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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 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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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he arrives at the Okecie military airport in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Biden arrived in Warsaw for consultations with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Bronislaw Komorowski, a few hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea, one of a flurry of steps to formally take over the Black Sea peninsula. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Joe Biden touches down in Poland to flex U.S. muscle to Russia

Vice president Joe Biden landed in Poland on Tuesday on a quick trip to the region aimed at flexing America's muscles and showing Russia just who they're dealing with -- a White House resolved to turn back President Putin's aggression in the Ukraine.

March 18, 2014
** FILE ** This Aug. 20, 2013 file photo shows the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

NASA-funded study says modern society doomed, like the dodo

Modern industrialized society is like the dodo bird — doomed and headed toward extinction, said a new study funded by NASA. Report authors took that finding and concluded: The only way to keep the world up and running is to redistribute resources.

March 17, 2014
Police officers control a vehicle in Paris, Monday, March 17, 2014. Cars with even-numbered license plates are prohibited from driving in Paris and its suburbs Monday, following a government decision over the weekend.  Paris is taking drastic measures to combat its worst air pollution in years, banning around half of the city's cars and trucks from its streets in an attempt to reduce the toxic smog that's shrouded the City of Light for more than a week. Visible in background is the Arc de Triomphe.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Paris bans cars, trucks from city to stave off smog

Paris has taken dramatic steps to combat its growing smog problem, banning about half of the cars and trucks from driving its roads — and sending out police patrol vehicles en masse to enforce the rule.

March 17, 2014
From left, Nebraska players Leslee Smith, Tai Webster, Benny Parker and Terran Petteway react seconds after the NCAA Selection Show announced Nebraska's spot in the NCAA tournament bracket at the Men's NCAA Selection Show Watch Party at PInnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Neb. on Sunday, March 16, 2014.  (AP Photo/The Journal-Star, Morgan Spiehs) LOCAL TV OUT; KOLN-TV OUT; KGIN-TV OUT; KLKN-TV OUT (

Obama makes play for Obamacare in March Madness-themed ad

The latest push on Obamacare to the American people is a video spot from the White House released Monday that takes advantage of the March Madness basketball season and cites the "16 Sweetest Reasons to Get Covered."

March 17, 2014
** FILE **  Riders on the maiden voyage of Six Flags' brand-new roller coaster, Superman — Ride of Steel, round the final stretch on Thursday morning, May 18, 2000, in Largo. The coaster's tracks are a mile long, with the highest drop of 197 feet at a 70-degree angle. (The Washington Times)

Six Flags denies ride, then refund, to prosthetic-wearing veteran

A U.S. veteran whose legs were blown off during a mission in Afghanistan and who now wears two prosthetics said he was shocked and outraged when the Texas Six Flags he took his daughter to denied him entry on rides — and then refused to refund his ticket costs.

March 17, 2014
In this Thursday, March 13, 2014, photo, girls study at an orphanage in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 13, 2013. The director of the shelter says that she will not allow to marriage of minors at her orphanage, despite a contentious civil status draft law for Iraqi Shiite community that allows child marriage and restricts women's rights. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq mulls law to let men marry 8-year-old girls

Iraqi lawmakers are mulling a new measure that would open the doors for girls as young as 8 years old to be given in marriage — and that also mandates wives must give their husbands sex on demand.

March 14, 2014