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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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Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) speaks during an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria has started destroying WMDs, U.N. says

Inspectors with the United Nations said Monday that Syria’s military has begun destroying its cache of weapons of mass destruction, taking cutting torches to warheads and angle grinders to aerial bombs.

October 7, 2013
Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) shares a word with Huma Abedin, her personal assistant and trusted confidant. **FILE**

Hillary to Huma: Don’t worry about standing by your man, I’ll stand by you

Apparently, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has softened her stance on aide Huma Abedin, relenting on a weeks-ago pledge to cut her loose from her assistant role — as well as any future White House campaign run — if she didn't dump her scandal-plagued and failed-mayoral-bidding husband, Anthony Weiner.

October 7, 2013
A wildfire burns in the Lake O'Neill area at Camp Pendleton, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. The blaze has burned more than 1,500 acres and forced evacuation of a military housing area and the base hospital. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps, Cpl. Sarah Wolff Diaz)

Firefighters fight to contain Camp Pendleton blaze

Firefighters on Monday were gaining ground and containing a Camp Pendleton, Calif., wildfire that's burned through several square miles of brush and forced residents of the Marine Corps base and nearby communities to flee.

October 7, 2013
** FILE ** Then-ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod listens during a panel discussion at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in this July 29, 2010, file photo taken in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Shirley Sherrod tries to sub in Breitbart’s wife to sue

Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod – the woman who disputed now-deceased Andrew Breitbart’s videotaped version of her supposed racist rant, and subsequently sued – has moved to have the conservative icon’s wife named as the defendant in the case.

October 7, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Kerry said that the United States and Russia are "very pleased" with the progress made so far in destroying Syria's chemical weapons stocks. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

John Kerry goes on defensive: Libyan operation was ‘legal’

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry went into defense mode on Monday, assuring a skeptical international community that the weekend seizure of a suspected high-ranking al Qaeda operative in Tripoli was in fact legal and justified.

October 7, 2013