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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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Actor Chris Pratt poses for the media to open the Lego pop-up cafe "The Coffee Chain" in, London, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. The pop-up cafe promotes the new "The Lego Movie 2" film and is in partnership with UNICEF to raise awareness and proceeds. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Chris Pratt inspires with God-talk on Stephen Colbert show

Without a doubt, Hollywood's Chris Pratt is an anomaly. He's not only a Christian in Hollywood. He's an open Christian in an anti-Christian Hollywood crowd -- and just recently, he took that Christian message to Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show," of all places.

February 8, 2019
The State Capitol is illuminated in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Three of the top elected Democrats in the state are embroiled in controversy. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Blackface, ‘dark makeup’ and Dems — and the confusing politics of hate

All eyes may be on Virginia and its gubernatorial blackface scandal right now -- but really, the juicier story is watching members of the media duck and dodge for the Democrats caught between a rock and a racist place. It's getting confusing to keep track of when blackface is racist, when it's not and just whom we're supposed to hate.

February 7, 2019
President Donald Trump talks to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts while leaving the House chamber after giving his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 at the Capitol in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

America could indeed become socialist

It was inspiring of President Donald Trump to say, during his State of the Union, that America would "never be a socialist country." But the thing is: America could. Only by acknowledging that can America protect against it.

February 7, 2019
FILE- In this file photo from Oct. 17, 2018, survivors of child sexual abuse hug in the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. while awaiting legislation to respond to a landmark state grand jury report on child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. Lawmakers have returned to the Pennsylvania Capitol for 2019 sessions, but they have yet to revisit a response to child sexual abuse scandals since the debate's late-night collapse that closed last year's final voting day. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File)

Catholic priests should be allowed to marry

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, SNAP, is holding a summit this week to press Pope Francis into taking stronger action against clergy members who commit acts of sexual abuse. Well and good. But a better course of action would be for the Catholic Church to open its priestly ranks to marriage.

February 6, 2019
Members of Congress cheer after President Donald Trump acknowledges more women in Congress during his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump’s State of the Union did the impossible

In his State of the Union, President Donald Trump managed to do what political watchers wouldn't have predicted possible just a few short hours before his opening words -- and that's draw together the chamber, the Democrats and Republicans, the country. He made Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez smile and applaud, for crying out loud.

February 6, 2019
This is a computer screen image of a website that advertises the services of a U.S. company that caters to women from China who want to give birth in the United States. Federal agents searched more than a dozen homes in a crackdown on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, on an industry that helps pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. to give birth to American babies. The crackdown on three alleged maternity tourism rings may be the biggest yet by federal homeland security agents. (AP Photo/yyusa.com)

Birth tourism’s bigger risks are national security

Federal agents just arrested scores of suspects tied to a couple of birth tourism programs that brought hundreds of pregnant women from China into America so they might get citizenship status for their children. These operations are offenses to taxpayers. But they're also national security risks. And should be treated as such.

February 2, 2019
In this Jan. 14, 2019, file photo, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam speaks to a crowd during a Women's Rights rally at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. A push by Virginia Democrats to loosen restrictions on late-term abortions is erupting into a fierce partisan clash due to a lawmaker's comments about late-term abortion. Gov. Ralph Northam added gas to the fire Wednesday, Jan. 30, by describing a hypothetical situation where an infant who is severely deformed or unable to survive after birth could be left to die. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE**

Ralph Northam, a doctor you definitely wouldn’t want

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is a pediatric neurologist -- a doctor who treats children who are suffering from problems with their nervous systems. But after hearing his defense of third-trimester abortion, truly, here's a medical professional who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near kids.

January 31, 2019
Then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, that Democrats do "the Lord's work" while Republicans "dishonor the God who made them." (Twitter, Morning Joe) ** FILE **

Democrats’ ongoing problem with God

Democrats, as recent headlines show, are planning to amend the requirement that those testifying before the House Committee on Natural Resources will swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth -- without the "so help you God" finish line. Anything to get God out of government, right?

January 31, 2019
Gov. Ralph Northam attends the Women's March in Richmond, Va., on Saturday Jan. 20, 2018. People participating in marches in the U.S. and around the world are walking in support of female empowerment and are denouncing President Donald Trump's views on immigration, abortion, LGBT and women's rights and more. (Shelby Lum/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Virginia abortion bill makes mockery of state motto, ‘sic semper tyrannis’

Virginia just proposed a bill that would allow women, until pretty much the very moment of birth, to abort. It was tabled. Still, this is the state with the motto of "sic semper tyrannis," or "thus always to tyrants," a phrase that's supposed to evoke images of freedom and justice. Not so for the babies, apparently.

January 30, 2019
Phil Robertson of "Duck Dynasty" speaks at a rally for U.S. Senate hopeful Roy Moore, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in Fairhope, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) ** FILE **

Phil Robertson, Duck Dynasty: ‘We’ve been on this no-God thing’ too long

Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame warned that America was rapidly losing its moral compass, its godly guidance, its biblically-centered politics, and that without some concerted efforts on the parts of the people of virtue, this nation, in just a few short decades, will be unrecognizable. So he says in his new book, anyway.

January 29, 2019
A stack of nine bibles rests on a podium for use before Mike DeWine is sworn in as the 70th Governor of Ohio, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, in Cedarville, Ohio. The former U.S. senator took his oath in a private midnight ceremony at his Cedarville home ahead of a public inauguration planned Monday at the Statehouse. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, Pool)

Bible classes in public schools? ‘Great!’

President Donald Trump said in a tweet that he'd back states currently considering the addition of Bible literary classes in their public schools. This is good news. About time news, in fact.

January 28, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, to announce a temporary deal to open the government. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump vs. Fox News, vs. Ann Coulter, vs. et al

President Donald Trump has always been a bit of thorn in the side of the left and the elitist, establishment wings of the right. Understandable. He doesn't play the normal reindeer political games. But this shutdown battle has spread a bitter taste wide.

January 28, 2019
The Capitol iat sunset after the Senate rejected competing Democratic and Republican proposals for ending the partial government shutdown, which is the longest in the nation's history, in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Government shutdown not as bad as private sector shutterings

An estimated 800,000 federal employees were reportedly affected by this government shutdown, and put in positions of -- as the media tell it -- having to borrow money to buy groceries or make the untenable decision of paying rent or getting chemotherapy. But let's remember: Jobs aren't a human right.

January 26, 2019
In this Dec. 6, 2018, photo, Roger Stone speaks at the American Priority Conference in Washington. Stone, an associate of President Donald Trump, has been arrested in Florida. That's according to special counsel Robert Mueller's office, which says he faces charges including witness tampering, obstruction and false statements. Stone has been under scrutiny for months but has maintained his innocence. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Roger Stone’s ‘Stormin’ Norman’ arrest a black mark on FBI

Roger Stone has been arrested, virtually guaranteeing that the media cycle for the foreseeable future will focus on tying this former adviser to the president to all-things-Russia-collusion, and by logical extension, all-things-impeach-Donald Trump. But the bigger story is the FBI's treatment of Stone during his arrest.

January 25, 2019