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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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President Donald Trump listens to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speak during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House where Trump spoke about his judicial appointments, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Lindsey Graham is quite right to investigate the Bidens, Burisma

Sen. Lindsey Graham, in a series of tweets, said Congress ought to quit the impeachment madness and take a deeper look at Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings and so forth and so on -- and he's right. If the Bidens had "Rs" next to their names, not "Ds," the media would be all over this matter.

November 26, 2019
Women with bright pink hats and signs begin to gather early and are set to make their voices heard on the first full day of Donald Trump's presidency, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

‘Cult of Trump’ infects minds of left

The left has a new anti-Donald Trump trend, and it's one that goes like this: If you support this president, if you regard this president through any other lens than "impeach, impeach, impeach" -- well then, that means you're part of a cult. Of all the left's deceptive, deceiving, lying-lip, anti-Trump tries, this one has to be the funniest.

November 26, 2019
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., with committee staffer Daniel Noble at left, makes impassioned remarks at the conclusion of a week of public impeachment hearings on President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. Former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, were the final witnesses today. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Impeachment hearings leave Americans hungry for national healing

Forty-five percent of independents said in a survey conducted this week by Emerson College that they're against impeachment of this president -- and that's after a Marquette University poll a conducted couple days earlier found 53 percent of Wisconsin voters want Donald Trump to stay. The takeaway? Voters want the nation to heal.

November 23, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, left, and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden during a commercial break in a Democratic presidential primary debate, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Joe Biden, the punch line that keeps on giving

Joe Biden just told an MSNBC-watching audience that men shouldn't ever "raise a hand to a woman in anger" -- except when he has to, when it's "self-defense." And wait for it, wait for it: That wasn't even Biden's worst debate-related moment.

November 21, 2019
Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, center, appears before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Gordon Sondland takeaway: Impeach, I ‘presume’

Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, entered the House intelligence committee hearing on impeachment as the Democrats' best hope of bringing the hammer to President Donald Trump's head. He left atop a wave of presumption. In other words: The anticipated big bombsheller dropped a big nothingburger.

November 21, 2019
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden is left standing in the crosshairs in the Democratic presidential race with the revelation that his son Hunter made hundreds of thousands of dollars through his employment with Burisma, the largest private gas company in Ukraine. (Associated Press/File)

Burisma shows double standard of Democrats

If anything concrete has come from the Democrat-fueled impeachment hearings being spearheaded by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, it's this: Witnesses acknowledge Hunter Biden's Burisma Holdings' post came in at "less than comfortable" on the old ethics scale. So why isn't Capitol Hill focused on this as an investigation?

November 21, 2019
FILE - In this May 2, 1984 file photo, Pope John Paul II strike a pensive pose as he and President Ronald Reagan sit for photographers prior to having a private meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska at the airport. After the meeting Reagan left for Washington and the pope for South Korea. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart)

Ronald Reagan, the pope and ‘The Divine Plan’

This day in history in 1975, Ronald Reagan announced his run for the Republican Party's nomination for president. He lost. He didn't quit. And as history recounts, his pairing with Pope John Paul II, along with deep faith in God and belief in mission, led to the ultimate tear-down of Cold War communism.

November 20, 2019
Many Americans following the public hearings in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump have trouble making heads or tails of the daily flood of information. (Associated Press/File)

Impeachment fatigue a real risk for Democrats

Democrat Rep. Jeff Van Drew told a Fox News "Sunday Morning Futures" audience that his Capitol Hill colleagues were expressing "concern" about the ongoing, never-ending nature of the impeachment look-sees at President Donald Trump -- and that worse, word on the street is that "most people" are growing weary with the process.

November 19, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters on the morning after the first public hearing in the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump on his effort to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. Pelosi says the president's actions in the impeachment inquiry amount to "bribery." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi, meet Constitution

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, reacting to ongoing impeachment proceedings, issued a remarkably egregious demand that went like this: Mr. President, you need to prove your innocence. Can you say Fifth Amendment? Can you say due process? How about presumption of innocence -- or innocent until proven guilty?

November 18, 2019
President Donald Trump steps off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, early Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, as he returns from a campaign rally in Bossier City, La. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The ‘Great Disruptor’ has had a great week thanks to Adam Schiff

Three takeaways from this week's wheel of impeachment fortune: Democrats got nothing. The Deep State must be ripping mad. And President Donald Trump, the "Great Disruptor" of D.C. establishment politics, as he's been dubbed, is well on his way to being reelected in 2020.

