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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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Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, left, and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with members of his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room at the White House, Monday, March 13, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump EPA gets ready to rumble

The White House announced it's opening a review into fuel efficiency standards set in place by the previous Barack Obama administration -- and you know what that means, don't you? Environmental groups are gearing to fight

March 15, 2017
In this March 9, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Speaking about health care, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, Pelosi said the GOP measure is "very, very cruel. It must be stopped." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Nancy Pelosi’s Twitter feed: It’s still the repeal, stupid

Be careful what you ask for, as the saying goes. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi learned the hard way not to ask unfiltered, un-vetted constituents for their stories on Obamacare -- because what she heard back was hardly what she wanted.

March 14, 2017
FILE- In this Thursday, April 21, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama, with Saudi Arabia's King Salman, right, speaks after a Gulf Cooperation Council session at the Diriyah Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. When President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Arabias Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in the coming days, the new commander-in-chief will be laying the groundwork for his administrations relations with a Middle Eastern powerhouse and the worlds top oil exporter. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Sharia is not compatible in U.S. — and here’s why

Gotta love the Sharia. Our good friends in Saudi Arabia, the ones we dare not criticize for human rights issues because of strategic national security reasons, have launched a girls' council to help on the women's rights' public affairs front -- but unfortunately, it's Wahhabi style.

March 14, 2017
Nicole Perry joins other members of the transgender community who oppose Senate Bill 6 in a protest at the Texas Capitol as the Senate State Affairs Committee holds hearings on the bill, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The transgender "bathroom bill" would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

‘Toni the Tampon’ — speechless (almost)

Forget Dr. Seuss. The new Cat in the Hat on the block is "Toni the Tampon," a character devised by children's author Cass Clemmer to show kiddies 'round the nation that men, not just women, can menstruate.

March 14, 2017
Folders containing amendments to the GOP's "Obamacare" replacement bill are spread on a conference table on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2017, as members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee worked through the night. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans gone drunk on health care power

Come on, Republicans. Have you gone commie? How else to explain this, from CNN: "While Republicans are pushing to drop the requirement of Obamacare that compels Americans to get insurance, another move in a separate bill could compel employees to participate in workplace wellness programs that collect their and their families' health and genetic data."

March 14, 2017
In this March 9, 2017, file photo, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wis. uses charts and graphs to make his case for the GOP's long-awaited plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Paul Ryan on audio: I’ll never ‘defend Donald Trump’

Wow -- this is like a "Girls Gone Wild" tape for the political world. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the Republican public servant from Wisconsin, was captured on audio during the campaign season saying he'd never defend Donald Trump. Not then. Not ever.

March 14, 2017
A television news correspondent, right, reports live from Trump Tower in New York, in this Dec. 2, 2016, file photo. Long before he tweeted about wiretaps, President Donald Trump was worried about who was listening in on his calls. The president claimed in a series of early morning tweets recently that his predecessor had ordered his phones in Trump Tower be monitored in October, suggesting that “a good lawyer could make a great case” out of it. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Donald Trump wiretap brouhaha raises Patriot vs. Patriot Act fight

The media's been filled with busy bees lately, painting President Donald Trump with the crazy stick and demanding he produce proof of Barack Obama's wiretap of Trump Tower -- but what has happened to America, land of the free, country of the Constitution, that wiretapping one's own citizens has become so believable?

March 14, 2017
In this Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, file photo, Kush Patel, right, carries out bags of merchandise while helping his uncle Andy Patel, rear, clean up the looting damage from Monday's riots at his store, Ferguson Market and Liquor, in Ferguson, Mo. The store is disputing a new documentary’s claims that surveillance video suggests Michael Brown didn’t rob the store before he was fatally shot by police in Ferguson. One of the filmmakers said he believes the footage shows Brown trading marijuana for a bag of cigarillos early on Aug. 9, 2014, and that Brown intended to come back later for the cigarillos. Store officials said no drug transaction took place and Brown stole the cigarillos while at the store later that day. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

No dice, BLM, Michael Brown was not innocent

A new documentary -- and remember, that word's been used in recent years to prove Al Gore right on climate change and Michael Moore similarly correct, that capitalism is racist -- purports to prove Michael Brown, the 18-year-old black man whose story sparked a militant national movement called Hands Up, Don't Shoot, was innocent of the crime that led to his killing.

