Cheryl K. Chumley
Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley
A.I. that halts thieves — before they steal
The customer is always right -- except when artificial intelligence says the customer isn't. That's sort of the message being sent by new technology aimed at catching crooks before they commit their crooked acts, anyway. Published April 16, 2019
Bernie Sanders, a capitalism success story, still can’t say how he’d pay
Bernie Sanders went on Fox News to talk about his presidential run and tell why his particular brand of socialism, the so-called democratic socialism, is best for America -- but once again failed to explain how he'd pay for Medicare for All, free college tuition and so on and so forth in a way that brings long-term economic stability. Published April 16, 2019
‘Climate refugees’ — Democrats’ new tool to kill U.S. borders
The left has a new tool to bring illegals to America -- to wedge border doors a bit wider in defiance of law and order -- and it goes like this: climate change. The weather. The weather is making people flee their countries and come to America. Wow. This is a new low even for the left. It's U.N.-speak, pure and simple. Published April 16, 2019
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s police state measles order mucho un-presidential
So New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may run for the presidency. But he's recently OK'd the forced vaccinations of everyone who lives within the geographical boundaries of four ZIP codes heavily infected with measles. Is this the type of police state governance that belongs in the White House? No. Heck no. And no again. Published April 15, 2019
The return of the politicking pastors
Today's churches are filled with leaders who worry too much about maintaining their IRS tax exemptions, or about offending their tithe-paying members, than about delving too deeply into the pressing political affairs of our time. But ceding the political ground has not served America well. Published April 13, 2019
Medicare for All terrible, deceptive and un-American
America was founded on principles of limited government and individual freedom, where rights come from God, not government. Then came the left's message that health care is a right, a basic human right, and slash went the Constitution. Medicare for All, as Sen. Bernie Sanders is pushing, is about as un-American as policy can come. Published April 12, 2019
Julian Assange’s U.S. charges a ‘say what?’ moment
Let's hold the phone on the conviction and sentencing of Julian Assange for a moment. Exactly what did Assange do that, say, journalists protected by credentials from big corporate media entities don't commonly do during the course of pulling threads of information from their sources? Published April 11, 2019
Texas Republican’s crazy anti-abortion bill
A Texas Republican has re-introduced a bill that would criminalize and ban abortion and classify it as homicide, opening doors for women who terminate their pregnancies to face imprisonment and even sentences of death. And their little abortion doctors, too. Wow. There's pro-life. And then there's this: Crazy pro-life. Published April 11, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s costly Amazon misstep
Freshman lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was slammed by the majority of voters in her district who told pollsters she was wrong for driving away Amazon and its promised 25,000 highly paid job openings. Such is the thinking of a socialist: On paper, hitting hard at Big Business can seem noble. But the people still have to eat. Published April 11, 2019
Lara Logan nabs border gig at Sinclair — and all the left go, Oh no!
Former CBS correspondent Lara Logan nabbed a broadcast gig with Sinclair to go to the border and report the goings-on. Prepare for the left to go into hyper-drive. Logan is hardly the far-right ideologue the left would like to paint. She's going to be a tough one for Democrats to dismiss. Published April 10, 2019
Congressional members behaving badly
Rep. Maxine Waters climbed atop the high horse alongside her chairwoman's seat in the House Financial Services Committee hearing room to thunder at Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and tell him, basically anyway, to sit down, you're not dismissed. I am zee law! Published April 10, 2019
Democrats could learn a thing from Bernie Sanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders is planning to participate in a town hall on Fox News, and for that, his far leftist cronies in the far leftist media are wrinkling noses, wondering why. But here's where the socialist-minded presidential hopeful deserves some credit: He's got guts to enter what others in his base perceive as a hostile environment. Published April 9, 2019
Iran, on cue, resumes ‘Death to America’
Iran, the nation that former President Barack Obama told us to trust, has been busily broadcasting its trademark "Death to America" chant as payback for President Donald Trump's designation of the Revolutionary Guard as a foreign terrorist organization. And now the Obama copycats are nibbling nervously at their nails. But why? Published April 9, 2019
Democrats and their odd 12-year doomsday clock
Rep. Barbara Lee, in a recent Twitter post, said her fellow House mate, the freshman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was quite right: The world has only 12 years to properly address the environment or else face total devastation. Curious. Shouldn't it be 11 years and something-something by now? Published April 9, 2019
Beto O’Rourke thinks Benjamin Netanyahu is ‘racist’
Do Democrats even know what racism is any more? They've slung the term around so much it seems as if they've forgotten its real definition. Published April 8, 2019
Quitting your job? Shh — technology may tattle
IBM has developed artificial intelligence that can predict, with a reported 95 percent accuracy, when employees are just about to quit their jobs. Super snoopy surveillance? Or smart technology that can actually benefit both business and employee? The jury's still out. It's all in the ultimate application. Published April 6, 2019
Joe Biden’s ‘hug’ joke poor taste, poor timing, poor all around
Joe Biden took the stage of the Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers event in the nation's capital, flashed his signature folksy, regular guy smile, and joked, "I just want you to know I had permission to hug Lonnie." Lonnie, being IBEW Int'l's male president, Lonnie Stephenson. Poor timing. Poor taste. Just plain poor all around. Published April 5, 2019
Google shutters A.I. ethics board after LGBTQs attack conservatives
Google dissolved and disbanded its artificial intelligence ethics advisory board, just a week or so after its creation. Why? In brief: Heritage Foundation. In brief, the LGBTQ movement couldn't stand the thought of a conservative on the council, so the LGBTQ movement cried and demanded the conservative voice be removed. Published April 5, 2019
Make way for the reparations
House legislators have brought forward a bill to form a new commission tasked with looking at the feasibility of paying black Americans for slavery -- for actually putting to law a reparations measure. You always know it's campaign time when Democrats start to turn oh-so-concerned eyes toward their black constituency again. Published April 4, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bully-tweets Donald Trump on taxes
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bragged in a recent tweet that Congress wasn't requesting, but rather demanding with expectant air the president to release his tax returns. But let's see what the Constitution says about this. Published April 4, 2019
