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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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**FILE** Security personnel and others inspect the site of an explosion outside a military intelligence building in Anshas, a rural village in Sharqiya province, nearly 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Cairo, on Dec. 29, 2013. Attacks on security targets have become frequent following the July 3 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. (Associated Press)

Egypt seizes assets of 572 Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist leaders

Interim governing authorities in Egypt ordered security forces on Tuesday to seize the assets of more than 500 Islamist leaders and Muslim Brotherhood members, the latest in a crackdown on the organization just slapped with the terrorist label.

December 31, 2013
An American bald eagle (Associated Press) **FILE**

Maryland police search for shooters of 2 bald eagles

Police with the Natural Resources agency in Maryland are scouring Montgomery County, looking for information that could lead to the arrest of those responsible for killing two bald eagles.

December 31, 2013
Women speak outside a wreckage of a trolleybus in Volgograd, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. Thousands of police officers and paramilitary forces are on duty in the city, which is reeling from two suicide bombings in two days that killed 33 people and raised fears that a terrorist campaign may have begun that could stretch into the Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Denis Tyrin)

Vladimir Putin vows ‘annihilation’ of terrorists

Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to completely obliterate terrorists from the region in his first public comments on the recent suicide bombing attacks in the southern city of Volgograd.

December 31, 2013
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tweeted this photo on Christmas Eve of himself and wife Ann with their grandchildren.

MSNBC’s Harris-Perry to Romney family: ‘I am sorry’

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry sent out an unequivocal apology to the family of Mitt Romney early Tuesday for her role in an on-air mocking of a photo of the former Massachusetts governor's clan that included the recently adopted — and black — baby Kieran.

December 31, 2013
French President Francois Hollande sits for a discussion as he visits the school Michelet for the start of the school year, in Denain, northern France, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. The board reads : Today, it is the start of school year." (AP Photo/ Denis Charlet, Pool)

Sacrebleu! French slap 75 percent tax on millionaires

President Francois Hollande got the approval he sought from France's constitutional court to go ahead with a tax that mandates millionaires — those who earn more than a million euros a year, or just under $1.37 million — pay 75 percent of their salaries to government.

December 31, 2013
**FILE** Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

ACLU sues feds over telephone surveillance of Americans

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the federal government, alleging a variety of agencies have failed to properly provide documents that would reveal the scope of surveillance activities on Americans' overseas telephone calls.

December 31, 2013
In this image provided by Australasian Antarctic Expedition/Footloose Fotography, Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy is trapped in thick Antarctic ice, 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Australia, Friday, Dec. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Australasian Antarctic Expedition/Footloose Fotography, Andrew Peacock)

Helicopter rescue beckons for stranded Antarctica sea passengers

Passengers aboard a Russian scientific research ship who have been stuck in Antarctica ice since Christmas now have hope to make it home in the coming days: Rescue operators say they're sending in the helicopters as soon as the weather's right.

December 31, 2013

Chinese doctor admits to stealing and selling newborn babies

A well-respected Chinese doctor on the cusp of retiring from her obstetrician position admitted in Weinan Intermediate People’s Court that she stole newborn babies under her care and sold them on the black market to human traffickers.

December 31, 2013
Aubrey Loots and Danny Leclair, a gay couple from Los Angeles who have been together more than a decade, show their signed marriage certificate ahead of their New Year's Day wedding on AIDS Healthcare Foundation's third annual float entry, "Living the Dream," the 125th Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Friday, Dec. 27, 2013. (Eric Reed/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation)

Rose Parade, 2013: Live gay wedding set for float

A San Diego woman has launched a Facebook drive to ban a Rose Parade float that features an actual same-sex wedding, saying the practice is banned by dozens of states and the family-friendly event shouldn't promote illegal activity.

December 30, 2013