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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 Oct. 18, 2017, file photo, Rohingya Muslim women, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand holding their sick children after Bangladesh border guard soldiers refused to let them journey toward a hospital and turned them back toward the zero line border in Palong Khali, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

‘Climate refugees’ — Democrats’ new tool to kill U.S. borders

The left has a new tool to bring illegals to America -- to wedge border doors a bit wider in defiance of law and order -- and it goes like this: climate change. The weather. The weather is making people flee their countries and come to America. Wow. This is a new low even for the left. It's U.N.-speak, pure and simple.

April 16, 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. A would-be progressive standard bearer, de Blasio has spent the past few months exploring a run, traveling to events in early primary states. (AP Photo/Hunter Woodall) ** FILE **

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s police state measles order mucho un-presidential

So New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may run for the presidency. But he's recently OK'd the forced vaccinations of everyone who lives within the geographical boundaries of four ZIP codes heavily infected with measles. Is this the type of police state governance that belongs in the White House? No. Heck no. And no again.

April 15, 2019
In this Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, a local resident leaves a church after voting in the general election in Cumming, Iowa. Religion's role in politics and social policies is in the spotlight heading toward the midterm elections, yet relatively few Americans consider it crucial that a candidate be devoutly religious or share their religious beliefs, according to an AP-NORC national poll conducted Aug. 16-20, 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) **FILE**

The return of the politicking pastors

Today's churches are filled with leaders who worry too much about maintaining their IRS tax exemptions, or about offending their tithe-paying members, than about delving too deeply into the pressing political affairs of our time. But ceding the political ground has not served America well.

April 13, 2019
In this March 16, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally in Henderson, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Medicare for All terrible, deceptive and un-American

America was founded on principles of limited government and individual freedom, where rights come from God, not government. Then came the left's message that health care is a right, a basic human right, and slash went the Constitution. Medicare for All, as Sen. Bernie Sanders is pushing, is about as un-American as policy can come.

April 12, 2019
Police officers apprehend a demonstrator outside Westminster magistrates court where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was appearing in London, Thursday, April 11, 2019. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday, setting up a potential court battle over attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges related to the publication of tens of thousands of secret government documents. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Julian Assange’s U.S. charges a ‘say what?’ moment

Let's hold the phone on the conviction and sentencing of Julian Assange for a moment. Exactly what did Assange do that, say, journalists protected by credentials from big corporate media entities don't commonly do during the course of pulling threads of information from their sources?

April 11, 2019
Activists dressed as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale" protest a bill in the Texas Legislature that would require health care facilities, including hospitals and abortion clinics, to bury or cremate any fetal remains whether from abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Texas Republican’s crazy anti-abortion bill

A Texas Republican has re-introduced a bill that would criminalize and ban abortion and classify it as homicide, opening doors for women who terminate their pregnancies to face imprisonment and even sentences of death. And their little abortion doctors, too. Wow. There's pro-life. And then there's this: Crazy pro-life.

April 11, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during the National Action Network Convention in New York, Friday, April 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s costly Amazon misstep

Freshman lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was slammed by the majority of voters in her district who told pollsters she was wrong for driving away Amazon and its promised 25,000 highly paid job openings. Such is the thinking of a socialist: On paper, hitting hard at Big Business can seem noble. But the people still have to eat.

April 11, 2019
In this Feb. 11, 2011, photo released by CBS, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the reaction in in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. CBS News says Logan was attacked Friday, and suffered a brutal beating and sexual assault before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She is recovering in a U.S. hospital. (AP Photo/CBS News)

Lara Logan nabs border gig at Sinclair — and all the left go, Oh no!

Former CBS correspondent Lara Logan nabbed a broadcast gig with Sinclair to go to the border and report the goings-on. Prepare for the left to go into hyper-drive. Logan is hardly the far-right ideologue the left would like to paint. She's going to be a tough one for Democrats to dismiss.

April 10, 2019
House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters, D-Calif., leads a hearing to review the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's mission to focus priority on consumers with the CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 7, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Congressional members behaving badly

Rep. Maxine Waters climbed atop the high horse alongside her chairwoman's seat in the House Financial Services Committee hearing room to thunder at Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and tell him, basically anyway, to sit down, you're not dismissed. I am zee law!

