Cheryl K. Chumley

Michelle Obama topples Hillary Clinton in ‘most admired’ poll

For the first time in 17 years, Hillary Clinton is not the "Most Admired Woman in America," according to Gallup polling -- Michelle Obama is. Perhaps the bigger story here is that Hillary Clinton managed to hang on to "most admired" status for 17 years. Who are these people?

December 27, 2018

Toy gun buyback for pansies

Hempstead, New York, officials, citing concerns for the safety of children, warned parents off buying toy guns as gifts this Christmas -- and also hosted a toy gun buyback event. Welcome to the new USA, home of the pansies. Summer camps, for crying out loud, used to provide BB guns to kids to fire at mounted balloons.

December 27, 2018

Record retail sales rain on anti-Donald Trump parade

So the left has been up in arms for days now about the government shutdown, pitching wails over the Wall Street numbers and stock market showing and predicting nothing but gloom and doom and financial suffering because of President Donald Trump. Then along come retail sales and put all that blather in its place.

December 26, 2018

Claire McCaskill on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Rhetoric is cheap’

The outgoing senator from Missouri, Democrat Claire McCaskill, went on CNN and told the host and listening national audience she was "confused" why the House's newest soon-to-be-seated member, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was "the thing," given her all talk, no action state of reality. Well, aren't we all.

December 26, 2018

When Christmas used to matter

Family Dollar stores, at least some, are open "the usual hours" on Christmas Day, Fox Business reported. Certain Dollar Tree locations are open, as well, Country Living reported. Just in case -- what, somebody needs that plastic tumbler for eggnog or those half-priced candy canes to hang on the soon-to-be-tossed tree? Sigh.

December 25, 2018

Bob Corker exiting Senate, ‘sour grapes’ award in hand

Sen. Bob Corker is leaving office at the end of this term -- and, given his ongoing Twitter spat with President Donald Trump, taking a well-earned "sour grapes" award with him.

December 24, 2018

Anthony Scaramucci’s Christmas story of humility, faith

Appearances can be deceiving. Case-in-point: The Anthony Scaramucci of ten-second television soundbite, of two-minute media interview, of five minute pundit appearance, is not the Anthony Scaramucci of in-person or on-the-phone. He's actually refreshing. And low key. And frank.

December 22, 2018

The eight Republicans who bucked on border funding

The eight Republicans in the House who voted against the border wall funding measure are: Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Carlos Curbelo, both from Florida; Justin Amash and Fred Upton, both from Michigan; Ken Buck from Colorado; Will Hurd from Texas; Erik Paulsen from Minnesota; and David Valadao from California.

December 21, 2018

Donald Trump gets his $5 billion from House — and then some

President Donald Trump won his requested $5 billion for a border wall -- and then some -- in a House stopgap bill that passed on Republican-dominated votes, 217-185. It won't pass the Senate. But the point is this: At least Republicans were willing to fight for the wall. Senate GOP, are you watching? This is how you fight.

December 21, 2018

Amazon busted for ‘immoral, almost voyeuristic’ Alexa eavesdropping ‘error’

An Amazon user in Germany was just able to gain access to an estimated 1,700 voice recordings of an Alexa user -- because, get this, of a glitch at the Amazon company. That's some glitch. But the bigger glitch is these erroneously shared files gave eavesdroppers the access to enough snippets of private in-home conversations they were soon able to piece together the Alexa user's identity.

December 20, 2018

Afghanistan ‘boy play culture’ seeps to America

Eleven-year-old boys don't have drag hobbies. They have parents who don't properly protect and who toss what's supposed to be their prized priorities -- their children -- to the predatory clutches of child molesters. And when the media applauds such sickness, the path of America's culture leads right to the door of Afghanistan, where "boy play" is accepted.

December 20, 2018

Senate sidesteps border, puts squeeze on Donald Trump

The Republican-led Senate, no doubt concerned with the politics of a government shutdown and the media-generated storm that would come, sent a stopgap funding measure to the House absent President Donald Trump's requested $5 billion for a border wall. That's called: Putting the squeeze on Trump.

December 20, 2018

Nikki Haley, exiting stage right — leaving us wanting more

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has no regrets. Nor should she.

December 19, 2018

Tucker Carlson boycott latest in Fox News hatchet jobs

Once again, Fox News has been set in the crosshairs of angry left-leaning activists who still haven't grasped the concept that freedom of speech runs both ways -- both liberal and conservative -- and who are now, currently, as we speak, drooling up boycotts of the media giant. This time? It's Tucker Carlson.

December 18, 2018

William Peduto, Pittsburgh mayor, sets sights on gun bans, confiscations

The government has no right to take what doesn't belong to it in the first place. The Second Amendment, after all, is not a government-granted allowance. It's a God-given right -- it's an individual's right -- as are all the amendments that make up the Bill of Rights.

December 18, 2018

Michael Savage being silenced by ‘corporate censorship,’ attorney says

The voice of New York, come Jan. 7, may be no more. That's because WABC, one of the city's premiere, preeminent stations, is poised to boot Michael Savage -- to deplatform him, in broadcast-speak, said his attorney, Daniel Horowitz, in a telephone interview.

December 17, 2018

Government shutdowns, in perspective

Sen. Chuck Schumer said in a recent NBC "Meet the Press" appearance that Republicans ought not allow President Donald Trump to shut down the government over a "temper tantrum" about the need to fulfill campaign pledges and build a border wall. But really, a government shutdown is not all that. It's actually quite a yawner.

December 17, 2018

Tennessee doing pro-life right

The worst abortions opponents, the ones who give pro-lifers a bad name, are the ones who stand safely away from the pregnant woman, shouting righteously and defiantly of the need to protect the unborn and preserve the sanctity and save the innocence and so forth -- then go home and pat themselves on the back for jobs well done.

December 15, 2018

California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye leaves GOP — good riddance

So Tani Cantil-Sakauye, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of California, has left the Republican Party, in part, because of the backlash from all the sexual allegations that swirled about Brett Kavanaugh, newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court justice. Well, goodbye and good riddance.

December 14, 2018

Democrats shaken by the Donald Trump-fueled fight

Poor Democrats. They just aren't used to being treated this way. They just aren't used to the fight.

December 14, 2018