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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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President Donald Trump speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Iran’s bluster is ineffective in Donald Trump America

One of Iran's generals warned America and the world that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will respond "decisively and destructively" to further U.S. attacks on the Houthis in Yemen -- and all of President Donald Trump's team went, yawn.

March 17, 2025
An American flag is displayed on the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE **

Democrats face brand crisis of their own making

A Navigator Research survey found Democrats are in deep trouble with voters in key battleground areas, mostly because they're not seen as responsive to the concerns of regular Americans. This isn't just a case of perception versus reality. Dems really do fall flat in areas of concern to citizens.

March 13, 2025
Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump walks onstage at a campaign event for Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, in Monroe, N.C., Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond) **FILE**

American citizens don’t kiss feet

Lara Trump, current Fox News host and former Republican National Committee co-chair, said that Elon Musk and President Donald Trump were doing such a great job with DOGE that "people ought to be kissing [their] feet." Umm. No. American citizens don't kiss feet.

March 12, 2025
Cheryl Chumley sits down with Yael Eckstein, president of International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, on Bold and Blunt.

Bold and Blunt Video: Israelis reopen schools as war wages on

Israel has cut electricity to its plants in Gaza, the latest move in a war the IDF has waged against Hamas since the terror group abducted, murdered and tortured hundreds of Israelis in an unprovoked attack on October 7, 2023. But schools have reopened, and some normalcy is returning.

March 10, 2025
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, is removed from the chamber as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Democrats, lose the gimmicks and grow up

It's high time Democrats lose the theatrics and leave the circus acts behind and join the ranks of intelligently thinking politicians who are actually trying to do things that move the country forward and better enable the citizens -- particularly the legal ones -- to provide for their families' futures.

March 7, 2025
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston responds to questions during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing with Sanctuary City Mayors on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Democrats are delusional in their open embrace of illegals

Democrat mayors of Boston, Denver, New York City and Chicago just testified to members of the House Oversight Committee that the sanctuary policies they embrace to protect illegals from federal deportation actually -- get this -- make their streets safer. It's an interesting twist of logic.

March 6, 2025
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., rehearses the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of congress Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Wyandotte, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Pool)

Sen. Slotkin, defender of Dems, serves up big slice of gaslight pie

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, the Democrats' choice to respond to President Trump's speech to Congress, took to national airwaves and accused this administration of leading America down a path to recession, insecurity and division. Umm. Doesn't she mean Joe Biden?

March 5, 2025
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks during a campaign rally in support of the statewide Massachusetts Democratic ticket, Nov. 2, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

Democrats and their frequent flip of evil for good

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu just offered condolences to the family of a man who tried stabbing people at Chick-fil-A but was halted when a nearby and off-duty police officer pulled his gun and shot him dead. Leave it to a Democrat.

March 4, 2025
President Donald Trump, right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)

Ukraine President Poser, i.e. Zelenskyy, wearies welcome

A foreign leader who's taken hundreds of billions of American tax dollars to fight an enemy so as to achieve peace for his country ought to a) be grateful for the money and b) take a peace deal when it's offered.

March 3, 2025
GRAPEVINE, Texas — Troy Miller, CEO of National Religious Broadcasters, speaks while Josh Reinstein, director of the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus and president of the Israel Allies Foundation, looks on during an NRB event February 25, 2025, on the state of Judea and Samaria in Israel. (Cheryl K. Chumley/The Washington Times)

It’s Judea and Samaria, not the West Bank — and that matters hugely

GRAPEVINE, Texas -- House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast has just issued a directive to his staff to refer to Judea and Samaria in Israel as Judea and Samaria -- not the West Bank, as Palestinians and much of the international community call it. Prepare for more similar shakeup.

February 27, 2025
MSNBC host Joy Reid said Wednesday that the still-undecided presidential election proves America is still fraught with racism and "anti-Blackness." (Screenshot via MSNBC) ** FILE **

Joy Reid exits MSNBC with ludicrous cry of ‘fascism!’

MSNBC's fired Joy Reid exited, stage left, her news show hosting duties with a final warning to her far-left friends that "fascism" could very well be here in America. Isn't it just like fascists to mix up freedom for fascism?

February 25, 2025
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health, Dec. 22, 2020, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)

COVID is a scab that keeps on bleeding

It wasn't the coronavirus pandemic that drove apart the country. It was the bureaucratic class. So it's good news to hear that Sen. Rand Paul has introduced legislation to break up the health bureaucracy that gave us Anthony Fauci; that gave us an Anthony Fauci who wielded COVID like a sword.

February 22, 2025
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, claps as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk prepares to depart after speaking at a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, on Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

DOGE cost-cutting clock ticks away

The midterms do dawn. If DOGE isn't kicked into high gear -- into higher gear -- into highest gear -- the midterm results could indeed put a halt to Team Trump's waste-cutting measures.

February 19, 2025
United States Vice-President J.D. Vance addresses the audience during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Vance in Munich strikes at core of leftist censorship, tyranny

Vice President J.D. Vance sent shock waves with a speech in Munich that called out Europe, and more specifically Germany, for censoring dissenting political viewpoints and keeping out conservative ideas from the tables of political debate. For that, he's been practically branded a Nazi sympathizer.

February 18, 2025
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slipping into obscurity, irrelevance

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked border enforcer Tom Homan for saying she may be "in trouble now" for coaching illegals how to avoid deportation, and on social media, she wrote, "MaYbe shE's goiNg to be in TroUble nOw." Here's a woman who could benefit from eating more fish.

February 14, 2025