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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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Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick, left, applauds while joining Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., at a campaign event in Boston, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez in the June 25 special election. (Associated Press)

Mass. Senate race heats as angry GOP nominee calls Ed Markey ‘pond scum’

Massachusetts Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez is outraged at how his Democratic contender, Rep. Ed Markey, is portraying him, accusing Ed Markey of low-blow politics that cross ethical lines.

May 24, 2013

** FILE ** President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address after taking the oath of office at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 1961. (Associated Press)

JFK diary reveals love affair for Germany, author finds

John F. Kennedy in his younger years thought fascism was good for Germany and that the world hated Nazis more out of jealousy, a new book recounts.

May 24, 2013

New Jersey bars busted for serving rubbing alcohol as scotch

New Jersey investigators busted out 29 bars and restaurants for switching out cheap alcohol for the more pricey brands — and in at least one case, serving rubbing alcohol in place for scotch.

May 24, 2013

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (Associated Press)

NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s gun group targets Mark Pryor with $350K ads

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun group has kept its word to go after vulnerable Republican seats, and launched on Friday a $350,000 ad campaign against Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor.

May 24, 2013

This undated image released Thursday, May 23, 2013, by the British Ministry of Defence, shows Lee Rigby known as "Riggers" to his friends, who is identified by the MOD as the serving member of the armed forces who was attacked and killed by two men in the Woolwich area of London on Wednesday. He was a drummer with the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers." (AP Photo/MOD)

Muslim cleric: ‘God destined’ for Brit soldier Lee Rigby to die in terror attack

Radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, whose fiery rhetoric has left him banned from Britain, referred to the suspected terrorists who hacked a soldier to death on a London street as "heroes" who carried out God's will.

May 24, 2013

Firemen extinguish a burning car in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a fourth consecutive night, late May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Fredrik Sandberg)

Stockholm on fire as youths burn cars, schools

Stockholm is in chaos, as hundreds of youths on Friday set fire to nearly a dozen cars, two schools and a police station as violent protests in Sweden's capital city enter their fifth day.

May 24, 2013

**FILE** Activists of a gay flash mob throw balloons into the air marking International Day Against Homophobia in Kiev on May 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

Ukranian court bans gays from holding pride parade

A Ukrainian court rejected a request from gay rights activists to hold their nation's first pride parade through the streets of Kiev, citing concerns about violence.

May 24, 2013

** FILE ** The F-22 Raptor, one of the world's most sophisticated stealth fighter jets, is at the center of a political battle in which President Obama wants to rein in dysfunctional federal defense-contracting practices. (Associated Press)

Britain scrambles fighter jets against civilian plane from Pakistan

British authorities on Friday sent fighter jets to escort a plane from Pakistan that's carrying nearly 300 passengers.

May 24, 2013

Five climbers missing, feared dead at Nepal’s Mount Kanchenjunga

Five climbers on Nepal's Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak, went missing earlier in the week and are now believed to be dead, a mountaineering chief said on Friday.

May 24, 2013

** FILE ** An Egyptian girl watches supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi during a rally in front of Cairo University, Giza, Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

Egyptian ‘honor killings’ leave mother, 2 daughters dead

A spokesman for Egypt's security force said 10 men killed a mother and her two daughters for suspected lapses in morality.

May 24, 2013

** FILE ** This Aug. 11, 2009, file photo provided by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows Matt Durham, center, pulling in a large patch of sea garbage with the help of Miriam Goldstein, right, in the Pacific Ocean. Plastics discarded by people often end up in the ocean, creating coastal pollution that harms marine life and gathers out at sea in what's become known as the great Pacific garbage patch. Now, California state lawmakers have introduced a law that if passed would require makers of plastic bottles, bags and packaging to replace plastics with more environmentally friendly alternatives. (AP Photo/ Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Mario Aguilera, File)

California lawmakers go after plastic producers for beach debris

Two California lawmakers tired of seeing beaches littered with plastic bottles and bags are casting blame on private companies and bringing forth a bill that would make manufacturers responsible for the mess.

May 24, 2013

Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis suggests atheists’ good deeds gets them to heaven

Pope Francis has sparked a religious debate with comments made earlier this week confirming atheists can indeed go to heaven.

May 24, 2013

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russian entrepreneurs while visiting a SIBUR Holding petrochemical plant in Voronezh, 534 km (334 miles) south of Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Russia rocked by magnitude 8 earthquake

Russia's Far East region was rocked on Friday by a powerful earthquake that geologists put between 8.0 and 8.2 on the Richter scale.

May 24, 2013

** FILE ** This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009, file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Russia: Syria’s agreed to peace conference ‘in principle’

Russian ministers said Friday that Syria has agreed to join a Russia-U.S. peace conference and talk about the besieged government's future — but the agreement was laced with conditions.

May 24, 2013

** FILE ** Neighbor Charles Ramsey speaks to media near the home on the 2200 block of Seymour Avenue, where three missing women were rescued in Cleveland, on Monday, May 6, 2013. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Scott Shaw)

He’s lovin’ it: Cleveland hostage hero Charles Ramsey gets year of free McDonald’s food

Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who made national headlines with his rescue of three women from his neighbor Ariel Castro's home, was awarded a year's worth of free food at McDonald's.

May 24, 2013

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaking to the media outside 10 Downing St. in London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) ** FILE **

British P.M. David Cameron demands that MI5 explain ‘what went wrong’ in Woolwich attack

British Prime Minister David Cameron is demanding intelligence and security heads explain how two Islamist terror suspects could massacre a soldier in the streets when the two had been surveillance targets of MI5 for the past eight years.

May 24, 2013

**FILE** Emergency services attend a British Airways passenger plane after it had to make an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport on May 24, 2013. (Associated Press)

Parts of London airport closed as engine fire forces emergency landing

Parts of Heathrow Airport in London were closed on Friday as a plane was forced to make an emergency landing with its engine on fire.

May 24, 2013

Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first-degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. The jury in Jodi Arias' trial was dismissed Thursday after failing to reach a unanimous decision on whether the woman they convicted of murdering her one-time boyfriend should be sentenced to life or death in a case that has captured headlines worldwide with its sex, lies, violence. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace, Pool)

Jurors give up on Jodi Arias’ sentencing case; judge orders new panel

Convicted killer Jodi Arias won't know her sentencing for weeks, as jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict and the judge sent them packing. Her new sentencing was set for July 18.

May 24, 2013

A law enforcement official from Davis County walks from the garage Thursday, May 23, 2013, at a home where two young boys were found dead Wednesday night in West Point, Utah. A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home, police said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah teen, 15, charged with killing brothers, 4 and 10

A Utah teenage boy has been arrested and charged with homicide in the death of his two adopted brothers, ages 4 and 10.

May 24, 2013

In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, rescue workers form a human chain as they begin to remove a woman who reaches out from a smashed pickup truck that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge on Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco Rodriguez)

Highway horror: Washington state bridge collapses, plunging cars into river

Three people were pulled from their cars and saved from drowning after a bridge in Washington state along a heavily traveled commuter route collapsed late Thursday.

May 24, 2013