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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

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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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In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the Fraternal Order of Police, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump campaign speech ruled as ‘plausible’ cause of violence

Watch what you say, conservatives. A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that President Donald Trump may indeed have incited violence with his words during a campaign rally back in March 2016, and that plaintiffs hurt by his supporters may indeed go ahead and sue.

April 3, 2017
FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2017 file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn’s attorney says the former national security adviser is in discussions with the House and Senate intelligence committees on receiving immunity from “unfair prosecution” in exchange for questioning. Flynn attorney Robert Kelner says no “reasonable person” with legal counsel would answer questions without assurances. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Mike Flynn wants immunity — give it

Mike Flynn, who resigned his national security adviser post for President Donald Trump under a cloud of suspicion about his talks with Russia's ambassador to the United States, wants to tell his story to Congress, but wants immunity first. Give it. He should have it.

March 31, 2017
Guest speaker Hillary Clinton greets supporters after her speech during the the Society of Irish Women annual dinner on St. Patrick's Day, Friday, March 17, 2017, in Scranton, Pa. Clinton says she's "ready to come out of the woods" and help Americans find common ground. She urged a divided country to work together to solve problems, recalling how, as first lady, she met with female leaders working to bring peace to Northern Ireland. (Butch Comegys/The Times & Tribune via AP)

Hillary Clinton’s astonishing post-State access to top secret docs

Hillary Clinton may have resigned her secretary role at the State Department in 2013 -- but her access to top secret and classified information didn't end then. This is outrageous, particularly when the reasons for her continued access were tied to this: to pen her memoir.

March 31, 2017
FILE - In this March 27, 2017 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration issued a fresh threat to withhold or revoke law enforcement grant money from communities that refuse to cooperate with federal efforts to find and deport immigrants in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Jeff Sessions hints at more punishments for sanctuary cities

Jeff Sessions said sanctuary cities may face more backlash from the administration than a loss of funding -- that the White House is considering other punitive measures, as well. Good. No punishment is too small for sanctuary cities that go out of their way to help the criminal element.

March 31, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with President Barack Obama before the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Trump’s mental fitness under snarky media attack

The snarky mainstream media, apparently tiring of Russia and frustrated over Devin Nunes' refusal to remove himself from his House Intelligence Committee chairmanship, has decided to revisit an issue that's lagged a bit -- the notion of President Donald Trump's mental fitness. But what of King Barack Obama's absolute hubris?

March 30, 2017
Glenn Beck's The Blaze has temporarily suspended production of Tomi Lahren's TV show amid controversy over her comments about abortion on ABC's "The View" last week. (ABC) ** FILE **

Tomi Lahren invite triggers student calls for violence

Some students at East Carolina University have vowed to go on a rampage and trash stuff if Tomi Lahren, conservative firebrand, is allowed to come and speak. 'Cause that's what the college kids do these days when they don't get their liberal way.

March 30, 2017
FILE - In this March 17, 2017, file photo, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner, senior adviser to President Donald Trump, attend a news conference with the president and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Kushner has been a power player able to avoid much of the harsh scrutiny that comes with working in the White House, but he's found that even the president's son-in-law takes his turn in the spotlight. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama ethics lawyer slams Ivanka hiring as unethical

Oh good. We were all wondering what Barack Obama's people thought of President Donald Trump's decision to hire his daughter, Ivanka, for an official White House job -- and now we can sleep again. According to Norman Eisen, the former ethics lawyer to Obama, yep, it's nepotism alrightee.

March 30, 2017
This Thursday, May 12, 2016, file photo, shows a sign outside a restroom at 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, N.C. The Associated Press has determined that North Carolina's law limiting LGBT protections will cost the state more than $3 billion in lost business over a dozen years. That's despite Republican assurances that the "bathroom bill" isn't hurting the economy. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

North Carolina tries for reputation repair, repeals bathroom bill

Enough with the bathrooms already. Fact is: No amount of legislation can change a boy into a girl, and a girl into a boy. But North Carolina lawmakers are back at it, trying to please businesses, LGBTQs and those who see bathroom gender laws as discriminatory with a so-called repeal -- that doesn't make anyone happy.

March 30, 2017
Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference held at the Verizon Center in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Nikki Haley’s full-bird flip to the United Nations

Oh, Nikki Haley. What a gem you've become. The South Carolina flag-flap is forgiven -- so, too, the endorsement of Marco Rubio for president. Kicking it hard to the United Nations has lit up her political star once again.

