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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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Former special counsel Robert Mueller, listens as testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 24, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

America’s Joe Q. Public biggest loser on Robert Mueller

Former special counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited testimony on Capitol Hill died a quick death, with pundits sloshing around words like "painful" and "frail" to describe the special counsel's presence and performance. It's time for the left to move on. It's time for Democrats to admit defeat and focus on policy.

July 25, 2019
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, in Cincinnati, Ohio. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Donald Trump’s not-so-insignificant kudos from gay guy with AIDS

A self-described "gay man living with HIV/AIDS" issued a strong defense on Twitter of President Donald Trump, telling the social media world that under this administration, he's finally received the necessary treatment cure of his ailment. Imagine that. This is not your Democrats' vision of Trump.

July 24, 2019
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., addresses the 110th NAACP National Convention, Monday, July 22, 2019, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ** FILE **

Rashida Tlaib, the lunatic fringe of politics

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, in a speech delivered from the floor of the House, likened the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel to America's boycott of Nazi Germany. And that's just the latest of her madness.

July 24, 2019
The cabin at the "Little House on the Prairie" site is a re-creation built in 1977 by the parents of Bill Kurtis and Jean Schodorf. The deteriorating log cabin at the “Little House on the Prairie” site in Kansas is expected to soon get a makeover. The current cabin was re-created and built near Independence in 1977 at the television series’ peak of popularity. The show is based off Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books centered on her childhood in the country’s Midwest region. (Beccy Tanner/The Wichita Eagle via AP)

Lessons on immigration from ‘Little House on the Prairie’

NBC network COZI TV just played Season 2, Episode 20 of "Little House on the Prairie," the one titled the "Centennial" -- and boy, what a face-slapping reality check of how far our country has strayed, in the span of about 40 years, from its moral, political and cultural compasses. Particularly, pertaining to immigration.

July 20, 2019
NBC's Dave Gregory (right) and Andrea Mitchell chat in the spin room during the Republican Candidates Debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla., Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times) ** FILE **

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not a socialist

Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC fame said during a recent television sit-down with a couple guests that calling the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a socialist was patently untrue -- that it was simply "opposition research" garbage from conservatives and Republicans and President Donald Trump's supporters and base. Come again?

July 19, 2019
After a confrontation between authorities and protestors, police use pepper spray as multiple groups, including Rose City Antifa, the Proud Boys and others protest in downtown Portland, Ore., on Saturday, June 29, 2019. In social media posts later in the day, police declared the situation to be a civil disturbance and warned participants faced arrest. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP)

Ted Cruz, Bill Cassidy take on ‘terrorist organization’ antifa

Sens. Ted Cruz and Bill Cassidy introduced a resolution to formally label antifa a domestic terrorist organization and saying, in follow-up written remarks, that the group "must be stopped," that its members are fascists "protected by liberal privilege," and that it's high time elected officials stepped in and did something. Agreed.

July 19, 2019
In this March 2, 2017, file photo, Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Tucker Carlson, Berkeley’s idea of a ‘white supremacist goblin’

Berkeley City Council member Rigel Robinson turned down an invitation to talk about the renaming of manholes as "maintenance holes" on Fox News with Tucker Carlson, calling the host a "white supremacist goblin" and a "racist" and a bunch of other stuff. It's always a good thing when crazy people denounce you.

July 19, 2019
Rep. Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon’s weaponized ticks wouldn’t be worst military secret

Rep. Christopher Smith added an amendment to a defense bill ordering the Pentagon to admit whether it experimented with ticks for biological weaponry, and if those experiments contributed to the massive Lyme disease explosion. If true -- it wouldn't be the worst secret experimentation conducted by the U.S. government.

July 18, 2019
From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their "broken" countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘Squad?’ Squanderers is more like it

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar have managed to ball their socialist viewpoints into a cute and college-y sounding name, branding themselves the cute-sounding "squad." But at root, they're socialists -- and that makes them, automatically and by logical extension, squanderers.

July 17, 2019
The USS Constitution passes in front of the Boston skyline, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Boston. The newly refurbished ship, nicknamed Old Ironsides, took its first spin since October 2014 to celebrate the 220th anniversary of the iconic vessel's maiden voyage. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) ** FILE **

Boston’s Christian flag problem

Boston is being sued over barring a group, Camp Constitution, from flying its Christian flag as part of the city's recent Constitution Day celebrations. Think about that for a moment. Wasn't Boston at the forefront of Americans' fight for independence from Britain -- a fight that was based largely on the quest for religious freedom? For specifically, Christian religious freedom? My, how times have changed.

