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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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Ted Cruz coloring book breaks onto best-seller list

No. 1 in Amazon's list of top-selling children's coloring books? That would be the one about tea party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz, titled "Cruz to the Future: Comic Coloring Activity Book," as of Friday morning rankings.

December 13, 2013
** FILE ** A small Draganflyer X6 drone is photographed during a test flight in Mesa County, Colo., on Jan. 8, 2009. (Associated Press/Mesa County Sheriff's Department)

U.S. Army hails success with drone-shooting laser

The U.S. Army said its latest defense technology — a vehicle-mounted laser — has passed a recent test with flying colors, successfully shooting a drone from the sky and intercepting and destroying several mortar rounds.

December 13, 2013
Actor Daniel Craig as James Bond.

James Bond: The spy who is really an alcoholic

If Bond, James Bond, were a real person and not simply a fictional character in 14 novels and on Hollywood movie screens, he'd not only be considered a drunk — but also a sexually dysfunctional, liver-damaged, car-crashing, dead man walking.

December 13, 2013
** FILE ** In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, file photo, Aaron Sherman, of Renton, Wash., chants with other protesters as they begin a day-long march in support of fast-food workers, in SeaTac, Wash. Demonstrators planned an eight-hour march Thursday, part of a nationwide-protest for higher wages. Workers, activists and community supporters met in in SeaTac and expected to continue to Seattle City hall, a 12-mile journey. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

SeaTac, Wash.: City’s new $15 minimum wage heads to court

Opponents of SeaTac's recently approved minimum wage — at $15, it's the highest in the nation — have launched a last-minute appeal and taken their objections to the statute to a Friday court hearing, in hopes of winning at least a delay to the pay rule that's due to take effect Jan. 1.

December 13, 2013
** FILE ** A Syrian refugee man looks out of his family room in an old deserted building where they live, as a strong wind blows the fabric door and passes through the alley into the building modified for a dozen Syrian refugee families from storerooms, during a snowstorm in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Obama mulls support for Islamists in Syria, with conditions

A senior U.S. figure said the Obama administration may expand its support for Syrian rebel fighters — to include Islamist groups that seized American equipment and gear stored at a warehouse near the Syrian-Turkey border.

December 13, 2013
** FILE ** Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin pauses while organizing the start of an Election Day demonstration on the lawn of the Capitol in Washington on Nov. 2, 2010. (Associated Press)

Tea Party Patriots call key GOP firing a declaration of war

The executive director of the House Republican Study Committee has been fired, and the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots said the ouster is little more than the establishment GOP's latest attempt to drive out the strong conservative element from the party — especially since the replacement hails as an ally of House Speaker John Boehner.

December 12, 2013
Retired U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Thomas Gipson (right) of Atlanta has his resume looked over by Ralph Brown, a management and program analyst with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a job fair for veterans at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2681 in Marietta, Ga., on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

68,000 more file for unemployment — in one week

The number of U.S. citizens who have applied for unemployment benefits soared by 68,000 in one week’s time, bringing the total to 368,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday.

December 12, 2013
Michigan state Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, the state Senate's Democratic minority leader, cited her own rape in criticizing the Republican-controlled Legislature's final approval on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, of a bill that bans commercial insurance policies from covering abortions unless a woman buys a separate rider to include abortion services. (AP Photo/Michigan Legislature)

Michigan bans in-state insurers from covering abortion

Michigan lawmakers passed a ban on all insurance companies in the state from paying for abortions for women, unless the life of the mother is in danger and unless they’ve purchased a special rider for the coverage.

December 12, 2013