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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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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich introduces Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Fort Myers, Fla., on Sept. 19, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Newt Gingrich goes there — compares FBI’s raid of Michael Cohen to Nazis

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, ripped into the FBI for its raid on President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, comparing the federal action to the Nazi regime. And insofar as the rather ridiculous raids on Cohen's files go -- he's got a bit of a point. These are moves that ring more of Gestapo, less of constitutional America -- more of police state, less of republic, land of the law.

April 12, 2018
In this photo taken Feb. 26, 2015, then-House Speaker John Boehner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner says that aside from international affairs and foreign policy, President Donald Trump’s time in office has been a “complete disaster.” (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

John Boehner’s new, hypocritical marijuana money-making gig

John Boehner's got a new gig -- and it's tied to selling marijuana. How nice. Look at this headline from Quartz: "420,000 people were arrested for selling marijuana while John Boehner ran Congress. That speaks volumes, but can all be summed in a single word just the same: Hypocrite?

April 11, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Mark Zuckerberg’s misguided turn toward AI to define ‘hate speech’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told members of Congress -- as well as a rapt TV audience -- that "hate speech" is tough to define, but within a few years, he expects artificial intelligence to assume a greater role in sifting the nuances of social media content on the company's pages and begin red-flagging and booting posts deemed hateful and hate-filled. This is hardly comforting.

April 11, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Robert Mueller’s right-hand man

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, told members of the joint Senate meeting of the committees of Commerce, Science and Transportation and of Judiciary that yes, he is helping Robert Mueller with his special counsel business. Does anyone else find this a bit unsettling?

April 11, 2018
Lynnette "Diamond" Hardaway and Rochelle "Silk" Richardson talk about current topics on YouTube. (Image: Screen grab from the Viewers View YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7H8oE3tVU)

Mark Zuckerberg: Please explain why pro-Donald Trump Diamond And Silk are ‘unsafe’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is headed to Capitol Hill to testify about some social media matters, and answer questions from Congress about privacy and election interference and such. Good. Maybe at the same time he can explain why his site's censor gods think the black pro-President Donald Trump duo Diamond And Silk are considered a danger to society.

April 10, 2018
London Mayor Sadiq Khan arrives in the Royal Box for the Men's Singles final match between Switzerland's Roger Federer and Croatia's Marin Cilic on day thirteen at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London Sunday, July 16, 2017. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Gun control? London’s Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan bans knives

London's Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim to assume a mayor's role for a major Western city, thinks he's found the cause of the uptick in stabbings his community's seen in recent times -- wayward knives. And as such, he's banned the carrying of knives in the city.

April 9, 2018
FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2000 file photo, visitors of the world exhibition Expo 2000 stand in front of a robot display at the "Planet of Visions" exhibit at the Expoground in Hanover, northern Germany. Use of robotics in manufacturing and other sectors is increasing in countries from the United States and China, and robots have long been embraced for a variety of uses in countries such as Japan. There also has long been “robophobia,” stoked by science fiction writers and moviemakers. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer)

The godless, leftist nature of artificial intelligence

The fast-moving field of artificial intelligence development is a lucrative one -- a head-spinning one -- an oft-surprising and exciting one. But peer past the frenzy of media headlines announcing the latest discoveries and newest breakthroughs and it's sad but true, the world of science, including technology, is a field dominated by godless leftists, too.

April 7, 2018
In this Jan. 16, 2015, file photo, Geraldo Rivera participates in "The Celebrity Apprentice" panel at the NBC 2015 Winter TCA in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Geraldo Rivera scoffs ‘immigrant crisis’ as ‘manufactured’

Geraldo Rivera, in a Fox News interview about illegal immigration that spoke of the migrants moving north from Central America and of the rape statistics of women who try to cross into the United States, called the situation "manufactured," hardly a crisis.

April 6, 2018
In this file photo, former Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Peabody Hotel Monday, April 2, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) ** FILE **

Eric Holder anti-gun ‘Operation Choke Point’ redux hits New York

Remember when Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney general-slash-political-pitbull, went after gun sellers by going after the banks who did business with them -- the old Operation Choke Point moment in the so-called "scandal-free Obama administration" time? Well here comes New York with a similarly sly gun control scheme.

