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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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Mike Row of "Dirty Jobs" fame talks with author and political commentator Ben Shapiro about culture and politics, July 29, 2018. (Image: YouTube, The Daily Wire)

Mike Rowe’s Veteran’s Day reminder: No ‘safe space’ in military

Mike Rowe, of "Dirty Jobs" television fame, on Fox News said that as much as the left likes to promote tolerance and diversity and snowflake madness for all, there is really no "safe space" in the military. Don't cry, Millennials. Mama's got a hot buttered biscuit waiting for you in the basement.

November 11, 2019
In this Tuesday, April 11, 2017, file photo, the sun sets on a Baptist church in Georgia. According to new data released Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, by the Pew Research Center, the portion of Americans with no religious affiliation is rising significantly, in tandem with a sharp drop in the percentage that identifies as Christian. (AP Photo/David Goldman) ** FILE **

America’s still a bunch of God-believers, it seems

Church attendance may be dropping, the hook-up and shack-up culture may be advancing, taking over where abstinence teachings and traditional marriage once reigned, but guess what, good news: according to Gallup, most in America still believe in God. The question is, of course, which God -- and what does that God teach?

November 11, 2019
Anonymous sources are dominating broadcast coverage of the impeachment inquiry, according to a conservative press watchdog. (Associated Press)

Dangerous, troubling ‘Anonymous’ times for America

It's not overstating to say the Democrats have been trying to impeach President Donald Trump since Day One of his White House term -- since before Day One even, when his inauguration was just stepping into planning mode. But there's a growing, troubling anti-Trump hatchet trend in town and it's called Anonymous.

November 9, 2019
Kanye West, left, and wife Kim Kardashian West attend the WSJ. Magazine 2019 Innovator Awards at the Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Kanye West for president? Don’t laugh

Kanye West, Yeezy to friends and fans alike, made a surprise appearance at Fast Company's 2019 Innovation Festival and in between talking with his clothing designer Steven Smith, and chatting up his latest "Jesus Is King" album, made this quick remark: And oh yes, I'll be running for president in 2024.

November 8, 2019
This combination photo shows TV personality Meghan McCain at the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. on March 21, 2015, left, and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Whistleblower lies and the anti-Trumpers who push them

There's a lot of talk going around about the so-called illegalities of releasing the whistleblower's name. But sift through the shrill; step away from expressions of hate. Law is: It's not against the law to out this whistleblower. It's only against the law for the inspector general to out this whistleblower.

November 7, 2019
In this Nov. 2, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at Hawkeye Downs Expo Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sanders is calling for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, backing an idea that further exposes the Democratic presidential primary’s deep ideological divides. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Bernie Sanders nods at Elizabeth Warren as possible ‘running mate’

Sen. Bernie Sanders, on the campaign trail but taking a time out for a "Deconstructed" podcast interview with host Mehdi Hassan, said he'd indeed consider Sen. Elizabeth Warren as a "running mate" if he wins the Democratic Party's nomination. (Which he won't. Thank God. But just in case he does.) What a pairing of loons that would be.

November 7, 2019
In this April 3, 2019, file photo, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. speaks during the National Action Network Convention in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Eric Holder sees turn of Va. from red to blue as finally ‘fair’

Eric Holder, former -- disgraced -- attorney general of the United States under Barack Obama's administration, weighed in on the total Democrat takeover of Virginia's state government during recent elections with this brief tweet: Good, he said, now things are finally "fair." Really? 'Cause "fair" is defined as one-sided?

November 7, 2019
In this file photo taken on Nov. 4, 2015, kindergartner Lauren Meek, third left, raises her hand as she sits with second-grade students helping her on programming during their weekly computer science lesson at Marshall Elementary School in Marysville, Wash. Though less likely to study in a formal technology or engineering course, America's girls are showing more mastery of those subjects than their boy classmates, according to newly released national education data made public Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Sam Sorbo on America’s education: ‘This is a crisis’

Actress, writer, podcaster and mom Sam Sorbo said America's public school system is in shambles, teaching what it's not supposed to teach, indoctrinating when it should be educating, and raising the next generation in ways it decidedly should not go -- and voila, no wonder socialism and secularism are spreading throughout the country.

November 7, 2019
A live turkey is brought into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room before the media at the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. The pardoning ceremony, to happen later, will mark its 71st year since it first took place in 1947. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

HuffPost post: Save the planet — skip Thanksgiving

The Huffington Post, in what's probably going to go down as the stupidest idea in American history, put out a post calling for the outright skipping of some serious Thanksgiving traditions -- like travel, like turkey -- as a means, get this, of saving the planet from environmental damage.

November 6, 2019
Gun rights supporters walk by the Capitol building in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, the opening for the special session called by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. (Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot via AP) ** FILE **

Virginians, start your gun-buying engines

Democrats, in Tuesday elections, seized control of both sides of the General Assembly, handing the left a trifecta of power -- governor's office, Senate and House -- that is going to usher in a new wave of, wait for it, wait for it, socialist-styled politics come 2020. And that means heads-up, gun owners.

