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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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In this satellite photo released by Planet Labs Inc., North Korea's main nuclear complex is seen in Yongbyon, North Korea, just north of the capital, Pyongyang, July 27, 2021. North Korea appears to have restarted the operation of its main nuclear reactor used to produce weapons fuels, the U.N. atomic agency said, as the North openly threatens to enlarge its nuclear arsenal amid long-dormant nuclear diplomacy with the United States. In the image, North Korea's 5-megawatt nuclear reactor is seen to the building to the north, while the experimental light water reactor is the building with the circular feature atop it to the south. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP) ** FILE **

North Korea, right on cue, ramps up nuclear pursuits

The headlines speak volumes: "North Korean nuclear reactor used for plutonium production appears active, IAEA says," CNN wrote, and "Notorious North Korea Nuclear Reactor Reportedly Back Up and Running," The Daily Beast reported. President Biden's legacy of weakness continues.

August 30, 2021
Afghan people who were transported from Afghanistan to Madrid, embark on an U.S. military airplane that will transport them to Germany, at the Torrejon military base as part of the evacuation process in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrea Comas)

America, on Afghanistan, lost moral standing

America's always been the good guy. America's the country of charity, the nation of aid and assistance, the people who fight the good fight, ride the white horse, help the helpless. But now, thanks to the Biden White House, America's wearing a coat of shame called betrayal.

August 28, 2021
In this Monday, April 12, 2021, file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks in Times Square after he toured the grand opening of a Broadway COVID-19 vaccination site intended to jump-start the city's entertainment industry, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

Democrats, party of tyrants: ‘Reward of vaccination is freedom’

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told CBS "This Morning" audiences that "the reward of vaccination is freedom" and to those who don't play -- too bad. "Tragically," he said, "if you don't get vaccinated, you're going to be left out." Democrats are such tyrants.

August 26, 2021
Supporters of a bill that would prohibit public and private employers from requiring vaccinations or punishing workers who don't receive them rally in favor of the legislation demonstrate outside the Ohio Statehouse, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. The legislation, which had an additional hearing Tuesday with no vote scheduled, has found support among some who do not want to take a coronavirus vaccine, but it also covers all other vaccines. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)

Employers buck COVID-19 vaccine mandates

Gab News, in an email, wrote: "In light of the Biden Administration encouraging employers to mandate vaccines ... Gab has created a No Vax Mandate Job Board group." More Gab, please.

August 25, 2021
Dolphin Bay Elementary School kindergarten student Isabela Osorio gets an assist with her mask from her sister Valentina and Assistant Principal Janet Blano Soto, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2021, in Miramar, Fla. More than 261,000 Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) students headed back to school to begin the 2021/22 school year. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Florida schools forcing face masks deny parents’ rights

Leon County Schools has joined a growing list of districts in Florida that are outright rebelling against Gov. Ron DeSantis and his executive order prohibiting the forced face-masking of students returning to the classrooms. It's really a rebellion against parental authorities, though.

August 24, 2021
In this Monday, Aug. 16, 2021 file photo U.S. soldiers stand guard along the perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hundreds of Western nationals and Afghan workers have been flown to safety since the Taliban reasserted control over the country. Yet still unprotected, and in hiding, are untold numbers of Afghans who tried to build a fledgling democracy. They include Afghans who worked with foreign forces, and who are now stranded and being hunted by the Taliban, along with aid workers.(AP Photo/Shekib Rahmani, File) **FILE**

Taliban will only grow stronger, more violent as time ticks on

The fall of Afghanistan into the hands of the Taliban shows America as a land of betrayers, positions China for its next step toward world dominance and guarantees that violence, bloodshed and oppression will be the ruling order of the day in this nation of tribes.

August 21, 2021
In this July 31, 2021, file photo, a sign recommends attendees of the Newport Jazz Festival wear masks in a tented area where singer Ledisi performs in Newport, R.I. Festival-goers were also required to digitally upload proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative test. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien, File)

Counterfeit vaccine cards will lead to total government surveillance

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced its officers at a port in Alaska recently seized thousands of fake COVID-19 vaccination cards that came from China. The seizure opens the door for government to go forward with the technological tracking of U.S. citizens.

August 20, 2021
Wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, elementary school students line up to enter school for the first day of classes in Richardson, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. Despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order banning mask mandates by local officials, the Richardson Independent School District and many others across the state are requiring masks for students. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

If only Dems were as tough on terrorists as on conservatives

Democrats will do whatever it takes to use this coronavirus for control and political advantage, even if it means hunkering in huddles behind closed doors to come up with any creative idea -- any ol' idea will do! -- to defy a GOP leader, to buck conservatives, to stop individualism.

