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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” 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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6-foot alligator sends shocked Wal-Mart shoppers scurrying

Wal-Mart shoppers at one Florida site just outside Orlando were shocked to see a 6-foot-long alligator wander into the parking lot right up to the front door of the store and then pause for several seconds, as if mulling entry.

October 21, 2013
** FILE ** This March 15, 1958, file photo shows then-Sen. John F. Kennedy, center, D-Mass., and his brothers Edward Kennedy, left, a student at the University of Virginia, and Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel to the Senate Rackets Committee, at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

New book says RFK stole JFK’s brain to hide illness

A new book casts light on a decades-old mystery — the disappearance of John F. Kennedy's brain, which wasn't buried with his body — and suggests that the former president's brother took it to conceal how many medicines the White House icon had been taking.

October 21, 2013
** FILE ** Displaced Syrian women sit with 1-month-old Fatima on Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, inside a stone house near Kafer Rouma, in ancient Roman ruins used as temporary shelter by refugees from the heavy fighting and shelling in the Idlib province countryside of Syria. (AP Photo)

Al Qaeda-linked rebels cause new refugee crisis for Syrians

Syrians who once fled President Bashar Assad are now fleeing a new terror – al Qaeda-linked forces that have stolen into the nation to join the rebel force with an ultimate goal of imposing a hard line Islamic rule.

October 21, 2013
Beth Asaro, left, and Joanne Schailey share a moment with their daughter Kate, 13, after they exchanged vows to become the first same-sex marriage in Lambertville, N.J., history at 12:01 a.m. Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 in Lambertville, N.J. Asaro and Schailey hold the distinction of being the first couple to enter into a civil union in the state, when that law took effect in 2007. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

N.J.’s Cory Booker on gay weddings: ‘This is very beautiful’

Let the weddings begin. As the clock chimed midnight, gay couples in New Jersey who had lined the streets of cities and towns across the state, waiting for the last stroke that would usher in Monday and the implementation of a new same-sex wedding law, finally traded vows.

October 21, 2013
** FILE ** President Obama attends a bilateral meeting June 18, 2012, with then-Mexican President Felipe Calderon during the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. (Associated Press)

Mexico outraged at U.S. surveillance of ally Felipe Calderon

It’s not enough that the United States spied on Mexico, but new documents released from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden reveal that America targeted its touted friend and ally, former President Felipe Calderon, and placed him under surveillance.

October 21, 2013
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney smiles as he arrives for the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, after lawmakers reached a bipartisan deal to avoid default and reopen the government. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Jay Carney: Purple tie is for LGBT support

White House press secretary Jay Carney showed up for a press conference on Thursday wearing a purple tie, a public show of support for an anti-bully campaign kicked off by the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender activist community.

October 18, 2013
** FILE ** In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, file photo, the United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution that will require Syria to give up its chemical weapon, at U.N. Headquarters. Saudi Arabia is rejecting its seat on the U.N. Security Council and says the 15-member body is incapable of resolving world conflicts. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Saudi Arabia, angry with West, slams door on U.N. Security Council seat

An angry Saudi Arabia has taken out its frustration at the inability of the international community to foster peace in Syria and at recent wedges with the White House over Middle East goals with an announcement on Friday that it would turn down its seat on the U.N. Security Council.

October 18, 2013
** FILE ** Parkland Memorial Hospital financial counselor Kaneaka Guidry, back left, helps Cathleen and Jerry Brown sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act while Vyncent Bosh, front left, receives help from Tiffany Ruiz, Parkland Memorial Hospital financial counselor, front right, on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, in Dallas. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Ron Baselice)

Obamacare fail: More enroll for Mars trip than for health exchange

The hits just keep on coming with Obamacare enrollee tales of disaster, with the latest joke that more people have actually completed an online application to journey to Mars than successfully signed into the White House’s websites for health reform exchanges.

October 18, 2013
Then-New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner speaks during a news conference alongside his wife, Huma Abedin, at the Gay Men's Health Crisis headquarters in New York on July 23, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Anthony Weiner: I’m an ‘empty, soulless vessel’

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner who recently failed in his New York City mayoral bid after an elongated sexting scandal said his ensuing marriage problems don't hit him as hard in the heart as they do his wife, Huma Abedin.

October 18, 2013