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Cheryl K. Chumley

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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Massachusetts activists strive for drivers’ licenses for illegals

One of the largest immigrant advocacy groups in the Northeast has turned to the power of the online petition and painted a tale of woe about a mother who’s in the country unlawfully and can’t get her daughter to the doctor as a means of convincing Massachusetts lawmakers to give drivers’ licenses to illegals.

January 29, 2014

Alec Baldwin bashes TSA in Twitter for pat-down of 5-month-old daughter

Alec Baldwin is on yet another rant — but this time, it has nothing to do with the paparazzi.

January 29, 2014

Beijing boots U.S. reporter over stories of Communist corruption

A U.S. reporter based in Beijing was given until Thursday to leave the country, an order that seems tied to his media filings about the wealth that top Communist Party officials have been able to accumulate through the years.

January 29, 2014

Pope Francis goes pop culture and hits cover of Rolling Stone

Pope Francis has just boosted his image as the pontiff of the people a smidgen higher. The Catholic Church head has gone pop culture, and it’s his smiling face that appears on the most recent cover of the Rolling Stone.

January 29, 2014

Gabby Giffords makes high-profile gun control appeal in Washington: ‘Fight!’

Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who’s made a second career out of turning her high-profile gun injury into a campaign for more Second Amendment crackdowns, spoke briefly but bluntly to Washington lawmakers who were mulling dueling gun bills: “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

January 29, 2014

Stradivarius worth millions stolen from Milwaukee violinist by robber with stun gun

A concert violinist was leaving his suburban Milwaukee performance when a couple of thieves bearing a stun gun approached, shocked him and made off with the 300-year-old Stradivarius he carried that's worth millions of dollars, Milwaukee police reported.

January 29, 2014

Missouri death row inmate gets 12th hour stay from Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a last-minute stay for a Missouri death row inmate who was scheduled to die one minute after midnight Wednesday morning.

January 29, 2014

Southern snow dust leaves thousands sleeping in cars, in Home Depot aisles

Motorists across several Southern states tried to rush home at the first sign of snow, creating a traffic nightmare that left thousands sleeping overnight in their cars on highways, on the floors in schools and in the aisles of 26 Home Depot stores that opened their doors for a makeshift shelter.

January 29, 2014

Rep. Michael Grimm threatens reporter: ‘I’ll break you in half’

An obviously angry Rep. Michael G. Grimm told a reporter who was interviewing him in the Capitol that if he continued to stray off topic, he’d thrown him over the railing.

January 29, 2014

Predator drone evidence helps convict N. Dakota farmer in cow theft case

For the first time in American history, a U.S. citizen – a North Dakota farmer – has been sentenced to prison with the aid and assistance of a Predator drone.

January 28, 2014

Eliot Ness name mulled as new ATF building moniker

Crime fighter Eliot Ness may have died six decades ago, but two Illinois senators want to honor his memory with the naming of a federal building in D.C. in his honor.

January 28, 2014

Queen Elizabeth’s staff fritters away palace savings

Queen Elizabeth’s staffers have been spending up a storm, frittering away money that’s supposed to be used for palace upkeep, a British committee found.

January 28, 2014

U.S. restarts aid to Syria, hoping al Qaeda won’t seize it again

The United States has picked up where it left off more than a month ago, and started shipping nonlethal aid to Syria in hopes that al Qaeda won’t seize it and keep it from reaching its intended rebel fighting recipients.

January 28, 2014

New ‘R.I.P.’ bullet hailed as ‘one-shot man-stopper’

A newly developed bullet from G2 Research is being billed as the last round a gun owner will ever need: a smashing hunk of copper with full metal jacket power to shred through solid objects and stop attackers in their tracks.

January 28, 2014

Rand Paul’s odds of running: 50-50, he says

Sen. Rand Paul told a fourth-grader who was interviewing him that his odds for running for the White House in 2016 stood right at 50-50.

January 28, 2014

Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai says U.S., not Taliban, secretly conducted fatal attacks

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has placed the blame on America, not the Taliban, for a spate of recent attacks that have left more than 20 dead, accusing the United States of secretly staging insurgent strikes as a coy means of destabilizing the government.

January 28, 2014