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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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**FILE** Practice air-powered handguns sit on a teacher's desk in a classroom at Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Ark., on July 11, 2013. Twenty Clarksville School District staff members are training during the summer to be armed security guards on campus. (Associated Press)

Arkansas teachers to carry 9 mm guns on campus come fall

Teachers and staff at Clarksville High School in Arkansas have undergone 53 hours of intensive weapons training in recent weeks, and they stand ready for school doors to open this fall — locked and loaded, ready to fend off the type of disaster that rocked a Connecticut community in December and left 20 children dead.

July 30, 2013
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer walks to a cab after trying to collect signatures for his run for New York City comptroller in Union Square in New York, Monday, July 8, 2013. Spitzer, who stepped down in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, says he is planning a political comeback with a run for New York City comptroller. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Eliot Spitzer on Anthony Weiner: I wouldn’t vote for him

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who left his office in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, said on Monday that even he wouldn't vote for sexting scandal-plagued Anthony Weiner, who's trying to mount a political comeback to the mayor's office.

July 30, 2013
A plainclothes police officer takes a photo with his mobile phone of a jail gate that was damaged when Taliban militants attacked, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

Taliban storm Pakistani jail, freeing 250

Pakistani's Taliban claimed members stormed a prison in the South Waziristan tribal area around midnight on Monday with rocket grenades and suicide bombers, freeing 250 inmates, including several top militants.

July 30, 2013
**FILE** James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, listens March 12, 2013, to testimony at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, where he testified about worldwide threats. (Associated Press)

Eric Holder prodded by ethics group to probe Clapper claims

A government watchdog group demanded Monday in a letter that Attorney General Eric Holder investigate James Clapper, accusing the intelligence head of lying about NSA intelligence collection practices during recent congressional testimony.

July 29, 2013
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears on the cover of the Aug. 1, 2013, issue of Rolling Stone magazine. (AP Photo/Wenner Media)

Actor James Woods sets Rolling Stone in Twitter target sights

Hollywood's James Woods took to Twitter to condemn a recent Rolling Stone magazine edition that seemed to glorify terrorism by splashing a rock-star-type photograph of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover.

July 29, 2013
Pope Francis celebrates a Mass attended by a reported 3 million people on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, July 28, 2013, as he wrapped up his historic trip to his home continent. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Pope Francis: ‘Who am I to judge’ gays?

Pope Francis said on Monday that he would not issue judgments against homosexual priests — a stance that run counters to his predecessor's more blunt assessment that men with gay tendencies should not have priesthood doors opened for them.

July 29, 2013
** FILE ** German Chancellor Angela Merkel, June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Tim Brakemeier)

Germany’s ‘going green’ campaign falls flat, as pollution rises

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's much-touted clean air campaign — launched with the fanfare closing of the nation's nuclear plants and a vow to lead European climate change controls – has fallen flat, as a recent report shows pollution levels have actually increased for the second year in a row.

July 29, 2013