March 13, 2017
Women burn a mock American flag with the portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally at the U.S. Embassy to mark International Women's Day Wednesday, March 8, 2017 in Manila, Philippines. Women all over the world mark the women's day with rallies and protests to highlight the role of women in society. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Socialist surge: DSA membership soars as snowflakes go politicking

Socialism, in the face of President Donald Trump's rise to the White House, has seen a surge of activism, with membership to the Democratic Socialists of America jumping to record levels and tripling in size over the last year. Call it the year of the snowflakes.

March 13, 2017
President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 10, 2017, during a meeting on healthcare. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Russia: Hey, we met with Hillary’s peeps, too

This, from Vladimir Putin's spokesman to CNN "GPS" host Fareed Zakaria, in a recent interview: "[Russia's ambassador met with] people working in think tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for Hillary."

March 13, 2017
Sen. John McCain, R-Az., places his hand over his heart, while Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin watches, after he addressed the House Veterans' Affairs Committee on Department of Veterans Affairs community care program, on Captiol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

John McCain, will you ever be Republican?

Sen. John McCain, the go-to guy for mainstream media members who need a Republican voice in order to claim balance and non-bias in their stories, took to CNN over the weekend to offer up some criticisms of President Donald Trump.

March 13, 2017
Marcel Ast, 10, from New Jersey, holds up a sign during a "Not My Presidents Day" rally at DuPont Circle in Washington, Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Anti-President Donald Trump activists seized on Monday's federal holiday to organize rallies in cities around the country to oppose policies by Trump. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Maxine Waters goes fishing for sex scandal on Donald Trump

What is it with Democrats and their seemingly utter aversion to all-things-factual? The latest lie being sold as truth comes by way of left-leaning Rep. Maxine Waters, and her near-slander of President Donald Trump.

March 10, 2017
In this Feb. 5, 2016, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

WikiLeaks punches holes at police state

Applause. That's the only reaction a freedom-loving American should be giving to Julian Assange over his decision to provide private tech companies some special WikiLeaks schooling on how deeply embedded U.S. intel has woven into their business activities.

March 10, 2017
Van Jones, left, a CNN commentator and family friend who once worked as an environmental adviser to the Obama administration, arrives at the Carver County Justice Center for a hearing on Prince's estate, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, in Chaska, Minn. All the musician's siblings want the judge to declare the trust company Comerica as a "personal representative," or executor, of the estate. But they're divided on whether to name anyone as co-executor. Four of the six siblings back longtime Prince lawyer L. Londell McMillan. But Tyka Nelson and Omar Baker object. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)

Van Jones returns to ridiculous and warns of Donald Trump clones

Van Jones, the former Green czar for Barack Obama, had a brief moment in the sunshine of punditry truth-telling, when he praised President Donald Trump's joint session of Congress reach-out to widowed Carryn Owens and her deceased Navy SEAL husband, Ryan -- but he blinked, and the moment's passed.

March 9, 2017
Britain's Professor Stephen Hawking delivers a keynote speech as he receives the Honorary Freedom of the City of London during a ceremony at the Guildhall in the City of London, Monday, March 6, 2017. Hawking was presented the City of London Corporation's highest award Monday in recognition of his outstanding contribution to theoretical physics and cosmology. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Stephen Hawking: ‘World government’ only way to save humankind

Stephen Hawking, physicist of the left -- particularly because of his insistence there is no God but rather a Mother Nature that's gone haywire from human-induced climate change -- has just released his brainiac solution to so-called Mankind's Biggest Threat, technology, and it can be summed in this simple, easy-to-remember phrase: "World government."

March 9, 2017
Protesters in the hundreds gather to protest the appearance of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky., who was scheduled to speak at a gathering of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Covington, Ky. Protesters have been following McConnell at each of his public events as he tours the state during the congressional recess. They are angry with him for his support of Republican President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Russians hit progressives for anti-Trump hush money: Report

Well here's an interesting twist to the whole "Russians hacked the election thing" the Democrats -- led by the suggestive powers of the former President, Barack Obama -- have been trying to press into the public collective mind: The Russians are now accused of demanding hush money from progressive groups.

March 9, 2017