November 16, 2019
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, and ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., give opening remarks at the start of the hearing with former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in the second public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Adam Schiff cracking under ‘point of order’ pressure

Poor Adam Schiff. The House Intelligence Committee chairman was trying to maintain a show of law and order and professionalism and such and such -- but Reps. Jim Jordan and Elise Stefanik kept interrupting him with calls for points of order.

November 15, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters on the morning after the first public hearing in the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump on his effort to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. Pelosi says the president's actions in the impeachment inquiry amount to "bribery." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi goes for slam dunk — and crashes to court

Nancy Pelosi, amid the largely laughable testimony of the diplomats, came out with her own laughable conclusion of all that hearsay testimony and said: President Trump has admitted to bribery. Who knew Pelosi, at her advanced age, could perform so many contortions? This has to be the greatest acrobatic spin in political history.

November 15, 2019
This March 30, 2014, photo shows Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain, at sunset in Twizel, New Zealand. New Zealand lawmakers have joined together across the aisle to pass a bill aimed at combating climate change. The Zero Carbon bill aims to make New Zealand reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to the point the country becomes mostly carbon neutral by 2050. (AP Photo/Carey J. Williams, File)

‘Climate migrants,’ the left’s tool to pry borders wide

"Climate migrants" are defined as those individuals in the world who've suffered some sort of weather-related disaster and are, therefore, in the eyes of the left, in the minds of radicals like Sen. Bernie Sanders, are worthy of automatic entry into the United States. Well, there's a large pool of people for ya.

November 14, 2019
In this Oct. 22, 2019, file photo Ambassador William Taylor, is escorted by U.S. Capitol Police as he arrives to testify before House committees as part of the Democrats impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Impeachment charade: Umm, I feel like Trump may have maybe said that, or meant it

All hail the big day -- the Democrats' big ah-ha, gotcha, Mr. President moment, when open hearings on Capitol Hill with key Witnesses In The Know would provide the final quid pro quo proof, leading to impeachment of Donald Trump. Or, as Ambassador Bill Taylor might painfully put it -- umm, the way I see it is I feel like the way everybody understood it is that the president may have thought about that thing, that quid pro quo thing.

November 13, 2019
This Dec. 2, 2016, photo shows a cross atop a hill at a city park in Spur, Texas. The Wisconsin-based organization Freedom from Religion Foundation has asked officials in Spur to remove the cross, claiming it is unconstitutional because of it public location. (Josie Musico/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)

Atheists threaten another praying coach and team

Well, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is at it again. Coaches and players at a Missouri high school held a after-game prayer session -- and that prompted the atheists from Wisconsin to take offense, take up pen and paper, and shoot off a warning letter to Cameron School District officials. Quit the praying -- or we'll sue.

November 13, 2019
Thousands pack into The Gateway in Salt Lake City for Kanye West's "Sunday Service," Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. People were standing on and climbing up anything they could find to catch a glimpse of West. (Colter Peterson/The Deseret News via AP)

Kanye West’s faith and the red line for believers

Christians want to know: Is Kanye West for real with his faith, or not? That's a good question. But it's not the best question. Why not? The conversion of West -- the final determination of the to-be or not-to-be Christian leanings of the rap artist -- is ultimately a matter between West and God. The better question is: Does it truly matter?

November 12, 2019
In this Oct. 30, 2019, file photo former Exxon CEO and ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson leaves a courthouse in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Rex Tillerson’s dubious denial of Nikki Haley’s claims

Nikki Haley said in her book, "With All Due Respect," that then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly asked her in a meeting to help them oppose some of President Donald Trump's policies and in so doing, "save the country." Tillerson has issued a denial. But it's a dubious denial.

November 12, 2019
In this Sept. 12, 1953, photo released by RR Auction, John F. Kennedy and his new bride Jacqueline cut the wedding cake at their reception in Newport, R.I. The photo is one of a collection of 13 original images made by Frank Ataman, of Fall River, Mass., being auctioned by RR Auction. The original negatives were discovered in his darkroom after he died. The auction closes Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. The little girl is unidentified. (AP Photo/RR Auction, Frank Ataman) ** FILE **

Cohabitation rises, marriage falls — and society drifts

Roughly 78% of young adults ages 18 to 29 say it's A-OK for unmarried couples to live together as husband and wife without going the traditional route -- the trading of vows, the placing of rings, the standing before God, and so forth and so on. It's easier to separate that way, dontcha know.

November 12, 2019