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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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**FILE** Gun dealer Mel Bernstein fires his AK-47 assault rifle on full automatic at his own Dragonman's shooting range and gun store, east of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Feb. 5, 2013. (Associated Press)

Gun-free zone: Comcast cable blacklists gun-related ads

Comcast Spotlight, the advertising and sales division for Comcast Cable, has halted all ads having to do with guns on its nationwide network.

February 19, 2013

President Obama speaks at a campaign event at the Fifth Third Arena on the University of Cincinnati campus on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ohio poll worker who admits voting twice for Obama may have voted six times

A Cincinnati poll worker admitted to an Ohio television station earlier this month she voted twice for President Obama in November. But now authorities think she voted more like six times in the election, and they've added her name to a list of 19 they're investigating for voter fraud.

February 19, 2013

** FILE ** In this Nov. 25, 2012, file photo, former Sen. Alan K. Simpson (left) and Erskine Bowles were co-chairmen of President Obama’s deficit-reduction commission and have formed a new group called Fix the Debt to press for a solution to the nation’s severe deficit problem. (Associated Press)

Déjà vu: Tax code talks come to Capitol Hill with 2010 players

Scratch past the surface of a proposed tax code overhaul and deficit-reduction plan shaping up Tuesday on Capitol Hill and it's clear: It's déjà vu, all over again.

February 19, 2013

** FILE ** President Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres share a toast after Mr. Obama presented Mr. Peres with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a dinner in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, June 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Israel’s Shimon Peres to award Obama medal of distinction

Israeli President Shimon Peres said President Obama will be awarded one of Israel's highest honors, the Presidential Medal of Distinction, when Mr. Obama visits in March.

February 19, 2013

** FILE ** People look at firearm displays at the Sports Connection Gun Show at the Modern Living Building at State Fair Park in Yakima, Wash., on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Yakima Herald-Republic, TJ Mullinax)

Sheriffs can inspect homes for safe gun storage in Washington state under Democratic weapon bill

A new bill working through Washington state's legislature would allow local sheriffs to enter homes of gun owners to ensure their weapons are properly stored.

February 19, 2013

** FILE ** In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, an Electronic Benefit Transfer card, which food stamp recipients use to purchase food, is seen at the Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Illegal immigrants on food stamps won’t face slower citizenship path: USDA

Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been quietly assuring illegal immigrants that taking food stamps and other government assistance won't slow their paths toward citizenship.

February 19, 2013

** FILE ** Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a miniature copy of his country's constitution during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela, on Oct. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Hugo Chavez sent back to Venezuela to die, report says

Spanish media is saying that cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been sent back to his country to die — not to recover from successful treatment received in Cuba, as previously and widely reported.

February 19, 2013

Rail cars transport coal to energy providers across the U.S. Environmentalists are trying to keep the fossil fuel inside the nation's borders and take responsibility for carbon emissions. (Associated Press)

Coal regulations push Britain to ‘near-crisis’ of energy costs, supplies

Britain is facing an energy shortage that will see household costs for heat and light rise by as much as 60 percent, according to one industry regulator.

February 19, 2013

Red light camera at the intersection of Route 1 and Franklin Street in Alexandria, Va.

Red-light camera backlash builds as drivers feel the pinch

Fifteen years ago, red-light cameras were a rarity. Now, 24 states and Washington, D.C., use them with regularity — and backlash is starting to build.

February 19, 2013

Olympian Oscar Pistorius stands following his bail hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Pistorius fired into the door of a small bathroom where his girlfriend was cowering after a shouting match on Valentine's Day, hitting her three times, a South African prosecutor said Tuesday as he charged the sports icon with premeditated murder. (AP Photo)

Oscar Pistorius scared girlfriend into hiding before shooting her, prosecutor says

Olympian track star Oscar Pistorius faced prosecutors Tuesday, who alleged he purposely shot and killed his celebrity model girlfriend following a shouting match that left her cowering and hiding behind a bathroom door.

February 19, 2013

**FILE** Postmaster General and CEO Patrick R. Donahoe speaks Feb. 6, 2013, during a news conference at U.S. Postal Service headquarters in Washington. The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to disburse packages six days a week. (Associated Press)

Broke U.S. Postal Service paying $2M for conference, golf, party

Four hundred U.S. Postal Service executives are heading to San Francisco next month for workshops, meetings — and a dance party.

February 19, 2013

**FILE** Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore talks during an interview on Jan. 29, 2013, in New York. Gore, who takes aim in his new book at the corporate media for "suffocating the free flow of ideas," defended the sale of his own television channel to Al-Jazeera. (Associated Press)

Help wanted: Al-Jazeera marks expansion to U.S. with hiring spree

It's been years in making, but Al-Jazeera has finally joined the ranks of Washington, D.C.-based cable news operations.

February 19, 2013

Baggage carts make their way past a Helvetic Airways aircraft from which millions' of dollars worth of diamonds were stolen on the tarmac of Brussels international airport, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Diamond heist at Brussels airport nets thieves a $50M bounty

It's the stuff of movies. Thieves cut through a hole in a security fence at Brussels' international airport, drove down the tarmac and stole $50 million worth of diamonds that were stored on a plane headed for Switzerland.

February 19, 2013

** FILE ** Two gay men hold hands during Christopher Street Day celebrations in Weimar, Germany, on July 16, 2011. (AP Photo/dpa, Michael Reichel)

Germany’s highest court strengthens gay adoption rights

Germany's highest court ruled Tuesday that one gay member of a couple could adopt his or her partner's stepchild or adopted child — a significant judicial boost to the nation's same-sex adoption law

February 19, 2013

A Chinese policeman stands in front of fellow officers confronting residents who gathered outside the government office in Zhejiang province's Ningbo city on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, to protest the proposed expansion of a petrochemical factory. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Meet China’s super-secret military hacking unit

Cyberattacks on dozens of U.S. firms have been traced back to a small, nondescript Chinese military unit quietly working in a similarly unimpressive setting — a dull office building just outside Shanghai.

February 19, 2013

**FILE** House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 4, 2013, a day after the new Congress opened for business. (Associated Press)

Nancy Pelosi says drone strikes on Americans can stay secret

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the White House doesn't necessarily have to confess to killing American citizens by unarmed drones.

February 18, 2013

** FILE ** A school bus arrives to drop off students in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. A strike by New York City school bus drivers that had been threatened for weeks will start Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, affecting 152,000 students, the president of the union representing the drivers announced on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NYC taxpayers tapped for $20M in costs over union strike

New York City taxpayers spent an estimated $20.6 million to get tens of thousands of stranded students to school, during a monthlong strike by the bus workers' union that began Jan. 16 and ended Friday.

February 18, 2013

Russian lawmaker’s body found stuffed in barrel of cement

Investigators have discovered the body of a 36-year-old Russian lawmaker stuffed into a barrel of cement and are working off the theory he was killed because of unpaid debts.

February 18, 2013

** FILE ** Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy (left) poses for a photo after protesters marched to President Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago on Monday, May 21, 2012, the final day of the NATO summit. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago police chief: Second Amendment supporters guilty of corruption

Chicago's chief of police can't seem to avoid controversy over his statements related to gun control.

February 18, 2013

Dressed to kill: MIT scientists forging new uniform to help soldiers communicate on the battlefield

Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are fine-tuning a fiber invention that could soon see soldiers speaking to each other — by speaking into their field jackets.

February 18, 2013