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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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Former Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a campaign stop to support Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden at the Biden for President Fort Dodge Office, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

John Kerry’s delusional diplomacy

John Kerry, former Democratic senator, presidential aspirant and U.S. State Department secretary under Barack Obama, is a heavy pot smoker. He'd have to be to say this: Until President Donald Trump came along, the Iran nuclear deal "was working."

January 10, 2020
House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., from left, with fellow members Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., speaks during a rally in support of President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Jody Hice: It’s the God-given that makes us great

Rep. Jody Hice said the most crucial principle to remember about America is that here, in this country, individual rights come from God, not the government, and that deviating from this path leads to cultural degradation, Big Government, socialism and, ultimately, utter governmental and societal collapse. He's right, you know.

January 9, 2020
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020, as Democrats prepared largely symbolic resolutions under the War Powers Act to limit the president's military actions regarding Iran. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi endangers U.S. by faulting Trump ‘provocations’ of Iran

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a tweet that came on the heels of Iran's launch of a dozen ballistic missiles against U.S.-populated military bases in Iraq, said President Donald Trump should quit poking the Iranian bear. She blamed Trump for Iran's hostilities. This is liberal logic at its worst. It's like a whisper to Iran, hey, you got a friend in me.

January 8, 2020
Mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike on Friday, in the city of Kerman, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. The leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatened on Tuesday to "set ablaze" places supported by the United States over the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. airstrike last week, sparking cries from the crowd of supporters of "Death to Israel!" (Erfan Kouchari/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

Iran vows ‘all out war’ — and U.S. must stand strong

Iran shot off more than a dozen missiles at two military bases in Iraq that house U.S. troops, ratcheting tensions but injuring or killing no one -- and now Iran is warning America: Respond and it's war. Well, isn't that a pot calling the kettle black moment. America, on Iran, must not retreat.

January 8, 2020
In this frame grab from video posted online, people try to resuscitate victims of a deadly stampede at a funeral procession for a top Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike last week, in Kerman, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2019. Two Iranian semi-official news agencies reported that the stampede in Kerman that killed dozens of people and injured over 200 others took place in Kerman, the hometown of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, as the procession got underway. (AP Photo)

Soleimani funeral stampede shows savagery of U.S. enemies

Forty died and more than 200 were injured during funeral services for the killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Don't know about funerals in your neck of the woods. But typically, in more civilized section, stampedes and angry rallying and loud vows to kill Americans and attack U.S. spots are not part and parcel of the whole funeral procession experience.

January 7, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, on the day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on two charges, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Nancy Pelosi, 2020, keeps up ‘bizarre’ impeachment strategy

Christmas is over, New Year's has ended, 2020 has begun, and what's on the table for Congress is the same that was set last year by Democrats in the House -- impeachment. And that's curious because, in the words of Democrats, impeaching President Donald Trump was a national security must-do, must-do right now.

January 7, 2020
Protesters burn a U.S. flag during a demonstration over the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 3, 2020. Iran has vowed "harsh retaliation" for the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed Tehran's top general and the architect of its interventions across the Middle East, as tensions soared in the wake of the targeted killing. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

America is righteous, Iran is the sponsor of terror

America doesn't take its marching orders from Iran. America isn't the younger, weaker, sissier brother in this relationship. America is the righteous one. Iran is the terrorist regime. How far must America go to appease evil?

January 7, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. is working on several fronts to pressure Iran. (Associated Press)

Mike Pompeo, best line ever: ‘Ask Mr. Soleimani’

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a sit-down with Chris Wallace of Fox News, laid out in precise terms exactly why America is in the right, Iran is in the wrong, and Gen. Qaddem Soleimani, head of the dastardly Quds force, had it coming when President Donald Trump's drone strike took him out and killed him. And then he gave the Best. Line. Ever.

January 6, 2020
Rose McGowan poses for a portrait in New York on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. McGowan's says her tweet that apologized on behalf of the U.S. to Iran for “disrespecting their flag and people” wasn't anti-American. Her tweet Friday came after a U.S. airstrike killed Iran's top general and has been widely criticized. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

Rose McGowan, you’re dismissed

Rose McGowan, Hollywood actress, model, author and lately, political activist, has taken to Twitter Extreme to call out America as the evil empire to Iran's blooming innocence, outright apologizing to the terrorist regime for President Donald Trump's takedown of the Revolutionary Guard's Gen. Qassem Soleimani. So Rose: Move to Iran.

January 6, 2020
Flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters during the 74th session of the U.N. General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. At this year's annual gathering at the United Nations, well-known flash points such as the Middle East and trade tensions got lots of airtime, but some leaders also used their time on the world stage to highlight international disputes that don't usually command the same global attention. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz)

UN pansies up in arms as Trump goes ‘America First’ on Iran

President Donald Trump, with his airstrike order against Iraq's airport that left dead Iran's Gen. Qassem Soleiman, didn't just set the regime on notice that this administration takes seriously attacks on American citizens. He also told the United Nations: your opinion isn't necessary. And the UN doesn't like that at all. Not one bit.

