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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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Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who arrived in Poland on Wednesday fearing reprisals at home after criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games, holds up an Olympic-related T-shirt with the slogan "I Just Want to Run" after her news conference in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. Tsimanouskaya reached Poland by plane from Tokyo through Vienna, a circuitous route due to security concerns, days after she accused team officials of trying to force her to fly back to Belarus, where an authoritarian government has relentlessly pursued its critics. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Belarus and Democrats: Two peas in a communist pod

The international stage is afire with a story of a Belarus Olympic sprinter who fled to Warsaw after her coaches tried to stuff her on an airplane and ship her home for arrest due to her criticism of their decisions at the Tokyo Olympic games. But really, these coaches aren't so different from Democrats.

August 7, 2021
A proof of vaccination sign is posted at a bar in San Francisco on Thursday, July 29, 2021. Until now, many employers had taken a passive approach to their unvaccinated workers, relying outreach and incentives. But that has been shifting, with vaccine mandates gaining momentum. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

Vaccine-mandating our way merrily toward communism

The spirit of America is being blotted and bludgeoned by an angry pro-vaccine crowd that wants to strip away an entire chunk of freedom in one coronavirus-crying fell swoop: that of informed consent.

August 5, 2021
A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Thursday, July 22, 2021, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The number of Americans getting a COVID-19 vaccine has been rising in recent days as virus cases once again surge and officials raise dire warnings about the consequences of remaining unvaccinated. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Pete Parada, Offspring drummer, segregated by vaccine tyrants

Pete Parada, drummer of The Offspring, has been kicked off his band's back-to-business, back-to-near-normalcy, post-coronavirus tour because he refuses -- for personal medical decisions made in part with his personal medical doctor -- to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

August 4, 2021
A supervisor sews the stars to finish the assembly of the American flag at North American Manufacturing on June 28, 2021, in Scranton, Pa. Since 2016, the staff at North American Manufacturing on Barring Avenue has meticulously produced about 8,000 full-size American flags each year, which are sold to the Defense Logistics Agency and awarded to government retirees. (Jason Farmer/The Times-Tribune via AP) ** FILE **

The two Americas: Collectivists vs. individualists

If there were a line that could be drawn to show the precise crossing into America's demise, then the mental figurings that form the accusatory and hostile arguments against those who are reluctant to take the COVID-19 vaccine are it. It's the crossing from individualism into collectivism.

August 3, 2021
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison adjusts his mask during the announcement of a COVID-19 financial support package in Sydney, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Morrison announced added financial support for businesses and households as Sydney appears increasingly likely to enter a fourth week of lockdown due to coronavirus clusters. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australia goes full-steam police state on coronavirus clampdowns

Australia has gone a bit off the deep end with coronavirus clampdowns, sending police in helicopters to buzz by people who are congregating and blare through bull horns a warning of fines to come if they don't disperse. America, take note.

August 2, 2021
An oil tanker owned by Irving Oil is pushed toward a dock by tugboats Friday, April 23, 2021, in South Portland, Maine. On the second day of a virtual summit hosted by the White House, the United States and other nations are discussing ways to ramp up renewable energy development while decreasing the world's dependency on fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Climate scientists prepare to clamp down on the world’s freedoms

We're still battling the coronavirus tyrants. Now come the climate authoritarians. More than 200 climate scientists are gathering to take the lessons learning from the coronavirus, meaning the idea that fear sells and sells well, and apply them to the field of environmental regulation.

July 26, 2021
A health care workers register Evelyn Pereira, left, and her daughter Soile Reyes, 12, of Brooklyn, for an appointment for the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine while they wait in the observation area after being vaccinated, Thursday, July 22, 2021, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The museum moved their vaccination site from the Hall of Ocean Life where the famous 94-foot-long model of a blue whale is hanging from the ceiling to a smaller adjacent gallery. New York City is closing the big vaccination sites to focus on areas with low vaccination rates. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Coronavirus vaccine wordplay: Defining ‘effective’ proves elusive

If the coronavirus vaccines are so effective -- "highly effective," as Anthony Fauci has claimed -- then why do the vaccinated test positive so frequently for COVID? This is just one of the questions that needs to be addressed by health authorities pushing the vaccine.

