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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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President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

America First: Let’s make it permanent

Once upon a time, the idea of America taking care of America was a given. Even for Democrats. Then came Donald Trump, and suddenly, America First became radical. Why? Because Democrats decided they wanted to score political points more than they wanted to serve the American citizens, that's why.

March 26, 2020
Mike Lindell, inventor of My Pillow, is now backing Hollywood films which suit his pro-life beliefs. He has also been a friend and supporter to President Trump, shown here in a 2018 appearance at the White House.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

MyPillow to fight coronavirus with private sector sword

MyPillow, the company of crack-addict-turned-Christian Mike Lindell, has announced the manufacture of face masks for hospitals -- the latest corporate body to fight coronavirus from a private market perspective. And these are the types of businesses America's growing socialist groupies would like to tax 'til it hurts.

March 25, 2020
A woman wears a mask as she walks at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, in London, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday imposed its most draconian peacetime restrictions due to the spread of the coronavirus on businesses and social gatherings. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Boris Johnson and his silly coronavirus shutdown of the U.K.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered the country's citizens to stay home, stay inside and stay off the streets -- else face fines, police roundup and, if necessary, even jail. Talk about starting a national panic. Until you take a couple seconds and think about it, that is. Then it's just -- well, stupid.

March 24, 2020
The Rev. Rod Clark, of St. John's Episcopal Church, holds Mass in the parking lot of the church that remains closed because of restrictions set in place due to concerns over the coronavirus on Sunday, March 22, 2020, in McAllen, Texas. (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP)

Churches close during coronavirus outbreak, and America grows dark

The vast majority of people who came to America in her founding days did so to obtain the freedom to worship freely. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland -- they were settled as "plantations of religion." Fast forward to 2020, the time of the coronavirus outbreak, and churches have closed. Yet Walmart remains open. Priorities, please?

March 24, 2020
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, pauses before a news conference as an 11th-hour Republican rescue mission to keep President Donald Trump from a Senate defeat on his signature issue of building barriers along the southwest border seems near collapse, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Lee is the chief sponsor of a bill limiting future emergency declarations by the president. His bill is supported by other Republican senators. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Civil liberties hang in coronavirus balance

It's times like these -- times of national crisis, times of national coronavirus emergency -- that civil rights, constitutional rights, God-given individual rights become most vulnerable, most tested. It's times like these, though, they also become most necessary.

March 23, 2020
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with airline executives in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. From left are, Deborah Ale Flint, executive director of Los Angeles World Airports; Trump; and UPS President of US operations Myron Gray. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Boeing bailout because of coronavirus? Gimme a break

Airlines, suffering from lack of passengers due to coronavirus fears, say they need a bailout -- that they're just too big to fail and if the airlines fail, we're to believe, America's entire economy will fail, as well. What a dishonest, destructive message to the American people -- to America's free markets. On bailouts, just say no.

March 19, 2020
In this image made from video provided by NBC10 Philadelphia, a stolen ambulance collides with a vehicle before police officers capture a man driving the ambulance in Philadelphia on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. The man stole the ambulance and tried to run over an officer who shot him three times, leading to a low-speed chase through Philadelphia that lasted more than an hour Friday night, authorities said. (NBC10 Philadelphia via AP) ** FILE **

Philadelphia police stand down: Thank goodness for Second Amendment

Police in Philadelphia, reacting to the coronavirus outbreak, court closures and the call for social distancing, have entered a sort of No Incarceration Zone and announced that criminals who would normally be jailed, will instead be set free. Thank goodness for the Second Amendment, yes?

March 18, 2020
A man wears a mask while walking under the marquee of The Castro Theatre in San Francisco, Monday, March 16, 2020. Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting nearly 7 million people, including the city of San Francisco itself. The order says residents must stay inside and venture out only for necessities for three weeks starting Tuesday in a desperate attempt by officials to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

America, coronavirus and the coming soldiers in the streets

San Francisco's mayor, London Breed, announced the city was going full Italy and imposing a 'round-the-clock curfew for residents that would keep everyone in their homes for the next three weeks. Other cities have followed suit. Title this: How to tank an economy.

