Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
FDA’s pitiful, politicized press to pull baby teething meds from market
The Food and Drug Administration issued parents some stern warnings about teething medicines for their babies, and simultaneously told manufacturers and retailers that if they didn't "voluntarily" stop selling the product to the tiny toddler demographic, they would face legal action from the feds. Voluntary compliance -- gotta love the federal definition of that, yes? Published May 25, 2018
Roger Goodell gets one right
Roger Goodell, NFL commissioner, has sparked some players' union backlash by announcing those who want to bend knees during this season's game-time playing of the national anthem may do so -- but from the locker room, not the field. But really, Goodell got it right. Finally. Published May 24, 2018
Donald Trump vows not to sign border bill without ‘real wall’
President Donald Trump, speaking to Fox News' "Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade in an exclusive interview, vowed border-related bills weaving through Congress that don't include provisions to fund and build a "real wall" won't meet with his approval, and ultimately, won't pass his White House desk. Take a memo, Democrats and soft-on-border-control Republicans. Published May 24, 2018
Democrats, desperate, face doozy of election fight
Democrats, according to recent polls, face what could kindly be called an uphill election-time battle. Kindly. More to truth, they're facing a Chimborazo climb, so dubbed in recognition of the world's highest peak -- yes, higher even than Mount Everest. Published May 24, 2018
Tomi Lahren assaulted — and even Kathy Griffin rises to her defense
Tomi Lahren, Fox News contributor and bold-to-the-point-of-brash political pundit, was verbally assaulted and physically hit with the contents of a drink by a bunch of angry brunchers at a Minneapolis restaurant. And get this: Even Kathy Griffin says that's not "cool." Published May 23, 2018
Mike Pompeo, fighting the good fight, naysayers be danged
As if President Donald Trump doesn't face enough heat for his tough talk on foreign nations -- now comes Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Published May 22, 2018
Alphabet ‘smart nappy’ notion an example of tech overkill
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has filed for a patent via its Verily division that will tell parents, by way of technology, when their diapered babies have gone to the bathroom. This is a solid example of When Technology Goes Overboard. Published May 22, 2018
Jon Meacham, presidential historian, newest shill to predict impeachment for Donald Trump
Jon Meacham, a presidential historian who has a pretty impressive background, as far as writers go, anyway, took to national television to predict: Donald Trump will be impeached. Well, with all due respect to Meacham, his Pulitzer for a biography of Andrew Jackson, his executive stints at Random House and his many, many writing contributions to The New York Times and other left-leaning publications -- he's full of it. Published May 22, 2018
James Woods faults Democrats for school insecurity
James Woods, one of the few conservatives in Hollywood, sent out a scathing tweet about Democrats and their blocking of common-sense measures that could secure our nation's public schools from shooting attackers. Like how? Like pressing for gun-free zones, for example. Published May 21, 2018
Donald Trump: ‘Drain the Swamp!’ And he is
President Donald Trump is poised to officially demand a federal investigation into whether the Department of Justice "infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes," as he put it. And that means, once again, he is putting his mockers to shame. Published May 21, 2018
Donald Trump spanks yet another Barack Obama-era regulation
It's spanking time. President Donald Trump, yet again, has sent another Barack Obama-era rule and regulation a-packing. Published May 19, 2018
Donald Trump doubles down on MS-13 as ‘animals’
So President Donald Trump referred to MS-13 murderous gang members as "animals" -- and the left went nuts. Trump, to his great credit, laughed off the criticism and doubled down on his original comments. Published May 18, 2018
Donald Trump sets anti-abortion sights on Planned Parenthood
President Donald Trump has a new proposal, and it's one that's going to make his Christian and evangelical base quite happy. He's set his sights on reeling in Planned Parenthood and abortion -- another campaign promise coming true. Published May 18, 2018
Evergreen College students back at it with ‘no white people’ day
Evergreen State College, the Olympia, Washington, place of higher learning that made mid-2017 national news for its black students' demands for all whites to leave campus for a much-needed day of time-out on Caucasians is at it again. The so-called "Day of Absence" has resurfaced. Published May 17, 2018
Robert Mueller’s lost cause
Happy anniversary, Robert Mueller -- it's the one-year mark of the special counsel's investigation into the President Donald Trump-Russia collusion-slash-obstruction-of-justice-slash-whatever-else-comes-up look-see. And much as the mainstream media, left and anti-Trumpers of the world want to spin it, it's been a political failure of epic proportions for the left. Published May 17, 2018
Spike Lee, mired in anti-Trumpism, misses higher mark
Spike Lee, famed black filmmaker, had a chance to soothe race relations, stoke reasoned discussions and raise a rational question or two about the current political atmosphere and culturally accepted norms. Instead, he went low. About as low as he could dredge. Published May 16, 2018
Scot Peterson, ‘coward’ Parkland deputy, nabs $8,702-a-month pension
It pays to be cowardly, it seems -- at least, for Broward County Sheriff's Office deputies. Scot Peterson, the deputy who was captured on video hiding outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building as shooter Nikolas Cruz tore up the inside and killed 17, has been granted a pension -- a taxpayer-funded pension -- of $8,702 per month. Published May 16, 2018
Conservatives unite to fight online censorship
Conservatives of the country, in the face of a damaging report that shows just how deep the pro-leftist slantings of YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Google run, have banded together to fight online censorship. Published May 15, 2018
John McCain hullabaloo a hissy-fit of epic proportions
A White House aide reportedly mentioned that dying Sen. John McCain's views of CIA director nominee Gina Haspel don't matter because, well, because he's dying -- and now the country's in an uproar. Come on now. Could we please move on from the whole John McCain Was Insulted and Deeply Offended story and find something else to cover? Published May 15, 2018
Bruce Rauner, pro-gun confiscations governor of Illinois: You first
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, suggested tacking on a couple of new gun control measures to bills currently weaving through the state legislature that would allow for the confiscation of firearms from those "deemed dangerous." A Republican. This is how threatened our Second Amendment has become, people. Published May 15, 2018