July 24, 2021
Women wearing face masks shop at an American fashion boutique in Beijing on Sunday, July 11, 2021. China on Tuesday, July 13, denounced an appeal by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for a U.S.-European "unified front" against Chinese "unfair economic practices" and human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Face masks will never go away until Americans say no

Well, memo to all who are on the fence about face masks: They aren't going to go away until the people of the United States make them go away. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not the enemy here. Politicized, weaponized science is the real threat.

July 23, 2021
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. From left, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

America’s schools are breeding grounds for socialists

Abolitionist Teaching Network, the group President Biden's administration cited as part of its recommendations for in-person instruction this fall, is so left of left that it makes the Democratic Socialists of America -- another group that's infiltrated the public schools -- seem moderate.

July 22, 2021
Talk radio host Michael Savage (middle) hopes President Trump will act to remove his name from a list of undesirables banned in Britain. (Michael Savage) ** FILE **

Michael Savage, Donald Trump: America ‘melting down’ under Joe Biden

Radio and podcast great Michael Savage, in an exclusive interview with Donald Trump, asked the former president if he agreed that the country was "melting down" under the Democrat President Biden, and the paraphrased answer -- perhaps not so surprisingly -- was yes, yes and yes again. But even that's an understatement.

July 21, 2021
In this Dec. 3, 2020, file photo, students wearing face masks work on computers at Tibbals Elementary School in Murphy, Texas. A new poll from The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most parents fear that their children are falling behind in school while at home during the pandemic (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Science has flown the coop

Once upon a coronavirus time, Americans were told to just follow the science -- that the science was true and the science was pure and that it was the science and only the science that would lead to freedom and safety and normalcy. It was such a nice fantasy, while it lasted, yes?

July 20, 2021
President Joe Biden eats ice cream as he visits Moomers Homemade Ice Cream, Saturday, July 3, 2021, in Traverse City, Mich. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden sure can wield an ice cream cone

President Biden celebrated national ice cream day by posing for a selfie with a large cone in his hand and posting it to social media. Not a great look for a president who's already struggling with a perception that screams "weak."

July 19, 2021
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021. White House press secretary Jen Psaki listens at left. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Attorneys are failing America

In a proper American world, the courts would be overfilled right now with class action fights against coronavirus vaccine mandates -- against employers, against colleges, against entertainment directors trying to force the shot onto unwilling citizens. But they're not.

July 16, 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, testifies before a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) ** FILE **

Dr. Fauci strangely silent on sudden death of vaccinated boy, 13

Dr. Anthony Fauci wants America to know that the coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective, and everyone over the age of 12 should get the shot. Just don't talk about that little 13-year-old Michigan boy who died in his sleep three days after receiving his second Pfizer vaccine dose.

July 15, 2021
In this July 13, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden delivers a speech on voting rights at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden’s voting lies

President Biden, in a speech from Philadelphia, characterized those who want to tighten state voting laws as Ku Klux Klan types. It's what Democrats do -- accuse others of that which they themselves are guilty. Biden was lying his butt off so he had to point to others as lying.

July 14, 2021
In this Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, file photo, the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 is administered at the Arizona Department of Health Services State Laboratory in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

What’s up with this vaccine?

As if a good percentage of America weren't already reluctant to take a COVID-19 shot that's still only authorized for emergency use -- meaning, still experimental, still needful of vetting -- now come the tyrants.

July 14, 2021
Cuban exiles rally at Versailles restaurant in Miami's Little Havana in support of protesters in Cuba as thousands of Cubans took to the streets in rare protests Sunday, July 11, 2021, to complain about a lack of freedom and a worsening economic situation. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP)

Cuba is the dream of the Democrats

If only Democrats would listen to the throngs of anti-communist protesters marching through Cuba right now -- perhaps then they'd quit their own socialist-slash-communist leanings and pleadings and get with the liberty playbook program. But they won't.

July 13, 2021