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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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A sign telling residents about a memorial service is posted at the Convention Center in Hawthorne, Nev., near the Hawthorne Army Depot on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, where seven Marines were killed and several others seriously injured in a training accident Monday night, about 150 miles southeast of Reno in Nevada's high desert. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Hundreds turn out to mourn 7 killed Marines

Hundreds of Hawthorne-area rural residents turned out for the Tuesday evening memorial for seven Marines killed during training, laying wreaths and calling for prayers.

March 20, 2013
**FILE** President Obama applauds in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 18, 2013, during his announcement that he would nominate Thomas E. Perez (right) for Labor secretary. (Associated Press)

Democrats say GOP’s Perez stance hurts Hispanic outreach

High-ranking Democratic Party officials say Republicans will undo any good will they build up with Hispanics on immigration if they try to block Thomas E. Perez, an Hispanic lawyer whom President Obama nominated this week to run the Labor Department.

March 19, 2013
A yoga class gets a strenuous workout at a Lululemon Athletica store in Bethesda, Md.

Lululemon recalls see-through yoga pants

Lululemon Athletica, an exercise clothing manufacturer, was on target for an 11 percent sales growth this year. And then the bottom fell out — figuratively speaking.

March 19, 2013
**FILE** Sen. Dianne Feinstein seeks to reimpose weapons bans that expired in 2004. The California Democrat’s current bill would go further than her 1994 law, which was sunsetted. (Associated Press)

Harry Reid shoots down Feinstein gun-ban bill

Sen. Dianne Feinstein emerged from a closed-door meeting with Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday — but her ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines didn't.

March 19, 2013
** FILE ** President Clinton (left) watches as the Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan tees off at the Las Vegas Country Club in Las Vegas on Monday, July 28, 1997. From left are an unidentified Secret Service agent, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Jordan, Brian Greenspun, former Hawaii Gov. John Waihee and Nevada Gov. Bob Miller. (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson)

Michael Jordan paternity suit dropped

The Atlanta woman who had filed a paternity suit against former basketball sensation Michael Jordan has abruptly dropped her case.

March 19, 2013
** FILE ** In this March 30, 2010, photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. trooper stands in the turret of a vehicle with a machine gun, left, as a guard looks out from a tower at the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Gitmo commander closes down commercial flights to base

The commander at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp has halted commercial flights to the site, so Red Cross workers, journalists and lawyers now have to pay for charter flights — at pop of $17,000 per ride.

March 19, 2013