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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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** FILE ** In this image made from the monitor at the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng (center), Liu Wang (left) and Liu Yang celebrate aboard the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft after a successful manual docking between the spacecraft and the Tiangong-1 lab module on Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Beijing Aerospace Control Center via Xinhua)

China’s next step to space: A lunar launch, and a moon rover

Chalk up another space gain for the Chinese, who have stated in recent months their goal is to become the leader of the world in galaxy exploration in the coming decades. The nation announced Tuesday it would launch its first lunar probe this December — just a decade after sending its first astronaut into space, CNN reported.

November 26, 2013

Army sics fashion police on soldiers, civilians at Hawaii base

The Army has begun monitoring what soldiers are wearing at a base in Hawaii, cracking down on clothing that's deemed too risqué and implementing strict controls on what even civilian visitors can don — a sort of fashion police mission.

November 26, 2013
** FILE ** Visitors walk past the Supreme Court in Washington on Saturday, March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obamacare birth control dispute weaves to Supreme Court

The nation’s highest-ranking justices could announce as early as Tuesday whether they’ll accept a case that pits Obamacare versus religious liberty, as played in the health care overhaul’s regulatory approach to birth control.

November 26, 2013
** FILE ** A view of the U.S. Capitol building on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Obamacare botch hands GOP 2-point win over Democrats in 2014

Bad news for Democrats: New polling numbers put Republicans far ahead in the vote count for the 2014 elections, due primarily to the botched rollout of Obamacare and the broken promise by the president that Americans could keep their current health care plans.

November 26, 2013
** FILE ** In this Nov. 9, 1979, file photo, one of the hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran is displayed to the crowd, blindfolded and with his hands bound, outside the embassy. Fifty-two of the hostages endured 444 days of captivity. Former Iranian hostages had varied reactions to the news of the nuclear deal between the U.S. and Iran in what is being billed as a trust-building agreement designed to yield a more comprehensive deal six months from now. (AP Photo/File)

Former Iran hostages on U.S. deal: ‘Kind of like Jimmy Carter’ again

Some of the 66 hostages who were imprisoned in Iran for up to 444 days between 1979 and 1980 said the deal forged between Tehran and the United States doesn't pass the smell test — and that it really hearkens back to the unstable foreign policy days of former President Jimmy Carter.

November 26, 2013
** FILE ** The famous Bavarian Oktoberfest. (Associated Press)

Mystery of beer that bubbles and foams: Solved

In case you were wondering why tapping on the side of a freshly opened beer bottle often sends the contents frothing like a volcano onto the floor — wonder no more. Science has found the answer.

November 25, 2013
** FILE ** Smokers rid their cigarettes of ashes outside an office building in Rio de Janeiro on in 2011. (Associated Press)

Obamacare crackdown on smokers backfires as users flee

Obamacare’s stringent regulatory approach to weaning smokers off tobacco – via much higher priced premiums than non-smokers – may actually be backfiring, driving potential Healthcare.gov participants to opt out and pay the fine for remaining insurance-less.

November 25, 2013
A Department of Transportation plow and sanding truck heads up Paseo del Norte in Albuquerque, N.M., Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, after a winter storm hit New Mexico over the weekend making driving difficult. The large storm already blamed for at least eight deaths in the West slogged through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and other parts of the southwest Sunday as it slowly churned east ahead of Thanksgiving. (Associated Press/Albuquerque Journal, Jim Thompson)

Snowstorm wallops West; 400 flights canceled

Thousands of travelers have been stranded by a deadly snowstorm plowing across the West, with even more flight disruptions expected as the storm moves East ahead of Thanksgiving.

November 25, 2013