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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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The Ohio Statehouse is reflected in a window of The Center for Christian Virtue in downtown Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

Bold and Blunt: America the virtuous

Virtue is something very few people think about -- and when they do, it's probably as a word in their minds that's interchangeable with values, or principles, or standards. But virtue is actually a word that represents necessary components for successful, fruitful living.

June 6, 2025
This combination of photos shows White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, on Nov. 13, 2024, left, and the cover of her book "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines." (AP Photo/left, and Grand Central Publishing via AP)

Democrats and their faux ‘independent’ thinking

Karine Jean-Pierre has switched from Democrat to independent, saying in a video shared on Instagram that it's time "we" -- meaning everybody -- "stop thinking in boxes and think outside of our boxes and not be so partisan." LOL. She coincidentally has a new book called "Independent."

June 5, 2025
In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the John Lewis-class replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) conducts a replenishment at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec. 13, 2024. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maxwell Orlosky/U.S. Navy via AP))

Harvey Milk, the left’s fabricated LGBTQ hero

Harvey Milk to Democrats, to many in the media, to the LGBTQ community, is a hero. But like much of what leftists label heroic, such cause celebre is all based on lies and gaslighting and false narratives and revised history.

June 4, 2025
A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Oct. 5, 2021, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Bold and Blunt: Big Pharma, putting America last

The pharmaceutical industry has seen its profits explode in recent years, and part of the reason is that Americans are paying exorbitant prices for prescriptions -- far more than those in other countries. And what does Big Pharma do with those profits? Advertise.

June 4, 2025
Sal Perez, executive producer and VP of Sesame Street at Sesame Workshop, talks to Bert and Ernie after winning the Elevate Prize Foundation's Catalyst Award, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Michael Laughlin)

Pride month goeth before a fall

This LGBTQ thing has gotten way out of hand and gone far beyond what -- we were told -- it was supposed to be about; that is, equality. Equal rights. Equal access. Equal treatment under the law. There is no celebration of equality in Pride Month. There's only destruction.

June 3, 2025
Workers walk by an American Flag at the Ford Motor Company Kentucky Truck Plant to attend the announcement of the launch of the 2025 Ford Expedition, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House reshapes, restores America as land of opportunity

The Donald Trump administration is establishing a new hiring plan for the federal government that will recognize competency, skill and experience more than skin color, sexual identification or pronoun preference as key factors of selection. It's called merit-based. What a concept, right?

May 30, 2025
This composite radio and optical image provided by researchers in May 2024 shows IRAS 23077, center, a planet-forming disk, and several surrounding stars. The star at the center of IRAS 23077 is not visible because its light is blocked by its surrounding disk, which is viewed from the side. The diameter of this colossal disk is roughly 3,300 times the distance between Earth and the sun, with enough gas and dust to form super-sized planets in far-flung orbits, the U.S. and German researchers reported in May 2024. (Radio: SAO/ASIAA/SMA/K. Monsch et al; Optical: Pan-STARRS via AP)

Bold and Blunt: God the genius mathematician

God is the master designer of our universe, and He created all using -- get this -- mathematical equations. Suddenly, high school algebra doesn't seem so unnecessary.

May 30, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing for the Department of State and related programs on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Rubio’s so simple yet so effective free speech mandate

Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a new visa restriction against foreigners that says if they want to come to the United States, they can't have a history of censoring and stifling Americans' speech. So simple. So effective. So overdue.

May 28, 2025
Demonstrators chant at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas, on April 24, 2024, in Austin, Texas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly accused critics of Israel or his policies of antisemitism, including the U.S. college campus protests and the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Antisemitism may well be the downfall of America

America has a Constitution that underscores the rights of citizens to speak freely, to petition their government for grievances, to assemble in protest and to express in print, on radio, on television as desired. But antisemitism is not free speech.

May 23, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen, April 5, 2009, in Washington. Tennessee will soon become the first state in the country to offer free diapers to families enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program after receiving federal approval on May 17, 2024, state officials have confirmed. Similarly, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also approved extending a pilot program in Delaware that provides free diapers and wipes to postpartum parents for the first three months after giving birth. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Medicaid work requirement makes sense and builds character

President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" includes provisions to boot illegals off Medicaid and make those between the ages of 19 and 64 years old work at least 20 hours per week as a condition of receiving the benefit. These are common-sense reforms.

May 21, 2025
Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, listens during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 7, 2025. (Stephanie Lecocq/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Bold and Blunt: Trump’s Middle East miscalculation

Donald Trump is the best president this nation has seen since Ronald Reagan days. But even he's only human, and therefore, capable of missteps. And his recent deals in the Middle East may indeed one day come back to haunt America.

May 21, 2025
Former U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled conference in Chicago, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Biden has cancer. The Democrat Party is a cancer

Former President Joseph R. Biden has a prostate cancer that is so advanced that it's impossible to believe he didn't know he had it while president; his wife didn't know he had it while president; and those who surrounded him in the medical world, in the Democrat Party, in the White House didn't know he had it while president.

May 20, 2025
President Joe Biden walks out to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Democrats lied, and apologizing for Biden cover-up doesn’t change that

Van Jones, a former adviser to ex-President Barack Obama, said Democrats should apologize to the American people for misleading-slash-lying about former President Joseph R. Biden's mental and physical frailties, else the next election, and maybe the next and next and next, will go Republican. It's true. Americans don't like lying politicians and media.

May 19, 2025
Bruce Springsteen arrives to perform at a campaign rally with former President Barack Obama supporting Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bruce Springsteen scorns blessings of being born in the U.S.A.

Rocker Bruce Springsteen jetted off to Manchester, United Kingdom, and railed against President Donald Trump as "unfit" for office, as a "incompetent," as "treasonous." Another leftist slams America, even while rising to fame and glory because of America. Yawn.

May 16, 2025
A Bible sits open as Pastor Rick Mannon stands at the pulpit at Calvary Assembly of God in Wilson, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman) ** FILE **

Bold & Blunt: America’s divine founding

America is great because America is good -- that's the widely quoted phrase attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville. It's wrongly attributed; this exact phrase is not found in his writings. But the theme applies nevertheless.

May 16, 2025