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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” 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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Voters remain wary of government "experts and intellectuals" according to new findings from veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen. (Associated Press)

Intellectuals are proving bad for America

What a joy it is to be part of the intelligentsia these days, where words can mean whatever is wanted and data can be manipulated to show whatever is desired. But formal education should never be mistaken for critical thinking. Higher education should never supplant common sense.

March 5, 2022
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures during a news conference after announcing a $20 million dollar program to create cybersecurity opportunities through the Florida Center for Cybersecurity at the University of South Florida Wednesday, March 2, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis smacks down ‘COVID theater’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told a group of students to take off their face masks, and then he chastised, "We've got to stop with this COVID theater." The fact only some students, not all, removed them shows how deep the cultural damage from the left's exploitation of COVID fear has gone.

March 4, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations after touring a Clayco Corporation construction site for a Microsoft data center in Elk Grove Village, Ill., on Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Senate Republicans wield teeny-weeny twig on vaccine mandates

The U.S. Senate, with a Republican-dominated voice of 49 to 44, passed a resolution to block Joe Biden's presidentially decreed coronavirus shot mandates for healthcare workers. Republicans are calling it a victory. But it's not. Not really.

March 3, 2022
President Joe Biden is greeted by Democrats after delivering his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. (Jabin Botsford, Pool via AP) (Jabin Botsford, Pool via AP)

Biden, Democrats fail to deliver on Americans’ top concerns

A new poll from Pew Research found that the top priority for Americans was "strengthening the economy," followed by "reducing health care costs," dealing with the coronavirus and, in fourth place, "improving education." In other words: Democrats are in serious trouble.

March 3, 2022
German Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), arrives for the opening Davos Agenda 2022, in Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. The Davos Agenda, from 17 to 21 January 2022, is an online edition due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak gather global leaders to shape the principles, policies and partnerships needed in this challenging context. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

WEF reaches for more socialist controls on U.S. businesses

The World Economic Forum in a recent post on its website cheered the success of its partners in moving businesses the world over away from a shareholder model and toward a stakeholder system -- meaning, away from a capitalist market and toward socialism. America, beware.

March 2, 2022
In this photo taken from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. Street fighting broke out in Ukraine's second-largest city Sunday, and Russian troops put increasing pressure on strategic ports in the country's south following a wave of attacks on airfields and fuel facilities elsewhere that appeared to mark a new phase of Russia's invasion. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelenskyy is what Biden should be

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is strong, resolute, determined, courageous and unflappable in the face of oncoming Russians led by a communist ex-KGBer who has vowed to murder him and bring the country of Ukraine to its knees. He's what U.S. President Biden is not.

March 1, 2022
A Jackson Public School student receives a bandage on the arm after receiving a children's dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from a nurse, at a vaccination station in Jackson, Miss., Feb. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) ** FILE **

Another ballyhooed COVID-19 shot bites the dust

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that was supposed to protect kids ages 5 to 11 from catching the virus with a 68% efficacy rate has now been outed as nearly ineffective. Its efficacy rate is actually only, get this, 12%. Another day, another one bites the dust.

March 1, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks about the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, in Washington. U.S. and European officials are holding one key financial sanction against Russia in reserve. They're choosing not to boot Russia off SWIFT, the dominant system for global financial transactions. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

America, under Biden, is dropping the foreign policy ball

It's a fast-moving scene in and near Ukraine, but no matter the advance of Russian troops, the theme doesn't change: A weak America emboldens the world's hostile players. It's largely President Biden's fault.

February 26, 2022
In this Jan. 20, 2010, file photo, a subject's waist is measured during an obesity prevention study in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

America’s real COVID-19 ‘national emergency’ is fatness

President BIden just expanded the national emergency declaration of COVID-19. Why? It's all political theater, political deception, political hucksters imposing political hoaxes on the people. The data doesn't justify keeping Americans on pins and needles about the coronavirus.

February 22, 2022
Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Hillary Clinton can’t move past her victim mentality

Hillary Clinton, in a speech before the New York Democratic Convention, decried how "they've been coming after me again lately." If Clinton is really poised to reenter politics and take a White House run, she might want to lose the victim card.

February 19, 2022
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, April 23, 2021. On Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, Georgia’s state Senate voted to erect a monument to U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Georgia native Thomas. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Clarence Thomas, to Washington Post, is ‘White’ thinker

The Washington Post just put out a "clarification" about a report within its own pages that referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as someone "whose rulings often resemble the thinking of White conservatives." As opposed to -- what?

February 18, 2022
Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser and director of the NIAID, participates in the White House COVID-19 Response Team's regular call with the National Governors Association in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Dr. Fauci wants America forever chained

Dr. Anthony Fauci just said there was no definite number of coronavirus cases, coronavirus hospitalizations, coronavirus deaths or coronavirus recoveries that could serve to mark an end to the pandemic.

February 17, 2022
A screen shows Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), during a remote panel titled "COVID 19: What's Next?" at the Davos Agenda 2022, in Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

Americans finally putting scientists back in their subservient place

A new Pew poll finds that Americas across all political walks have lost trust in scientists, and now wonder whether these brainiacs truly have in mind and hold in heart the best interests of the people. Well, it's about time. As gate guards of truth go, scientists truly suck at their jobs.

February 17, 2022
FILE - Alison Collins, right, speaks during a meeting in San Francisco, on Sept. 26, 2018. In a city with the lowest percentage of children of all major American cities, school board elections in San Francisco have often been an afterthought. A special election on Feb. 15, 2022, will decide the fate of three school board members, all Democrats, including Collins, in a vote that has divided the famously liberal city. (Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

San Francisco parents show school board who’s the boss

San Francisco voters ousted three school board members, and did so with a wide enough margin to send a strong message to other power-grabbing bureaucrats around the nation. Parents are tired of school officials who think they know best how to raise kids.

February 16, 2022
President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about the coronavirus pandemic in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Aug. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

COVID-19 emergency declarations must end now

The White House, in the coming days, will make a decision on whether or not to continue a couple of the emergency declarations tied to COVID-19. It's high time to stop with the hysteria. The coronavirus hasn't been an emergency for the general public for a very, very long time.

February 15, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks in support of changing the Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, at Atlanta University Center Consortium, on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, Jan. 11, 2022, in Atlanta. With the November elections creeping up and Republicans imposing new restrictions on ballot access, Biden has no easy options for safeguarding voting rights despite rising pressure from frustrated activists. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden’s own party doesn’t want him

More than half of Americans who vote Democrat say Joe Biden should not run for a second presidential term. Cue Sally Field, with a twist: They hate me -- they really hate me.

February 14, 2022