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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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Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley

Central American migrants traveling in a caravan to the U.S. border walk on a road in Pijijiapan, Mexico, Monday, April 22, 2019. The outpouring of aid that once greeted Central American migrants as they trekked in caravans through southern Mexico has been drying up, so this group is hungrier, advancing slowly or not at all, and hounded by unhelpful local officials. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) ** FILE **

On immigration, prideful politicians aren’t working for us

Gallup found in its most recent poll that Republican voters believe immigration is the "most important problem" facing America right now. This is how it's been for some time. Yet through the years, little changes. Why? Simply put, prideful politicians put their own interests first, and forget they work for voters.

April 27, 2019
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough predicts that the media will continue to cover "collusion," though a poll says the public may be uninterested. (MSNBC)

Joe Scarborough’s shameful attack on Franklin Graham

Joe Scarborough of MSNBC fame may need ratings. But attacking Franklin Graham and the evangelist's Christian views should be the red line -- and not the fake and flimsy type of red line Barack Obama drew with Syria's unleashing of chemical weapons on its own people, either. A real one.

April 25, 2019
In this April 18, 2019, file photo, former vice president Joe Biden speaks at a rally in support of striking Stop & Shop workers in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Joe Biden, 76, jumps in with ‘Trump is a racist’ guns blaring

Joe Biden jumped into the political race to the White House with a message of -- Donald Trump is racist? Not exactly the sort of inspiring call that brings you to your feet, hands a'clappin', feet a'stompin'. But OK, Charlottesville is good, too.

April 25, 2019
In this Nov. 8, 2016, photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally in Raleigh, N.C. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Even Hillary Clinton waves caution flag on impeachment

Hillary Clinton, in an op-ed published in The Washington Post, urged her fellow Democrats to find a better path to the White House and full congressional domination than simply pressing for impeach, impeach, impeach. Democrats: You know you're off the rails when even perennial rail-rider Hillary Clinton phones in the caution.

April 25, 2019
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders discusses voting rights for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev during a CNN town hall, April 22, 2019. (Image: CNN screenshot)

Bernie Sanders may have just bit the big one

This is the story of how Bernie Sanders, the socialist-minded senator from Vermont, took his crazy-minded socialism a bit too far and dropped a bomb right in the midst of his presidential campaign -- right in the middle of America's jail populations. Voting rights for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? Even Cher goes, say what?

April 25, 2019
Radio personality Rush Limbaugh introduces President Donald Trump at the start of a campaign rally Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, in Cape Girardeau, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Rush Limbaugh makes the case: Hillary Clinton ‘needs to be in jail’

Rush Limbaugh, on "The Story" on Fox News with Martha MacCallum, said it's not President Donald Trump who has anything to worry about when it comes to the whole Russia investigation thing -- it's Hillary Clinton. She should be in jail, Limbaugh said. And a whole world of political watchers go -- absolutely.

April 24, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks with reporters during a campaign stop at a dairy company in Londonderry, N.H., Friday, April 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Pete Buttigieg, hero to gays, enemy of truth

If Pete Buttigieg thinks the Bible is a book of personal interpretation, he's not just wrong. He's utterly blind. And by repeating that utterly blind message on his public platform, he's selling a deception to others.

April 23, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during the We the People Membership Summit, featuring the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, at the Warner Theater, in Washington, Monday, April 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Democrats’ ridiculous race of giveaways

The larger the field of Democratic candidates becomes, the more Americans are treated to promises of free stuff. It's become a race of giveaways. Where will it end? Nobody knows. This is one merry-go-round that shows no signs of slowing.

April 23, 2019
Special counsel Robert Mueller departs Easter services at St. John's Episcopal Church, Sunday, April 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

America’s growing fatigue with Mueller nonsense

Democrats are rapidly emerging as Republicans' best hope for 2020. Why? They're failing to see how fed up Americans are getting with the whole "Donald Trump did it" line of messaging from the left, despite the far more factual "Donald Trump didn't do it" special counsel report from Robert Mueller.

