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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 undated photo made from video, 12-year-old cancer patient Ethan Daniels at a medical facility in Atlanta speaks with Aaron Horowitz, co-founder and CEO of Sproutel, who designed "My Special Aflac Duck" to promote emotional well-being by helping children living with cancer develop a sense of control and manage stress through interactive technology. (AP Photo/Marina Hutchinson) ** FILE **

Cage the rage, punch a robot

Researchers say they've come up with a way to help those with anger management issues using the latest in technology -- robots trained to take a punch. It's probably too soon to call for a end to barroom brawls, broken furniture and smashed phones. But maybe these 'bots can help some angry birds better cope.

May 14, 2019
Former FBI Director James B. Comey speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, Washington, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, after a second closed-door interview with two Republican-led committees investigating what they say was bias at the Justice Department before the 2016 presidential election. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

James Comey just accused Donald Trump of a thought crime

Former FBI director James Comey, in a recent CNN town hall, told host Anderson Cooper that yes indeed, based on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's redacted Russia collusion report, "it sure looks like" President Donald Trump had "criminal intent" to commit obstruction. In other words, Comey is accusing the president of a thought crime.

May 11, 2019
FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2019 file photo, police officers and students are seen outside STEM School Highlands Ranch, a charter middle school in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch, Colo., after a shooting. Both suspects in the suburban Denver school shooting are due back in court Friday, May 10, as prosecutors file charges in the violent attack that killed a student and wounded multiple others. Authorities have identified the suspects as 18-year-old Devon Erickson and 16-year-old Maya McKinney, whose attorney said uses male pronouns and the name Alec. (Courtney Harper via AP, File)

CNN’s cringe-worthy veer into anti-gun propaganda

There's news, there's fake news, there's not news (also called the non-story), and now, courtesy one recent CNN clip with anchor Brooke Baldwin about the recent school shooting in Colorado, there's blatant propaganda masked as primetime news. Come on, CNN. Quit insulting the intelligence of viewers.

May 10, 2019
Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a rally with members of a painters and construction union, Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Henderson, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Trump calls it: ‘SleepyCreepy Joe’ will beat ‘Crazy Bernie’

President Donald Trump tweeted, "Looks to me like it's going to be SleepyCreepy Joe over Crazy Bernie," President Donald Trump tweeted Friday. "Everyone else is fading fast!" True. Polls show it's true. But guess what: Neither will be Trump in the general election.

May 10, 2019
Brendan Bialy, third from left, joins mother Dena Martin, right, father Brad Bialy, far left, and attorney Mark Bryant to speak about his role in stopping the attack at the STEM School Highlands Ranch during a news conference Wednesday, May 8, 2019, in Englewood, Colo. Eighteen-year-old Bialy said he, Kendrick Castillo and a third student tried to stop the gunman by charging at him during Tuesday's attack at the STEM School Highlands Ranch. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Kendrick Ray Castillo, Highlands Ranch hero, worthy of Congressional Gold Medal

Eighteen-year-old Kendrick Ray Castillo was at his STEM School Highlands Ranch desk, analyzing comedy in English lit class, when a guy walked in and pulled a gun. Castillo, rather than ducking, charged. He represents not just the best of America, but the best in humanity. And now Congress needs to honor him.

May 9, 2019
Author and conservative activist David Horowitz says there is a "disgusting" epidemic of anti-Semitism on campuses and that administrators are tolerating it. (Associated Press)

David Horowitz blasts ‘stupid’ Twitter censors for second suspension

David Horowitz was blocked for the second time by Twitter censors, just a day after his first suspension was overturned and explained away as a "mistake." And, as he rightly blasted in an interview with Breitbart -- these corporate censors are becoming a true "threat to democracy."

May 9, 2019
In this April 4, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump meets China's Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Where Republicans get it wrong

Free trade runs both ways. So should slap-happy tariffing. Other countries impose prohibitively massive tariffs on America's exports. America should do the same. It's the America First way. But Republicans with too-close relationships with Big Business are sending out the fear messages. This is where the GOP gets it wrong.

