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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” 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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Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez holds a Bible translated into Tsotsil, a Mayan language, in the Simojovel municipality, Mexico, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Bold and Blunt: Are you a Jesus freak?

In the 1970s, a spiritual awakening to the presence and power of Jesus swept first the West Coast, and then the East Coast, particularly on college campuses. It was the Jesus Freak movement.

July 10, 2025
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James walk in the NYC Pride March, Sunday, June 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Zohran Mamdani, just another ‘Democrat’ despising on America

Zohran Mamdani, whose family fled the tyranny of Idi Amin's Uganda for a better life in America, celebrated Independence Day with a statement that called this country "beautiful," but "unfinished." As Vice President J.D. Vance put it at a speech in California: "Who the hell does he think he is?"

July 9, 2025
President Donald Trump signs his signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts at the White House, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Washington, surrounded by members of Congress. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Bold and Blunt: Breakdown of the big, beautiful bill

Now that President Donald Trump has successfully passed his One Big Beautiful Bill into law -- what next? According to fiscal experts, the golden age of America's economy may very well be on the horizon.

July 9, 2025
Illegal immigration has become a flashpoint in the 2024 election. With the surge in illegal immigration, the escalating drug crisis, and rising violence, many Americans feel overwhelmed and uncertain about the future of our nation, but how can you discuss the crisis with biblical compassion and wisdom? (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

Democrats don’t deserve another chance to lead

Democrats are opening their eyes to the problems their party pols created on the border and acknowledging they've shifted too far to the left and that when it comes to illegal immigration, they must rethink policy and redo plans and actually control crossings. They're not to be trusted.

July 8, 2025
Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Musk and his misplaced pride

Elon Musk in an X post just announced the creation of a new "American Party" as a means of addressing what he perceives as failures of the Republican and Democrat parties and to give us all back our freedom. Musk's hubris is as remarkable as it is offensive.

July 7, 2025
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, left, speaks on stage with fellow candidate Comptroller Brad Lander at his primary election party in New York on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa) **FILE**

Zohran Mamdani, the latest sign of the death of the Democrat Party

Zohran Mamdani is a Palestinian-loving, Israel-bashing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement supporting, socialist-slash-Marxist-slash-communist who is now the emerging Democrat candidate to beat in New York City's mayoral contest. Calling the Democrat Party. Anyone there?

June 27, 2025
Tucker Carlson speaks during the Republican National Convention Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bold and Blunt: Politics, prophecy, the press and the war on Iran

Pastor Jack Hibbs, president of Real Life Network and founding pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Church in California, and the author of the recent "Living in the Daze of Deception," said Christians and believers should be turning attention to Ezekiel to see prophecy unfolding.

June 27, 2025
In this file photo from May 2, 2019, a cadet works with a virtual reality character named "Ellie" at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making predictions to guide care or help patients. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

COVID a perfect example of dangers of health care AI

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they've developed a new and improved means for artificial intelligence to detect what ails, medically speaking, and alert doctors to possibly unknown patient health problems. But the dark side of predictive and diagnostic AI is significant.

June 26, 2025
Kent State and 1960s radicalism illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Bold and Blunt: America’s time of turning, the 1960s

If one time could be pinpointed in America as a point of national turning, where the foundations crumbled and moral absolutes gave way to decadence and a loss of common decency -- look no further than the 1960s.

June 25, 2025
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, Sep. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

United Nations shows itself as irrelevant once again

"Diplomacy must prevail" -- said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at a New York assemblage of the Security Council, in the wake of Israel's attack on Iran and America's subsequent bombing of its nuclear sites. And like that, the United Nations once again shows why it's utterly inconsequential.

June 24, 2025
FILE - George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria, June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

George Soros should be dragged before Congress

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, told Newsmax in a recent interview that she had asked House Oversight Chairman James Comer to subpoena billionaire George Soros to demand he answer questions about election interference. Good. About time.

June 20, 2025
Smokes raises from a building of the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran in Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Bold and Blunt: Israel, Iran engaged in clash of civilizations

The ongoing war between Israel and Iran isn't so much a fight over land or resources or military superiority as it is a true clash of civilizations and an epic showdown between good and evil. And Israel represents all of civilized society, including America.

June 20, 2025
A pride flag is seen in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Oct. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Tennessee wins big to protect children from LGBTQ evil

This transgender madness, brought courtesy of Democrats, leftists and their mad scientists in the medical community, not to mention their adoring secularists in media, has gone on far too long and has left far too many exploited and victimized children in its wake.

June 19, 2025
Rescue team work at the site where a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Bold and Blunt: America should help Israel win

Israel's war on Iran is America's war on terrorism -- and all of civil society's war against evil.. What role America should play in Israel's war on Iran is a subject of controversy, though.

June 18, 2025
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander speaks during a press conference after being released from arrest outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Democrats do give a good fake victim theatrical show

Brad Lander, Democrat candidate for mayor, was arrested by ICE officials for impeding feds from arresting an illegal immigrant inside a courthouse in Manhattan and for assaulting an agent. This is the Democrat Party's newest genius campaign to win voters' favor: roll cameras; play victim.

June 18, 2025
A row of aircrafts belonging to Israeli airlines El Al sit parked along the apron of Cyprus' main airport in Larnaca, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Israel’s war of peace

Israel has launched strikes against Iran -- but these are not so much preemptive strikes as they are reactive to long-running proxy and direct strikes by Iran against Israel. Now the questions are: to what end? And what should be the U.S. involvement? Well, Israel's war is America's war.

June 17, 2025
FILE - President Donald Trump, right, listens as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, April 7, 2025. (Pool via AP, file)

Iran oh so wishes Joe Biden were still president

Israel on Friday carried out a strategic attack on Iran that struck Natanz, its largest nuclear site, and killed dozens, including top military, political and scientific officials. And all the Iranian terrorists during Friday prayers go: Oh, for the return of Joe Biden to the White House.

June 13, 2025