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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 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 ** Google co-founder Sergey Brin wears Google Glass glasses at an announcement for the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences at Genentech Hall on the University of California at San Francisco's Mission Bay campus in San Francisco on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. (Associated Press)

Google’s newest photography find: Just wink and shoot

Kodak may have coined the phrase, “You press the button, we do the rest,” in 1888. But Google has taken the technology to a new level, with a new picture-taking means that requires users only to wink their eyes.

December 18, 2013

Pa. police pull people over for random DNA tests for feds

Pennsylvania police this week were pulling people to the side of the road, quizzing them on their driving habits, and asking if they'd like to provide a cheek swap or a blood sample — the latest in a federally contracted operation that's touted as making roads safer.

December 18, 2013
** FILE ** This May 23, 2010, file image provided by NASA shows the International Space Station with the Earth in the background. The image was photographed by an STS-132 crew member on space shuttle Atlantis after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation. On Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, NASA decided to schedule a series of urgent spacewalks to fix a broken cooling line at the International Space Station. The first is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA pushing hard to get back into space game

NASA is fighting hard to get back in the space game, launching a massive drive to develop new technology that will remind politicians America should take the lead in galaxy exploration — not China and not Iran.

December 18, 2013
** FILE ** A pedestrian walks by as SWAT team members assemble outside a building at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. Four buildings on campus were evacuated after campus police received an unconfirmed report that explosives may have been placed inside, interrupting final exams. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Harvard student to face federal charges for bomb hoax

A Harvard University student is due to make his initial appearance in federal court on Wednesday to face charges related to what prosecutors are saying was a fake bomb threat to escape exams.

December 18, 2013
** FILE ** President Obama speaks at the White House Forum on Women and the Economy, April 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama appeals to moms for help with Obamacare

President Obama and the first lady have turned to a niche market for help with selling Obamacare to a reluctant and frustrated public — the moms of the nation.

December 17, 2013
In this picture provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, right, is flanked by Vatican Almoner Archbishop Konrad Krajewski as he welcomes four men at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. Four homeless people, one of them bringing his dog, helped Pope Francis celebrate his 77th birthday at the Vatican Tuesday. They live on the street in the Rome neighborhood just outside the Holy See's walls and were invited by the Vatican official in charge of alms-giving to attend the morning Mass which Francis celebrates daily at the hotel where he lives on Vatican City grounds, the Vatican said. One of the men held his dog as he was presented to Francis after the guests chatted following Mass. The Vatican also said Francis invited his household help to join him in a "family-like" atmosphere, and he spoke of them one by one during his homily. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Pope Francis celebrates 77th birthday with homeless

Pope Francis celebrated his 77th birthday at the Vatican on Tuesday with four homeless individuals who hail from the streets of Rome, in a neighborhood right outside the Holy See’s walls.

December 17, 2013

South Sudan squelches coup after heavy nighttime gunfire

The president of South Sudan said soldiers who were loyal to the former deputy who attempted a coup have been put down and controlled, following a tense nighttime battle the saw both sides trading massive gunfire.

December 17, 2013

Big Sur wildfire destroys home of firefighting chief

At least 100 homeowners in the Big Sur, Calif., region were sent packing on Tuesday, as wildfires swept the area and destroyed 15 or so homes — including that of the firefighting chief of the local force.

December 17, 2013