July 17, 2019
In this Feb. 12, 2019, file photo, a banner hangs by a stained-glass window in the sanctuary at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco. Most Americans don’t typically reach out to religious leaders for guidance, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll shows the lack of personal connection with ministers even includes people who identify with a religion, though it’s less prevalent among those most engaged with their faith. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) ** FILE **

Religious ‘nones’ on the rise, bringing the rot of socialism

Between 2008 and 2018, the level of religious "nones" in the United States -- those absorbing to no particular belief in a higher power-- has risen from just more than 22% to nearly 30%. That explains much. Like what? Like how come socialists in America have come to political power, for one.

July 16, 2019
From left, U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., respond to base remarks by President Donald Trump after he called for four Democratic congresswomen of color to go back to their "broken" countries, as he exploited the nation's glaring racial divisions once again for political gain, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All four congresswomen are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. Omar is the first Somali-American in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ayanna Pressley’s childish anti-Trump ‘occupant’ stand

Rep. Ayanna Pressley said at a press conference this week that President Donald Trump, in her mind -- from her lips -- would always be considered an unauthorized, illegitimate "occupant" of the White House. She's not just thumbing her nose at Trump. She's thumbing her nose at the American people. And oh so childishly so.

July 16, 2019
The sun rises behind an American flag posted outside of Petrunik's Kitchen, Door and Moore store at the old Eureka Department store in Windber, Pa., Wednesday, July 10, 2019. (Todd Berkey/The Tribune-Democrat via AP) ** FILE **

Socialists are the enemy — and that’s not racist to say

Much ado has been made over President Donald Trump's recent tweets telling "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" -- that is to say, socialists -- to exit America, stage right. But the president's message is valid. Simply put: Socialists -- which is what Democrats have become -- don't belong in America's government.

July 16, 2019
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, right, listens to speakers along with Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, left, during a rally at the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Governor Northam called a special session of the General Assembly to consider gun legislation in light of the Virginia Beach Shootings. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Trump’s tweets hardly as ‘racist’ as Virginia’s governor

This is how the media works: President Donald Trump is being labeled an outright utter racist for telling progressive members of Congress to get out, go back where they belong -- back to the socialist-styled countries of corrupt governance they love to defend. But Virginia's governor, who apologized for a "racist and offensive" costume in his yearbook photo, is still happily governing. Double standard?

July 15, 2019
In this combination image from left; Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., July 10, 2019, Washington, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., March 12, 2019, in Washington, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., July 12, 2019, in Washington, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., July 10, 2019, in Washington. In tweets Sunday, President Donald Trump portrays the lawmakers as foreign-born troublemakers who should go back to their home countries. In fact, the lawmakers, except one, were born in the U.S. (AP Photo)

Democrats need to control their freshmen

At the risk of being called racist -- Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley ought to retire to their congressional corners, crack open a copy of the Constitution and spend some quiet time reading. Maybe then they'd learn how the public servant class is supposed to operate in this country.

July 15, 2019
In this Wednesday, June 19, 2019, file photo, South Bend Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg shares a moment with Shirley Newbill, mother of Eric Logan, during a gun violence memorial at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center in South Bend, Ind. (Michael Caterina/South Bend Tribune via AP)

Democrats, ‘Douglass Plan’ set course for more racial division

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech imagining a time when his children "will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Then, as now, the words ring powerful. But with Democrats at the helm, that dream will never come.

July 13, 2019
Hillary Clinton's communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, hit back at criticism over the media's limited access to the Democratic presidential candidate, despite reporters being corralled at a distance during her appearance at a New Hampshire parade. (MSNBC) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton’s people still insist it’s the woman thing

Jennifer Palmieri, the former communications director for then-presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, chalked up her candidate's loss to -- get this, it's broken-record-meet-deja-vu, ta da ta da -- sexism. Again with the freaking gender card. Seriously, now. Stop. It's making women -- all women -- look bad.

July 12, 2019
FILE - In thus April 23, 2015 file photo, flags flutter in the breeze outside of the Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham, Texas. A supplier of cookie dough that Blue Bell Creameries is blaming for a possible listeria contamination of some of its ice cream products says its product tested negative for the pathogen before being sent to the Texas-based company. In a statement Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, Iowa-based Aspen Hills said the "positive listeria results were obtained by Blue Bell only after our product had been in their control for almost two months." (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

Product lickers symptom of sick, selfie-obsessed nation

If there were no such thing as selfies, there probably wouldn't be as many of these sick product lickers out there. If social media weren't so targeted toward the lowest common denominator -- the low achievers who think 1,000 likes is akin to genuine accomplishment -- then product licking wouldn't be a thing.

July 11, 2019
Fox News' Tucker Carlson discusses an "economic patriotism" plan by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, June 5, 2019. (Image: Fox News, "Tucker Carlson Tonight" screenshot) ** FILE **

George Soros’ son, wielding the hatchet at Tucker Carlson

The left, led by vicious anti-American forces, is on a wide-sweeping mission to stomp out any vestige of freedom -- or critical thinking -- in this country, so as to establish a collectivist, easily controlled system of governing.

July 11, 2019