August 19, 2021
Taliban fighters patrol in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. The Taliban declared an "amnesty" across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government Tuesday, seeking to convince a wary population that they have changed a day after deadly chaos gripped the main airport as desperate crowds tried to flee the country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Democrats, party of women’s rights, leave Afghans in deep, dire distress

Democrats are supposed to be the party where the beleaguered find solace and the burdened find equality -- where the women, Blacks and LGBTQs, for instance, turn when the mean ol' Republicans get all misogynist and hateful and racist on them. But for the poor, pushed-aside women of Afghanistan, it's all talk, no walk.

August 18, 2021
Taliban fighters stand guard in front of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. Thousands of people packed into the Afghan capital's airport on Monday, rushing the tarmac and pushing onto planes in desperate attempts to flee the country after the Taliban overthrew the Western-backed government. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan shows utter folly of Democrats

For a brief moment in time -- four years, four Donald Trump years -- the world's heads of state respected America; the nation's limited government types took a refreshing breather. Then came President Biden, fresh from his basement, and within months, chaos.

August 17, 2021
President Joe Biden helps first lady Jill Biden as they board Marine One to depart Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Joe Biden does a Barack Obama and flees accountability

Rome burns as Nero fiddles. Afghanistan churns as President Biden vacations. But what to expect from a man who campaigned for the highest office in the land from the safety and security of his man-cave basement

August 16, 2021
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announces that all state workers must be vaccinated or face weekly testing for COVID-19 as he speaks to reporters inside the Patrick Henry Building in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)./Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Fear plus false figures equals Democrat coronavirus control

Once upon a time, critical thinking used to be a prized trait. Not any more. Fear -- the emotion that by nature causes irrational, impulsive and oft-erroneous thinking and behavior -- has taken root of America and ridden roughshod over constitutional and God-given rights.

August 14, 2021
This Nov. 19, 2013, file photo shows a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logo at the agency's federal headquarters in Atlanta. In a growing medical mystery, a person who died in July 2021 in Georgia has been confirmed as the fourth U.S. case this year of an illness called meliodosis caused by bacteria from South Asia. On Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent an alert about the latest case to U.S. doctors. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

CDC tees up next mass hysteria

The CDC just warned that a new tropical disease, a rare tropical disease, a new and rare and hardly ever-before-seen tropical disease, has come to America's soil. And now two people have died. And the scary part is: More people could die. A lockdown of the nation seems warranted.

August 12, 2021
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, is followed by his daughter Michaela Kennedy Cuomo, from left, Office Director Stephanie Benton and former Executive Secretary Melissa DeRosa as they prepare to board a helicopter after announcing Cuomo's resignation, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in New York. Cuomo says he will resign over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations. The three-term Democratic governor's decision, which will take effect in two weeks, was announced as momentum built in the Legislature to remove him by impeachment. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Andrew Cuomo, consummate narcissist, bows out by blaming women

Andrew Cuomo, what a guy. He may be a serial sexual harasser -- allegedly -- but he's got a real "looking out for you, kid" persona. And guess what: He very likely, quite possibly, almost certainly, maybe and perhaps thinks he still has a chance to pursue his political career.

August 11, 2021
President Joe Biden takes off his mask as he arrives to speak about the coronavirus pandemic in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. The U.S. has donated and shipped more than 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to more than 60 countries, ranging from Afghanistan to Zambia, the White House announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Joe Biden’s own Delaware homies hit back hard at vaccine mandates

Hundreds of Delaware medical professionals and their supporters are bucking a mandate from the state's largest hospital that all employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. These are President Joe Biden's home state people.

August 10, 2021
In this March 18, 2020, file photo, Harry Powell, of Lexington, Ky., works to change the marquee at the Kentucky Theatre in Lexington, Ky., The Kentucky Theatre will be closed following an executive order from Gov. Andy Beshear asking all public-facing businesses to close to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. (Alex Slitz/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP, File)

Make way for more lockdowns

The Democrats and the socialists and communists and cultural Marxists masquerading as members of the Democratic Party, in collaboration with the globalists at the World Economic Forum and elsewhere, are rapidly pushing America into a second lockdown.

August 10, 2021
Former U.S. President Barack Obama gesture as he attends the "values-based leadership" during a plenary session of the Gathering of Rising Leaders in the Asia Pacific, organized by the Obama Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Dec. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) ** FILE **

Barack Obama gets his ‘Birthday Bitch’ on

Barack Obama, former president, just spent his 60th birthday with friends, family and fawning celebrity types at a bash on Martha's Vineyard. Not unexpected. And according to reports, he grooved to the song "Birthday Bitch" performed live by guest Trap Beckham. A bit unexpected.

August 9, 2021