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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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Protesters start fires along the SoHo shopping district on Sunday, May 31, 2020, in New York. Protests were held throughout the city over the death of George Floyd, a black man in police custody in Minneapolis who died after being restrained by police officers on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Face mask frenzy a boon for Antifa types

America's youth have taken to the streets in Minneapolis, in Los Angeles, in New York City, in Washington, D.C., and more, setting fires, burning businesses, looting stores, tossing Molotov cocktails and fighting police. And they're doing it with the aid and assistance of mandated, recommended or acceptably worn facial coverings.

June 1, 2020
In this photo provided by the Michigan Executive Office of the Governor, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks during a news conference Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Lansing, Mich. Whitmer urged the federal government to give the state more flexibility to spend coronavirus rescue aid to fill budget shortfalls and to pass another round of relief funding. (Michigan Executive Office of the Governor via AP)

Executive orders are ruining the country

Enough with the executive orders already. They're killing the Constitution; destroying the rule of law; upsetting the already delicate balance among legislative, executive and judicial branches; and seriously, setting the nation's course down a path of political and cultural upheaval. They're turning the Constitution into a mockery.

May 30, 2020
Former White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett served in the Obama administration. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Valerie Jarrett tips COVID-19 crisis end game as nationwide ‘vote-by-mail’

Valerie Jarrett, former White House whisperer in the Barack Obama administration, said on MSNBC that "vote-by-mail" should be the way to go in each and every state for elections this November. And forever after, for that matter. And with that, the left tipped its hat to its "never let a crisis go to waste" COVID-19 end game.

May 29, 2020
Rhode Island National Guard Pfc. Gerald Moniz distributes gallons of milk and produce along with volunteers with the Dairy Farmers of America to families in need, Wednesday, May 27, 2020, in Pawtucket, R.I. Dairy farmers have a milk surplus because demand has dropped as schools and restaurants closed during the coronavirus pandemic, and some farmers have had to pour excess milk away. Farmers donated the 4,300 gallons of milk given away today at McCoy Stadium. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

COVID-19 kills 3 kids, flu kills 176 kids: Any questions?

President Donald Trump has called for the nation's schools to open this fall; the left, predictably enough, has fought back, characterizing such a viewpoint as mad -- mad! -- in the face of COVID-19 risks to children. But Trump's right. Keeping schools closed any longer would be all politics, all fear-fueled nonsense, zero science.

May 28, 2020
Brian Morris, owner of Freeride Bike Company in Gilbert, Ariz., poses in the store Friday, May 22, 2020. Morris faced a difficult scenario when the coronavirus pandemic started leading to shutdowns across the nation. If Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey opted to include bike shops among the businesses deemed nonessential, Freeride Bike Company, which he owns with his wife Ashleigh, would have to shutter its doors for who knows how long. When Ducey deemed bike shops essential, it turned out to be huge boon for their business as cooped-up Americans sought ways to go outside and get moving. (AP Photo/John Marshall)

U.S. coronavirus death toll a minuscule 0.03% of American population

Look at recent headlines and it's as if COVID-19 were sweeping across the nation as some sort of grisly ghost of death, leaving piles of bodies in the morgues, piles of bodies in the nursing homes, piles of bodies in the hospitals -- even piles of bodies in the streets. But do the math and the truth is far less earth-shattering.

May 28, 2020
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at a COVID-19 coronavirus infection testing facility at Glen Island Park, Friday, March 13, 2020, in New Rochelle, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ** FILE **

COVID-19 immunity clause sets dangerous stage for citizens

The government has exempted itself and all its willing COVID-19 product-developing partners from any sort of liability for mistakes, misconceptions, misunderstandings about proper usage -- from anything that could come back to bite. In other words, for the little guy, the private citizen: There's no means of suing.

May 28, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases speaks remotely during a virtual Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)

Anthony Fauci as skilled a politician as they come

Anthony Fauci, the director of the National of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House's coronavirus task force, said in a recent Senate panel that when it comes to giving COVID-19 direction, he's all medicine and science, all the time -- zero politics, zero economics. What a crock of crock.

May 27, 2020
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam walks past a projected slogan as he enters the room to conduct the COVID-19 press briefing inside the Patrick Henry Building in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, May 26, 2020. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Ralph Northam and his banana republic face mask mandate

Gov. Ralph Northam issued an order from his governor's mansion in Virginia requiring individuals to wear face masks as a condition of entering any enclosed space. But boy, what a monkey-like, banana republic gymnastic jump over rule of law he did. And if not rule of law -- certainly, spirit of law.

May 27, 2020
CDC information on how prevent the spread of germs and help prevent the spread of COVID-19 is illumination in the directory kiosk at a quiet Union Station in Washington, Thursday, May 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

CDC, Democrats, leftists go full-steam communist on contact tracing

Beware the contact tracing. The government wants it believed contact tracing is nothing but a simple friendly means of making sure Americans are protected from COVID-19, both now and in the future. But really, it's a frightening tracking and surveillance program that gives government near-total control of citizens.