May 9, 2019
FILE - In this June 8, 2018 file photo, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh addresses a gathering during the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Boston. The lawyer for Baltimore’s mayor is making an announcement Thursday, May 2, 2019, amid growing pressure for the city’s top leader to resign over a scandal involving her self-published children’s books. Pugh has been in self-imposed seclusion for a month with what attorney Steven Silverman has said is “deteriorating health after a bout of pneumonia. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Baltimore white anchor unfairly fired for dubious ‘racist’ remarks

A Baltimore news anchor, Mary Bubala, was just fired after asking an interview guest, on live WJZ-TV, if it were time for the city to see "a different kind of leadership," given the beleaguered status of its last three mayors. Bubala's crime? She mentioned the last three mayors were female and black.

May 8, 2019
This image released by Netflix shows Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a scene from the documentary "Knock Down the House," premiering May 1 on Netflix. (Netflix via AP)

Rick Scott, 1 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, just go home

The Twitter spat of Sen. Rick Scott and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez escalated over the last 24 hours and honestly, if scorecards are being kept -- the socialist from New York just needs to go home. It's not even Scott, 1, Ocasio-Cortez zero. It's not even that close.

May 7, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg, from South Bend, Ind.,, listens during a lunch meeting with civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton at Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem neighborhood of New York. Buttigieg is making a new, concerted effort to appeal to African American voters and put behind him criticism of his record on race. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, Pool)

Pete Buttigieg: America ‘never as great as advertised’

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who's running for president, said during a campaign stop in South Carolina that America "was never as great as advertised." Thus joining an alarmingly long list of Democrats who think America pretty much bites.

May 7, 2019
In this April 4, 2019, file photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Nancy Pelosi is right to worry

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned her fellow Democrats that they can't impeach -- that the only way to win the White House in 2020 is with a margin of victory so "big" that President Donald Trump can't challenge the results in court. She is worried. Rightly so.

May 7, 2019
FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2018, file photo, a couple walks through a forest with the Frankfurt skyline in background near Frankfurt, Germany. Development that’s led to loss of habitat, climate change, overfishing, pollution and invasive species is causing a biodiversity crisis, scientists say in a new United Nations science report released Monday, May 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Godless environmentalism at the U.N.

The United Nations, once again, is forecasting doom and gloom and earthly destruction, unless of course the world listens up and pays up for climate control, to the tune of, say, $300 billion or so. For starters.

May 6, 2019
Former US President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a town hall meeting at the 'European School For Management And Technology' (ESMT) in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, April 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

The arrogant left will never learn

Once again, another notable on the left, this time, Barack Obama, can't seem to understand why America went for Trump in 2016. Here's a clue: look inward, not outward.

May 4, 2019
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., joined at left by Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., leads objections to testimony by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, at the House Oversight and Reform Committee about his behind-the-scenes knowledge of Trump's activities, including possible criminal conduct, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Jody Hice, bravest man in politics

Rep. Jody Hice isn't that well-known outside of his Georgia district, outside of his circle of Republican contemporaries, or on the national media circuit frequented by so many of the politicking class. But he should be. Hice is an example of what makes America great.

May 3, 2019
Attendees stick notes on a Facebook logo at F8, the Facebook's developer conference, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar )

Founders rolling in graves over Facebook bans

Facebook, much to the glee of the far left, banned Infowars top dog Alex Jones permanently from posting on its social media site. Likewise, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan -- only this time, much to the glee of the ideological right. But caution flags should be waving. As founders warned: Free speech is key to a free society.

May 2, 2019
In this Feb. 28, 2018, file photo, a police car drives by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., as students returned to class for the first time since a former student opened fire there with an assault weapon. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Florida just became one of the safest states for students

Teachers in Florida will soon be able to carry arms into classrooms. And contrary to what the groaners on the left will say, that means Florida is poised to become one of the safest state in the nation for little kids and teens to go to school.

May 2, 2019