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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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A former president Donald Trump supporter stands near the Fiserv Forum as set up continues for the upcoming Republican presidential debate Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Bold & Blunt: Democrats’ big folly

One thing Democrats can be counted on to do, and that's go too far. And that's exactly what they're doing with the indictment after indictment after indictment of Donald Trump. "Donald Trump stands in their way," said Monica Crowley, best-selling author, podcaster, media pundit and former Trump Team official.

August 23, 2023
Adderall XR capsules are displayed on Feb. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Zombie nation: Marijuana, Adderall and the destruction of America

America is becoming a nation of druggies. Whether these drugs are prescribed, illegal, legalized for recreational use or a combination of all three, the minds of Americans, both young and old, are being compromised. There's no way to look at that reality without also acknowledging a larger societal effect. And it ain't a good one.

August 22, 2023
The Independent Women's Forum held an "Our Bodies, Our Sports" rally in favor of single-sex sports during the 2023 USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships held June 22-25 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo courtesy Independent Women's Forum) ** FILE **

Heartbreaking erasure of women’s sports — of women — continues

A man pretending to be a woman -- and who claims he's been a woman for the last 20 years or so -- blew up the woman's powerlifting record in Canada, with a lift that was about 500 pounds more than any female in that nation's history. The heartbreaking erasure of women's sports -- of women -- goes on.

August 21, 2023
President Joe Biden speaks at the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center and Preserve in Palo Alto, Calif., Monday, June 19, 2023. Biden talked about climate change, clean energy jobs and protecting the environment. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Democrats’ obsessive bowing to their god of environmentalism

We all know Democrats are hypocrites. But the left's obsession with environmentalism and climate-based regulatory controls go beyond politics, into the realm of cultish. Truly, environmentalism is the left's religion. And they've become fanatical about it. They're capturing the youth.

August 18, 2023
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, testifies during a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing on COVID-19 school closures, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Bold & Blunt: Public schools teach kids subversion techniques

It's not just about teaching that capitalism is evil. It's about filling the minds of the youngest and most vulnerable that America itself is evil -- and must be changed. This is why the public schools might have finally reached the stage of unfixable.

August 17, 2023
President Joe Biden speaks about wildfires that ravaged Maui during a visit to Ingeteteam Inc., in Milwaukee, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bold & Blunt: Joe Biden and his climate foolishness

It's bad enough America has a White House leader that's weak. But it's even worse when the policies that this president is able to advance are all the anti-American ones. Witness: climate change.

August 15, 2023
Eric Meyer, the editor and publisher of the Marion County Record, answers questions about a raid by local police and sheriff's deputies on his newspaper's newsroom and his home, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, in Marion, Kan.. The officers seized computers and cellphones and took photos of Meyer's personal financial records. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Police raid on Kansas newspaper latest sign of America’s downfall

These aren't the best of times. These are the worst of times. A simple allegation can oh-so-quickly turn into a cause to toss out the Constitution. This is what happens when a nation formed on a model of God first, government subservient, abandons that premise and flips the structure of power.

August 15, 2023
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a fundraiser event for the Alabama GOP, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Montgomery, Ala. Just one month after Donald Trump’s January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgia’s secretary of state could overturn his election loss, District Attorney Fani Willis announced she was looking into possibly illegal “attempts to influence” the results. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

Trump’s indictments all the more reason to vote for him

Another day, another Donald Trump indictment. The takeaway is this: The more indictments fly Trump's way, the more voters should dig down and decide he's the guy to elect in 2024. At this point, voters should choose Trump because of the indictments, not in spite of them.

August 14, 2023
An advertisement of Bitcoin, one of the cryptocurrencies, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong, on Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Bold & Blunt: Perils from across the pond

Digital currency is coming. And that means individual freedom is going. Former Brexit Party political candidate and patriot across the pond -- Jim Ferguson in the United Kingdom --has much to say about the massive perils to freedom that are taking place at the hands of governments around the world.

August 11, 2023
In this June 12, 2018, file photo, people pray for America at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Dallas Convention Center in Dallas. The SBC confronted a sex-abuse crisis in the form of an investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. The newspapers reported that hundreds of Southern Baptist clergy and staff had been accused of sexual misconduct over the past 20 years. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

Fear in the church: Too many of God’s people afraid to fight

Sixty-nine percent of Protestant pastors in a Lifeway Research survey said they see a "growing sense of fear" among their congregants, and another 63%, that their pews are also filled with people who feel "dread" about the "future of Christianity" in America and around the world. That explains a lot.

August 11, 2023
This Sept. 6, 2017, file photo shows a tip jar with cash in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Tipping toward fatigue: Consumers exploited by entitlement workforce

It's bad enough America raised a generation to expect trophies simply for the so-called achievement of participating -- in so doing, fueling an entitlement culture. Now we've got to add to this entitlement mindset by tipping service workers simply for the achievement of doing what they're paid to do, anyway?

August 10, 2023
In this Aug. 30, 2021, file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, prepare to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. A State Department report says the department failed to do enough contingency planning before the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan. The review repeatedly blames the administration of former President Donald Trump for not doing enough planning or processing of visas after beginning the withdrawal. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)

Gold Star families deserve better than Biden

Thirteen American service members were killed during the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan -- a botching that was overseen by President Biden. But Biden understands how the family members of these military heroes feel because his son, Beau, died of cancer. How clueless. How self-absorbed.

August 9, 2023
In this May 6, 2021, file photo, Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. A northwestern Arizona county where Republican voters far outnumber Democrats has rejected a proposal to hand-count ballots in the 2024 election cycle. The Mohave County Board of Supervisors defeated the proposal 3-2 on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool)

Democrats hitting brick wall with younger voters

The midterms may have seen a surprising surge of young voters for Democrats, and the youthful Gen-Zers may have helped push Joe Biden's presidential tally in 2020, but that was then, this is now. Democrats are losing the youth and quite possibly, the youth vote. They brought it on themselves.

August 8, 2023
The Louisiana state Capitol stands prominently, April 4, 2023, in Baton Rouge, La. A slew of new Louisiana laws, recently passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, went into effect Tuesday, Aug. 1. Among the new laws are ones that increase punishments for fentanyl-related crimes, a requirement that every public school classroom display the phrase “In God We Trust,” and an addition to the state’s age verification law to access pornography websites. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith, File)

‘In God We Trust’ makes a comeback

Louisiana just signed into law a requirement that all public school administrators make sure the motto "In God We Trust" is displayed in every classroom, in every building, in every district. It's a law that's been passed in several other states of late as well. Praise the Lord. God is making a comeback in America.

August 7, 2023
A man walks by Pfizer headquarters, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Big Pharma’s outrageous, despicable multibillion-dollar tax dodge

Americans who earn well may have to pay as much as 37% of income in taxes each year. But not so the pharmaceuticals. For 2022, eight Big Pharma companies scooped a combined $110 billion in profits, but they only paid a combined $2 billion in U.S. taxes. That's about 2%. They exploit the free market.

August 4, 2023