Cheryl K. Chumley

Children should be seen and not heard

Decades ago, the prevailing attitude -- the oft-expressed attitude -- of parents toward their little ones was that children should be seen and not heard. Harsh and humbling as that sounds, fact is, we could use a bit more of this adult-driven 'tude today.

March 27, 2018

America, Israel should quit ‘sham’ U.N. Human Rights Council

It's high time America and Israel quit the "sham" United Nations Human Rights Council.

March 26, 2018

Artificial intelligence taking over real estate — but what about the cookies?

Title this, Real Estate Agent: What Job Not to Seek as a Career. That's because artificial intelligence is steadily creeping into the sector, replacing humans with machines that allow buyers a faster, cheaper and -- some would argue -- stress-free way of finding that perfect home.

March 26, 2018

Stormy Daniels, the ‘news cycle America deserves’

Perhaps the best tweet from all of the twitterings that tore up Twitter during and after the already-infamous Stormy Daniels sex tell-all on "60 Minutes" on CBS went, in part, like this: "This is the news cycle America deserves."

March 26, 2018

The D.C. swamp is alive, well and flush with $1.3 trillion

Congress, led by Republicans, passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill to keep the government operational through the end of the fiscal year, September 30. And on this, the only clear winners are the swamp creatures slinking about Capitol Hill, the ones who pretend at fighting for the good for the country while robbing all that's truly good for the country.

March 24, 2018

Roseanne Barr to Jimmy Kimmel: Yeah, I voted Trump ‘cause left went nuts’

Roseanne Barr told Jimmy Kimmel on a recent "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" segment that yes, indeed, she voted for Donald Trump for president -- and she did so because the left went so far left that it left even liberals like her buzzing. It's such fun when liberals turn on their own, even when the tone is joking.

March 23, 2018

John Bolton, a real ‘America First’ kinda guy

John Bolton has been criticized as a hawk, condemned by the left for shrugging in the face of overseas' threats and countering warlike talk with warlike talk. But that makes him a perfect fit for Trump's team.

March 23, 2018

Gun control’s snaky sneak into omnibus

Lawmakers in the Republican-led Congress managed to sneak into the $1.3 trillion omnibus that's due for passage this week a measure that strengthens background checks on gun buyers. And what's worse -- what's the bigger 'diss to voters and the constitutional process -- is that the gun control provision is one and the same as a bill that previously stalled in Congress.

March 22, 2018

Republicans’ $1.3 trillion ‘pass it to read it’ boondoggle

Republicans, following months of negotiations, finally came up with an omnibus spending bill, and in a word, it "sucks." It's 2,232 pages of $1.3 trillion taxpayer expenditures. And lawmakers only have until Friday to pass it, or face yet another shutdown.

March 22, 2018

Google’s $300 million fight against fake — err, conservative — news

Google just kicked off a new initiative to fight what it regards as fake news. But the lofty goals described by company executives are very likely code for the greater one: kicking off and keeping out the conservative voices.

March 22, 2018

Donald Trump hits the heartbeat, tells GOP go ‘further right’

President Donald Trump told Republicans during a recent party fundraising dinner that the way to win big at the ballot box was to go right -- politically speaking, that is. In other words, he cautioned: Don't cave on the conservative principle. He's absolutely correct.

March 21, 2018

Gregory Salcido, anti-military teacher, fired — and good riddance

A teacher with the El Rancho Unified School District in Southern California named Gregory Salcido was fired after Board of Education members decided his anti-military comments caught on tape were so vicious that they -- as well as he -- didn't belong in the classroom. Apparently, the good guys do win once in a while.

March 21, 2018

Mike Pompeo’s Jesus-loving reputation brings strength

Mike Pompeo, secretary of state nominee, is sparking some worry among the high-brow crowd because he believes in Jesus and thinks Christianity is the way to go. Let the nail-biters gnash and gnaw. This is what makes America great, and what will continue to keep America great -- the fight of the faithful to bring biblical principles out of the pews and into public life.

March 21, 2018

Americans, by and large, believe they’re being watched

The majority of Americans nowadays believe they're being watched by their own government. Give it a generation, and that finding will read like this: The majority of Americans now believe it's OK for their government to watch them. And then the police state will be complete.

March 20, 2018

Uber notes ‘sad news’ of killing lady with driverless car

Uber, on the heels of learning one of its cars that was operating in driverless mode had mowed down a pedestrian and killed her, sent out a tweet that in essence said: Hey, we're thinking of ya. Sorry for the killing -- almost, anyway. But don't worry. We've got researchers on the scene.

March 20, 2018

Privacy pitfalls of artificial intelligence-fueled health care hard to ignore

Artificial intelligence may provide a world of convenience when it comes to suggesting which purchases an Amazon user might want to next make, or what song titles a Pandora listener might also enjoy clicking. But when it comes to AI in the health field, America should tread carefully. The pitfalls, particularly in the area of personal privacies, could very well outweigh the benefits.

March 20, 2018

Marco Rubio on wrong side of Andrew McCabe firing

Sen. Marco Rubio said during an NBC "Meet the Press" appearance that the truth-challenged ex-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe should have been allowed to retire, peacefully and pension-ready, rather than face the firing squad of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. And that right there is what's wrong with the political class in Washington, D.C.

March 19, 2018

Jim Carrey’s attack on Sarah Huckabee Sanders exposes misogyny of left

The left always likes to boast how much it loves the women -- loves the Women's Rights, the equal rights, the gender equality and such -- while simultaneously condemning the right as a bunch of flaming misogynists. Yet time after time, it's those on the left who offer up the least flattering characterization of women. Jim Carrey's the latest.

March 19, 2018

Student anti-gun walkouts — a get out of class free card

Honestly, if school were a Monopoly game, National School Walkout day could very well have been the class equivalent of the Get Out of Jail Free card.

March 17, 2018

Joe Scarborough crows Donald Trump ‘doomed to fail’

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough unleashed a scathing commentary against President Donald Trump in a Washington Post opinion piece, calling out the Republican as pretty much a political aberration, "doomed to fail." Hmm. Can you say President Hillary Clinton? No, we can't, either.

March 16, 2018