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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 June 21, 2019, file photo commuters walk through a corridor in the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York. Millennial workers are more likely than older generations to report being burned out at work, according to a 2018 Gallup study. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Millennials: 7-in-10 say socialism, not capitalism

Seventy percent of polled millennials say they'd vote for a socialist politician, YouGov/Victims of Communism reported. And 50 percent see capitalism in a negative light. Yay, American public schools. What a testament to failure you've become.

October 28, 2019
The U.S. Capitol Building Dome is seen through a beveled window at the Library of Congress in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

America’s public servants need to be served up some humble pie

There are far too many politicians and public servants who have been forgetting their proper station in American life in recent times. And this is becoming one of the biggest headaches for those who value freedom, in the way the framers intended freedom to be in this country.

October 26, 2019
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., left, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., pause before taking questions from reporters after passage of a resolution to take legal action against President Donald Trump's administration and potential witnesses, a response to those who defy subpoenas in Congress' Russia probe and other investigations, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nadler, Schiff have no standing to whine of ‘political revenge’

Reps. Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff -- two of the leading voices behind Russia collusion, Russia obstruction of justice, Ukraine quid pro quo, impeach, impeach, impeach! -- have turned coattails away from the Games of Politics they oh-so-normally love to play to tweet disparagingly about, get this, the DOJ taking "political revenge." How delicious.

October 25, 2019
In this May 2, 2015, file photo, Charles Barkley joins the crowd before the start of the world welterweight championship bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Charles Barkley: It’s you, not Mike Pence, who should ‘shut the hell up’

Former NBA player Charles Barkley unleashed some harsh words against Mike Pence, telling the vice president during a pregame conversation on TNT that he ought to "shut the hell up" and let the China money roll. It's never a good look when an American citizen sides with a communist country over America's government.

October 25, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., stands during a break from testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, on Facebook's impact on the financial services and housing sectors. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays First Amendment snare for Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg went to Capitol Hill to answer questions from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, about free speech -- and it went pretty much as could be expected. Explaining the concept of freedom of speech to a socialist is about as fruitful as commanding a brick wall to move. But for America, this is a good teaching moment.

October 24, 2019
A ribbon depicting the transgender flag is displayed on a mannequin during a community game night on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, at Genderbands' office in Orem, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP) ** FILE **

James Younger, 7, the next victim of LGBTQ insanity

James Younger is a little 7-year-old boy whose mother, Anne Georgulas, believed he wanted to be a girl -- mostly because he liked the Disney princess movie, "Frozen." But James' father, Jeffrey Younger, thought otherwise. So off to court the divorced couple went. And unbelievably, jurors found in favor of the mom.

October 24, 2019
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., walks to speak to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Republicans bare their teeth

Republicans, upset by Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff's secret hearings on impeachment, stormed a closed-door session of Schiff's secret hearings on impeachment -- effectively putting a halt to Schiff's secret hearings on impeachment. Go, GOP. Title this: the day the GOP Bared Its Teeth.

October 23, 2019
In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during the Young Black Leadership Summit at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Lynching, smynching: Who cares

So Trump called the leftist-fueled attempt to impeach him a lynching. And now the political world's on fire, seeing images of trees and dangling ropes and hanging blacks and so forth and so on, and drawing conclusions of this president's inherent racism and hatred toward blacks. Oh, please. It's called figurative language, folks.

October 23, 2019
FILE - This Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019 file photo, shows the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston. Lawmakers broke for August recess Thursday, Aug. 1 with bills to update the formula remaining stuck in the Education Committee, frustrating advocates who had hoped that years of discussion would finally produce a breakthrough before the start of a new school year. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Boston mulls banning b-word after woman cries of hurt feelings

A Democrat serving Boston has successfully pushed forward for vote a bill aimed at banning use of the b-word -- rhymes with ditch, hitch and, Happy Halloween to the kiddies, witch. Well now, at the risk of leading the city of the original freedom fighting tea partier down another path of censorship -- holy sh--. (Rhymes with twit.)

