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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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In this Friday, April 17, 2020, file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, walks from the podium after speaking about the new coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, in Washington. Three members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Fauci, have placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, another stark reminder that not even one of the nation’s most secure buildings is immune from the virus. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Anthony Fauci needs to get off national stage

Enough of Dr. Anthony Fauci. In widely reported remarks, Fauci, in an email to The New York Times that he was going to tell senators, in his upcoming hearing on the coronavirus that, basically: If America doesn't listen to me, people will die. Fauci, the prophet scientist?

May 12, 2020
Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., points to guests in the balcony as he takes his seat on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, before President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

H.R. 6666 a devil of a COVID-19 government surveillance plot

A House resolution from Illinois Democrat Rep. Bobby Rush that would put Big Government in charge of tracking citizens' movements as they relate to COVID-19 mitigation efforts -- even sending health bureaucrats to "individuals' residences," "as necessary," as the legislation states -- has a most apt number: 6666.

May 12, 2020
Adams Sq. Baptist Church Pastor Kris Casey waves an American flag after opening his church doors for Sunday service on May 3, 2020 in Worcester, Mass. (Nancy Lane/The Boston Herald via AP)

Pastor fights ‘tyranny’ of COVID-19 church crackdowns

A pastor in Worcester, Massachusetts, has been fined $300, has been issued a criminal complaint by city officials and has been put on notice that he may very well serve time behind bars -- all for the "crime" of defying the governor's 10-person limit order and holding normal Sunday worship services. You go, pastor.

May 11, 2020
White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx listens as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-La., about the coronavirus response, in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

COVID-19 puts spotlight on science — but scientists often lie

We can beat COVID-19 -- just trust the science, we're told. Trust in the scientists, we're told. Well and good. Fine and dandy. But fact is, scientists often lie. Science isn't always the beacon toward truth. It's not just frequently flawed; it's frequently deceptive. And purposely so.

May 9, 2020
In this March 19, 2020 photo, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker listens to a question during a news conference in Chicago. Amid an unprecedented public health crisis, the nation’s governors are trying to get what they need from the federal government – and fast. But often that means navigating the disorienting politics of dealing with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Illinois governor a mind-boggling blot to religious freedom

The governor of Illinois -- the Democratic governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker -- made an astonishing announcement just recently that went like this: Due to Covid-19, churches may have to remain closed for a year. A year. Dear Churches of America: This is why you don't cave to government -- ever. Give an inch, government takes a mile.

May 8, 2020
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco provides update on the Perris triple homicide investigation during a news conference at the Riverside County Sheriff's Perris station on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. Three adult males bodies were found yesterday at the Perris Valley Cemetery. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP)

Southern California sheriff takes heroic stand for citizen freedom

A sheriff in Southern California, Chad Bianco of Riverside County, told local supervisors earlier this week that he wouldn't enforce stay-at-home orders because, get this, he thinks citizens can think for themselves. Move over, doctors. Step aside, nurses. Bianco is much more a real hero -- not just someone doing his job

May 8, 2020
May Day protesters gather outside the offices of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Friday, May 1, 2020, in the Manhattan borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

New York COVID-19 numbers make clear it’s time to reopen America

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in recent televised press conference that the majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the state came from the stay-at-home set, not the out-and-about set -- meaning, once again, the government's projections, predictions, forecasts and conclusions on the coronavirus were, gasp, wrong.

May 7, 2020
In this Thursday, April 23, 2020, photo, Ruth Caballero, a nurse with The Visiting Nurse Service of New York, right, and Catherine Peralta, her Spanish-language translator, leave a patient's home as Caballero makes her rounds in upper Manhattan in New York. Home care nurses, aides and attendants, who normally help an estimated 12 million Americans with everything from bathing to IV medications, are now taking on the difficult and potentially dangerous task of caring for coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ** FILE **

COVID-19 bringing devastating groupthink consequences

The most damaging and lasting effects of COVID-19 on America won't be so much ones of physical or medical as they will be mental. Where Americans once thought for themselves, the government has taken control. Where Americans once decided on their own, bureaucrats have seized the reins.

May 7, 2020
Supporters and media watch as gubernatorial candidate Tim Eyman speaks during a news conference outside of the United States District Courthouse in Union Station in Tacoma, Wash., on Friday, May 1, 2020. Eyman and others sued Gov. Jay Inslee Friday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, alleging his orders during the pandemic to help stop the spread of COVID-19 have violated their constitutional rights. (Joshua Bessex/The News Tribune via AP)

Executive orders are not laws

COVID-19 has shined some important light on the tendency of government to do as Founding Fathers warned -- stretch and reach and overreach, and tread into places it doesn't belong. And as the executive orders come fast and furious from governors' mansions around the nation, it's high time for a reminder: Orders are not laws.

May 5, 2020
Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers a reporter's question during a news conference to provide an update to the latest efforts by the Racial Equity Rapid Response Team in Chicago on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Tyler LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: A blowhard cracking a COVID-19 whip

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened citizens and city-goers with arrest, imprisonment and fines if they dared step foot into the streets, in violation of her COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Wow. Talk about cracking the government whip. Can you say Constitution, anyone? How about 'Bite me, you blowhard, Lori" -- can you say that?

May 4, 2020
Attorney General William Barr speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Virginia COVID-19 smack-down means churches should open, and open now

The Department of Justice just issued a statement suggesting Virginia acted above and beyond its rightful call of COVID-19 government duty by closing churches to more than 10 people while allowing some private businesses to host untold numbers of shoppers. Quite right.

May 4, 2020
In this file photo, a voter reviews his selections on his ballot while voting at the town's highway garage building Tuesday, April 7, 2020 in Dunn, Wis. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP) **FILE**

COVID-19 threatens U.S. election integrity

For the first time in months, Democrats are looking with anticipation and excitement to November's presidential election -- and it has nothing to do with their dismal candidate, Joe Biden. It's because of COVID-19 and the chance to do some heavy Election Day damage.

May 2, 2020
In this Monday, April 27, 2020, photo provided by Vince Warburton, passengers get off an American Airlines flight airplane after they landed at Los Angeles International Airport. JetBlue requires passengers to wear face makes during flights, and Frontier Airlines says it will too, but face coverings are strictly optional on most airlines. American Airlines said it will start providing masks for passengers who want them. (Vince Warburton via AP)

Forced face masking is a civil rights offense

Major U.S. airlines have announced that as a condition of riding their friendly skies, passengers must all put on a face mask. Let the muzzling of America commence. Let the -- hopefully! -- lawsuits against the mask nazis begin, as well.

May 1, 2020
In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020, file photo California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

Californians should do a ‘Stormin’ Norman’ over closed beaches

California's Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, is poised to order all beaches in the state closed because citizens dared to defy his social distancing order by flocking to the seashore, COVID-19 be danged. And this should be the collective Californian response: Storm the beaches anyway.

April 30, 2020
Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, answers questions from the media during a news conference at Liberty Plaza across the street from the Georgia state Capitol building in downtown Atlanta, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia kicks off chilling door-to-door COVID-19 blood collections

Let the government-pressed coronavirus-tied blood collections of citizens begin. And begin they have. They have in Georgia at least, where officials with the state's Department of Public Health recently announced that "to learn more about the spread of COVID-19," they're going door-to-door to ask citizens for blood. Chilling.

April 28, 2020