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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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Protesters march to the Democratic National Convention after a rally at Union Park Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Democrat-run public schools on display with lunatic DNC protesters

Pro-Palestinian -- pro-Hamas! -- protesters-slash-agitators flooded the outskirts of the Democrat National Convention, demanding Democrats stop supporting Israel; legalize all the illegals; open borders wider for more; legalize abortion-on-demand, yada, yada. Welcome to the world of Democrat-run public education.

August 20, 2024
Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling speaks to reporters in Chicago Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. Snelling appeared with city officials and Derek Mayer, left, U.S. Secret Service deputy special agent in charge, to talk about the city's readiness to host the Democratic National Convention next week. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Democrats kick off convention with typical, mind-blowing hypocrisy

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has called to standby status about 150 members of the Illinois National Guard to assist the already sizable police presence -- including those from departments outside Chicago -- on hand to handle the expected crowds, protesters and agitators at this week's Democrat National Convention. It's good to be a Democrat politician. They get all the security. Just ask Donald Trump.

August 19, 2024
Sen. Kamala Harris D-Calif. speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Confucius say: Democrats are right to hide Harris

That's her particular brand of politicking: spouting off absent care or concern of content -- all the intellectualism of a Chinese fortune in a cookie. Confucius say; Kamala say. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Democrats have it right by keeping her as quiet as possible

August 16, 2024
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arrive during a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson) **FILE**

Harris takes page from communist Cuba’s playbook with war on prices

Kamala Harris has announced a war on prices that calls out companies for raising prices and that promises her White House will stop companies from raising prices. Well, at least she's acknowledging the economy that she and President Biden created sucks. But her fix isn't a fix. It's akin to what Cuba just did.

August 16, 2024
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump enters at a campaign event, June 18, 2024, in Racine, WisTHE. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps, File)

Bold & Blunt: Success 101: How to make winning recession-proof

Self-improvement is a multi-billion dollar business in America, and there's a reason for that: People are largely dissatisfied with their levels of success in life, and they want to improve. There are several key characteristics shared by successful people. But it's probably not what you think.

August 15, 2024
A youth gets a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine during a vaccination drive at University Stadium in Mexico City, Friday, July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

COVID consequences: Childhood vaccines fall from parental favor

Fewer Americans today see the importance of childhood vaccines, with the most dramatic declines in parental approvals of the normal vaccine schedule for newborns through 18-year-olds taking place after 2019 -- in the post-COVID, shot-pushing years. Good. It's about time for a return to the suspicions over mandates.

August 15, 2024
In this Nov. 16, 2019, file photo, free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick arrives for a workout for NFL football scouts and media in Riverdale, Ga. (AP Photo/Todd Kirkland, File)

Colin Kaepernick who?

Colin Kaepernick, of national-anthem-hating, take-the-knee, pig-socks-wearing fame, says he's ready to lead an NFL team, any NFL team, any ol' NFL team that'll give him a chance -- to victory -- capital V for Victory! -- to Super Bowl victory! What a guy. And all the NFL owners go: Who? At least, they should.

August 14, 2024
Bibles are displayed in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)

Bold & Blunt: The truths about crime in America

If you want to slow the rate of youth incarceration, the solution isn't to stop jailing criminals but rather address the roots: the family. Most criminals come from broken homes, and that's just a fact.

August 13, 2024
Elon Musk arrives at the 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on April 13, 2024, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Free speech is not a matter of debate

Humza Yousaf, the former first minister of Scotland, is thinking of suing Elon Musk after the X owner called him "super racist" on social media. Musk, for his part, said go ahead, dude -- come and get me copper. The fact that this is even a real thing shows how much the concept of free speech has been degraded.

August 12, 2024
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, moderated by ABC's Rachel Scott, speaks at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, July 31, 2024, in Chicago. The backlash against Trump's attack on Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity intensified on Thursday. Democrats expressed new outrage and some Republicans distanced themselves from Trump's comments that Harris only recently "turned Black" for political gain. Harris is of Jamaican and Indian heritage. Trump shrugged off the criticism and doubled down by posting on social media a new picture depicting Harris in traditional Indian garb. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Americans need inspiration, not politicization

On any given day, the nation's headlines will look like this: 'Donald Trump says polls showing him lagging are wrong.' 'Kamala Harris says Donald Trump is wrong.' 'Joe Biden says his favorite ice cream flavor is still chocolate chip.' This is not news. This is who-gives-a-freak filler being passed off as news.

August 9, 2024
A holy wooden Christian cross laying on a wood background with an American flag. File photo credit: enterlinedesign via Shutterstock.

Bold & Blunt: Fighting for your right to work

The COVID years of Big Government telling Americans they had to stay home and wait for the stimulus check, rather than go to work, have come to an end. But bureaucrats both before and after COVID have been preventing business owners from operating their businesses for reasons that are utterly ridiculous.

August 8, 2024
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks during a news conference, Dec. 8, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Cori Bush’s loss is the course correction Democrats need

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. The modern Democrat Party may be a walking, talking mirror of Marxists and a shelter for the communists who walk among us. But this anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, terrorist-sympathizing tone that the Dems have adopted has got to go. And going it is -- at least for Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman.

August 8, 2024
Democratic Party and cultural Marxism illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Bold & Blunt: Marxism at the gate!

Elections matter. This November's presidential election is crucial. It's the time when voters will determine if America is to be free, or if America is to fall to Marxists. But more than elections, God matters. And Americans must turn back to God if liberty is to last for the future generations.

August 6, 2024
Tourists to Independence National Historical Park line up to peer through a window of the closed building housing the Liberty Bell, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, in Philadelphia. The building was closed due to the partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) ** FILE **

Freedom! — but we’re all felons now

Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch talked about how some legal minds see that America has become so filled with regulations and laws that the average adult-age citizen commits at least one felony each day. Such is the state of a nation that has forgotten its foundation is God-given rights and liberties.

August 6, 2024
People listen to a speaker at a pro-Palestinian encampment calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, inside the campus of Columbia University, Sunday, April 28, 2024, in New York. Columbia University said it has placed three administrators on leave while it investigates allegations that they exchanged unprofessional text messages while attending a panel discussion about antisemitism on campus. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

Back to school — back to Jew-bashing

Welcome to higher learning in America, 2024. Students have spent their summers getting ready to conduct more activist displays on college campuses aimed at supporting supposed innocent Palestinians in Gaza, i.e., aimed at ratcheting tensions against Jews.

August 5, 2024
Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court during jury deliberations in his criminal hush money trial in New York, May 30, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool) **FILE**

Democrats have a new attack plot against MAGA

The American Bar Association, a group with members who lean left, is rolling out a new task force to push attorneys to use their legal platforms to fight the "serious threat" of "rising authoritarianism." They call it the task force for American democracy. This is Democrats' code for "get MAGA."

August 2, 2024
Algeria's Imane Khelif, right, defeated, Italy's Angela Carini in their women's 66kg preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Woman-beating is now an Olympic sport

The entire LGBTQ movement isn't so much about free choice, or sexual freedom, or toleration for others' choices, or fighting against discrimination. It's not even so much about mental illness, per se. The LGBTQ campaign at root is a rebellion against God.

August 2, 2024