Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
United Methodist Church split sets sin on display
The United Methodist Church said its organization is going to break into two factions over the issues of LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage. That's not really a surprise. What is a surprise is that a church, any church, can get by with calling itself a place of Christian worship while scoffing basic biblical teachings of sin and God's will. Published January 3, 2020
Donald Trump sets Iran on notice: This is not your Barack Obama administration
Iran-backed forces attacked Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump sent in the airstrikes and killed Quds force chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport, and now Iran's crying foul, vowing "harsh retaliation" and so forth and so on. But note to Iran: This is not the Barack Obama administration. Published January 3, 2020
Joe Biden is a snob, and heart-and-soul America knows it
Joe Biden told a bunch of rally-goers in Derry, New Hampshire, that coal miners, many of whom live and work in the area, ought to stop all this coal mining nonsense and get with the 21st century program and learn a new trade, a cleaner trade, a more environmentally sound trade -- like coding. What an elitist, entitled, arrogant snob. Published January 2, 2020
Colorado’s new red flag gun law well-intentioned, but wrong
A new red flag gun law just took effect in Colorado giving family members and law enforcement officials the authority to petition a judge to strip an individual's Second Amendment rights based on concerns of mental fitness. And well-intentioned as that law might be -- it stems from the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy by a mentally deranged man -- it's still unconstitutional. It's still wrong. Published January 2, 2020
Impeachment costs stretch into — umm, unknown millions
It's bad enough we've got a highly partisan impeachment hunt being led by highly anti-Donald Trump partisans whose sole purpose in political life is to disrupt this White House and boot the president from office. But how about those taxpayers? How about the taxpayers footing this impeachment bill? Well on that, we just don't know. Published December 31, 2019
Second Amendment saves lives in Texas church
Two people were killed and another wounded in Texas after a man wearing a fake beard, wig, hat and long coat entered a church in the community of White Settlement, pulled out a shotgun and began firing. Tragic and horrible as that is -- it could've been much worse. The gunman was stopped in his tracks by a gun-carrying church-goer. Published December 31, 2019
Trump haters floating secret Senate impeachment trial vote are cowardly anti-Americans
There's a new impeachment strategy floating about town and it's one that goes like this: Vote. In. Secret. Seriously. That's the call from some in the Get Trump camp who see a behind-closed-door vote on impeachment in the Senate as something -- what, in line with American values? The Constitution? Moral governance? Published December 31, 2019
Doug Jones, Alabama’s Democratic senator, on dying last campaign legs
Sen. Doug Jones rose to political power in 2018 to become the first Democrat U.S. senator to be elected from Alabama in 25 years, in a state that also voted for Donald Trump for president by almost 28 percentage points in 2016. And his journey down is about to take place just as rapidly. Published December 30, 2019
American colleges are veering into academic ‘police state’ territory
The assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice just issued a statement reminding that America is not a "police state," and neither should be the college campuses that dot the landscape of this country. The very fact the DOJ has to release this statement shows how far America's freedoms have fallen. Published December 28, 2019
Yale anti-Trump psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee gives psychiatry bad name
Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee, in an interview with Salon, called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to "submit" President Donald Trump "to an involuntary evaluation" -- giving Americans, in one fell swoop, one big weighty reason to regard the entire field of mental health therapy with at least a modicum of suspicion. Published December 27, 2019
Democrats’ strategy: Impeach ‘til the cows come home
Democratic members on the House Judiciary Committee, sad because Speaker Nancy Pelosi gets to hold the articles and they don't have any left, have gone back to court to petition for information from former White House Counsel Don McGahn and on grand jury testimony tied to Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation. Published December 27, 2019
Pope Francis, secure in his Vatican, scolds ‘stony’ hearts toward migrants
Pope Francis on Christmas called for a softening of "self-centered hearts" to help migrants -- to basically drop the border walls and let these people in. His remarks may have packed more punch if he didn't deliver them from the fortified St. Peter's Basilica, while gazing from a secure Vatican balcony, 200 feet or so above the assembled fray. Published December 26, 2019
Christian clash a Christmas miracle
Christianity Today, in an editorial calling for the ouster of President Donald Trump, sure has unleashed a firestorm. Good. It's good to see Christians getting in the political game. And so passionately so. A great awakening of America dawns. Published December 24, 2019
John Roberts raises Republican caution flags
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is too "mentally erratic" to serve in any capacity in the Senate's hearing of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, said Rep. Mo Brooks, Republican from Alabama, in a recent interview on WVNN radio that was reported by Breitbart. He's got a point. Published December 23, 2019
Nancy Pelosi’s pause on impeachment doesn’t play well
Speaker Nancy Pelosi may think she's strategizing with brilliance by letting the articles of impeachment stand in limbo in the House as she tries to wrest control and tell the Senate how to operate. But out here in the real world, in the place where politicians infrequently tread and barely dare go, Americans aren't impressed. Published December 23, 2019
America’s intellectuals go poof! — up in liberal smoke
Thousands of America's supposedly most sober, somber, serious and best-educated of the nation, the historians, scholars, professors, attorneys and the like, have called for impeachment of President Donald Trump. But be not blinded by their dazzling degrees. They are bubble dwellers, living happily in their liberal enclaves. Published December 21, 2019
Mark Levin’s speedy solution to the Pelosi impeachment problem
Talk radio great and Fox News host Mark Levin, on his Facebook page, called for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to "put an end" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's politically motivated hold-up of the impeachment articles, by declaring the whole matter "null and void." That's one way of making clear the nonsense of the Dems has come to an end. Published December 20, 2019
Christianity Today editor Mark Galli all wrong on Donald Trump
Christianity Today's editor-in-chief Mark Galli penned a scathing commentary against President Donald Trump, saying he should be removed from office. The mainstream media is loving this because it gives an appearance of Trump's loss of the evangelicals. But Galli is wrong. And he's hardly representative of the Christian view. Published December 20, 2019
Nancy Pelosi has gone rogue
Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the unprecedented action of holding the articles of impeachment she and her Democratic cohorts fabricated in the House, until -- get this -- the Senate agreed to what she termed as a "fair trial." Pelosi has gone rogue. Published December 19, 2019
FISA walls tumble; prison time a must
Civil rights advocates have been warning for years the FISC and FISA systems are rife with potential for abuse, are handovers of judicial powers to secret sources and are blatantly unconstitutional. And now we know they're right. And now someone, or a couple of someones, should go to prison. Published December 19, 2019
