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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

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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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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins arrives before President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ** FILE **

Oh, SNAP! 186,000 dead people got tax dollars for food

After discovering 186,000 dead men, women and children were receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is going to make all recipients reapply.

November 14, 2025
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and GOP leaders, from left, Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., blame the government shutdown on Democrats during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrat ‘snobbery’ due to atheistic beliefs

Chris Matthews of former MSNBC news host fame said that a big reason working class Americans have started voting more for Republicans and supporting President Donald Trump is that the Democrat Party has become too snobby. Well, that's certainly true. But that's only part of the story.

November 14, 2025
Marxists and Race in America illustration by The Washington Times

Bold and Blunt: Marxists at the door

The election of Zohran Mamdani to New York City mayor doesn't just say something about a local government or a local citizenry, or even a local culture. It speaks to American society at-large because the U.S.A. of a couple decades ago never would have accepted a card-carrying socialist with open antisemitism as the leader of a free city.

November 14, 2025
A woman wearing an American Red Cross shirt is seen during a service for the Sunday morning shooting at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Mich., Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun) ** FILE **

Religion, schmeligion: Half in U.S. now say it’s not important

Gallup just released its World Poll that found America is shedding religion like a bad habit -- or, in the words of the pollsters, that there has been a "17-percentage-point drop in U.S. religiosity over the past decade." Well, that doesn't sound good.

November 13, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks during an event to mark Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

MAGA, for the win: Democrats, zero on shutdown

One of the reasons Americans elected Donald Trump as president is that he promised to stand tall and absolute against the leftists who've been destroying our nation's exceptionalism for years. And boy, did his impact come through on the recent government shutdown fight with Democrats.

November 12, 2025
An official prepares to cane people who violate Shariah law including two men accused of hugging and kissing, acts the court ruled can lead to banned sexual relations, in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/ Reza Saifullah)

Bold and Blunt: Fighting Sharia law in America

There's a very real threat that's coursing through America, and it's called Sharia law. Look to the 50 countries that have in place Sharia law and see: everywhere Sharia goes, liberty leaves.

November 12, 2025
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, is joined by, from left, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., right, as they emerge from Democratic Caucus leadership elections, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Democrat election wins showcase power of media lies

Really, the fact that Democrats -- that is to say, socialists, and that is really actually, truly, more to truth say, communists -- have any wins at all is due to three causes: 1) the flood of illegal immigrants; 2) the dumbing of America's youth; and 3) the media.

November 11, 2025
This photo shows a BBC sign outside the entrance to the headquarters of the publicly funded media organization in London, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Leftists say ‘mistakes’ when they mean ‘lies’

Two executives for BBC resigned, citing "mistakes" made under their leadership in a documentary called "Trump: A Second Chance?" that showed President Trump calling his supporters to violently protest Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021. Umm. These aren't "mistakes." They're called lies.

November 10, 2025
Vehicles from the Round Rock Police Department and Round Rock Fire Department sit parked after a fatal shooting during a Juneteenth celebration at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, Texas, late Saturday, June 15, 2024. (Cross Harris/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Police should have to pay for damages they cause

A business owner in California who sought compensation from SWAT members after they raided and destroyed his printing shop while trying to apprehend a criminal suspect was just told by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to suck it.

November 7, 2025
Zohran Mamdani speaks during a victory speech at a mayoral election night watch party, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Mamdani wins — watch out, Jews! — courtesy of weak Christian church

Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral seat and within minutes, in his victory speech, set his sights on Donald Trump, telling the president, daring the president -- telling all of America, really -- to "turn the volume up." He's waging war on all that is good.

November 5, 2025
Traditional Russian wooden dolls called Matryoshka depicting China's President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump at a souvenir shop in St. Petersburg, Russia, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Bold and Blunt: Trump’s China wins

When it comes to America versus China, the Donald Trump presidential team is making great inroads and besting out the communists the Democrats of the previous administration oh-so-gladly worked with, and now the CCP is being put on the defense. Thankfully.

November 1, 2025
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, hugs Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., before speaking during a rally, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Mamdani, the choice of the ignorant

There's not a socialist politician in the world who can honestly pledge to uphold the Constitution while remaining true to socialism.

October 28, 2025
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speak to the media as Jared Kushner looks on, in Kiryat Gat, Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Israel really handed short end of Hamas peace stick

It's not that the peace deal between Israel and Hamas is fracturing. It's more that a peace deal between the mostly peaceful Israelis and the antisemitic, hateful, violent anti-Jew Hamas terrorists was never really a viable possibility for the very common sense realization that it's impossible to live in peace with people whose sole reason for existing is to destroy you.

October 24, 2025

James Carville epitomizes today’s ugly Democrats

Democrat strategist James Carville said his fantasy is to see all those who've collaborated with President Donald Trump to be dressed in orange pajamas, have their heads shaven and then be force-marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., where the public can spit on them.

October 24, 2025
Timothy Walker, a resident at the Los Angeles Mission who graduated from its faith-based drug rehabilitation program, reads the Bible during a service at the mission in Los Angeles, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Bold and Blunt: Revival in America

Americans' trust in media may be dwindling, but when it comes to Christian media -- and Christians working in media -- the public has a different perspective, and it's one that goes like this: News watchers, readers and listeners by and large look to those of faith to give them reports they trust.

October 24, 2025
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks to reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Media is truly failing its mission to tell the truth

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Huffington Post journalist S.V. Date traded some widely reported barbs the other day rooted in large part over the insistence of Date to pretend not to be a hack for the Democrat Party. But here's the thing. All things HuffPost are now hack.

October 23, 2025
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (Marc Israel Sellem/Jerusalem Post via AP, Pool)

Bold and Blunt: Israel makes peace, Hamas fights peace

Israel has won back its hostages from Hamas -- but the future of the 20-point peace plan forged in large part by the White House has some sticking points. And it's not clear if the terror group is going to abide all the terms. This is not to say peace is not possible, though

October 22, 2025