May 5, 2020
Executive orders are not laws
COVID-19 has shined some important light on the tendency of government to do as Founding Fathers warned -- stretch and reach and overreach, and tread into places it doesn't belong. And as the executive orders come fast and furious from governors' mansions around the nation, it's high time for a reminder: Orders are not laws. Published May 5, 2020
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: A blowhard cracking a COVID-19 whip
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened citizens and city-goers with arrest, imprisonment and fines if they dared step foot into the streets, in violation of her COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Wow. Talk about cracking the government whip. Can you say Constitution, anyone? How about 'Bite me, you blowhard, Lori" -- can you say that? Published May 4, 2020
Virginia COVID-19 smack-down means churches should open, and open now
The Department of Justice just issued a statement suggesting Virginia acted above and beyond its rightful call of COVID-19 government duty by closing churches to more than 10 people while allowing some private businesses to host untold numbers of shoppers. Quite right. Published May 4, 2020
COVID-19 threatens U.S. election integrity
For the first time in months, Democrats are looking with anticipation and excitement to November's presidential election -- and it has nothing to do with their dismal candidate, Joe Biden. It's because of COVID-19 and the chance to do some heavy Election Day damage. Published May 2, 2020
Forced face masking is a civil rights offense
Major U.S. airlines have announced that as a condition of riding their friendly skies, passengers must all put on a face mask. Let the muzzling of America commence. Let the -- hopefully! -- lawsuits against the mask nazis begin, as well. Published May 1, 2020
Elon Musk, COVID-19 hero: ‘Give people back their g—d— freedom’
Who knew Elon Musk, of Tesla CEO fame, would emerge such a freedom-loving hero from this COVID-19 disaster called Government Overreach -- but he has. In an epic earnings telephone rant, Musk called out the "fascist" social distancing measures ordered by government. Published April 30, 2020
Californians should do a ‘Stormin’ Norman’ over closed beaches
California's Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, is poised to order all beaches in the state closed because citizens dared to defy his social distancing order by flocking to the seashore, COVID-19 be danged. And this should be the collective Californian response: Storm the beaches anyway. Published April 30, 2020
YouTube censorship of doctors bucking COVID-19 crackdowns raises red flags higher
The few Americans who weren't worried about the fate of America's Constitution and freedoms and system of limited government, post-COVID-19, sure as heck are now. Nothing like some good old fashioned censorship amid a constitutional crisis to raise the red flags on authoritarianism. Published April 30, 2020
Georgia kicks off chilling door-to-door COVID-19 blood collections
Let the government-pressed coronavirus-tied blood collections of citizens begin. And begin they have. They have in Georgia at least, where officials with the state's Department of Public Health recently announced that "to learn more about the spread of COVID-19," they're going door-to-door to ask citizens for blood. Chilling. Published April 28, 2020
Coronavirus hype biggest political hoax in history
The new coronavirus is real. The response to the coronavirus is hyped. And in time, this hype will be revealed as politically hoaxed. Published April 28, 2020
Anthony Fauci should explain ‘$3.7 million to the Wuhan laboratory’
President Donald Trump's legal counsel, Rudy Giuliani, suggested a good U.S. attorney general move about now would be to investigate key members of the past Barack Obama administration on the Wuhan, China, laboratory, to see what they knew and when they knew it. And then he mentioned Anthony Fauci specifically. Published April 27, 2020
Founding Fathers rolling in graves at the COVID-19 constitutional crisis
The Founders would be shocked to see America, circa COVID-19 2020. In fact, they're probably rolling in their graves right now, watching the Constitution they so carefully created -- with regard for individual rights as bestowed by God, not government -- being crushed by a hammer of coronavirus fears. Especially on fears that are so far misplaced. Published April 25, 2020
Chicken killing sounds alarm on coronavirus threats to freedom
A farmer in Minnesota told the Star Tribune he had to kill 61,000 of his chickens because the coronavirus crisis had dried up demand for their eggs and he had no way to continue feeding them. Open the freaking country already. America must maintain self-sufficiency with the food supply, if Americans are to remain free. Published April 24, 2020
Gretchen Whitmer shows folly of executive orders
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the "I am zee law!" lady of American politics, is poised to lose some of her powers, as legislators say they're going to intervene and vote and reel her in a bit. Well, ain't that about time. Executives aren't kings. Legislators hold the true authority in determining the extent of executive powers. Published April 24, 2020
Coronavirus a Groundhog Day for the political world
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director, Dr. Robert Redfield, said during a press conference at the White House that this fall, Americans could experience a complicated flu-slash-coronavirus season of sickness and to be on guard. How convenient for Democrats. Just in time for Election Day. Published April 23, 2020
Georgia governor defies CYA to be beacon of good coronavirus leadership
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is taking a lot of heat for daring to go where no other state has gone before -- and gasp! opening the state back up for business, even as the rest of the country's political leaders sit on coronavirus pins and needles. But what Kemp is really doing is something called Leadership. Published April 22, 2020
Coronavirus is a hospital moneymaker — and that’s worrisome
The more coronavirus patients hospitals see, the more money hospitals get. That puts hospitals in a tight conflict of interest spot when it comes to reporting true figures. Published April 21, 2020
Democrat governors, with coronavirus, tip hats of tyranny
Democrats, juiced by coronavirus, have really tipped their tyrannical hats. That's not to say they don't care about the coronavirus sufferers. But it is to say that leftists see disaster -- and say to themselves, hmm, maybe there's a win-win here. Published April 20, 2020
Coronavirus and the smell of Saul Alinsky
Coronavirus, at its root, is being used as a tool for those with devilish designs to establish a new order, a new un-American, unconstitutional and unfree kingdom -- and that is the end game, like it or not. Wake up and smell the Alinsky; it's a key to keeping our country intact. Published April 18, 2020
