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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 with Cheryl Chumley” video and audio show for The Washington Times, a Newsmax contributor, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths" and "Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom.” She's also the co-author with Allen West of the upcoming "America's Second Civil War: Rescuing the Republic From the Unholy Alliance of Marxists, Islamists and Democrats" (April 2027). Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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Protestors dressed as a diabolical Uncle Sam, on stilts, and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto hold hands as they walk along the border fence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. A group of about 30 protestors gathered to paint slogans on the border wall and stage a performance mocking the relationship between Pena and President Donald Trump. The partial message in Spanish behind reads: "Neither delinquents nor illegals, we are international workers." (AP Photo/Christian Torres)

DHS says illegals victimized by crime not immune from arrest

The Department of Homeland Security said illegal immigrants who come forward to report crimes may themselves be arrested -- that they've no federal guarantee a blind eye will be turned toward their unauthorized status in the nation when they come to court to tell of their victimhood. Hurrah. This is a statement that's been a long time coming.

April 5, 2017
President Donald Trump walks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, City Council votes to impeach Donald Trump

The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of America's hotspots for liberals-slash-progressives, just voted on a resolution to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Sigh. The City Council actually voted on this. Seven-to-one, with one abstention.

April 4, 2017
From left, Ypsilanti City Council member Pete Murdock, Mayor Amanda Edmonds and City Council member Beth Bashert secure a transgender pride flag to the pole as they raise it during a ceremony for International Transgender Day of Visibility outside the Ypsilanti Police Department, in Ypsilanti, Mich., on Friday, March 31, 2017. (Melanie Maxwell/The Ann Arbor News via AP)

Millennials: 80 percent snowflake — 20 percent LGBTQ

Twenty percent of those age 18 to 34, the so-called millennials -- the snowflakes -- now self-identify as LGBTQ, according to a new study from the group Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, GLAAD. Incredible.

April 4, 2017
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., holds an impromptu news conference outside a room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017, where he charges House Republicans are keeping their Obamacare repeal and replace legislation under lock and key and not available for public view. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rand Paul calls for Susan Rice to testify under oath

Sen. Rand Paul followed a bomb-blaster of a tweet about Susan Rice's supposed "spying on [the] Trump campaign" with a call for her to come to Capitol Hill, take the oath and testify. She won't. But she should.

April 4, 2017
A man lays flowers in memory of victims killed by a bomb blast in a subway train in St. Petersburg, at the memorial stone with the word Leningrad (St. Petersburg) at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier, in front of the Kremlin wall in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. A bomb blast tore through a subway train deep under Russia's second-largest city St. Petersburg Monday, killing several people and wounding many more in a chaotic scene that left victims sprawled on a smoky platform. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Akbarzhon Dzhalilov — the Russian terror suspect born in Jihad Town

Russian authorities have identified the name of the man they think responsible for setting off the St. Petersburg subway blast that killed 14 and injured dozens -- Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, 22. And they're not using the "I-word"yet -- Islam -- but all fingers are pointing in that direction.

April 4, 2017
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with civil rights leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. From left are, Attorney General Loretta Lynch; Brittany Packnett, of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing and Co-Founder of We The Protestors and Campaign Zero; the president; Rep, John Lewis, D-Ga., and Senior White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett. Democrats and left-leaning groups are turning their attention to statehouses, recognizing that many of the policies they object to are being enacted at the state level as an obstructionist Congress has passed few laws in recent years. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Valerie Jarrett resurfaces as unpaid Obama Foundation aide

Valerie Jarrett, former shadowy adviser to Barack Obama, back when he ran the White House, has a new role -- and interestingly enough, given all the Democratic flak flung Ivanka Trump's way for her non-salaried White House position, it's unpaid.

April 3, 2017
In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the Fraternal Order of Police, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump campaign speech ruled as ‘plausible’ cause of violence

Watch what you say, conservatives. A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that President Donald Trump may indeed have incited violence with his words during a campaign rally back in March 2016, and that plaintiffs hurt by his supporters may indeed go ahead and sue.

April 3, 2017
FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2017 file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn’s attorney says the former national security adviser is in discussions with the House and Senate intelligence committees on receiving immunity from “unfair prosecution” in exchange for questioning. Flynn attorney Robert Kelner says no “reasonable person” with legal counsel would answer questions without assurances. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Mike Flynn wants immunity — give it

Mike Flynn, who resigned his national security adviser post for President Donald Trump under a cloud of suspicion about his talks with Russia's ambassador to the United States, wants to tell his story to Congress, but wants immunity first. Give it. He should have it.

March 31, 2017
Guest speaker Hillary Clinton greets supporters after her speech during the the Society of Irish Women annual dinner on St. Patrick's Day, Friday, March 17, 2017, in Scranton, Pa. Clinton says she's "ready to come out of the woods" and help Americans find common ground. She urged a divided country to work together to solve problems, recalling how, as first lady, she met with female leaders working to bring peace to Northern Ireland. (Butch Comegys/The Times & Tribune via AP)

Hillary Clinton’s astonishing post-State access to top secret docs

Hillary Clinton may have resigned her secretary role at the State Department in 2013 -- but her access to top secret and classified information didn't end then. This is outrageous, particularly when the reasons for her continued access were tied to this: to pen her memoir.

March 31, 2017
FILE - In this March 27, 2017 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration issued a fresh threat to withhold or revoke law enforcement grant money from communities that refuse to cooperate with federal efforts to find and deport immigrants in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Jeff Sessions hints at more punishments for sanctuary cities

Jeff Sessions said sanctuary cities may face more backlash from the administration than a loss of funding -- that the White House is considering other punitive measures, as well. Good. No punishment is too small for sanctuary cities that go out of their way to help the criminal element.

March 31, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with President Barack Obama before the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Trump’s mental fitness under snarky media attack

The snarky mainstream media, apparently tiring of Russia and frustrated over Devin Nunes' refusal to remove himself from his House Intelligence Committee chairmanship, has decided to revisit an issue that's lagged a bit -- the notion of President Donald Trump's mental fitness. But what of King Barack Obama's absolute hubris?

March 30, 2017
Glenn Beck's The Blaze has temporarily suspended production of Tomi Lahren's TV show amid controversy over her comments about abortion on ABC's "The View" last week. (ABC) ** FILE **

Tomi Lahren invite triggers student calls for violence

Some students at East Carolina University have vowed to go on a rampage and trash stuff if Tomi Lahren, conservative firebrand, is allowed to come and speak. 'Cause that's what the college kids do these days when they don't get their liberal way.

March 30, 2017
FILE - In this March 17, 2017, file photo, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner, senior adviser to President Donald Trump, attend a news conference with the president and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Kushner has been a power player able to avoid much of the harsh scrutiny that comes with working in the White House, but he's found that even the president's son-in-law takes his turn in the spotlight. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama ethics lawyer slams Ivanka hiring as unethical

Oh good. We were all wondering what Barack Obama's people thought of President Donald Trump's decision to hire his daughter, Ivanka, for an official White House job -- and now we can sleep again. According to Norman Eisen, the former ethics lawyer to Obama, yep, it's nepotism alrightee.

March 30, 2017