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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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Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley

Tucker Carlson speaks during the Republican National Convention Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bold and Blunt: Politics, prophecy, the press and the war on Iran

Pastor Jack Hibbs, president of Real Life Network and founding pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Church in California, and the author of the recent "Living in the Daze of Deception," said Christians and believers should be turning attention to Ezekiel to see prophecy unfolding.

June 27, 2025
In this file photo from May 2, 2019, a cadet works with a virtual reality character named "Ellie" at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making predictions to guide care or help patients. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

COVID a perfect example of dangers of health care AI

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they've developed a new and improved means for artificial intelligence to detect what ails, medically speaking, and alert doctors to possibly unknown patient health problems. But the dark side of predictive and diagnostic AI is significant.

June 26, 2025
Kent State and 1960s radicalism illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Bold and Blunt: America’s time of turning, the 1960s

If one time could be pinpointed in America as a point of national turning, where the foundations crumbled and moral absolutes gave way to decadence and a loss of common decency -- look no further than the 1960s.

June 25, 2025
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, Sep. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

United Nations shows itself as irrelevant once again

"Diplomacy must prevail" -- said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at a New York assemblage of the Security Council, in the wake of Israel's attack on Iran and America's subsequent bombing of its nuclear sites. And like that, the United Nations once again shows why it's utterly inconsequential.

June 24, 2025
FILE - George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria, June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

George Soros should be dragged before Congress

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, told Newsmax in a recent interview that she had asked House Oversight Chairman James Comer to subpoena billionaire George Soros to demand he answer questions about election interference. Good. About time.

June 20, 2025
Smokes raises from a building of the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran in Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Bold and Blunt: Israel, Iran engaged in clash of civilizations

The ongoing war between Israel and Iran isn't so much a fight over land or resources or military superiority as it is a true clash of civilizations and an epic showdown between good and evil. And Israel represents all of civilized society, including America.

June 20, 2025
A pride flag is seen in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Oct. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Tennessee wins big to protect children from LGBTQ evil

This transgender madness, brought courtesy of Democrats, leftists and their mad scientists in the medical community, not to mention their adoring secularists in media, has gone on far too long and has left far too many exploited and victimized children in its wake.

June 19, 2025
Rescue team work at the site where a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Bold and Blunt: America should help Israel win

Israel's war on Iran is America's war on terrorism -- and all of civil society's war against evil.. What role America should play in Israel's war on Iran is a subject of controversy, though.

June 18, 2025
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander speaks during a press conference after being released from arrest outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Democrats do give a good fake victim theatrical show

Brad Lander, Democrat candidate for mayor, was arrested by ICE officials for impeding feds from arresting an illegal immigrant inside a courthouse in Manhattan and for assaulting an agent. This is the Democrat Party's newest genius campaign to win voters' favor: roll cameras; play victim.

June 18, 2025
A row of aircrafts belonging to Israeli airlines El Al sit parked along the apron of Cyprus' main airport in Larnaca, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Israel’s war of peace

Israel has launched strikes against Iran -- but these are not so much preemptive strikes as they are reactive to long-running proxy and direct strikes by Iran against Israel. Now the questions are: to what end? And what should be the U.S. involvement? Well, Israel's war is America's war.

June 17, 2025
FILE - President Donald Trump, right, listens as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, April 7, 2025. (Pool via AP, file)

Iran oh so wishes Joe Biden were still president

Israel on Friday carried out a strategic attack on Iran that struck Natanz, its largest nuclear site, and killed dozens, including top military, political and scientific officials. And all the Iranian terrorists during Friday prayers go: Oh, for the return of Joe Biden to the White House.

June 13, 2025
Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez holds a Bible translated into Tsotsil, a Mayan language, in the Simojovel municipality, Mexico, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Bold and Blunt: The Bible still matters

Too many Christians in America go to church on Sunday, read their Bible daily and maybe attend worship services again on Wednesday evenings -- but then fail to recognize and acknowledge that God is interested in everything they do all week long, all day long, every second of every day.

June 13, 2025
A legislator puts their hand on a Bible during a swearing-in ceremony on the first day of the legislative session at the Capitol in Atlanta, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) ** FILE **

God-given rights in jeopardy

A year ago, only 20 percent of U.S. adults thought religion was a major influencer of American life. Now? Thirty-four percent believe that, Gallup just found. The question that pops, perhaps most importantly, is this: Which religion? It matters.

June 12, 2025
Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, right, looks to pass the ball as he is defended by Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac, left, during the first half in game 3 of a first-round NBA playoff basketball series,, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Bold and Blunt: Serving God on the job

One of the biggest challenges as a Christian is to maintain the faith even in the face of great pressures of the world, and to carry that faith out of Sunday service and into the work week of Monday-through-Friday. But God doesn't want to be contained to church service.

June 11, 2025
CORRECTS BUDGET DATES Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his revised 2025-2026 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Gavin Newsom’s presidential hopes burn in L.A. fires

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's big response to the murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and illegals and all their enablers and supporters who've set the city streets of Los Angeles on fire has been -- sue President Trump for trying to instill order.

June 11, 2025
A protester holds a sign as a Waymo taxi burns near the metropolitan detention center of downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following last night's immigration raid protest. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

Saul Alinsky alive and well in L.A.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, in the latest showdown with federal authorities attempting to instill law and order in the burning inferno called Los Angeles, dared President Trump's border czar Tom Homan to, colloquially, "arrest me, bro." This is just so Democrat.

June 10, 2025
Climate activist Greta Thunberg stands near a Palestinian flag after boarding the Madleen boat and before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Greta Thunberg, Gaza-bound Gilligan in pigtails, grasps for relevancy

Climate activist Greta Thunberg and "Game of Thrones" actor Liam Cunningham were so moved by the sad plight of people in Gaza they got a boat, hoisted the Palestinian flag and threw some black-and-white checkered cloth around their bodies and set sail. Their goal? Gaza or bust, baby.

June 9, 2025
Ashley Branton lays out tarot cards in the back of her shop, Velvet Witch, in Norfolk, Va., Thursday, June 13, 2024. The city of Norfolk recently repealed its 45-year-old ban on “the practice of palmistry, palm reading, phrenology or clairvoyance, for monetary or other compensation.” The 1979 ordinance was not being enforced, however, and the psychic services industry is growing. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)

America’s unhealthy obsession with New Age spiritualism

Roughly a third of U.S. adults turn to tarot cards, astrology, fortune tellers and the like to help chart their futures or soothe their anxieties, and the practice is most common among Gen Z-ers and millennials, a recent survey shows. It's all fun and games -- until it's not.

June 7, 2025