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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

cchumley@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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In this Oct. 7, 2012, file photo, Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, left, and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, right, speak in the middle of the field after the Patriots beat the Broncos 31-21 in an NFL football game in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

FiveThirtyEight cautions Tom Brady: Don’t be a Peyton Manning

FiveThirtyEight.com, known more for political tracking than sports' world surveying, nonetheless weighed in with some fine analysis on the future of New England's GOAT Tom Brady and after cutting through the clutter and sifting about the statistics, the final offering was this: Get out while you're still good. Don't be a Peyton Manning.

August 12, 2019
Adar Gandelsman of Israel (left) and Sarah Idan of Iraq pose together while in Tokyo in November. (Image: Instagram, Adar Gandelsman) ** FILE **

Ilhan Omar schooled by beauty queen on free speech

In between a bit of Twitter barbing, former Iraq beauty queen and Miss Universe contestant Sarah Idan managed to make clear to Rep. Ilhan Omar: Strict Islamic law has no business in America -- and freedom of speech isn't confined by congressional boundaries.

August 12, 2019
In this undated photograph, the UCHealth medical helicopter sits on the landing pad outside the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colo. (Miles Blumhardt/Fort Collins Coloradoan via AP)

Dear Donald Trump, please read — a surprise medical billing that needs rapid fixing

What of the idea of informed patient consent? The right of one to control one's own health care? Good question. With emergency medical air transports, patients, families of patients, are bluntly, getting financially screwed. Bamboozled, even. It's high time Congress act to put a stop to this most egregious form of surprise billing.

August 10, 2019
Rosanna Arquette attends The Wrap's "Power Women Summit" at the InterContinental on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) ** FILE **

Rosanna Arquette’s stupid apology for ‘shame’ of being white

Hollywood's Rosanna Arquette sent around a tweet -- later made private -- that apologized for her whiteness. For the "shame" of being born white. For the crime of possessing Caucasian "privilege." Congratulations, Arquette. As stupid tweets go, this one sets a new historical standard.

August 8, 2019
The issue of knife control may sound like small potatoes to Americans wrestling with mass shootings and gun restrictions, but Europe provides a case study on how limiting weapons can lead to crackdowns on pocketknives and switchblades, also known as automatic knives. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

California knife attacker kills 4 — should we ban knives?

Four were killed and two injured in a series of horrific knife attacks in Southern California. And all the Democrats go: Ban the knives! Not really. That'd be stupid. Right? And yet, this is what the left does with guns whenever there's a fatal shooting.

August 8, 2019
Churchgoers arrive for a dedication ceremony for a new sanctuary and memorial room at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday, May 19, 2019. In 2017 a gunman opened fire at the church and killed more than two dozen congregants. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Texas smart: State letting guns into churches, schools

New laws are about to take effect in Texas that will open doors for firearms' owners to carry their weapons into school, into churches, into places that have been traditionally gun-free and gun-restricted zones. Texas is the banner state to watch on this. If only more legislatures and governors would follow suit.

August 8, 2019
From left, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Andrew Yang, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio participate in the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Democrats, it’s time to ‘whittle the field’

Robert Wolf, the founder and CEO of the investment firm 32Advisors and a former economic aide to Barack Obama, recently took to "Fox & Friends" to say to Democrats running for president in 2020: Hey guys, it's time to "whittle the field." Agreed. Heartily agreed.

August 8, 2019
Painted emoji are seen on a house in Manhattan Beach, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. The Southern California seaside community is in an uproar after the home was given the new paint job featuring two huge emojis on a bright pink background. Manhattan Beach residents railed against the makeover during a City Council meeting Tuesday night, citing problems with spectators. (AP Photo/Natalie Rice)

American freedom sometimes means — little pink houses

A bunch of angry residents stormed a Manhattan Beach City Council meeting and demanded government officials do something about the pink house with yellow smiley face emojis that is -- so the argument goes -- upsetting their property value scale. But being an American sometimes requires a turning of the cheek.

August 7, 2019
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell returned to his show "Last Word" on Monday night after recovering from a car accident, offering thanks to his political foe, David Koch, for contributing to the hospital that took such good care of him. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

‘TRUMP-INSPIRED TERRORISM’ chyron despicable show of MSNBC bias

On "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" on MSNBC, during discussion of the recent tragic shootings in Ohio and Texas and the fate of gun control laws in America, these words briefly flashed: "TRUMP-INSPIRED TERRORISM." Truly, has the media no shame.

