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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

This Oct. 24, 2016 file photo shows dollar bills in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Bold and Blunt: Achieving wealth starts with the right attitude

Achieving the American dream is still within reach -- though not all have the same dream. Financial security, however, is pretty universal. And whether becoming a millionaire is the goal, or simply having enough money to pay all the bills suffices, fact is, the sky is the limit.

August 15, 2025
GAZA BORDER, Israel -- The border separating Gaza, to the left, with Israel seems quiet on Aug. 12, 2025. But Israeli soldiers maintain a heavy presence, on guard for any sign of another Hamas terror attack. The Israeli people, still reeling from the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, have yet to completely return to their homes along the border. (Cheryl Chumley/The Washington Times)

Israel vs. Hamas vs. Palestinians: When optimism proves deadly

In answer to a question from The Washington Times, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said not all Muslims have Hamas-like terrorist tendencies and that cultivating the more moderate voices among the Islamic faithful is a sure step toward bringing peace. He has a point. Then again, maybe not.

August 12, 2025
Shiite Muslims burn representations of U.S. and Israeli flags during a rally to condemn Israeli strikes on Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Bold and Blunt: The global rise of sharia law

Sharia law is rising around the world, at the same time the Islam faith is exploding around the world. And since sharia is incompatible with the Constitution, the question is: how can America keep the radical Islamic belief system at bay?

August 7, 2025
The Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley speaks during Sunday service at Myrtle Baptist Church Sunday, May 5, 2024 in Newton, Mass. In 2015, Crowley, the senior pastor of the church, one of America's oldest Black churches, announced to his congregation, "I am a proud, Black, gay Christian male." (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Bold and Blunt: Satan’s fake news campaign

Most Christians accept that Satan is a master liar and that he comes to steal and destroy. But how to fight him effectively? It all begins with knowing the truth and seeing evil as evil -- something which cannot be accomplished without reading God's word.

August 5, 2025
Families of hostages protest, demanding the release from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, at the plaza known as the hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hamas has no intention of peace. Let’s stop pretending

A senior Hamas member, Ghazi Hamed, said on Al-Jazeera that "weapons constitute the Palestinian cause" and "no Palestinian is saying now that the resistance must end." And by "Palestinian cause," of course, it's meant "eradicate Israel, kill all Jews."

August 5, 2025
Then-special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Jack Smith has a timing problem

The Office of the Special Counsel, following a request from Sen. Tom Cotton, is investigating former special counsel Jack Smith for violating the Hatch Act and abusing his political appointment to wrongfully target Donald Trump for supposed crimes committed in 2020. Smith should be worried.

August 4, 2025
President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington, June 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Bold and Blunt: Democrats ratchet anti-MAGA lawlessness

Democrats have been fighting against the Donald Trump machine for years -- since at least 2015, when he first descended the golden escalator to announce his bid for the White House. But no matter how many times they're outed as politically weaponized, Democrats don't stop.

August 1, 2025
A handcuffed Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member waits for the start of a court trial at the Isidro Menendez Judicial Center in San Salvador, El Salvador, Oct. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

Another day, another Democrat defends an MS-13 illegal

A Democrat state representative for Rhode Island named Enrique Sanchez slammed on social media federal agents as "Nazi Gestapo ICE thugs" after they conducted a sweep in Providence of illegals. Only Democrats would dare to defend illegals so boldly.

August 1, 2025
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Obama-era radicals about to lose their environmental religion

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced a pathway to put an end to a Barack Obama-era environmental provision called the "endangerment finding," a provision that handed radical leftists a tool of massive control. This is a big win for the American people.

July 31, 2025
Demonstrators walk in an encampment on the UCLA campus after clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

UCLA, where all the antisemites go

The University of California, Los Angeles, just agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit over a "Jew Exclusion Zone" established during the school's recent heydays of antisemitic protests. Bravo, UCLA. Who knew you couldn't set up no-go zones for Jews -- right? (Insert sarcastic tone here.)

July 30, 2025
President Barack Obama pays tribute to the nation's war dead during the Memorial Day ceremony at the amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Bold and Blunt: Russia, Russia, Russia, a ‘hoax’ and a ‘coup’

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of National Intelligence, has been dumping documents on the American people to prove that the Russia, Russia, Russia collusion was not only a hoax, but more than that, a coup -- and a coup conducted by the minds of the highest-ranking offices of the executive branch.

July 30, 2025
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James walk in the NYC Pride March, Sunday, June 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Socialist Zohran Mamdani gets a fat-cat capitalist wedding

The socialist-slash-communist Zohran Mamdani just took a timeout from his Big Apple mayoral campaign to fly to his wealthy parents' elitist property in Uganda to marry his fiancee in a three-day ceremony that came complete with masked security guards and cellphone jamming system.

July 29, 2025
Smoke rises as police clash with protesters during a Black Lives Matter protest near the Seattle Police East Precinct headquarters, July 25, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Democrats fuel Whites-only communities

For years, Democrats have fostered racism, lawlessness and disorder and angry, ugly protests and socialism, Marxism, collectivism, all aimed at crippling America's melting pot.

July 26, 2025
Then-President Barack Obama speaks about Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress during a meeting with Defense Secretary Ash Carter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Obama won’t be going to jail

Barack Obama, the ex-president who promised utter transparency but who is now being accused of treason, may have been -- as one former federal prosecutor put it -- "complicit up to his neck" in advancing the fake Russia collusion narrative against Donald Trump, but he won't go to jail.

July 25, 2025
President Barack Obama pays tribute to the nation's war dead during the Memorial Day ceremony at the amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Democrats pay the price of the whirlwinds they released

President Trump has called out former President Barack Obama for "treason" for "trying to lead a coup" during the 2016 and 2020 election cycles -- accusations the former White House chief, through a spokesman, denied. It's refreshing to see Democrats face political fire for what they lit.

July 24, 2025