April 5, 2018
In this May 21, 2013, file photo, tea party activists demonstrate on Fountain Square before marching to the John Weld Peck Federal Building in Cincinnati to protest the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. On Wednesday, April 4, 2018, a federal judge gave preliminary approval to a $3.5 million settlement of a lawsuit against the IRS over alleged targeting of tea party and other groups. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

IRS smackdown, as judge OKs $3.5 million to tea partyers

Oh, happy day. Once in a while, justice is served, the good guy does win and the Big Bad Wolf at the Little American's door gets the kick in the arse it deserves. The Internal Revenue Service was just smacked with a preliminary order from a federal judge to pay up $3.5 million in settlement monies to tea party and conservative groups.

April 5, 2018
Illustration on the EPA's threats to private property rights by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Private property rights still very much a fight, circa 2018

President Donald Trump, a guy whose business life obviously revolved around the invocation of personal property rights, may hold the nation's highest office in the White House, and Republicans may dominate in Congress. But that doesn't mean the little guy has won. When it comes to private property rights, the Republican-dominated Congress is letting the ball drop.

April 5, 2018
A YouTube sign is shown across the street from the company's offices in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, April 3, 2018. A woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday, setting off a panic among employees and wounding at least four people before fatally shooting herself, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Nasim Aghdam’s YouTube scrub and Donald Trump Jr.’s good question

Donald Trump Jr. sent out a blunt tweet about the scrubbing of YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam's social media accounts, asking why her hate-filled rants were so quickly pulled, and wondering aloud if authorities would've acted with such speed had she been a member of the National Rifle Association member rather than a liberal activist and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals supporter. He has a point. And it's actually larger than the one he was making.

April 4, 2018
Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on April 2, 2018, that "shadowy figures" are not augmenting or facilitating his gun-control activism. (Image: MSNBC screenshot)

Mike Lindell, MyPillow guy, puts to shame Laura Ingraham boycotters

Mike Lindell, of "MyPillow" inventing and founding company fame, put forth a bold message on his Twitter feed that, in just a few short words, smacked to shame-land the would-be fascists and wanna-be censors of the world who've been demanding Laura Ingraham's head on a Fox News platter. Listen up, all you boycotting businesses: This is how it's done.

April 3, 2018
Students wear clear backpacks outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Monday, April 2, 2018. The bags are one of a number of security measures the school district has enacted as a result of the Feb. 14 shooting at the school that killed 17. (John McCall/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Parkland students, police state style, back in school

Parkland, Florida, students returned to school, post-shooting, to receive their newest mandated accessories: clear backpacks and identification badges, and a line of security checks. They're not happy about it. And they have a point. But then again, they don't. The clamp-down on freedoms these students are now suffering is pretty much what some of them have been trying to inflict on the entirety of America is recent weeks.

April 3, 2018
An American flag flutters over the crowd at a rally following a march in favor of gun control at the Seattle Center Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Seattle. Summoned to action by student survivors of the Florida school shooting, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied in the nation's capital and cities across America on Saturday to press for gun control in one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam era. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Left will have to soften or self-destruct

The left has overreached on gun control -- on using the Parkland, Florida, shooting horror as a crisis political tool -- and the only way out is to walk back the tough talk and soften on anti-Second Amendment and anti-free speech rhetoric, or self-destruct.

April 3, 2018
"I'm glad to see corporate America standing with me and the other students of Parkland and everybody else. Because when we work together we can accomplish anything," David Hogg said. (Associated Press)

Larry Elder’s brilliant expose of David Hogg-Laura Ingraham hullabaloo hypocrisy

It's been several days since Fox News host Laura Ingraham offered an apology to student gun control activist David Hogg for characterizing him as whiney on Twitter. And it's been a couple of days since Hogg told Ingraham, via national television, sorry, your apology is unacceptable -- and now you must denounce your employer or face the continued wrath of calls for advertiser boycott. Well, the battle lines have been drawn anew.

April 2, 2018