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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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Samarth Jadhav, left, and Parvin Aktar visit the Golden Gate Bridge while on a trip from India during a rain storm in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. (Benjamin Fanjoy/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Bold & Blunt: Finding joy in dark times

America certainly is facing some dark and perilous times and it's becoming more and more of a challenge to maintain a positive attitude. But it is possible to have joy. It starts with realizing the definition of joy is not the same as the definition of happiness, and that the idea of following one's heart leads to misery.

February 6, 2024
Members of the National Guard stand as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and fellow governors hold a news conference along the Rio Grande to discuss Operation Lone Star and border concerns, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Abbott returned to the Eagle Pass border to highlight his escalating attempts to curb illegal crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border. He was joined Sunday afternoon by more than a dozen other GOP governors, all of whom have cheered on his extraordinary showdown with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Musk on Democrats’ border nonsense says the quiet part out loud

Elon Musk weighed in on the border debate on the platform he owns, X, and said President Biden is purposely allowing illegals into America to solidify the coming generation of Democrat voters. He said the quiet part out loud. We all know this. Democrats deny this. Democrats are full of you-know-what.

February 6, 2024
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Bold & Blunt video: Joe Biden signs order that endangers Israel

President Joe Biden just issued an executive order that sanctions "persons undermining peace, security and stability in the West Bank," naming four Israelis who've already been apprehended by Israel law enforcement for their crimes. The underlying result? It opens the door for more persecution of Jews.

February 5, 2024
Boxes of tampons are displayed in a pharmacy in New York, March 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Connecticut’s ungodly law met with swift and fierce opposition

Teaching children as young as third grade to believe that God is not the creator of male and female -- that humans can shape-shift into different forms and genders and sexes at will -- is pride personified. It's also evil. It's also wickedly rebelling against God and teaching the most innocent to similarly rebel.

February 2, 2024
A police officer watches demonstrators march during a protest, Jan. 28, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) ** FILE **

Democrats deserve zero police protection

If there were only a way to strip the Democrats of police protection for, say, a week, so they could experience first-hand the folly and wickedness of their crime-enabling ways, maybe they'd stop their sanctuary city, open border, defund the police policies.

February 2, 2024
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump (right) is introduced by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at the South Texas International Airport in Edinburg, Texas, on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Soros money seeks Texas, Trump on a platter

Opportunity knocks. Open borders, open borders, open borders -- cut down all that concertina wire that the Republican-controlled state has installed in recent times and let the new generation of Democrat voters in; that's the rally cry of leftists. That's where Soros money digs in deep.

February 1, 2024
Holding up Israeli flags people take part in a protest against humanitarian aid entering Gaza and against the hostages exchange deal with Hamas, in Jerusalem, Israel, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Bold & Blunt video: Donald Trump was right: UNRWA cesspool of antisemitism

Donald Trump pulled America's funding for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian people, because it was revealed the organization was a shell for funding terrorism and anti-Israel, anti-America, anti-West rot. Joe Biden's presidency reversed that. And now Trump's shown as right.

January 31, 2024
Michael Leach, a special assistant to President Joe Biden and the chief diversity and inclusion officer for the White House, stands outside the White House, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Washington. The White House says Leach, its chief diversity and inclusion officer, is leaving the Biden administration after three years in the position. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Bold & Blunt: DEI brainwashing is worse than you think

Everybody's heard about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion these days, and how these three words can really overturn whole systems and capsize entire plans, agendas, missions and operations. But honestly, it's worse than you think.

January 30, 2024
A nurse prepares a syringe of a COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

COVID shot study shows mo’ myocarditis, mo’ myocarditis, mo’ myocarditis

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety indicates the "COVID-19 vaccination is strongly associated with a serious adverse safety signal of myocarditis, particularly in children and young adults resulting in hospitalization and death." Ruh-roh, Scooby.

January 30, 2024
President Joe Biden waves as he boards Air Force One upon departure, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Biden is headed to Wisconsin.(AP Photo/Jess Rapfogel)

It’s official: Biden’s nearly as bad as Carter

The numbers are in, the tally's been tallied, the figures have been figured and survey says -- it's official: Joe Biden, in his third year of presidency, is considered almost as bad as Jimmy Carter. How low can he go. There's a bumper sticker for Biden's 2024 campaign.

January 26, 2024
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed on Oct. 14, 2015. On Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, U.S. regulators authorized another option for fall COVID-19 vaccination - updated shots made by Novavax. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Bold & Blunt: Deaths due to COVID shots: Yes, it’s real

Just in case you're wondering: Yes, the deaths due to COVID-19 shots that have been whispered about are real things. And Sen. Ron Johnson has the latest data on how frequently they occur. Unfortunately, he's finding the government bureaucrats who tell us to take these shots are stonewalling is data requests.

January 25, 2024
The FBI's J. Edgar Hoover headquarters building is seen in Washington on Nov. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

FBI gets major court slapping for illegal searches, seizures

A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel found the FBI had no constitutional right to open hundreds of private citizens' security deposit boxes and seize everything valued at more than $5,000 -- all the while failing to charge anybody with a crime. Wow. An FBI that oversteps its authorities. How shocking. Not.

January 25, 2024
Concertina wire lines the path as members of Congress tour an area near the Texas-Mexico border, Jan. 3, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. As congressional negotiators try to finalize a bipartisan deal on the border and immigration, their effort is drawing the wrath of hard-right lawmakers and former President Donald Trump. That vocal opposition threatens to unravel a delicate compromise. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Supreme Court’s epic fail to secure America’s borders

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 -- thanks John Roberts; thanks Amy Coney Barrett -- in favor of Joe Biden's administration, clearing the way for federal agents to pull back razor wire Texas had installed to keep out illegals. So much for states' rights. So much for law and order.

January 24, 2024
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Laconia, N.H., Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bold & Blunt: Donald Trump or bust

America's best choice for president is Donald Trump. Why? He's the guy with the proven record of fighting against the globalist forces who would tear down American Exceptionalism and of standing strong on border control. And open border combined with globalist agenda are the two biggest threats to liberty.

January 23, 2024
Vice President Joe Biden, left, listens as President Barack Obama announces that Biden will lead an administration-wide effort to curb gun violence in response to the Connecticut school shooting, during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House on Dec. 19, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Obama is pulling Biden’s puppet strings, voters say in poll

Most voters told Rasmussen Reports they agree that Barack Obama is the White House whisperer in Joe Biden's ears, and that this administration doesn't do much without getting the go-ahead from the previous commander-in-chief and his cronies. Really, Rasmussen. That's so obvious it's almost comical.

January 23, 2024
FILE - President Joe Biden is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport, on Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. Biden's administration keeps pressing Israel for better treatment of Palestinians. Netanyahu mostly keeps saying no. That cycle seems unlikely to end, despite U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's fourth urgent diplomatic trip this week to the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas war started. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Israel to America: Stop with the two-state solution

A two-state solution is a political talking point and not feasible, particularly after the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7, said Gol Kalev, a columnist for The Jerusalem Post and a resident of Israel.

January 22, 2024