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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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In this Jan. 21, 2017, file photo, a crowd fills Independence Avenue during the Women's March on Washington, in Washington. The major protests in Washington that have greeted President Donald Trump’s first year in office are set to return in force, continuing an already expensive year for city officials who work to keep people safe during mass gatherings. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Scientists go all woman-ey and gear for anti-Trump protests

Scientists -- and granted, that term is used most loosely in this context -- have taken a page from the leftist woman's playbook on How to Defeat Donald Trump in Six Easy Protest Steps and, upset at the president's climate change views, scheduled some mean marches for the streets of Washington, D.C.

April 21, 2017
Far-right leader and candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen speaks in Paris, Friday, April 21, 2017, one day after the attack that killed one police officer and wounded three other people. Le Pen campaigns against immigration and Islamic fundamentalism. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Paris terror shows Marine Le Pen, like Donald Trump, is right

A terror attack in Paris -- now there's a phrase we've been seeing quite a bit of in recent times -- could be the final straw for France citizens, the one that drives Marine Le Pen across the finish line. Why? She's right. France needs quick border control and a halt to immigration.

April 21, 2017
This Wednesday, March 29, 2017, photo shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. The telecom industry’s lobbying muscle pushed a consumer privacy measure to a swift death in Congress. Republicans struck down Obama-era rules that would have imposed tight restrictions on what broadband companies such as Verizon, AT&T and Comcast could do with their customers’ personal data. Digital-rights and consumer-advocacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation supported keeping the rules. But they were outmatched by telecom trade groups and lobbyists. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Mike Huckabee, man of the anti-Comcast people

Apparently, having a "former presidential candidate" or "former governor" next to your name doesn't get you any better Comcast cable service than the average no-name Joe. Just ask Mike Huckabee.

April 20, 2017
Revelers play in a fountain as they carry water guns while celebrating Songkran, or the Buddhist New Year, in Bangkok, Thursday, April 13, 2017. Locals and visitors are not spared from being doused with water during the three-day national festival throughout Thailand. (AP Photo/Penny Yi Wang)

Squirt gun plus zero tolerance takes out another student

These school no-tolerance policies have just sucked up another youthful non-offender into the mix. A 16-year-old Alabama girl, caught by teachers carrying a water gun, was tossed from school for an entire year.

April 20, 2017
New York billionaire George Soros spent $7 million on Democrats in election races in 10 states to try to influence criminal justice reform from the inside. In two such contests, outspent Republicans dropped out before the election. (Associated Press)

George Soros and his shady $4.8 million U.S. taxpayer deal

George Soros, the self-declared billionaire philanthropist who amuses himself by capsizing and upsetting national economies and by pressing all-things-progressive in politics, has a curious expenditure of taxpayer cash in the amount of $4.8 million. Curiously enough, the money's been sent to Macedonia -- a country that leans conservative, in direct contrast to Soros' own personal political interests.

April 20, 2017
Former Fox News person Gretchen Carlson speaks during the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center in New York, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Gretchen Carlson, ex-Fox-er, presses Congress to fight for women, victims

Gretchen Carlson, one of the many now-former Fox News talents to come forward in recent months to speak of sexual harassment at the cable giant, is now pressing Congress to get in the employee rights game by passing a bill that would make it easier for workplace victims of criminal behaviors to come forward and sue -- without having to use the corporation's forced arbitration clause.

April 20, 2017
In this Feb. 1, 2017, file photo, a fire set by demonstrators protesting a scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos burns on Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley campus. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Ann Coulter, Milo, Rice and the loss of free-thinking at colleges

The latest college cave to petulant student demands involves Ann Coulter and Berkeley, and the cancellation of the conservative firebrand's speech over fears of violence. Hey, Berkeley, how about sending out the cops to deal with the law-breakers -- rather than squelching the free speech of the innocent?

April 20, 2017
A woman collecting money for charity stands next to a quote written on an information board at Tower Hill underground train station, written in defiance of the previous day's attack in London, Thursday, in this March 23, 2017, file photo. On Wednesday, a man went on a deadly rampage, first driving a car into pedestrians then stabbing a police officer to death before being fatally shot by police within Parliament's grounds in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) ** FILE **

Charity keeps America free

President Donald Trump's senior advisers, deep in the weeds of tax reform, are reportedly looking at ways to save the middle class by placing more financial responsibilities on the shoulders of the wealthy -- and part of the plan being discussed is to limit the level of deductions charitable organizations can take. This is the wrong way to go.