April 10, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a convention of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Monday, April 8, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Democrats could learn a thing from Bernie Sanders

Sen. Bernie Sanders is planning to participate in a town hall on Fox News, and for that, his far leftist cronies in the far leftist media are wrinkling noses, wondering why. But here's where the socialist-minded presidential hopeful deserves some credit: He's got guts to enter what others in his base perceive as a hostile environment.

April 9, 2019
Wearing the uniform of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, lawmakers chant slogan during an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Chanting "Death to America," Iranian lawmakers convened an open session of parliament Tuesday following the White House's decision to designate Iran's elite paramilitary Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist organization. (AP Photo/Hamidreza Rahel/ICANA)

Iran, on cue, resumes ‘Death to America’

Iran, the nation that former President Barack Obama told us to trust, has been busily broadcasting its trademark "Death to America" chant as payback for President Donald Trump's designation of the Revolutionary Guard as a foreign terrorist organization. And now the Obama copycats are nibbling nervously at their nails. But why?

April 9, 2019
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., left, accompanied by Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., right, speaks as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the budget on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Democrats and their odd 12-year doomsday clock

Rep. Barbara Lee, in a recent Twitter post, said her fellow House mate, the freshman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was quite right: The world has only 12 years to properly address the environment or else face total devastation. Curious. Shouldn't it be 11 years and something-something by now?

April 9, 2019
In this April 26, 2017, file photo, pedestrians walk past the IBM logo displayed on the IBM building in New York. Shares of Red Hat skyrocketed at the opening bell Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, after IBM, in the biggest acquisition in its 100-year history, acquired the software company. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) **FILE**

Quitting your job? Shh — technology may tattle

IBM has developed artificial intelligence that can predict, with a reported 95 percent accuracy, when employees are just about to quit their jobs. Super snoopy surveillance? Or smart technology that can actually benefit both business and employee? The jury's still out. It's all in the ultimate application.

April 6, 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the IBEW Construction and Maintenance Conference in Washington, Friday, April 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Joe Biden’s ‘hug’ joke poor taste, poor timing, poor all around

Joe Biden took the stage of the Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers event in the nation's capital, flashed his signature folksy, regular guy smile, and joked, "I just want you to know I had permission to hug Lonnie." Lonnie, being IBEW Int'l's male president, Lonnie Stephenson. Poor timing. Poor taste. Just plain poor all around.

April 5, 2019
This March 23, 2010, file photo shows the Google logo at the Google headquarters in Brussels. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Google shutters A.I. ethics board after LGBTQs attack conservatives

Google dissolved and disbanded its artificial intelligence ethics advisory board, just a week or so after its creation. Why? In brief: Heritage Foundation. In brief, the LGBTQ movement couldn't stand the thought of a conservative on the council, so the LGBTQ movement cried and demanded the conservative voice be removed.

April 5, 2019
In this Dec. 7, 2018, file photo, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Make way for the reparations

House legislators have brought forward a bill to form a new commission tasked with looking at the feasibility of paying black Americans for slavery -- for actually putting to law a reparations measure. You always know it's campaign time when Democrats start to turn oh-so-concerned eyes toward their black constituency again.

April 4, 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Winter Meeting in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Joe Biden’s defenders are wrong

Joe Biden has a lot of friends who've been busily explaining away his too touchy-feely behaviors lately as little misunderstandings -- that the former vice president is simply affectionate, more like a favorite family "uncle" of the effervescent variety than creepy or predatory. These defenders are wrong. Do they not have eyes to see?

April 4, 2019
In this Jan. 20, 2009, file photo, nurses check on newborns, at the Hello Kitty-designed maternity ward, at the Hau Sheng hospital in the southern Taiwan city of Chunghua. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

California hospital’s crazy secret filming of women giving birth

A hospital in La Mesa, California, said it wanted to catch a drug thief in the act of stealing, and that's why it put cameras in delivery rooms that secretly filmed dozens of women as they gave birth -- as they were in the throes of their most vulnerable and exposed moments of life. What a tragic violation of privacies.

April 3, 2019