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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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President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

DEI finally frying in the fires of American Exceptionalism

President Trump signed an executive order that shut down diversity, equity and inclusion offices at the federal level. Then he made clear his government would be one that hired, promoted and employed based on competence. In other words: He put Marxism back in its box.

January 23, 2025
A missile is on display with a sign on it reading in Farsi: "Death to Israel" in front of a mosque in the shape of Dome of the Rock of Jerusalem at an entrance of the Quds town west of the capital Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 21, 2024. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Sunday dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that despite launching a massive assault, few projectiles actually made through to their targets. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran from Davos makes play as peace-lover to the world

Iran's new bestie-to-the-world approach may fool Democrats. And the brain dead. But as for the rest of America and the world -- and certainly the Trump administration -- the thought isn't so much to tickle Tehran's tummy as it is to raise up arms.

January 22, 2025
File - President Joe Biden speaks at the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File )

Biden’s unpardonable pardons

Joe Biden spent his last presidential political capital issuing pardons to COVID-crackdown face Anthony Fauci, to the former Afghanistan-withdrawal disaster of a general, Mark Milley, and to perennial MAGA hater and former legislator Liz Cheney. For what? Oh, nothing. Just in case.

January 20, 2025
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, the media-buying oligarch Biden nonetheless loves

President Biden warned that the power of America's government was being concentrated within a small circle of select elites -- that an "oligarchy" was "taking shape" -- and that if the "ultraweathy" weren't held in check, individual freedoms would disappear. Yet he gave George Soros a medal.

January 17, 2025
This Aug. 2, 2018, file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump already making America healthy again

The Food and Drug Administration just announced it would ban the use of Red No. 3, a dye used in thousands of food and medicinal products to provide color but that has been linked to cancer in animals. Why the sudden change of 100-plus-year-old FDA heart? Two words. Donald. Trump.

January 16, 2025
Shown is the White House during a winter snow storm in Washington, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. The presidential headquarters served as a backdrop exactly four years earlier for then-President Donald Trump's call out to his supporters to “fight like hell” in what became a gruesome attack on the U.S. Capitol as Congress met to certify his 2020 loss to Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Executive orders are blowing up the Constitution

Enough of the executive orders. They're tearing apart the Constitution. They're also sidelining Congress and allowing legislators to skirt accountability, even while stripping them of power.

January 10, 2025
New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, right, sits next to Department of Public Works Director Rick Hathaway as they answer questions from the city council Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, about the New Year's Day French Quarter terror attack in New Orleans. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

Bold & Blunt: New year, new terror risks to America

If the terror attacks of January, 2025, show anything, it's that Americans need to wake up and smell the terrorism. There has been a long list of warnings of more terror to strike U.S. soil. But far too many have been ignoring the signs.

January 10, 2025
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump comforts Alexis Nungaray and Joamel Guevara, mother and uncle of Jocelyn Nungaray, during an event along the southern border with Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Sierra Vista, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump already stopping the illegal migrant train

Word is Mexico's government is busily at work to halt migrant caravans making their way northward to cross into America illegally. Why? Mexico's government is afraid of the 25 percent tariffs President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to slap it with once he's inaugurated.

January 9, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg wears a pair of Orion AR glasses during the Meta Connect conference Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Mark Zuckerberg’s newfound, fearful love of Donald Trump

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook-turned-Meta fame, is so enamored with the idea of free speech, and so in love with Donald Trump, he's firing his fact-checkers and giving a cool $1 million to the president-elect for his inauguration. My, how fear does motivate.

January 8, 2025
A migrant from Michoacan, Mexico, uses the CBPOne app Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Bold & Blunt: Defeating deep state crime lies with state laws

Americans don't have to suffer unsafe communities any longer. Not only is Donald Trump coming to town to secure the border. But states can take advantage of the next four years of federal crime-fighting and enact provisions in their respective legislatures to ensure safe streets for years.

January 8, 2025
President Joe Biden speaks with reporters after signing the Social Security Fairness Act in the East Room of the White House, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Harris certifies, Biden bans, and the anti-MAGA moves are off and running

It'd be great if the seemingly sane and smooth transitory nature of the certification process continued into the new year's politics. But anyone who's watched politics for more than a blink knows Democrats are already campaigning, already hunkering, already plotting how to hurt President-elect Donald Trump.

January 7, 2025
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on during a Cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, on Friday, Dec.20, 2024. (Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press via AP)

Justin Trudeau, yet another far-leftist fall from grace

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has resigned as leader of the Liberal Party after watching his approval ratings plummet from a high of 65 percent in 2017 to 28 percent in 2025. Another far-leftist bites the dust.

January 6, 2025
Demonstrators gather on the steps of the Montana state Capitol protesting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Helena, Mont., March 15, 2021. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, File)

On fighting LGBTQ evil, it’s one step forward, two steps back

The LGBTQ movement may be small. Minuscule, in fact. But it's grown powerful and influential. It's driven by demonic forces that care nothing for logic and reason and common sense, and even less for godly virtues that include truth and absolutes, and that instead seek only to destroy.

January 3, 2025
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin stand for the playing of their National Anthems at the White House in Washington, March 26, 1979, before the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. (AP Photo, File)

Bold & Blunt: Jimmy Carter’s legacy: He’s not the worst

Ask any American who follows politics to name the worst president in U.S. history and invariably, Jimmy Carter's name comes to mind. But that's not entirely true -- at least, not any more. Joe Biden is much, much, much worse.

December 31, 2024
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris after her speech during the Democratic National Convention Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Democrats will never change their mo’ money, mo’ money ways

One of the Democratic National Committee's chair hopefuls, James Skoufis, released a four-point plan to secure Dems' power for the long-term, and surprise, surprise, it's all about the money. Leopards cannot change their spots. Democrats learned nothing from their beating in 2024.

December 30, 2024
Timothy Walker, a resident at the Los Angeles Mission who graduated from its faith-based drug rehabilitation program, reads the Bible during a service at the mission in Los Angeles, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Bold & Blunt: The power of God’s grace

Not all of life's hard lessons should be avoided. Some -- if not most -- are actually the motivating factors that shine bright on God's glory.

December 24, 2024