November 6, 2019
In this Aug. 22, 2019, photo, a chicken sandwich is seen at a Popeyes as guests wait in line, in Kyle, Texas. Police in Maryland say a man fatally stabbed another customer outside a Popeyes restaurant in a fight over the recently rereleased chicken sandwich. Police in Maryland say a man fatally stabbed another customer at a Popeyes restaurant in a fight over the recently rereleased chicken sandwich. A Prince Georges County police spokeswoman told news outlets the two men were waiting in line at an Oxon Hill Popeyes Monday night, Nov. 4, 2019, when one of the men accused the other of cutting in front of him in a line specifically for ordering sandwiches. Police say the fight spilled outside where a 28-year-old was fatally stabbed. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Popeyes chicken sandwich prompts stabbing

A 28-year-old man was stabbed to death while standing in line for a Popeyes' chicken sandwich in Maryland. Is this really what we've become -- a nation that places such low value on human life that even a chicken sandwich can cause a killing?

November 5, 2019
In this July 26, 2017, file photo, a supporter of LGBT rights holds up an "equality flag" on Capitol Hill in Washington, during an event held by Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., in support of transgender members of the military. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

LGBTQ troubles in Pasco County, Florida

The LGBTQ agenda is spreading like a cancer throughout America's public school systems. Standing silent means abandoning the schools -- abandoning America's rising generations -- to the insane.

November 5, 2019
President Ronald Reagan embraces first lady Nancy Reagan on Jan. 30, 1984, in Washington, after he announced that he will run for a second term as President. Reagan, 72, confirmed that Vice President George Bush will again be his running mate in a campaign already well underway. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz) ** FILE **

Ronald Reagan’s spirit, 39 years later, still soars free

It was almost 40 years ago, on Nov. 4, 1980, when Republican Ronald Reagan defeated Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter at the presidential ballot box, ushering in what some historians have since referred to as the "Reagan Era." My, the times have changed. Yet the spirit of Reagan still soars throughout the land.

November 4, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders gazes at the crowd during a rally with Rep. Ilhan Omar inside of Williams Arena in Minneapolis on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Bernie Sanders — choke, cough, gasp — denies he’s ‘far left’

Sen. Bernie Sanders, of democratic socialist self-identifying fame, said to a crowd in Iowa over the weekend that he's not "far left," that his ideas are not "far left," and that he's really only giving the people what they want. He said it with a straight face. And you thought miracles couldn't happen.

November 4, 2019
Members of the House Agriculture Committee, from left, Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., Rep. Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., Rep. Tom O'Halleran, D-Ariz., Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas, and Rep. Al Lawson, D-Fla., craft a new farm bill that includes an overhaul of the food stamp program, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Two sensible Democrats in a field of leftist loony losers

The House, under Nancy Pelosi's leadership, with progressives' and far leftists' pressings and to Adam Schiff's glee, just passed a resolution that lays out the rules for the impeachment process against President Donald Trump. But it was a vote that came minus two Democrats. Dub them The Last Of The Sensible Democrats.

November 2, 2019
In this Aug. 21, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

October jobs’ numbers speak volumes on impeachment

America's economy saw the addition of 128,000 jobs this past October, a figure that surpassed expectations of 75,000. And unemployment came in at 3.6%. And all the Democrats went -- oh crap. This is why impeach, impeach, impeach is such a must-be, must-have, must-do for the left.

November 1, 2019
FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy, in Montpelier, Vt. Five state attorneys general announced lawsuits Thursday, May 16, 2019, seeking to hold the drug industry responsible for an opioid addiction crisis that has become the biggest cause of accidental deaths across the country and in many states. The new filings in Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, West Virginia and Wisconsin mean 45 states have now taken legal action in recent years against Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Some of the states are also suing Richard Sackler, a former president and member of the family that owns the Connecticut-based firm. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Big Pharma and D.C., joined at the lobbying hip

Ask people which special interest drops the most lobby money into D.C. and most would guess attorneys or environmentalists, or perhaps even unions. But it's none of the above. It's actually Big Pharma. And that explains a lot -- namely, why America has become a nation of pill poppers.

October 29, 2019
Divine Mercy Catholic Academy teacher Carrie Basile takes a photo of students before they march in the annual Halloween parade at Johnstown Galleria in Johnstown, Pa., on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. (Todd Berkey/The Tribune-Democrat via AP)

Halloween’s too political, not as fun

Halloween used to be all about the free candy -- and staying out late, with flashlights -- and wearing cool stuff that could scare the neighborhood kids and disgust the neighborhood parents. Now? It's too political. It's too controversial. All the fun's being killed by the politically correct pinheads.

October 29, 2019