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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 photo provided by the Office of the Governor of New York, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center left, sits with the congregation at the First Baptist Church of Crown Heights in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018. In a searing speech from the pulpit, Cuomo said Donald Trump has fooled many people in this country, but the Democrat said the Republican president hasn't fooled New Yorkers. Cuomo hammered the president for creating what he called a "frightening portrait" of today's America. (Office of the Governor of New York/Kevin Coughlin via AP)

ACLU defends NRA — yes, you read that right

The American Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in federal court in defense of the National Rifle Association's legal right to do business in New York -- and in opposition to Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pressure on insurance and financial organizations to cut ties with those who do business with the firearms group.

August 27, 2018
In this Aug. 13, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks before signing a $716 billion defense policy bill named for Sen. John McCain in Fort Drum, N.Y. Trump says he’s asking federal regulators to look into the effectiveness of the quarterly financial reports that publicly traded companies are required to file. In a tweet early Friday, Aug. 17, Trump said that after speaking with “some of the world’s top business leaders,” he’s asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to determine whether shifting to a six-month reporting regimen would make more sense. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Donald Trump’s just-right statement on John McCain

President Donald Trump put out a brief expression of sympathy for the family of John McCain in the aftermath of the Arizona senator's death -- and now, a couple media cycles later, it's like he unilaterally bombed North Korea, or purposely ran over a box full of kitties. But on this, Trump shouldn't be criticized. At least he's not a hypocrite.

August 27, 2018
"The Great Revolt" by Salena Zito and Brad Todd outlines the profound effect loyal Trump voters have had on reshaping American politics. (Associated Press)

Voters — the people who count — say Manafort, Cohen won’t hurt Trump

Rasmussen pollsters found that despite the widely shrill pantings of the anti-Donald Trump press, the Paul Manafort guilty verdicts and the Michael Cohen plea bargain won't matter when it comes to harming the president. The people who matter most are yawning at the Manafort-Cohen developments.

August 25, 2018
FILE - In a Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 file photo, lab technologist Sharda Modi tests a patient's swab for a flu infection at Upson Regional Medical Center in Thomaston, Ga. U.S. health officials on Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, said fewer visits to the doctor last week _ 1 out of 16 _ were for fever, cough and other flu symptoms than during the previous two weeks. The number of states reporting high patient traffic for the flu also dropped, to 39 from 43. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

How A.I. is pushing U.S. health care down a USSR path

Watch out America -- that patient-doctor relationship is about to be blown apart by Big Technology, Big Government and Big Business. It's also being pushed down the very same road walked by the former USSR.

August 23, 2018
In this March 13, 2018, file photo, actress Oprah Winfrey poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "A Wrinkle In Time" in London. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Oprah Winfrey’s despicable ‘ShoutYourAbortion’ advocacy

A few days ago, in an appearance on "Washington Journal" on C-SPAN, I said in answer to a caller's question that I didn't know any woman who went cheerily toward an abortion, happily off to the operating table, in some sort of "let the suction begin!" type of trance. Then came Oprah with her "Shout Your Abortion" magazine feature.

August 22, 2018
A poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa. Tibbetts was reported missing from her hometown in the eastern Iowa city of Brooklyn in July 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Mollie Tibbetts and the callous response of the left

The beautiful 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts is dead, allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant, 24, who was supposed to be in Mexico but was instead flouting U.S. law and order and living and working for the last few years inside America's borders. And Nancy Pelosi wants Dreamers to know they haven't run out of time to apply for their renewals.

August 22, 2018
Michael Cohen, former lawyer to President Donald Trump, departs following his appearance in Federal Court on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in New York. Cohen, has pleaded guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud stemming from hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen — and the innuendo games begin

Paul Manafort was hit with a guilty finding on eight of 18 financial fraud charges. Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts of campaign finance and bank and tax fraud. And the vultures are circling -- heck, dive-bombing -- to tie all these court happenings back to President Donald Trump. Let the innuendo games begin.

August 22, 2018
A wall is spray painted with a message that reads in Spanish: "Damn Maduro" next to an ATM machine in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. Banks remained closed Monday as they prepare to release the "sovereign bolivar," the new currency printed with five fewer zeroes in a bid to tame soaring inflation. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

America is Venezuela with Democrats in charge

Venezuela is in crisis mode, its currency tanking, its oil-rich vastness a waste of socialist rule, its peoples desperate for even the most basic of human necessities. And this is where the young Democrats and progressives of America would like to head.

August 21, 2018
A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip each player wears is shown during warmups before a preseason NFL football game between the New York Jets and Detroit Lions Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, in Detroit. Thanks to the nickle-sized transmitters on each players’ uniform and high-tech tracking systems at all NFL stadiums, fans will have a vast new set of statistics to study this season. It’s all part of the league’s “Next Gen Stats” venture, which could eventually change the way teams scout opponents and design game plans. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) ** FILE **

Microchipping employees, the next terrible technology wave

Employees with the technology firm Three Square Market have been quietly, steadily inserting microchips into their own hands as a means of making it easier to pay for the likes of snacks from company vending machines or drinks from the cafeteria. Subtitle this: When Convenience Becomes Downright Creepy.

August 21, 2018
Bill Maher, winner of the First Amendment Award, speaks to the crowd at the 26th Annual Literary Awards Festival at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Wednesday, September 28, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP)

Bill Maher, HBO’s resident liberal, rips left for chilling speech

Bill Maher, on his recent "Real Time" episode on HBO, ripped into leftists for cheering the social media booting of Alex Jones -- something which even his liberal mind looked at as a chilling path toward tyranny and clamped free speech. Democrats would do well to pay attention.

August 20, 2018
The Satanic Temple unveils its statue of Baphomet, a winged-goat creature, at a rally for the First Amendment in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. The Satanic Temple wants to install the statue on Capitol grounds as a symbol for religious freedom after a monument of the Biblical Ten Commandments was installed in 2017. (AP Photo/Hannah Grabenstein) ** FILE **

Satanic Temple exploits First Amendment for abomination of Baphomet

Members of the Satanic Temple were at it again this week, stirring up unrest and stoking religious sensibilities and demanding Arkansas legislators give their Baphomet statue the same equal access to Capitol grounds as a monument of the Ten Monuments. Somebody go get Gideon.

August 18, 2018
In this July 5, 2018, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at an event in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Andrew Cuomo’s ‘total meltdown’ very un-JFK

Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, made what's called in the world of politics a suicidal step by saying, for all the country to hear, that America's not that great -- that the notion of American exceptionalism is pretty much ridiculous. Or, at least, his comments would've been political suicide, in a day and age of Democrat reason.

August 16, 2018
In a Thursday, March 8, 2018, file photo, York City School District Police Lt. Quinn Johnson sorts paperwork as surveillance tech Val Handy ends a phone call while monitoring about 160 surveillance cameras around William Penn Senior High School in York, Pa. The school's surveillance cameras are recording 24/7, with an operator monitoring them during business hours to alert hall monitors and others to things or people that may be out of place. The York City School District is the only one in York County with its own police department. Officers, who have the power of arrest, operate on a community policing ideology to prevent incidents rather than react to them. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record via AP) ** FILE **

A.I.-equipped police: They’re watching, they’re listening — they’re Big Brothering

There aren't many in America who would begrudge police the tools to protect themselves -- to avail themselves of whatever technological devices are at their disposal to rid the streets of criminals, keep citizens safe and at the end of the shift, head home healthy and unhurt to their families and loved ones. But not at the expense of the Constitution.

August 16, 2018