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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 Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke speaks to a crowd inside a ball park across the street from where President Donald Trump was holding a rally inside the El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Rudy Gutierrez)

Donald Trump builds; Beto O’Rourke destroys

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to free up funding and build his long-promised border wall. And on the other side of town, Beto O'Rourke -- Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke -- says let's bust 'em all down. The campaign lines for 2020 couldn't be any clearer.

February 16, 2019
President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office to deliver remarks in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump’s ‘egregious’ border ‘overreach’ hardly ‘egregious’

So President Donald Trump announced he was poised to declare a national emergency at the border, setting leftist tongues a-waggin' about the "egregious" lines of power he was crossing, and "egregious" bypass of Congress he was committing, and "egregious" political precedents he was setting. Hmm. Can you say Barack Obama?

February 15, 2019
FILE- In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. A report says Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are negotiating a "multibillion dollar" fine for the social network's privacy lapses. The Washington Post said Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, that the fine would be the largest ever imposed on a tech company. Citing unnamed sources, it also said the two sides have not yet agreed on an exact amount. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Facebook turns censorship eyes toward anti-vaccination crowd

Company executives told Bloomberg News that they're considering cutting from their pages any news that undercuts vaccinations -- meaning, anyone who disagrees with the government about the need to vaccinate kids will see one of their key platforms completely shuttered.

February 15, 2019
Former Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at Drake University, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ** FILE **

Eric Holder for president? Run — we’d love a Fast and Furious vetting

Eric Holder, who served as attorney general under Barack Obama, announced his mulling of a presidential campaign. Run, Eric, run. Americans are still waiting for answers to certain Justice Department issues from the Obama years -- and what better way to get them finally answered than during a presidential campaign vetting?

February 14, 2019
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks during a "meet and greet" with local residents, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, in Marshalltown, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Double standard of racism, anti-Semitism

Sen. Cory Booker said Americans need to give each other "grace" and engage in "honest conversations" about racism and blackface and the breakdown of political leadership in Virginia. Great. But if conversation doesn't start with the double standard of how racism is perceived in this country -- then it's all for naught.

February 12, 2019
In this Feb. 6, 2019, photo House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., head of the bipartisan group of House and Senate bargainers trying to negotiate a border security compromise in hope of avoiding another government shutdown, walks with reporters to a Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Donald Trump wins the optics on looming government shutdown

Once again, headlines are warning of a government shutdown if Congress and the White House can't strike a deal on border security. But this shutdown, if it comes, will be a public relations win for President Donald Trump.

February 11, 2019
Actor Chris Pratt poses for the media to open the Lego pop-up cafe "The Coffee Chain" in, London, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. The pop-up cafe promotes the new "The Lego Movie 2" film and is in partnership with UNICEF to raise awareness and proceeds. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Chris Pratt inspires with God-talk on Stephen Colbert show

Without a doubt, Hollywood's Chris Pratt is an anomaly. He's not only a Christian in Hollywood. He's an open Christian in an anti-Christian Hollywood crowd -- and just recently, he took that Christian message to Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show," of all places.

February 8, 2019
The State Capitol is illuminated in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Three of the top elected Democrats in the state are embroiled in controversy. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Blackface, ‘dark makeup’ and Dems — and the confusing politics of hate

All eyes may be on Virginia and its gubernatorial blackface scandal right now -- but really, the juicier story is watching members of the media duck and dodge for the Democrats caught between a rock and a racist place. It's getting confusing to keep track of when blackface is racist, when it's not and just whom we're supposed to hate.

February 7, 2019
President Donald Trump talks to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts while leaving the House chamber after giving his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 at the Capitol in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

America could indeed become socialist

It was inspiring of President Donald Trump to say, during his State of the Union, that America would "never be a socialist country." But the thing is: America could. Only by acknowledging that can America protect against it.

February 7, 2019
FILE- In this file photo from Oct. 17, 2018, survivors of child sexual abuse hug in the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. while awaiting legislation to respond to a landmark state grand jury report on child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. Lawmakers have returned to the Pennsylvania Capitol for 2019 sessions, but they have yet to revisit a response to child sexual abuse scandals since the debate's late-night collapse that closed last year's final voting day. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File)

Catholic priests should be allowed to marry

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, SNAP, is holding a summit this week to press Pope Francis into taking stronger action against clergy members who commit acts of sexual abuse. Well and good. But a better course of action would be for the Catholic Church to open its priestly ranks to marriage.

February 6, 2019
Members of Congress cheer after President Donald Trump acknowledges more women in Congress during his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump’s State of the Union did the impossible

In his State of the Union, President Donald Trump managed to do what political watchers wouldn't have predicted possible just a few short hours before his opening words -- and that's draw together the chamber, the Democrats and Republicans, the country. He made Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez smile and applaud, for crying out loud.

February 6, 2019
This is a computer screen image of a website that advertises the services of a U.S. company that caters to women from China who want to give birth in the United States. Federal agents searched more than a dozen homes in a crackdown on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, on an industry that helps pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. to give birth to American babies. The crackdown on three alleged maternity tourism rings may be the biggest yet by federal homeland security agents. (AP Photo/yyusa.com)

Birth tourism’s bigger risks are national security

Federal agents just arrested scores of suspects tied to a couple of birth tourism programs that brought hundreds of pregnant women from China into America so they might get citizenship status for their children. These operations are offenses to taxpayers. But they're also national security risks. And should be treated as such.

February 2, 2019
In this Jan. 14, 2019, file photo, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam speaks to a crowd during a Women's Rights rally at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. A push by Virginia Democrats to loosen restrictions on late-term abortions is erupting into a fierce partisan clash due to a lawmaker's comments about late-term abortion. Gov. Ralph Northam added gas to the fire Wednesday, Jan. 30, by describing a hypothetical situation where an infant who is severely deformed or unable to survive after birth could be left to die. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE**

Ralph Northam, a doctor you definitely wouldn’t want

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is a pediatric neurologist -- a doctor who treats children who are suffering from problems with their nervous systems. But after hearing his defense of third-trimester abortion, truly, here's a medical professional who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near kids.

January 31, 2019
Then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, that Democrats do "the Lord's work" while Republicans "dishonor the God who made them." (Twitter, Morning Joe) ** FILE **

Democrats’ ongoing problem with God

Democrats, as recent headlines show, are planning to amend the requirement that those testifying before the House Committee on Natural Resources will swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth -- without the "so help you God" finish line. Anything to get God out of government, right?

January 31, 2019