April 23, 2019
This March 17, 2019, file photo shows New York Mayor Bill de Blasio listening as he speaks before a group of people at a restaurant in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Hunter Woodall) ** FILE **

Bill de Blasio, the SUV-driving man with the fault-finding Big Green plan

Mayor Bill de Blasio, in an appearance on "Morning Joe" on MSNBC to explain his decision to go Green New Deal in New York City and switch entirely to renewable energy within the next five years, faltered when pressed on his own gas-guzzling SUV use. And such is the way of the radical environmentalist: Do as I say, not as I do.

April 22, 2019
The-Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., listen during a debate at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, in this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007, file photo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ** FILE **

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton tip anti-Christian ‘Easter worshippers’ hats

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton avoided using the word "Christians" while commenting on Twitter about the horrific attacks on Christians on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka that left hundreds dead and injured. Instead, the ex-prez and former secretary of state called the victims "Easter worshippers."

April 22, 2019
Illustration on examining the FISA court by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Mueller investigation’s missed opportunities: FISA, law enforcement reform

Democrats have made it clear they're not going to let go the contents of Robert Mueller's report without giving it the full impeachment treatment. This is unfortunate. The Mueller investigation gives opportunities for the parties to come together -- on FISA and on law enforcement's treatment of innocent-until-proven guilty suspects.

April 20, 2019
2020 Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a town hall meeting, Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Pete Buttigieg: Just another climate alarmist extraordinaire

Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic presidential hopeful from the city of South Bend, Indiana, called out climate change as the "greatest security issue of our time" during his recent announcement speech. And if we don't fix it, we'll all die. He's yet the latest from the left to use climate change for political advantage by claiming the same.

April 19, 2019
Attorney General William Barr speaks about the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report during a news conference, Thursday, April 18, 2019, at the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

William Barr speaks — and deaf, dumb Democrats go: #ReleaseTheReport

No collusion. No obstruction. No evidence of trying to stymy the special counsel's investigation -- those are the nuts and bolts of Attorney General William Barr's determinations regarding President Donald Trump and what can now be cavalierly called That Russia Thang. Guess what else is a big "no"? The chance for the left to let this go.

April 18, 2019
A Hispanic supporter holds up a sign for then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally at the Anaheim Convention Center, Wednesday, May 25, 2016, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ** FILE **

America’s shifting demographics, and why GOP should smile

America, come 2020, will have for the first time more Hispanics eligible to vote in the election than blacks -- than any other racial or ethnic minority group, for that matter. And smile, Republicans. This is one minority voting block the Dems can't claim in their pockets.

April 18, 2019
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, speaks at the Heartland Forum held on the campus of Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, Saturday, March 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Tim Ryan, 2020 hopeful, bucks own party’s trend to socialism

Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan, Ohio, in recent comments on national television, said socialism is not the way America should go. Did you catch that? He's a Democrat. And he kind of denounced socialism. Publicly. This is one of those hurrah moments in political times.

April 17, 2019
In this Wednesday, July 20, 2016, file photo, conservative political commentator Laura Ingraham speaks during the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Laura Ingraham’s head on a platter, say all the riled-up rappers

Rappers like Snoop Dogg and The Game are angry with Laura Ingraham and want her to be fired. Isn't this like the 80th or 90th time somebody's called for Ingraham's booting from Fox News? In like, two months or something? Well, in like a year or so, really.

April 17, 2019
A security camera is placed in a New York subway station, Thursday, April 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

A.I. that halts thieves — before they steal

The customer is always right -- except when artificial intelligence says the customer isn't. That's sort of the message being sent by new technology aimed at catching crooks before they commit their crooked acts, anyway.

April 16, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., takes part in a Fox News town-hall style event, Monday April 15, 2019 in Bethlehem, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bernie Sanders, a capitalism success story, still can’t say how he’d pay

Bernie Sanders went on Fox News to talk about his presidential run and tell why his particular brand of socialism, the so-called democratic socialism, is best for America -- but once again failed to explain how he'd pay for Medicare for All, free college tuition and so on and so forth in a way that brings long-term economic stability.

April 16, 2019