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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

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Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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** FILE ** In this Feb. 11, 2012, photo, panda reaches for Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, China. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld)

FedEx special delivery: Panda bears en route to Canada

A few hundred pounds of bamboo, another hundred or so pounds of bamboo shoots, some apples, some water and voila — you've got everything it takes to ship a couple of panda bears by land and sea, from China to Canada.

March 25, 2013
** FILE ** Starbucks Corp., based in Seattle, hopes its new venture into instant coffee, Via, will be as prevalent in stores as its packaged coffee is now. The Starbucks instant comes in just shy of a $1 a cup, compared with the pennies a cup of home-brewed joe can cost. (Associated Press)

Taxpayers shell out thousands for lawmakers’ coffee, doughnuts

Have you thanked your taxpayer today? Maybe that should be the sign hanging above coffee machines in Capitol Hill offices. Lawmakers are spending thousands of taxpayer dollars on coffee, snacks and catered food services, USA Today reports.

March 25, 2013
Democratic Assemblyman Joe Cryan. (Screen shot from http://www.njleg.state.nj.us)

New Jersey Democrat Joe Cryan’s political star falls with sexually graphic emails

A New Jersey politician may have just traded his rising star status for a notation on the Democratic Party's blacklist. Emails obtained by The New York Post paint Democrat Assemblyman Joe Cryan in a most compromising position. He reportedly traded about 150 emails with lobbyist Karen Golding expressing his interest in kinky sexual activities — bondage, spanking and the like.

March 25, 2013
Lady Gaga (Associated Press)

University of California course work: LGBTQ views of pop music

University of California students needing to a quick music course to fill out their credit requirements for graduation have an option this summer: Take the "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Perspectives in Pop Music" class.

March 25, 2013
** FILE ** This Sept. 27, 2010, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, shows a U.S. military guard walking a corridor between detainee cells at the Parwan detention facility near Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

U.S. hands over Bagram prison in Afghanistan

The United States has ceded control of its last prison in Afghanistan, the informally dubbed Bagram facility, bringing an end to two years of strained relations and disputes over which country controls prisoners.

March 25, 2013