March 17, 2020
An entire section of meat and poultry is left empty after panicked shoppers swept through in fear of the coronavirus at a local grocery store in Burbank, Calif., on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) ** FILE **

America, with coronavirus, gets a taste of socialism

Socialism-loving millennials, look and take note: The clearing of store shelves, the closing of retail, the shuttering of restaurants and nightclubs and bars -- these are the outcomes of mass response to the global pandemic called coronavirus. But they're also what befalls when socialism takes over.

March 17, 2020
In this Jan. 30, 2019, file photo, an advertisement for Pepsi is shown downtown for the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game in Atlanta. PepsiCo says it's buying energy drink maker Rockstar Energy Beverages for $3.85 billion. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Michael Savage son, Russ Weiner, new billionaire: ‘American dream is alive’

Russ Weiner, the son of famed radio voice Michael Savage, has just turned his beverage company, Rockstar Energy Drinks, into a $3.2 billion payout from PepsiCo. That it comes as America is stumbling a bit on coronavirus-related economic blues only serves to show: Capitalism, not socialism, is the way to go.

March 16, 2020
In this Oct. 27, 2016, file photo, the Twitter logo appears on a phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

#QuarantineLife tops trend on U.S. Twitter feeds

The hashtag QuarantineLife has taken over the top of Twitter trends for the United States, a somewhat sobering realization that coronavirus is here, here to stay, here for the long haul and that it ain't no joke. But that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it. Go America.

March 16, 2020
In this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, file photo, people stand in the lobby of Amazon offices in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Amazon ‘out of stock’ as coronavirus panic buying surges

The empty shelves at the local brick and mortar retail has gone online. One of Amazon's most frequent messages for shoppers of staple home items this past 24 hours has been this: Out of stock. It's a new world out there for buyers. Bravery required.

March 16, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus Thursday, March 12, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Democrats see coronavirus as just another crisis to exploit

Fact is, if Democrats cared so much about the spread of the virus, they'd be on board with shutting borders, and shutting borders but quick. Instead, they're focused calling out the Chinese coronavirus as a racist label and, unbelievably enough, getting America back to the table to sign the Paris treaty and fight climate change.

March 14, 2020
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, left, and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America Rebeca Romero Rainey, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with banking industry executives about the coronavirus, at the White House, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Coronavirus panic: NBA, travel, Twitter — all up in arms

President Donald Trump suspended all travel to and from Europe for 30 days, Twitter told employees to work from home, the Pentagon stopped travel for 60 days, and the NBA formally suspended its season after one player tested positive for the virus. The coronavirus has officially entered panic zone.

March 12, 2020
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., speaks at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., Sunday, March 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sees ‘straight up racism’ in coronavirus

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unleashed a rant of logically challenged proportions against "people" -- yes, "people" -- for failing to properly support Chinese restaurants during this health crisis called coronavirus. Leave it to Ocasio-Cortez to find a new way to slide in the left's fave conversation ender, the race card.

March 11, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to members of the press at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Socialism’s seeds: Joe Biden’s ‘I’m not working for you’

Joe Biden, in a widely reported, widely seen confrontation with a construction in Michigan, cursed, argued and behaved like an ill-mannered, entitled elitist -- and when reminded that "you're working for me, man," said this: "I'm not working for you." That's the seeds of socialism, right there.

March 11, 2020
Empty shelves are seen in a supermarket as people begin to stock up on provisions in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. People have emptied shelves of food and supplies in supermarkets in Madrid after Spain's health minister on Monday announced a sharp spike in coronavirus cases in and around the national capital, and said all schools in the region, including kindergartens and universities, will close for two weeks from Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Democrats, with coronavirus, don’t need Russia — they have ‘recession’

President Donald Trump, on coronavirus, is finally facing a serious political threat. It's called "recession" -- and whether it's true or not, real or hyped, the fact is, with November looming and Democrats in the desperate position of having no candidate who can beat Trump, the "R" word is being played to full political advantage.

March 10, 2020