April 20, 2017
Seattle City Council member Debora Juarez, right, is embraced by Rachel Heaton, a Muckleshoot tribal member, as Council member Kshama Sawant stands nearby after Heaton gave both women gifts from the Native American community before a Council meeting Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, in Seattle. The City Council is scheduled to vote on whether to divest $3 billion in city funds from Wells Fargo over its funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Seattle shocker as council doles tax bucks to help illegals fight deportation

Now this is an impeachable offense -- if city council members could be subjected to such treatment, that is. Seattle City Council members have given the OK for $1 million of taxpayer dollars so illegals can hire attorneys and tap into legal services that will -- get this -- help them fight their deportations.

April 19, 2017
Community members and faith leaders from On Ramps Covenant Church hold a prayer and vigil in the alley behind the Catholic Charities' Fresno Family Resource Center to honor the three shooting victims that were killed by a gun man on Tuesday morning, April 18, 2017, in Fresno, Calif. Two of the victims were shot near the building by suspect Kori Ali Muhammad. (Silvia Flores/The Fresno Bee via AP)

‘Allahu akbar’ screaming man charged with hate crime in murders

A black man who was arrested for fatally shooting three white men in Freson, California, and then shouting "allahu akbar" before surrendering to police, is believed by authorities to have been a racist, not a terrorist. Maybe. But he didn't shout "allahu akbar" for nothing.

April 19, 2017
FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, file photo, New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez puts on a Super Bowl cap following the AFC Championship NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens in Foxborough, Mass. Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a murder conviction and just days ago was acquitted of a double murder, died after hanging himself in his prison cell Wednesday, April 19, 2017, Massachusetts prisons officials said. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)

Aaron Hernandez, a tragedy of wasted talent

Aaron Hernandez, of former NFL fame, killed himself in prison, the Department of Correction reported. The former New England Patriots tight end was found hanging from a bed sheet attached to his single-cell window in his Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass., shortly after 3 a.m. What a tragedy. A tragic end to a life that had become a tragedy.

April 19, 2017
A new book ready to hit store shelves takes the reader inside Hillary Clinton's ultimately doomed bid for the presidency. (Associated Press)

‘Shattered’ debuts, peeling back curtain on Clinton dysfunction

A new book about Hillary Clinton's disastrous presidential run hits the book shelves Tuesday, and it's as suspected: Infighting and dysfunction marked the campaign every step of the way -- even before she made it to the stage of one-on-one face-offs with Donald Trump.

April 18, 2017
A demographic assessment shows France's white, or native, birthrate at 1.4 children per woman, compared with a Muslim rate of 3.4 to 4 children. (Associated Press/File)

The Islam clash in America

The arrest and charge of an Indian woman, Jumana Fakhruddin Nagarwala, for performing female genital mutilation on two young girls in Michigan, brings front and center the question of whether certain religions are compatible with America's Constitution. Certain religions -- ha. Let's be blunt here. We're talking about Islam.

April 18, 2017
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper holds a press conference at the Executive Mansion in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, March 30, 2017, to announce that he signed a HB142, a compromise replacement bill for HB2, that the N.C. General Assembly passed earlier in the day. (Chris Seward/The News & Observer via AP) ** FILE **

Burlington, Vermont, pro-LGBTQ mayor bans travel to North Carolina

Burlington, Vermont, Mayor Snowy Van Snowflake, also known as Miro Weinberger, has issued an executive order banning officials from traveling to North Carolina on any business-tied endeavor, in protest of the state's transgender bathroom policy. Tenth Amendment, anyone?

April 17, 2017
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives with U.S. Gen. Vincent Brooks, second from right, commander of the United Nations Command, U.S. Forces Korea and Combined Forces Command, and South Korean Deputy Commander of the Combined Force Command Gen. Leem Ho-young, left, at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea, Monday, April 17, 2017. Viewing his adversaries in the distance, Pence traveled to the tense zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of testing the U.S. and South Korea with its nuclear ambitions, "the era of strategic patience is over." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Mike Pence’s North Korea warning a happy moment for America

Vice President Mike Pence sent a strong message North Korea's way Monday, telling the regime the "era of strategic patience is over," a reference to the former Barack Obama's foreign policy preference of dealing with Pyongyang's aggressions by turning a blind eye and pretending all was A-OK. This is a good time to be an American.

April 17, 2017
This Wednesday, June 10, 2015, photo shows credit cards in Philadelphia. On Friday, April 7, 2017, the Federal Reserve releases its February report on consumer borrowing. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Credit card debt enslaving the American consumer

The Federal Reserve released data earlier this month showing that Americans owe more than $1 trillion in debt on their credit cards, up 6.2 percent from a year ago. Note to consumers: Quit signing up for slavery.

April 17, 2017