March 30, 2017

Luis Gutierrez goes off reservation to defend sanctuary cities

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Democrat from Illinois, has gone the proverbial off the reservation -- out to lunch, into the Twilight Zone, off his rocker, what have you -- in a Wednesday morning CNN "New Day" defense of sanctuary cities. He calls them Fourth Amendment cities, and says ICE has no legal right to intrude, absent a warrant.

March 29, 2017
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gestures while speaking before the Professional Businesswomen of California Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in San Francisco. Clinton is in San Francisco for one of her first public speeches since losing the 2016 presidential race. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Hillary Clinton’s scold of Trump forgets Obama’s own faults

Hillary Clinton overcame her months of self-imposed silence to take the national stage and denounce President Donald Trump as a misogynist who's harming America -- while forgetting, at least publicly, Barack Obama's own White Male Only administration.

March 29, 2017
People attending an anti-Trump rally and protest hosted by filmmaker Michael Moore hold signs as they listen to speakers on a stage set up in front of the Trump International Hotel, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in New York. President-elect Donald Trump, a New Yorker, is scheduled to take the oath of office Friday in Washington. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Michael Moore warns: Donald Trump’s snuffing human life

Michael Moore, that Hollywood walk of famer who rose to national prominence by making movies showing why conservatives suck, now has a new exclamation mark to add to that sentence: President Donald Trump is destroying the world and extinguishing all of humanity. Oh man, this is bad, very bad.

March 29, 2017
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., joined by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., criticizes President Donald Trump's pro-Wall Street policies during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Maxine Waters likens anti-Trump fight to patriotism

Rep. Maxine Waters, who's been heading up the call to impeach President Donald Trump for weeks, now has a new way of patting the anti-administration movement on the head and cajoling them along: by telling them they're true patriots. The hits do keep on coming with Waters, don't they?

March 28, 2017
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. is pursued by reporters as he arrives for a weekly meeting of the Republican Conference with House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP leadership, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nunes is facing growing calls to step away from the panel's Russia investigation as revelations about a secret source meeting on White House grounds raised questions about his and the panel's independence. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Devin Nunes tarred as criminal in astonishing Democrat attack

A California Democrat, Rep. Eric Swalwell, who also serves on the House Intelligence Committee -- there's an oxymoron for ya -- called for his chairman, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes to step down, saying his interactions with the White House seem a "cover up." A "cover up" for what, exactly? As Swalwell suggested: for criminal behavior. That's an astonishing claim.

March 28, 2017
In this Sunday, March 26, 2017, photo, waves roll onto boulders at the foot of a sea cliff near Royal Palms Beach in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles. A new study predicts that with limited human intervention, 31 percent to 67 percent of Southern California beaches could completely erode back to coastal infrastructure or sea cliffs by the year 2100, with sea-level rises of 3.3 feet (1 meter) to 6.5 feet (2 meters). The study released Monday, March 27, 2017, used a new computer model to predict shoreline effects caused by sea level rise and changes in storm patterns due to climate change. (AP Photo/John Antczak)

Brexit chiefs eye 2-state solution for California — Calexit

Cut California in two -- that's the message from the primary Brexit deal-makers, Nigel Farage and Arron Banks, who have joined with key Republicans to split the state along liberal versus regular folk lines. Good: California's been a thorn in conservatives' paws for far too long.

March 28, 2017
In this Wednesday, March 22, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on women in health care in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump’s kiss-off to Obama-era climate change

President Donald Trump is poised to shred Barack Obama's whole climate change rule book on Tuesday. But he needs to make sure he goes far enough. The EPA has been nothing but a regulatory bully for the last eight years. It's time to boot the bully from the playground.

March 28, 2017
This Thursday, May 12, 2016, file photo, shows a sign outside a restroom at 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, N.C. The Associated Press has determined that North Carolina's law limiting LGBT protections will cost the state more than $3 billion in lost business over a dozen years. That's despite Republican assurances that the "bathroom bill" isn't hurting the economy. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

AP’s hope-and-prayer hit at North Carolina bathroom bill

The Associated Press came out with a cost estimate of how North Carolina's so-dubbed "bathroom bill" -- you know, the one that makes clear that boys must stay in their own restrooms, and girls, likewise -- is going to cost the state $3.76 billion over the next dozen or years. What the estimate is based on is the hope and prayer that nobody asks questions. Because under scrutiny, the numbers pretty much crumble.

March 28, 2017