Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
Killer robots and the Pandora’s box they’d bring
Lest you think the idea of killer robots scouring the planet in search of targets to terminate is simply the stuff of science fiction, think again. Published April 12, 2018
Newt Gingrich goes there — compares FBI’s raid of Michael Cohen to Nazis
Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, ripped into the FBI for its raid on President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, comparing the federal action to the Nazi regime. And insofar as the rather ridiculous raids on Cohen's files go -- he's got a bit of a point. These are moves that ring more of Gestapo, less of constitutional America -- more of police state, less of republic, land of the law. Published April 12, 2018
Rush Limbaugh’s right: Firing Robert Mueller ‘worst thing Trump could do’
Rush Limbaugh said during a recent talk show segment that firing Robert Mueller is the "worst thing" President Donald Trump could do. That's true. Firing Mueller would play right into the Democrats' hands. Published April 12, 2018
John Boehner’s new, hypocritical marijuana money-making gig
John Boehner's got a new gig -- and it's tied to selling marijuana. How nice. Look at this headline from Quartz: "420,000 people were arrested for selling marijuana while John Boehner ran Congress. That speaks volumes, but can all be summed in a single word just the same: Hypocrite? Published April 11, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg’s misguided turn toward AI to define ‘hate speech’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told members of Congress -- as well as a rapt TV audience -- that "hate speech" is tough to define, but within a few years, he expects artificial intelligence to assume a greater role in sifting the nuances of social media content on the company's pages and begin red-flagging and booting posts deemed hateful and hate-filled. This is hardly comforting. Published April 11, 2018
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Robert Mueller’s right-hand man
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, told members of the joint Senate meeting of the committees of Commerce, Science and Transportation and of Judiciary that yes, he is helping Robert Mueller with his special counsel business. Does anyone else find this a bit unsettling? Published April 11, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg: Please explain why pro-Donald Trump Diamond And Silk are ‘unsafe’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is headed to Capitol Hill to testify about some social media matters, and answer questions from Congress about privacy and election interference and such. Good. Maybe at the same time he can explain why his site's censor gods think the black pro-President Donald Trump duo Diamond And Silk are considered a danger to society. Published April 10, 2018
Gun control? London’s Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan bans knives
London's Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim to assume a mayor's role for a major Western city, thinks he's found the cause of the uptick in stabbings his community's seen in recent times -- wayward knives. And as such, he's banned the carrying of knives in the city. Published April 9, 2018
John Bolton in, Michael Anton out, and the media moan and mock
John Bolton's start as national security adviser kicks off Monday -- and that means the members of the mainstream media are prepping for the rash of stories on why the world is about to blow. Published April 9, 2018
The godless, leftist nature of artificial intelligence
The fast-moving field of artificial intelligence development is a lucrative one -- a head-spinning one -- an oft-surprising and exciting one. But peer past the frenzy of media headlines announcing the latest discoveries and newest breakthroughs and it's sad but true, the world of science, including technology, is a field dominated by godless leftists, too. Published April 7, 2018
Kellye Burke, councilwoman who screamed at MAGA girls, par for the liberal loon course
Kellye Burke, the Houston-area councilwoman who was outed by media for screaming obscenities at a group of girls in a cookie shop because one wore a "Make American Great Again" t-shirt, was just charged with disorderly conduct. The fact that this occurred at all only underscores how mentally unstable the left is. Published April 6, 2018
Geraldo Rivera scoffs ‘immigrant crisis’ as ‘manufactured’
Geraldo Rivera, in a Fox News interview about illegal immigration that spoke of the migrants moving north from Central America and of the rape statistics of women who try to cross into the United States, called the situation "manufactured," hardly a crisis. Published April 6, 2018
John Brennan’s anti-Donald Trump tweets scream ‘Deep State!’
And you wonder why conservatives in America, particularly the pro-President Donald Trump crowd, believe in the existence of a Deep State. Check out John Brennan's Twitter feed. Published April 5, 2018
Eric Holder anti-gun ‘Operation Choke Point’ redux hits New York
Remember when Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney general-slash-political-pitbull, went after gun sellers by going after the banks who did business with them -- the old Operation Choke Point moment in the so-called "scandal-free Obama administration" time? Well here comes New York with a similarly sly gun control scheme. Published April 5, 2018
IRS smackdown, as judge OKs $3.5 million to tea partyers
Oh, happy day. Once in a while, justice is served, the good guy does win and the Big Bad Wolf at the Little American's door gets the kick in the arse it deserves. The Internal Revenue Service was just smacked with a preliminary order from a federal judge to pay up $3.5 million in settlement monies to tea party and conservative groups. Published April 5, 2018
Private property rights still very much a fight, circa 2018
President Donald Trump, a guy whose business life obviously revolved around the invocation of personal property rights, may hold the nation's highest office in the White House, and Republicans may dominate in Congress. But that doesn't mean the little guy has won. When it comes to private property rights, the Republican-dominated Congress is letting the ball drop. Published April 5, 2018
Nasim Aghdam’s YouTube scrub and Donald Trump Jr.’s good question
Donald Trump Jr. sent out a blunt tweet about the scrubbing of YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam's social media accounts, asking why her hate-filled rants were so quickly pulled, and wondering aloud if authorities would've acted with such speed had she been a member of the National Rifle Association member rather than a liberal activist and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals supporter. He has a point. And it's actually larger than the one he was making. Published April 4, 2018
Mike Lindell, MyPillow guy, puts to shame Laura Ingraham boycotters
Mike Lindell, of "MyPillow" inventing and founding company fame, put forth a bold message on his Twitter feed that, in just a few short words, smacked to shame-land the would-be fascists and wanna-be censors of the world who've been demanding Laura Ingraham's head on a Fox News platter. Listen up, all you boycotting businesses: This is how it's done. Published April 3, 2018
Parkland students, police state style, back in school
Parkland, Florida, students returned to school, post-shooting, to receive their newest mandated accessories: clear backpacks and identification badges, and a line of security checks. They're not happy about it. And they have a point. But then again, they don't. The clamp-down on freedoms these students are now suffering is pretty much what some of them have been trying to inflict on the entirety of America is recent weeks. Published April 3, 2018
Left will have to soften or self-destruct
The left has overreached on gun control -- on using the Parkland, Florida, shooting horror as a crisis political tool -- and the only way out is to walk back the tough talk and soften on anti-Second Amendment and anti-free speech rhetoric, or self-destruct. Published April 3, 2018
