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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 Alaska governor Sarah Palin speaks during the final day of the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in Fort Washington, Md. on March 16, 2013. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/Special to The Washington Times)

Sarah Palin slams John Kerry yacht brouhaha: Government again ‘lied to us’

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin issued a scathing Facebook denouncement of how the State Department handled the fact that Secretary John Kerry was aboard his yacht at the very time Egypt was ousting President Mohammed Morsi — first by denying, then by admitting. She characterized it as a worrisome deception.

July 9, 2013
** FILE ** Travelers wait in security checkpoint lines before boarding planes at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Feb. 25, 2013. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

TSA taps decorated, disabled Marine for extra scrutiny

A retired, disabled U.S. Marine in full dress and donned with numerous medals was flagged by federal security agents at a California airport for wearing "too much metal," and pulled to the side for additional scrutiny — even asked to lift his arms, despite an injury that made doing so impossible.

July 9, 2013
**FILE** This undated photo shows Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage. (Associated Press/Bell County Sheriff's Department via The Temple Daily Telegram)

Nidal Hasan’s Fort Hood shooting trial enters jury selection

Jury selection for the Fort Hood shooting massacre starts Tuesday, bringing victims and witnesses in the 2009 incident one step closer to an uncomfortable twist: Suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan, acting as his own defense attorney, will get to pose questions to those who take the stand.

July 9, 2013
Images from the video provided by Hennes Paynter Communications shows from left: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. The three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade broke their public silence in a 3-minute, 30-second video posted on YouTube at midnight Monday July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Hennes Paynter Communications)

Cleveland kidnap victims take to YouTube: Thank you

The three women who spent nearly a decade locked in a Cleveland, Ohio, house took to YouTube to express their thanks to a public that smoothed their escape, respected their privacy and prayed for their recovery.

July 9, 2013
Burned-out railroad tanker cars and the smouldering remains of businesses in downtown of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, are seen on Sunday, July 7, 2013. A runaway train on Saturday derailed, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed the town's business district. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)

40 still missing in Canadian train wreck

Investigators still were trying on Monday to locate about 40 people who were involved in a fatal train wreck over the weekend in a small Canadian town.

July 8, 2013
Actor Jim Carrey arrives at the world premiere of the feature film "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on March 11, 2013. (Dan Steinberg/Invision/Associated Press) **FILE**

Jim Carrey to gun owners: Sorry for calling you names

Hollywood's Jim Carrey — known for his vitriolic put-downs of gun owners and for a somewhat bizarre denouncement of a very violent flick he just starred in — now has issued an apology to the very same segment of society he publicly disdains.

July 8, 2013

Nevada cops sued for storming home they wanted for lookout

A Nevada family's lawsuit against police claims they stormed one man's home to use it for a lookout site for a criminal investigation of a nearby residence, shot the owner and owner's dog with pepperball rounds, and committed a slew of other Third Amendment offenses.

July 8, 2013
Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against the military near Cairo University, where protesters have installed their camp in Giza, southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

To fund or not to fund: Congress bickers on Egypt

Congress can't find consensus on the fate of $1.5 billion that the United States gives to Egypt, with some saying keep the status quo and others saying, no, the America people should not be funneling money to a country that's just underwent a military coup.

July 8, 2013