January 4, 2020
Sunlight pours into Grace United Methodist Church during the annual Historic Houses of Worship Tour Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019, in Hagerstown, Md. (Dave McMillion/The Herald-Mail via AP) **FILE**

United Methodist Church split sets sin on display

The United Methodist Church said its organization is going to break into two factions over the issues of LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage. That's not really a surprise. What is a surprise is that a church, any church, can get by with calling itself a place of Christian worship while scoffing basic biblical teachings of sin and God's will.

January 3, 2020
In this Oct. 30, 2019, file photo, released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, reviews armed forces during a graduation ceremony at Iran's Air Defense Academy, in Tehran, Iran. The U.S. airstrike that killed a prominent Iranian general in Baghdad raises tensions even higher between Tehran and Washington after months of trading attacks and threats across the wider Middle East. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Donald Trump sets Iran on notice: This is not your Barack Obama administration

Iran-backed forces attacked Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump sent in the airstrikes and killed Quds force chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport, and now Iran's crying foul, vowing "harsh retaliation" and so forth and so on. But note to Iran: This is not the Barack Obama administration.

January 3, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a gathering during a campaign stop in Exeter, N.H., Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ** FILE **

Joe Biden is a snob, and heart-and-soul America knows it

Joe Biden told a bunch of rally-goers in Derry, New Hampshire, that coal miners, many of whom live and work in the area, ought to stop all this coal mining nonsense and get with the 21st century program and learn a new trade, a cleaner trade, a more environmentally sound trade -- like coding. What an elitist, entitled, arrogant snob.

January 2, 2020
Colorado State Rep. Patrick Neville, front, makes a point as, from back left, Barry Arrington, who represents the advocacy group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Rep. Dave Williams, Dudley Brown, executive director of the gun group, and Rep. Stephen Humphrey look on during the announcement of plans to file a lawsuit to block a "red flag" law allowing courts to order firearms be taken away from people who pose a danger during a news conference in the State Capitol Thursday, May 2, 2019, in Denver. The Republicans and the group claim that House Democrats violated a section of the state constitution governing the legislative process to get the bill passed earlier this year. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) ** FILE **

Colorado’s new red flag gun law well-intentioned, but wrong

A new red flag gun law just took effect in Colorado giving family members and law enforcement officials the authority to petition a judge to strip an individual's Second Amendment rights based on concerns of mental fitness. And well-intentioned as that law might be -- it stems from the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy by a mentally deranged man -- it's still unconstitutional. It's still wrong.

January 2, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., gestures for Democrats to stop taking during a vote on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Impeachment costs stretch into — umm, unknown millions

It's bad enough we've got a highly partisan impeachment hunt being led by highly anti-Donald Trump partisans whose sole purpose in political life is to disrupt this White House and boot the president from office. But how about those taxpayers? How about the taxpayers footing this impeachment bill? Well on that, we just don't know.

December 31, 2019
Church and community members, including Matt Pacholczyk, left, and his wife, Faith Pacholczyk, stand outside West Freeway Church of Christ for a candlelight vigil, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, in White Settlement, Texas. A gunman shot and killed two people before an armed security officer returned fire, killing him during a service at the church on Sunday. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Second Amendment saves lives in Texas church

Two people were killed and another wounded in Texas after a man wearing a fake beard, wig, hat and long coat entered a church in the community of White Settlement, pulled out a shotgun and began firing. Tragic and horrible as that is -- it could've been much worse. The gunman was stopped in his tracks by a gun-carrying church-goer.

December 31, 2019
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones addressed the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump during a Sept.30, 2019 town hall on the campus of Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Ala. The prospect of an impeachment vote in the Senate is potentially complicating an already tough election fight for the red state Democrat. “If,” he said, repeating the word to emphasize the uncertainty. “If it comes over to the Senate, then I will vote my conscience based on the evidence and not the politics of anything.” (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

Doug Jones, Alabama’s Democratic senator, on dying last campaign legs

Sen. Doug Jones rose to political power in 2018 to become the first Democrat U.S. senator to be elected from Alabama in 25 years, in a state that also voted for Donald Trump for president by almost 28 percentage points in 2016. And his journey down is about to take place just as rapidly.

December 30, 2019
In this Oct. 28, 2015, file photo, replicas of Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush, left, and Marco Rubio face off in the free speech zone on the campus of the University of Colorado before the Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo. Some colleges provide so-called "free speech zones" as the only place where people can protest and distribute fliers. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

American colleges are veering into academic ‘police state’ territory

The assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice just issued a statement reminding that America is not a "police state," and neither should be the college campuses that dot the landscape of this country. The very fact the DOJ has to release this statement shows how far America's freedoms have fallen.

December 28, 2019