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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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A woman collecting money for charity stands next to a quote written on an information board at Tower Hill underground train station, written in defiance of the previous day's attack in London, Thursday, in this March 23, 2017, file photo. On Wednesday, a man went on a deadly rampage, first driving a car into pedestrians then stabbing a police officer to death before being fatally shot by police within Parliament's grounds in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) ** FILE **

Charity keeps America free

President Donald Trump's senior advisers, deep in the weeds of tax reform, are reportedly looking at ways to save the middle class by placing more financial responsibilities on the shoulders of the wealthy -- and part of the plan being discussed is to limit the level of deductions charitable organizations can take. This is the wrong way to go.

April 20, 2017
Seattle City Council member Debora Juarez, right, is embraced by Rachel Heaton, a Muckleshoot tribal member, as Council member Kshama Sawant stands nearby after Heaton gave both women gifts from the Native American community before a Council meeting Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, in Seattle. The City Council is scheduled to vote on whether to divest $3 billion in city funds from Wells Fargo over its funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Seattle shocker as council doles tax bucks to help illegals fight deportation

Now this is an impeachable offense -- if city council members could be subjected to such treatment, that is. Seattle City Council members have given the OK for $1 million of taxpayer dollars so illegals can hire attorneys and tap into legal services that will -- get this -- help them fight their deportations.

April 19, 2017
Community members and faith leaders from On Ramps Covenant Church hold a prayer and vigil in the alley behind the Catholic Charities' Fresno Family Resource Center to honor the three shooting victims that were killed by a gun man on Tuesday morning, April 18, 2017, in Fresno, Calif. Two of the victims were shot near the building by suspect Kori Ali Muhammad. (Silvia Flores/The Fresno Bee via AP)

‘Allahu akbar’ screaming man charged with hate crime in murders

A black man who was arrested for fatally shooting three white men in Freson, California, and then shouting "allahu akbar" before surrendering to police, is believed by authorities to have been a racist, not a terrorist. Maybe. But he didn't shout "allahu akbar" for nothing.

April 19, 2017
FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, file photo, New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez puts on a Super Bowl cap following the AFC Championship NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens in Foxborough, Mass. Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a murder conviction and just days ago was acquitted of a double murder, died after hanging himself in his prison cell Wednesday, April 19, 2017, Massachusetts prisons officials said. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)

Aaron Hernandez, a tragedy of wasted talent

Aaron Hernandez, of former NFL fame, killed himself in prison, the Department of Correction reported. The former New England Patriots tight end was found hanging from a bed sheet attached to his single-cell window in his Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass., shortly after 3 a.m. What a tragedy. A tragic end to a life that had become a tragedy.

April 19, 2017
A new book ready to hit store shelves takes the reader inside Hillary Clinton's ultimately doomed bid for the presidency. (Associated Press)

‘Shattered’ debuts, peeling back curtain on Clinton dysfunction

A new book about Hillary Clinton's disastrous presidential run hits the book shelves Tuesday, and it's as suspected: Infighting and dysfunction marked the campaign every step of the way -- even before she made it to the stage of one-on-one face-offs with Donald Trump.

April 18, 2017
A demographic assessment shows France's white, or native, birthrate at 1.4 children per woman, compared with a Muslim rate of 3.4 to 4 children. (Associated Press/File)

The Islam clash in America

The arrest and charge of an Indian woman, Jumana Fakhruddin Nagarwala, for performing female genital mutilation on two young girls in Michigan, brings front and center the question of whether certain religions are compatible with America's Constitution. Certain religions -- ha. Let's be blunt here. We're talking about Islam.

April 18, 2017
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper holds a press conference at the Executive Mansion in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, March 30, 2017, to announce that he signed a HB142, a compromise replacement bill for HB2, that the N.C. General Assembly passed earlier in the day. (Chris Seward/The News & Observer via AP) ** FILE **

Burlington, Vermont, pro-LGBTQ mayor bans travel to North Carolina

Burlington, Vermont, Mayor Snowy Van Snowflake, also known as Miro Weinberger, has issued an executive order banning officials from traveling to North Carolina on any business-tied endeavor, in protest of the state's transgender bathroom policy. Tenth Amendment, anyone?

April 17, 2017
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives with U.S. Gen. Vincent Brooks, second from right, commander of the United Nations Command, U.S. Forces Korea and Combined Forces Command, and South Korean Deputy Commander of the Combined Force Command Gen. Leem Ho-young, left, at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea, Monday, April 17, 2017. Viewing his adversaries in the distance, Pence traveled to the tense zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of testing the U.S. and South Korea with its nuclear ambitions, "the era of strategic patience is over." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Mike Pence’s North Korea warning a happy moment for America

Vice President Mike Pence sent a strong message North Korea's way Monday, telling the regime the "era of strategic patience is over," a reference to the former Barack Obama's foreign policy preference of dealing with Pyongyang's aggressions by turning a blind eye and pretending all was A-OK. This is a good time to be an American.

April 17, 2017
This Wednesday, June 10, 2015, photo shows credit cards in Philadelphia. On Friday, April 7, 2017, the Federal Reserve releases its February report on consumer borrowing. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Credit card debt enslaving the American consumer

The Federal Reserve released data earlier this month showing that Americans owe more than $1 trillion in debt on their credit cards, up 6.2 percent from a year ago. Note to consumers: Quit signing up for slavery.

April 17, 2017
A hooded penitent from "Cristo de los Angeles" brotherhood holds a cross inside the "Gaitanas" church before taking part in a traditional annual Holy Week procession in Toledo, Spain, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Why America needs God

Atheists and progressives will tell you America is a secular nation, built on secular principles, and that it's the job of the rising generations to make sure politics and religion never do meet. They are wrong.

April 15, 2017
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, left, shakes hands with coal miners during a visit to Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company's Harvey Mine in Sycamore, Pa., Thursday, April 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

EPA perk — $15,000 tax paid gym memberships

It's nice to be a tax paid bureaucrat, isn't it? An employee at the Environmental Protection Agency was just busted for spending $15,000 on gym memberships for 37 people.

April 14, 2017
Han Song Ryol, North Korea's vice foreign minister, listens to a translator during an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, April 14, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Han Song Ryol said the situation on the Korean Peninsula is now in a "vicious cycle." (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

John Bolton’s North Korea fix: Take out regime

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton offered up a pretty blunt assessment of the North Korea thang that went like this: Want to get rid of the nuke threat from that regime? Then take out the regime.

April 14, 2017
Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry was slain north of the Arizona-Mexico border. (Associated Press)

Brian Terry’s suspected killer arrested in Mexico

The suspected killer of Brian Terry, the U.S. Border Patrol agent who died in 2010 amid a hail of Fast and Furious fire -- the gun-running program brought to U.S. policy shores courtesy of Barack Obama and Eric Holder -- was arrested in Mexico. This. after seven years of Obama doing, apparently, nothing.

April 13, 2017