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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 Sept. 28, 2018, file photo, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., talks to media during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press/File)

Democrats suddenly find their copies of Constitution

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said he was concerned President Donald Trump was trying to be a dictator, and Democrats simply couldn't stand for that. This is quite an astonishing turnaround for Democrats. After all, where was all this concern about dictatorial leadership when Barack Obama was king?

March 5, 2019
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks during a news conference with members of the Progressive Caucus in Washington, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ‘twit’ sensible Democrats will soon flee

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is emerging, for the Republicans, as the gift that keeps on giving. How so? Well, when one of the co-founders of Greenpeace calls you out on Twitter as a "pompous little twit" for your Green New Deal -- umm, perhaps it's time to rethink your political positions.

March 5, 2019
Actress Rose McGowan speaks at the inaugural Women's Convention in Detroit, Oct. 27, 2017. McGowan said Thursday, May 24, 2018, she’s “still in shock” that Harvey Weinstein will finally be appearing in court in New York City, and she sees it as a win for all of the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. McGowan was one of Weinstein’s earliest accusers. She says he raped her more than 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) ** FILE **

Rose McGowan’s bragging abortion moment

It's one thing to believe in a woman's right to choose. It's another thing entirely to crow about having an abortion, as if it were the best decision ever made, right up there with picking the proper college or volunteering free time for Habitat for Humanity or something.

March 4, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks as he kicks off his 2020 presidential campaign at Navy Pier in Chicago, Sunday, March 3, 2019. Over the next several weeks, Sanders will travel to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, and California. He will then return to Burlington, Vermont, for the official launch of his campaign. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Bernie Sanders, Democrats court 2020 black votes with 1620 messages

Sen. Bernie Sanders kicked off a presidential rally in Chicago with a rousing singing of the national anthem by a black singer, followed by rousing speeches from various notables from the black community, followed by a rousing reading of a list of young black men killed in police shootings in recent times. Overcompensate much?

March 4, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., left, meets with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, during lunch at Sylvia's Restaurant in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, Pool)

Democrats and their race and gender card antics

Democrats have this annoying habit of seeing race in places where race isn't even an issue. It's called identity politics, it's one of the left's favorite means of politicking, and it's damaging to America because it immediately stifles all sane debate. The left does it with gender, as well.

February 26, 2019
In this Aug. 14, 1936, file photo, Jesse Owens competes in one of the heats of the 200-meter run at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Owens is the American track star who defied Adolf Hitler, winning the 100 meters, 200, 4x100 relay and long jump at the racially charged Berlins Olympics in 1936. (AP Photo/File) **FILE**

Melting the racial glaciers in America

Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren just made national headlines for pushing the idea America needs to provide reparations for blacks to account for slavery. What folly. What political opportunism. There's a better way to soothe race relations in this country -- one that inspires and unites, rather than angers and divides.

February 23, 2019
Former President Barack Obama, left, gestures as Golden State Warriors basketball player Stephen Curry laughs while speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ** FILE **

Barack Obama deserves props for ‘twerking’ talk

Grudging as it may be, Obama deserves some props for speaking bluntly to black youth of America and offering them a message that should resonate with us all -- and that we should carry back to our own families, our own communities, and remember to teach to our own children. What is it? The worth of a person is not in the external.

February 21, 2019
Singer Aretha Franklin, left, hugs outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, as President Barack Obama applauds, at an event celebrating Holder at the Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. Franklin (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Eric Holder, Barack Obama merger means more chaos at the polls

Barack Obama's Organizing for America is poised to merge with Eric Holder's National Redistricting Action Fund, and the end result -- an "All On The Line" campaign -- will bring on a massive grassroots push to redistrict in a way that solidifies progressive influence for years to come.

February 21, 2019
Illustration on the Democratic party's push for socialism by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The folly of focusing on ‘Socialism’ with a capital ‘S’

Raise the red flags on socialism -- warn about the rising acceptance of socialism as based on polls and surveys -- and soon, a media pundit or scholarly spokesperson will point out to a worried America that this is not a real socialism we're talking about here. Well, so what? Socialism is Big Government and that's all that matters.

February 21, 2019
A proposal by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, for a "Green New Deal" could put the U.S. in the red financially, analysts say. (U.S. House of Representatives)

Democrats in deliciously difficult spot with ‘Green New Deal’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is poised to get Democrats on record with the "Green New Deal" by forcing a vote. It should be interesting. Some Dems have signed on; many others have stayed silent, no doubt realizing the mocking they'll take from the saner citizens of the nation for supporting such a delusional plan.

February 20, 2019
In this Jan. 16, 2019, file photo Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., attends a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Bernie Sanders already branded a liar

Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his campaign for president on "This Morning" on CBS -- and within minutes, he was already raising eyebrows about his ability to stick with the truth. It's not good to kick off a campaign already branded a liar.

February 20, 2019
In this Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump declares a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo Evan Vucci, File)

A border wall poll that matters

A survey from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist found 85 percent of Republicans say they're A-OK with President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to build a border wall.

February 19, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., delivers her inaugural address following her swearing-in ceremony at the Renaissance School for Musical Theater and Technology in the Bronx borough of New York on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, like wow, confuses ‘Berlin Wall’ with America

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist with the mostest, unleashed a new wave of fire and fury against this White House, telling a listening America that President Donald Trump's push for border protection, like, is nothing but "a moral abomination," like because it like reminds of like, the Berlin Wall and all. Like wow.

February 19, 2019
In this Oct. 31, 2018, file photo, a screen displays images of a Watrix employee walking during a demonstration of their firm's gait recognition software at their company's offices in Beijing. A Chinese technology startup hopes to begin selling software that recognizes people by their body shape and how they walk, enabling identification when faces are hidden from cameras. Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai, “gait recognition” is part of a major push to develop artificial-intelligence and data-driven surveillance across China, raising concern about how far the technology will go. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China’s duplicitous call for ‘arms race’ controls on A.I.

China, according to a report from the Center for a New American Security, is warning that global controls and international agreements on artificial intelligence are needed, or else a technological "arms race" will soon enough lead to world war. America shouldn't be fooled. This is the same China that demands countries "pay their debts" on climate change, all the while bucking controls on its own production.

February 19, 2019
FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2013 file photo, "60 Minutes" reporter Lara Logan takes part in a panel discussion at the Showtime Winter TCA Tour in Pasadena, Calif. Logan is being quarantined in a South Africa hotel for three weeks as a precaution after visiting an American-run hospital treating Ebola patients in Liberia for a "60 Minutes" report that aired Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Lara Logan, of CBS fame — a hero to truth

Here's something you won't read about every day -- a journalist in the mainstream media speaking publicly about the left-leaning bias of the mainstream media. But that's what Lara Logan, who worked for years as a foreign correspondent for CBS, just did. Somebody give this woman a gold star.

February 18, 2019
Actor Alec Baldwin walks out of the New York Police Department's 10th Precinct, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in New York. Baldwin was arrested Friday after allegedly punching a man in the face during a dispute over a parking spot outside his New York City home, authorities said.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Alec Baldwin, sorry — Donald Trump has free speech rights, too

President Donald Trump, doing as he does, doing as he always does, took to Twitter to express his displeasure with a "Saturday Night Live" skit that mocked him. And for that, Alec Baldwin, who plays Trump on "SNL," wondered: Did the president threaten my safety? Sorry, Baldwin. Free speech rights run both ways.

February 18, 2019