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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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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk out to participate in a pardoning ceremony of the national Thanksgiving turkeys Waddle and Gobble, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Thankful that Democrats aren’t in charge

It's Thanksgiving, and what Americans should most be thankful for is that Democrats don't control the White House, the Senate and the House. That's because we can mostly all eat turkey and cranberry sauce in peace.

November 27, 2025
President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Bold and Blunt video: America’s potentially entangling foreign alliances

President Trump has been a busy bee of foreign policy of late, forging peace and economic deals while upholding America First principles. But if religious freedom were to be a standard of business dealings, then the question emerges: Is America on a safe path for long-term liberty?

November 22, 2025
FILE - President Donald Trump talks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Jerusalem. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP, file)

Zohran Mamdani deserves middle finger treatment for ICC remarks

Zohran Mamdani, newly elected mayor of New York City, says he will uphold an International Criminal Court warrant and arrest Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes should the prime minister ever set foot in the Big Apple. So no more in-person U.N. headquarters meetings for Bibi?

November 19, 2025
Jaqueline Benitez puts away groceries at her home in Bellflower, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Benitez, 21, who works as a preschool teacher, depends on California's SNAP benefits to help pay for food, and starting in March she expects a significant cut, perhaps half, of the $250 in food benefits she has received since 2020. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner) ** FILE **

Food stamp money better spent for business growth

U.S. taxpayers spent nearly $65 billion for eight months' worth of food stamps, according to data compiled by the Pew Research Center. Seems like it'd be cheaper to send that money to businesses so they can expand and go on hiring sprees and all those taking the taxpayer dime can buy their own food.

November 18, 2025
Pedestrian walks outside the BBC Headquarters in London, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

BBC’s Apology, Not Apology

A genuine apology requires a fix of the damages, if possible. And apologizing for damages, while simultaneously suggesting there really aren't any damages, is about as Not Apology as it comes.

November 17, 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, and Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman, attend a meeting with the local community and police leaders following the announcement of a new police task force to help officers tackle grooming gangs, in Rochdale, England. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP, File)

WATCH: U.K. grooming gangs are warnings to U.S.

Seven men were just convicted in the U.K. for sexually abusing two teenage girls over the course of several years, between 2001 and 2006. The men were part of a massive grooming gang scandal that has darkened that U.K. landscape for years -- albeit the coverup has continued for just as long.

November 15, 2025
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins arrives before President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ** FILE **

Oh, SNAP! 186,000 dead people got tax dollars for food

After discovering 186,000 dead men, women and children were receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is going to make all recipients reapply.

November 14, 2025
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and GOP leaders, from left, Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., blame the government shutdown on Democrats during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrat ‘snobbery’ due to atheistic beliefs

Chris Matthews of former MSNBC news host fame said that a big reason working class Americans have started voting more for Republicans and supporting President Donald Trump is that the Democrat Party has become too snobby. Well, that's certainly true. But that's only part of the story.

November 14, 2025
Marxists and Race in America illustration by The Washington Times

Bold and Blunt: Marxists at the door

The election of Zohran Mamdani to New York City mayor doesn't just say something about a local government or a local citizenry, or even a local culture. It speaks to American society at-large because the U.S.A. of a couple decades ago never would have accepted a card-carrying socialist with open antisemitism as the leader of a free city.

November 14, 2025
A woman wearing an American Red Cross shirt is seen during a service for the Sunday morning shooting at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Mich., Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun) ** FILE **

Religion, schmeligion: Half in U.S. now say it’s not important

Gallup just released its World Poll that found America is shedding religion like a bad habit -- or, in the words of the pollsters, that there has been a "17-percentage-point drop in U.S. religiosity over the past decade." Well, that doesn't sound good.

November 13, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks during an event to mark Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

MAGA, for the win: Democrats, zero on shutdown

One of the reasons Americans elected Donald Trump as president is that he promised to stand tall and absolute against the leftists who've been destroying our nation's exceptionalism for years. And boy, did his impact come through on the recent government shutdown fight with Democrats.

November 12, 2025
An official prepares to cane people who violate Shariah law including two men accused of hugging and kissing, acts the court ruled can lead to banned sexual relations, in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/ Reza Saifullah)

Bold and Blunt: Fighting Sharia law in America

There's a very real threat that's coursing through America, and it's called Sharia law. Look to the 50 countries that have in place Sharia law and see: everywhere Sharia goes, liberty leaves.

November 12, 2025
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, is joined by, from left, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., right, as they emerge from Democratic Caucus leadership elections, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Democrat election wins showcase power of media lies

Really, the fact that Democrats -- that is to say, socialists, and that is really actually, truly, more to truth say, communists -- have any wins at all is due to three causes: 1) the flood of illegal immigrants; 2) the dumbing of America's youth; and 3) the media.

November 11, 2025
This photo shows a BBC sign outside the entrance to the headquarters of the publicly funded media organization in London, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Leftists say ‘mistakes’ when they mean ‘lies’

Two executives for BBC resigned, citing "mistakes" made under their leadership in a documentary called "Trump: A Second Chance?" that showed President Trump calling his supporters to violently protest Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021. Umm. These aren't "mistakes." They're called lies.

November 10, 2025
Vehicles from the Round Rock Police Department and Round Rock Fire Department sit parked after a fatal shooting during a Juneteenth celebration at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, Texas, late Saturday, June 15, 2024. (Cross Harris/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Police should have to pay for damages they cause

A business owner in California who sought compensation from SWAT members after they raided and destroyed his printing shop while trying to apprehend a criminal suspect was just told by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to suck it.

November 7, 2025
Zohran Mamdani speaks during a victory speech at a mayoral election night watch party, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Mamdani wins — watch out, Jews! — courtesy of weak Christian church

Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral seat and within minutes, in his victory speech, set his sights on Donald Trump, telling the president, daring the president -- telling all of America, really -- to "turn the volume up." He's waging war on all that is good.

November 5, 2025