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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 Thursday, July 6, 2017, file photo, security officer John Christiansen, right, stands on duty as nursing assistant Jared McCullough, left, and clinical nurse leader Nicole McWhorter, center, discuss a patient in the psychiatric hall of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center emergency department in Lebanon, N.H. The emergency department has one security officer assigned to the waiting area, and another assigned to the psychiatric hall with its three patient rooms and a fourth "quiet room." (James M. Patterson/The Valley News via AP)

Mental health sick days a sign of America’s wussification

There's this story that's been going around the media for a few days now that paints a picture of a sympathetic boss gently cheering on his absent employee for letting him know she's missing work due to "focus" on her "mental health." Let's just nip this crazy in the bud. This is a mark of America's wussification -- nothing to cheer.

July 12, 2017
In this July 11, 2017, photo, Donald Trump Jr. is interviewed by host Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel television program, in New York Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., posted a series of email messages to Twitter on Tuesday showing him eagerly accepting help from what was described to him as a Russian government effort to aid his father's campaign with damaging information about Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Media’s might-be, may-be, could-be messaging on Trump crimes

NBC blasted a headline Wednesday that went like this: "Did Donald Trump Jr. Break Any Laws When He Met With Russian Lawyer Veselnitskaya?" And that, of course, tells Americans all that's needed to know about the latest peer into the Russia-Trump collusion hysteria: No.

July 12, 2017
Demonstrators stand together as they wait for a Republican response to a new city income tax on the wealthy that was approved earlier by the Seattle City Council Monday, July 10, 2017, in Seattle. Seattle's wealthiest will become the only Washington state residents to pay an income tax under legislation unanimously approved by the City Council, a measure designed as much to raise revenue as to open a broader discussion about whether the wealthy pay their fair share. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Seattle goes socialist and hits up rich to save poor

Seattle, home of far leftists, environmentalists and annoying coffee snobs, has gone Robin Hood on its residents and decided the best way to provide for its poor is to snatch from the rich. Can you say socialism?

July 11, 2017
The parents of sick baby Charlie Gard, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, right, stand together as a statement is read by a family friend to the media, outside the High Court during an adjournment of their legal hearing to allow treated of their son with an experimental therapy, in London, Monday July 10, 2017. Charlie Gard is on life support at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and remains at the centre of a legal battle to allow the terminally ill infant to receive experimental treatment for his rare genetic disease, mitochondrial depletion syndrome. (Nick Ansell(/PA via AP)

Charlie Gard v. U.K.: Evil is thy name

A British judge told the parents of young Charlie Gard they have two days to prove why their son should be kept alive. Think about that for a second: A government body has just told the parents they have to explain why their son should live.

July 11, 2017
Birney Bervar, center, addresses reporters outside the federal courthouse in Honolulu on Monday, July 10, 2017. Bervar was appointed the attorney for Ikaika Kang, a 34-year-old active duty soldier who has been accused of trying to aid the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

Hawaii 15: Blue states, plus Iowa, battle Trump ban

Hawaii just won't let it go -- and neither, now, will 14 other Democratic-leaning states keeping up the legal challenges to President Donald Trump's travel ban. The summer of resistance is in full swing.

July 11, 2017
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 27, 2017. In a bruising setback, Senate Republican leaders shelved a vote on their prized health care bill Tuesday until at least next month, forced to retreat by a GOP rebellion that left them lacking enough votes to even begin debate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Chuck Schumer’s newest cause: Regulate Coco Loko

Sen. Chuck Schumer has a new cause -- a whammy and a whopper, rolled into one nice tight regulatory package with possible power to tax and fine. What's it called? Regulation. And this time, the target is chocolate powder.

July 10, 2017
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham right, speaks during a press conference at the Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is seen left. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) ** FILE **

Lindsey Graham bares anti-Trump teeth, blasts prez’s ‘dumbest idea’

Sen. Lindsey Graham bared some sharp teeth against President Donald Trump during a recent television news interview, calling out the commander-in-chief for his "dumbest idea" on working with Russia on cybersecurity. Why do Republicans -- make that, elitist, entrenched Republicans -- always have to jump to the forefront of criticizing and condemning this president on national TV?

July 10, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, waves along with Poland's President Andrzej Duda, as U.S. First Lady Melania Trump, left and Poland's first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda, right, stand by, in Krasinski Square, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 6, 2017.(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Trump lassos spirit of America

President Donald Trump, from Poland, put to words what courses in spirit across America, and drives her greatness: the never-ending quest for freedom, not as a government grant, but as a God-given right.

July 8, 2017
Sarah Palin, political commentator and former governor of Alaska, walks on the sideline before an NFL football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Los Angeles Rams, in Seattle, Dec. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Scott Eklund) ** FILE **

Bret Stephens rudely rips ‘rank-and-file conservatives’ as idiots

Bret Stephens, of New York Times fame, took pen to paper to shred the notion that Fox News' Sean Hannity deserved the William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence -- but along the way, managed to 'diss the entire class of conservatives who've emerged in recent years, post-Sarah Palin, and brand them as idiotic.

July 7, 2017
In this May 7, 2015, file photo, former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr speaks to media outside his lawyer Dennis Edney's home in Edmonton, Alberta. Khadr, who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, has received a multimillion-dollar payment from Canada's government after a court ruling said his rights were abused, a Canadian official said Thursday night, July 6, 2017. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canada’s egregious multimillion dollar payout to American-killing jihadist

Omar Khadr, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, was just given a multimillion dollar apology payout from Canada. What a face-slap to the widow and other family and friends of the now-deceased U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer.

July 7, 2017
FILE - In this Tuesday, June 13, 2017, file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown discusses climate change at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Brown, lawmakers, business groups and environmentalists are working to reach a deal on extending cap and trade, California’s landmark program aimed at slowing global warming. If a deal is inked, the Legislature can take a vote next Monday, July 10, before Democratic Assemblymen Jimmy Gomez heads to Congress on July 11 and takes a reliable vote for cap-and-trade with him. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California charts sellout of America, Trump on climate

President Trump may be pulling out of the Paris climate change agreement to save America the fiscal heartache of complying with ridiculous emission controls. But California? The state, under the leadership of Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown, is reeling in the opposite direction.

July 6, 2017