October 22, 2019
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) National Executive Director Nihad Awad, right, speaks as attorney Shereef Akeel, left, and CAIR national communications director Ibrahim Hooper stand nearby, during a news conference at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, in Washington. The group announced the filing of a federal lawsuit on behalf of more than 20 individuals challenging an executive order signed by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

CAIR spins bogus anti-Trump web, as Nigerian boys suffer Islamic abuse

A few weeks ago, authorities in Nigeria uncovered hundreds of cases of horrendous abuse of boys at so-called Islamic reform schools, "Almajiris" -- abuse so wicked it was described by one local law enforcement official as tantamount to "modern slavery. But don't expect CAIR National to do much about it.

October 22, 2019
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, listens to reporters following a roundtable discussion at Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital with officials and health experts to receive an update on anti-vaping efforts Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) ** FILE **

Mitt Romney’s pathetic ‘Pierre Delecto’ shame

Mitt Romney, once upon a time -- once upon a Massachusetts time when his barely Republican credential stood apart from the multitude of liberals as something of a fresh difference -- used to have a political career. Now he's the butt of jokes. And honestly, this is something he's brought upon himself.

October 22, 2019
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, of Calif., speaks to the media as he returns to a closed-door meeting where Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland is being interviewed as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Adam Schiff, old ‘shifty’ eyes, facing GOP censure fire

House GOPers are forcing a vote on Rep. Adam Schiff's censure. What good will that do? Likely: Little. The House is Democratic-controlled and honestly, censuring someone as "shifty" as Schiff, as Rep. Jody Hice calls him, would have about as much effect on controlling his anti-Donald Trump behavior as pelting him with marshmallows.

October 21, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, listens during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN/New York Times at Otterbein University, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in Westerville, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Tulsi Gabbard may be anti-Hillary Clinton, but she’s still far-left fringe

Democratic candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard, in a widely watched Twitter-posted YouTube video, condemned the "rich, powerful" gang of elites who surround Hillary Clinton and demand Democrats either "toe the line" or stay silent. That's good. But let's remember: Gabbard is a far-left progressive; no friend of conservatives.

October 21, 2019
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., takes questions from reporters following a closed-door briefing on Iran, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Lindsey Graham speaks the obvious — and the press goes nuts

Sen. Lindsey Graham said "sure," he'd support impeachment of Donald Trump -- if in fact it were shown the president had committed an impeachable offense, that is. And from that, all the anti-Trumpers in the media went: One of Trump's biggest supporters wants to impeach! This is a classic example of bias masked as news.

October 21, 2019
A demonstrator holds a U.S. flag during a rally at the Southorn Playground in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. Protesters in Hong Kong have thrown basketballs at a photo of LeBron James and chanted their anger about comments the Los Angeles Lakers star made about free speech during a rally in support of NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, whose tweet in support of the Hong Kong protests touched off a firestorm of controversy in China. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

NBA losing money — and well it should

The NBA's commissioner Adam Silver said that China had pressed for the firing of Rockets general manager Daryl Morey -- for the crime of publicly supporting freedom-fighting protesters in Hong Kong -- and that the league, as part of the fallout for siding with the reds over the red, white and blues, has been losing money.

October 18, 2019
Chicago Public Schools teachers picket early Thursday morning, Oct. 17, 2019, at Lane Tech High School on the first day of a teacher's strike, in Chicago. (Colin Boyle/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Chicago teachers: for themselves, not the children

Teachers in Chicago, where their median pay is $75,000, have called for a strike for more money, lower health care costs and smaller class sizes -- all while leaving 300,000 district school children in limbo. This is not about "justice," or the students. This is about teachers, at the promptings of union heads, getting more for themselves.

October 17, 2019
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, right, accompanied by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, speaks about the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democrats huff, puff, bluff and blow, but impeachment falls down

Democrats, who've done nothing but call for impeachment since 2016, who've done nothing but stage an "impeachment inquiry" that allows them to skirt normal processes of transparency while keeping the "I-word" alive and fresh in the press, have suddenly decided they don't need no stinkin' vote.

October 17, 2019