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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** Iranian vendors hold their dogs as they wait for customers at an animal vendors' weekly open air market in a suburb of Tehran on Dec. 30, 2011. (Associated Press)

Iran cracks down, sends dogs to jail

Iran authorities, fed up with dogs as pets, have began rounding them up and sending them to prison, where conditions are harsh and food is scarce.

June 27, 2013
Prosecution witness Rachel Jeantel listens as defense attorney Don West questions her during her testimony in George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole Circuit Court in Sanford, Fla., on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Mr. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Jacob Langston, Pool)

Busted: Teen witness in George Zimmerman trial can’t read own letter

A teenage girl who was called to testify in the prosecution of George Zimmerman for second-degree murder was caught in a curious predicament Thursday after it became evident she couldn't read from the very letter she claimed to have written to the mother of her friend Trayvon Martin.

June 27, 2013
A neon sign reminds patrons at a McDonald's restaurant of the 24-hour service in the Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago. The fast food chain faces increased competition from rivals with their own discounted menus, such as Taco Bell's value menu and Burger King's $1 offers.

End obesity: Tax calories, researchers say

A new report from the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that hiking prices on food could prove the nation's solution to fighting off obesity.

June 26, 2013