August 7, 2019
President Trump, addressing the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, said he supports "red flag" laws to make it easier for authorities and families to take away guns from people deemed dangerous. (Associated Press)

‘Red flag’ laws bring loads of problems

President Donald Trump, along with several notables in the Republican Party -- including Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas -- have floated so-called "red flag" laws as a means of stopping mass shootings in the United States, saying that if we can keep the mentally ill from buying and owning firearms, well then, that should curb much of the violence. On the surface, this sounds like common sense. But caveat: Who decides who's mentally unfit?

August 6, 2019
MSNBC's Chris Hayes discusses President Trump and his base of support, July 18, 2019. (Image: MSNBC screenshot) ** FILE **

Donald Trump is now the ‘dark sorcery of racial hatred,’ too

MSNBC's Chris Hayes just called out Donald Trump out for his "dark sorcery of racial hatred" and the "well of evil" he promotes with his rhetoric. And then the cameras panned to Marianne Williamson as she stirred a large black cauldron of smokey concoction while chanting, "Begone, oh dark psychic force of collectivized hatred!"

August 6, 2019
Mourners gather for a vigil at the scene of a mass shooting, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio. A masked gunman in body armor opened fire early Sunday in the popular entertainment district in Dayton, killing several people, including his sister, and wounding dozens before he was quickly slain by police, officials said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Why shooters shoot

Democrats would have it believed -- fervently wish and hope and dream that it could be believed -- that every time a horrendous shooting takes place in this country, it's due to the existence of the Second Amendment. But the reasons for the shootings have little to do with the guns themselves and everything to do with evil.

August 6, 2019
Walmart employees comfort one another after an active shooter opened fire at the store in El Paso, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)

Walmart weirdly under the gun to stop selling guns

Walmart, the site of an El Paso, Texas, shooting that left at least 21 dead, is now facing concerted pressure to stop selling firearms -- a la Dick's Sporting Goods. It makes no sense. But on social media, it's a plea that sounds good -- that sounds caring and compassionate and as if people are Doing Something to stop the killing.

August 5, 2019
Walmart employees react after an active shooter opened fire at the store in El Paso, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)

Gun-carry rights must be strengthened, expanded

What's needed are more right-to-carry laws in schools, in churches, in government buildings -- in all the areas those with intent to harm are well aware are currently Gun Free Zones, i.e. Sitting Duck Zones, in the minds of the would-be killers.

August 5, 2019
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., talk after the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Democrats, in a field of 24, still have nobody

If anything can be gleaned from watching the Democrats debate, it's this: President Donald Trump doesn't have much to worry about when it comes to his reelection. Bluntly, you know you've got a candidate problem when, in a field of 24, the perceived best chance of beating Trump is -- Michelle Obama. The one who's not running.

August 3, 2019
Talk radio host Michael Savage. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Michael Savage, banned from U.K., makes new case for entry

Radio giant Michael Savage, who's been outright banned from the United Kingdom for 10-plus years, sent, through his attorney, an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking him to reverse course and toss out the ban. And indeed Johnson should. It's high time these ridiculous claims leveled in 2009 against Savage -- an icon of American media, a friend to the cause of the patriot -- be removed.

August 2, 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden waves after the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Joe Biden’s ‘Joe30330.com’ nightmare

By now, everybody knows of Joe Biden's latest gaffe -- that of botching his own debate closer, the part where he's supposed to plug his presidential run, the part where he told a listening CNN audience that "if you agree with me, go to Joe 30330 and help me in this fight." Text much, guy?

August 1, 2019
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses for photographers upon arrival at the U.K. photo call of "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood," in central London, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Environmental hypocrisy of Google Camp elites

Google Camp is hosting several high-brow celebrity names and Hollywood types at an event in Sicily, Italy, to talk about the travesties of climate change. But the bigger, albeit shush-shush, hush-hush-now, news deals with the travel arrangements for these bigwigs. Apparently, according to Italian media, they arrived on private jets.

August 1, 2019
Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney talks to reporters after the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

John Delaney’s Democratic debate moment

John Delaney, the ex-congressman from Maryland, the past co-founder of Health Care Financial Partners, the current presidential candidate in a field of two dozen, did the impossible in the recent CNN-televised debate: He managed to emerge as a Not A Loon. Not A Loons are very special breeds of Democrats -- nearly extinct.

July 31, 2019