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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

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Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt with Cheryl Chumley” video and audio show for The Washington Times, a Newsmax contributor, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths" and "Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom.” She's also the co-author with Allen West of the upcoming "America's Second Civil War: Rescuing the Republic From the Unholy Alliance of Marxists, Islamists and Democrats" (April 2027). Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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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
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, ex-CBSer, slams Media Matters for ‘propaganda’

Lara Logan, former CBS correspondent, took to Fox & Friends to say that Media Matters is the "most powerful propaganda organization in this country." This is the same Logan who just courageously spoke publicly and critically about the left-leaning bias of the mainstream media. Hat tip, and hat tip once again.

April 2, 2019
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Freedom, in the hands of an algorithm

The European Court of Human Rights, in 2016, found that artificial intelligence could predict the outcomes of cases heard by human judges with a 79 percent accuracy rating. Great. But perhaps the better lead would be this: A.I. used in the European Court of Human Rights failed to accurately predict outcomes in 21 percent of the cases.

April 2, 2019
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is seen in this general view. Monday, March 11, 2019, in Washington D.C. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally) ** FILE **

Thomas Jefferson statue fight about seizing government

Hofstra University students have called for campus authorities to cart off a statue of Thomas Jefferson, saying the Founding Father was a slaveowner and therefore racist and therefore ought not be honored in the public sphere. Guess the Declaration of Independence he wrote ought to go then, too -- yes?

April 2, 2019
"Unplanned" endured a potential hit earlier this year, when it received an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America ratings board. The film has no nudity, violence or mature language, but the board insisted that several abortion scenes warranted the rating. (unplannedfilm.com)

Twitter’s ‘Unplanned’ censor ‘error’ a sign of immoral times

A true-life movie of a former Planned Parenthood executive who changed her views of abortion and jumped into the pro-life camp was just released to both box office fanfare and Twitter shunning. It's a real left-right moment. A real showdown of left-right ideologies in culture and politics.

April 2, 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Biden Courage Awards Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Joe Biden’s presidential aspirations go bust

Joe Biden probably wasn't going to be the Democratic Party's pick for president because of his age -- he's too old. The Dems are being taken over by youthful, progressives and socialists. And of course he hasn't yet declared -- but all signs were pointing in that direction. Then came Lucy Flores. Thud went his chances.

April 1, 2019
This 2008 photo provided by NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center shows debris in Hanauma Bay, Hawaii. A study released by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, June 30, 2014, estimated the total amount of floating plastic debris in open ocean at 7,000 to 35,000 tons. The results of the study showed fewer very small pieces than expected. (AP Photo/NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center)

Environmentalism done right

Against the backdrop of the Green New Deal and hand-wringing predictions of total global devastation within 12 years comes this, from the organization 4ocean -- a way to do environmentalism that doesn't rely on Big Government, U.N. treaties, shrieking politicians selling emission cut-backs, or taxpayer dollars. Imagine that.

March 30, 2019
Y/Project's denim panties, sold on Ssense's site. (Image: https://www.ssense.com/en-us/women/product/y-project/navy-denim-panties/3458529)

Denim panties, the jeer of the fashion world

What genius conceived this? Denim panties, high-cut with pockets, are now selling for $470 per pair, thanks be the Parisian fashionista brand, Y/Project. Let's hope this look dies a quick death.

March 29, 2019
In this image released by Fox, Bryshere Gray, from left, Jussie Smollett, Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard appear in a scene from "Empire." Smollett’s career faced mortality after he was arrested and accused of lying about being targeted in a January hate crime attack, and the case’s abrupt dismissal hasn’t guaranteed the actor’s path to professional redemption. (Chuck Hodes/FOX via AP) ** FILE **

Jussie Smollett’s circle closes as Donald Trump sends in FBI, DOJ

Almost everyone thinks Jussie Smollett was handed a Get Out Of Jail free card after prosecutors slapped him only with the $10,000 he paid in bail and 16 hours of community service, but let go the whole false reporting of a hate crime thing. Even while claiming they had an airtight case against him. But his circle may be closing.

March 28, 2019
In this Feb. 27, 2019, photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens to questioning of Michael Cohen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ocasio-Cortez and several of her allies were accused this week by a conservative group of improperly masking political spending during the 2018 campaign. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, queen of annoying

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is about as annoying as they come. Given her socialist bent, it's already too much to expect Ocasio-Cortez to stay within the constitutional bounds with all her legislative goals. But it'd be nice if she could tone down the rants, rein in the hand-flinging.

March 28, 2019
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, leaves a Republican lunch meeting and heads to the chamber where he voted to reject President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southwest border, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Mike Lee’s precious put-down of Green New Deal — and AOC’s hat-tip to despair

Sen. Mike Lee's shoot-down of the ridiculously bureaucratic and bloated Green New Deal? Classic. And nobody knows it better than its leading sponsor, the socialist-minded Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose smart-mouth reply to Lee tips to her growing awareness that she's simply bitten off more than she could chew.

March 27, 2019
In this April 3, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama leaves after Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Barack Obama’s protective shield seems to be shattering

Now that the whole Russia collusion thing against President Donald Trump has been proven a media-hyped fallacy, politically savvy eyes are turning toward former President Barack Obama and wondering: What about all that sneaky surveillance stuff? What about all that Team Obama titillation? These are good questions. They demand answers.

March 26, 2019