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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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** FILE ** Joined by New York City Police Chief Raymond Kelly, second from left, first lady Michelle Obama speaks to children while promoting her "Let's Move!" exercise initiative at the Police Athletic League Harlem Center in New York, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Obama-tied firm won plum $100K ‘Let’s Move’ logo gig, bid-free

No need to bid. A marketing firm with close ties to President Obama and his political campaigns was given the lucrative job of designing Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” anti-obesity logo without having to go through the government contract bidding route.

November 6, 2013
** FILE ** U.S. President Barack Obama, front row center, smiles during a group photo of G-20 leaders outside of the Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. Front row left to right, Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Brazil admits spying on U.S.

In what should be a rather embarrassing moment for Brazil, government heads admitted this week that its intelligence agency has done some spying of its own – on the United States, Russia, Iran and Iraq.

November 6, 2013
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, left, listens along with New Jersey first lady Mary Pat Christie, right, as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie greets supporters during a campaign stop in Hillside, N.J., Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. Christie will face Democratic candidate, Barbara Buono in an election Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Chris Christie sued for banning gay-to-straight therapy

A South Jersey couple has launched a lawsuit against Gov. Chris Christie, saying his newly signed law that bans psychologists from counseling children away from homosexuality — the much-disputed gay-to-straight conversion therapy — is unconstitutional.

November 5, 2013
Transportation Security Administration employees talk outside Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, after a gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at the airport, killing a TSA officer and wounding two other people. Flights were disrupted nationwide. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

TSA union wants to arm agents at airports

The union for Transportation Security Administration workers said on Tuesday that it's a good idea for some agents to carry weapons at the airport.

November 5, 2013
Rep. John Conyers Jr. (Associated Press)

Congress, Hollywood left vulnerable as limo service website is hacked

A limousine company that provides services to the stars — sports legends, actors and actresses, and congressional elite — admitted this week its website had been hacked, potentially exposing sensitive information about a million customers, including the likes of actor Tom Hanks, business mogul Donald Trump and Sen. Mark Udall.

November 5, 2013
A painting of Otto Dix "Selbstportrait Rauchend" ("Selfportrait Smoking") is projected on a screen during a news conference in Augsburg, southern Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, on the art found in Munich. A hoard of more than 1,400 art works found last year at a Munich apartment includes previously unknown pieces by artists including Marc Chagall, German investigators said Tuesday, adding that they face a hugely complicated task to establish where the art came from. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Nazi-looted art worth $1.3B uncovered in squalid Munich home

Picasso and Matisse and Chagall — oh my. A treasure trove worth of artwork seized by Nazis in Holocaust-era Germany and valued at $1.35 billion has been discovered inside the dilapidated Munich home of an 80-year-old recluse.

November 5, 2013
** FILE ** George Zimmerman leaves court with his family after Zimmerman's not guilty verdict was read in Seminole Circuit Court in Sanford, Fla. on Saturday, July 13, 2013. Jurors found Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. (Associated Press)

Eric Holder: We might still charge George Zimmerman

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said George Zimmerman of Florida may have been acquitted of murder charges in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, but in the eyes of the federal government, he's still living in a shadow of suspicion.

November 5, 2013