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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 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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Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) speaks during an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria has started destroying WMDs, U.N. says

Inspectors with the United Nations said Monday that Syria’s military has begun destroying its cache of weapons of mass destruction, taking cutting torches to warheads and angle grinders to aerial bombs.

October 7, 2013
Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) shares a word with Huma Abedin, her personal assistant and trusted confidant. **FILE**

Hillary to Huma: Don’t worry about standing by your man, I’ll stand by you

Apparently, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has softened her stance on aide Huma Abedin, relenting on a weeks-ago pledge to cut her loose from her assistant role — as well as any future White House campaign run — if she didn't dump her scandal-plagued and failed-mayoral-bidding husband, Anthony Weiner.

October 7, 2013
A wildfire burns in the Lake O'Neill area at Camp Pendleton, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. The blaze has burned more than 1,500 acres and forced evacuation of a military housing area and the base hospital. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps, Cpl. Sarah Wolff Diaz)

Firefighters fight to contain Camp Pendleton blaze

Firefighters on Monday were gaining ground and containing a Camp Pendleton, Calif., wildfire that's burned through several square miles of brush and forced residents of the Marine Corps base and nearby communities to flee.

October 7, 2013
** FILE ** Then-ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod listens during a panel discussion at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in this July 29, 2010, file photo taken in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Shirley Sherrod tries to sub in Breitbart’s wife to sue

Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod – the woman who disputed now-deceased Andrew Breitbart’s videotaped version of her supposed racist rant, and subsequently sued – has moved to have the conservative icon’s wife named as the defendant in the case.

October 7, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Kerry said that the United States and Russia are "very pleased" with the progress made so far in destroying Syria's chemical weapons stocks. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

John Kerry goes on defensive: Libyan operation was ‘legal’

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry went into defense mode on Monday, assuring a skeptical international community that the weekend seizure of a suspected high-ranking al Qaeda operative in Tripoli was in fact legal and justified.

October 7, 2013
This image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Karen taken late Thursday night Oct. 3, 2013. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said late Thursday that Karen was about 340 miles (547 kilometers) south of the mouth of the Mississippi River and had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) with higher gusts. The storm was moving north-northwest at 10 mph (16 kph). It could be at or near hurricane strength late Friday and early Saturday, forecasters said, with the center near the coast on Saturday. (AP Photo/NOAA)

Karen nears hurricane status; White House calls for FEMA

The government may be in shutdown mode, but White House heads are calling back Federal Emergency Management Agency workers to keep an eye on Tropical Storm Karen as it winds along the Gulf Coast and threatens to reach hurricane status.

October 4, 2013

Phoenix cop told by school: Leave the uniform home

A Phoenix, Ariz., police officer who brought his daughter to elementary school wearing his full uniform was asked by the principal to change before he enters the facility because his holstered gun was scaring parents.

October 4, 2013
** FILE ** Speaker of the House John Boehner, R- Ohio, pauses during a news conference after a House Republican Conference meeting about the ongoing budget fight on Capitol Hill on Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

John Boehner vows deal on debt, at whatever cost

House Speaker John Boehner vowed the United States would not renege on its national debt, suggesting that Republicans who see similarly must put the pressure on colleagues to raise the ceiling — and even reach out to Democrats to forge a deal.

October 4, 2013

Massachusetts Dem wants law to fire cops who curse

A Massachusetts lawmaker said police officers are public servants who should act with dignity and show respect on the job, and that’s why he’s bringing forth a bill that would punish and perhaps fire those who curse while on the clock.

October 4, 2013