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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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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, makes a point with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., as the House Oversight and Reform Committee considers whether to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents related to the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Democrats’ wild-eyed rhetoric will be their election downfall

Democrats and members of the left have been taking their mouths on some wild rides lately, calling out President Donald Trump as Hitler, characterizing his border control as concentration campy and such. And if they think they're winning the hearts and minds -- and votes -- of the American people with this rhetoric, they should think again.

June 20, 2019
In this May 13, 2019, file photo Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks at the final event for the Road to the Green New Deal Tour at Howard University in Washington. Ocasio-Cortez says any plan to adequately address climate change would cost at least $10 trillion. The Democrat is the lead author in the House of the Green New Deal, a plan to dramatically cut the nation's dependence on fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s legislative days coming to end: Poll

If polls mean anything -- and generally, they don't, except as glimpses in time, but this one's too happy to ignore -- then ding, dong, socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's legislative days may soon be dead. Ice cream cones for everybody. Make that, water bottles.

June 19, 2019
In a Sept. 26, 2016 photo, Marine veteran Cindy Martinez stretches ahead of a weightlifting workout at the Crossfit Goat gym in Dacula, Georgia. Martinez lost three limbs and part of the fingers on her remaining arm after getting a flesh-eating bacteria in 2015 and nearly dying. (AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane)

Climate change’s newest alarmism: It’ll eat your flesh

Five people in the last two years have been admitted to the same New Jersey hospital for treatment of the same flesh-eating bacterial infection, Vibrio vulnificus, tied to the same Delaware Bay -- and now scientists say it's maybe, or maybe not, but very possibly maybe, definitely likely maybe, due to climate change. Really?

June 18, 2019
Protesters burn a mock U.S. flag during a rally near the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, to mark the Independence Day on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. The group said they condemn the administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for it's alleged subservience to the dictates of U.S. and China. They also demanded an end to the Visiting Forces Agreement, VFA, and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, EDCA. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Flag-burning bans are anti-American

Flag burning is today's equivalent of the Sedition Act. We cannot let the emotions of patriotism blind us to the duties of being a patriot.

June 18, 2019
Kyle Kashuv, survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, speaks at the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Friday, April 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Harvard’s takedown of a little kid

Harvard, in a move that's supposed to be seen as predicated on principle, told Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv, 18, that sorry, due to your use of the N-word when you were 16, your admissions' ticket has been yanked. Hmm. Monkey see, monkey do. Monkey thinks Harvard's full of poo.

June 17, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame Celebration, Sunday, June 9, 2019, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Beto O’Rourke blows Jake Tapper interview

In the course of just a couple minutes on CNN, struggling Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke went from "umm, I don't know" to "umm, yes, I think so" to "hmm, no, nope, not at all" on an issue that, in this point in the game, he ought to have a stand. It's like host Jake Tapper was his position whisperer or something.

June 17, 2019
President Trump is getting encouragement from polls showing a rising job approval rating and a narrowing of the generic ballot for midterm elections. (Associated Press/File)

Meaningless polls and the media-driven art of the hype

It's campaign season and the Democrats are scrambling for traction, so guess what, America, make way for the weekly, daily, hourly horse race of polls. That, and the accompanying snarky pundit swipes at the current president. Let the eye-rolling begin. But let's not pretend for even a moment these surveys mean anything.

June 15, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg greets supporters after delivering remarks on foreign policy and national security during a speech at the Indiana University Auditorium in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, June 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Pete Buttigieg reveals left’s long-term plan to kill Electoral College

Democrats, for some time, have been pressing the end of the Electoral College because it stands in the way of their plans for total leftist takeover of America's political world. But 'lest you think this is a phase -- Pete Buttigieg made clear: For Democrats, this is a long-term goal.

June 14, 2019
This Nov. 19, 2015, file photo shows Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey being interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Dorsey says the company isn't biased against Republicans or Democrats and is working on ways to ensure that debate is healthier on its platform. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Abortion is not a ‘business’

It's a tad tinny-eared for 180 or so leading company executives to get together and sign a letter in The New York Times to say America's emerging abortion protections for the unborn are "bad for business." Yes? It's sort of in the vein of saying border laws were bad for Pablo Escobar's business.

June 11, 2019
In a Feb. 12, 2014, file photo, Rep. Steve Hurst, R-Munford, watches the discussion on the House floor in the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala. Alabama lawmakers have approved legislation that would require certain sex offenders to be chemically castrated before being released on parole. The Alabama bill, sponsored by Mr. Hurst, would require sex offenders whose crimes involved children younger than 13 to receive the medication before being released from prison on parole. They would then be required to continue the medication until a judge decided they could stop. (Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Alabama’s new castration law for child molesters a strong pro-child stance

Alabama's Republican governor, Kay Ivey, just signed into law a measure that allows the state to chemically castrate certain child sex offenders as a condition of their paroles. As imagined, the American Civil Liberties Union is aghast. But this is a good thing. The message is: Children matter.

June 11, 2019
A man looks at badges with anti-Trump messages, on sale in central London, during a protest against the state visit of President Donald Trump, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Impeach Donald Trump at civil peril

Democrats have set their 2020 course on Impeach Trump, Prosecute Trump, and frankly, this is how it's going to be the next several months. But this road, at its farthest point, doesn't end well. There is no way President Donald Trump's base will stand quietly as Democrats sacrifice all that's law and order for political gains.

June 11, 2019
In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 photo, Cromwell High School track coach Brian Calhoun, left, speaks to transgender athlete Andraya Yearwood during a break at a meet at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn. Yearwood, a 17-year-old junior at Cromwell High School, is one of two transgender high school sprinters in Connecticut, transitioning to female. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

Male masquerading as female steals another female trophy

This weekend, yet another male -- defined as an individual who was assigned by God at birth as a boy, not a girl, the only other sex option that exists -- took home the top place trophy for his competition in the female hurdler event. The political powers expect this male to be called a female, as he wishes. But that would be a lie.

June 10, 2019
Rep. Jim McGovern, Massachusetts Democrat, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 7, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Democrats go dumpster diving for William Barr contempt

So Democrats finally formally introduced what they've been threatening to introduce for weeks now: their latest lame-road attempt to derail President Donald Trump's presidency. They call it a contempt resolution.

June 7, 2019
In this June 28, 2018, file photo, a police officer stands guard outside The New York Times building in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

New York Times delusion: We’re ‘in no way anti-Trump’

One of the editors for The New York Times, Deputy Managing Editor Rebecca Blumenstein, said at a FT Future of News event -- the FT for its sponsor, the Financial Times -- that no way, no how is her Gray Lady paper unfairly biased against President Donald Trump. Delusional? Methinks so.

June 7, 2019
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One on their departure at Caen Airport, Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Caen, France. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

George Will’s off-mark likening of GOP, post-Trump, as ‘cult’

Perennial anti-President Donald Trumper and prolific writer George Will has penned a new book, "The Conservative Sensibility" -- and guess what: It's about the dire direction the Republican Party has taken post-Trump. Once again, Will's off base, off mark, off the reservation.

June 6, 2019