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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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Former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld speaks at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Emily Zoladz)

Donald Rumsfeld on Obama: He’s ‘feckless’ on Syria

Former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld isn't pulling any punches when it comes to President Obama's notion to launch airstrikes on Syria without following up with ground troops or additional military presence: That type of "minimalist" strategy doesn't work.

September 4, 2013
Eunice Pacheco (right) and LaKesia Brent wait for news about their children outside Spring High School on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, in Spring, Texas, after a stabbing incident in the school cafeteria. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Houston youth, 16, killed in school cafeteria stabbing

One student is dead, another in critical condition and a couple more injured in a Houston high school stabbing early Wednesday morning that shocked witnesses, who saw trails and pools of blood in the hallway

September 4, 2013
Pvt. Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning seeks pardon from president

Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, who now is serving a 35-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth for leaking stacks of classified documents to WikiLeaks for publication, wants a pardon from President Obama for information he released that isn't deemed so sensitive.

September 4, 2013
A military jury on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, sentenced Nidal Malik Hasan to death for the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood that killed 13 people and wounded more than 30. (Bell County Sheriff's Department via Associated Press) **FILE**

Maj. Nidal Hasan finally forcibly shaved at Fort Leavenworth

At long last, the Army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage through Fort Hood, claiming in court he killed 13 and wounded 30 to defend his Muslim faith, has been forcibly shaved by Fort Leavenworth prison authorities.

September 4, 2013
President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office with Speaker of the House Boehner, Saturday, August 31, 2013. Vice President Joe Biden listens at right. (credit: White House photo/Pete Souza)

Obama’s foot on Oval Office desk sends shockwaves around the world

Shock, outrage and mocking criticism is building among conservatives — and those of other political stripes who put the White House and its possessions on a historical pedestal – over a photograph showing President Obama in an informal pose, with his foot on his Oval Office desk.

September 4, 2013
** FILE ** Montana District Judge G. Todd Baugh reads a statement in Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, in apology for remarks he made about a 14-year-old girl raped by a teacher, but the jurist defended the 30-day prison sentence given to the teacher as appropriate. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Judge who jailed rapist for 30 days reconsiders sentence

A judge who caused a double-whammy outcry when he sentenced a former teacher to 30 days for raping a teen girl and then justified the short jail term by seeming to blame the 14-year-old for the crime is now reconsidering his ruling.

September 4, 2013
The leadership of the NAACP Casper branch speak with John Abarr, far right, a kleagle of the United Klans of America out of Great Falls, Mont., on Saturday night, Aug. 31, 2013, at the Parkway Plaza hotel in Casper, Wyo. Jimmy Simmons, president of the NAACP Casper branch, spent several months attempting to organize the meeting due to concerns about reports of violence against black men and Ku Klux Klan pamphleting in Gillette, Wyo. (AP Photo/Casper Star-Tribune, Alan Rogers) **FILE**

KKK and NAACP secret meeting ends with membership ties

In what's being billed as a historical first, the president of the Casper, Wyo., NAACP met recently behind closed doors with an organizer of the KKK chapter from Great Falls, Mont. — and the meeting actually ended with a crossover membership.

September 4, 2013
Putin

Obama poised to pressure President Putin on gay rights at G-20

President Obama is setting out to the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg this week to discuss more than Syria or Egypt. At the pressing of human rights activists, he is expected to take up the issue of gay rights, in what is sure to prove a tension-tightening moment with President Vladimir Putin.

September 3, 2013