May 26, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2020, in Washington. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, right, and White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx listen. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Tough love for Donald Trump on COVID-19

On MAGA, on America First principles, Trump hasn't disappointed. Then came the coronavirus. And the mighty Trump has stumbled, taking with him an entire nation of suffering Americans -- minus the hand-rubbing gleeful Democrats using COVID-19 to best political advantage, of course. America needs Trump to be Trump.

May 23, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Anthony Fauci and his not-so-true claim about ‘safe’ COVID-19 vaccine

Anthony Fauci told NPR in a one-on-one interview that it was "conceivable" America could start to produce for consumer use a "safe" and "effective" vaccine for the coronavirus by year's end. That's absurd. Absurd and false. Americans concerned about their health should consider staying away from this shot.

May 22, 2020
In this photo provided by the Marshall County Sheriff's Office embers smolder on the remains of the First Pentecostal Church in Holly Springs, Miss., Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Thursday, May 21, 2020 condemned the church fire that's being investigated as an arson. The church burned about a month after it filed a lawsuit challenging city restrictions on gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Major Kelly McMillen/Marshall County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Mississippi church burning a disgusting, dangerous act of COVID-19 fear

A Mississippi church fighting to reopen amid COVID-19 crackdowns has been burned to the ground, an apparent product of arson. A message found by investigators at the scene read, "Bet you stay home now you hypokrits." This is what happens when a population is driven by fear, not reason.

May 22, 2020
In this Thursday, Apri 2, 2020 photo, drive- up customer, Renee Chaney, a home care nurse, stopped for a sample of Twin Creeks Distillery hand-sanitizer in Rocky Mount, Va., made with the recommendations of the CDC's recipe. They smell like the booze they produce; but, essential oils can be added to change the scent. (Stephanie Klein-Davis/The Roanoke Times via AP)

Coronavirus overkill, as stats, new facts belie panic

The more Americans learn about the science and medical expertise behind the shut-down, the more it becomes evident: the scientists and medical experts hardly deserve the platform they've been given. They're "experts," with an asterisk.

May 21, 2020
A barber shop remains closed because of the coronavirus outbreak Tuesday, May 19, 2020, in Seattle. Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday announced $10 million in grants to small businesses in industries particularly hard-hit by the COVID-19 outbreak. They include restaurants, hair salons, fitness studios and theaters. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

COVID-19 is just the beginning

A memo from the Pentagon that was just leaked warns that Department of Defense officials have been quietly working on the assumption that COVID-19 could be a factor on America's economy and political fronts until, get this, well into 2021. Yawn. No kidding. You don't say.

May 21, 2020
This April 12, 2016, file photo shows the Microsoft logo in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris, France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Microsoft debuts supercomputer to create human-like A.I.

Microsoft announced it has built a new supercomputer that will be used to train artificial intelligence models -- meaning, develop new technology with human-like capacity. Making humans out of machines: it's been the dream of the mad A.I. scientists from day one.

May 20, 2020
In this April 6, 2020, file photo, equipment and supplies sit staged near a roadwork construction project in Seattle where ramps off of the Highway 520 floating bridge meet Montlake Boulevard that has been shut down due to concern over the spread of the coronavirus. The $2 trillion federal stimulus package enacted in March included billions of dollars for public transit systems, publicly owned commercial airports and Amtrak passenger train service, but earmarked nothing for state highways and bridges. Many of those projects across the country have been put on hold because of a sharp drop in fuel taxes, tolls and user fees since the coronarvirus-related shutdowns suspended much of the U.S. economy. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Coronavirus debt enslaving America’s youth

COVID-19 has proven costly -- and not just medically speaking. The debt America is pushing on to the coming generations is unsustainable, nearing the point of enslavement. These trillions of dollars, after all, do not grow on trees.

May 19, 2020
This April 12, 2020, file photo shows choir member Gregory Bloch, standing a distance from his three colleagues, rehearsing before a livestreamed Easter service at Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Churches, quit waiting for government permission

Why are churches waiting for government permission? Show some gumption. If the concern is the coronavirus -- well, perhaps that's a failure of faith. For that, read Numbers, about Moses and the snake. But if the concern is the government, to include police -- well, perhaps that's a failure to put God first. That's a failure of fear.

May 18, 2020
Marc Perrone, international president of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, talks with Kevin Smartt, CEO of Kwik Chek Convenience Stores, before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Examining Liability During the COVID-19 Pandemic" on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call/Pool via AP)

Tea Party Patriots’ 20% pay cut for Congress a grand old COVID-19 scheme

If American workers have to be out of work, furloughed, stuck at home, all due to the coronavirus crisis -- then so, too, should members of Congress: That's the line of logic being pushed by the Tea Party Patriots. And it's good logic, too. Public servants shouldn't be allowed special rights, above and beyond those of their employers.

May 15, 2020
In this April 7, 2020, file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Rand Paul delivers a magnificent reality smack to Anthony Fauci

Sen. Rand Paul delivered a much-needed, long overdue reality check to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's COVID-19 whisperer, reminding the NIAID director that hey now, hey guy, you're just a guy, and your expertise on viruses shouldn't be taken as expertise on politics, government, economics, policy or the running of a nation.

May 14, 2020