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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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Pope Francis delivers his blessing during the Angelus noon prayer he delivers from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. Pope Francis called on politicians to create jobs so that economies can relaunch after the lockdowns imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis uses COVID-19 pandemic to call for end to ‘individualism’

Pope Francis, in the context of speaking about the coronavirus pandemic, called on the faithful of the world to rise up, unite and put a stop to all this "personal and collective individualism" that's going on. Just stop it, he said. Just stop this "individualism" nonsense right now. Well, we all knew this guy was a closet communist, right?

August 13, 2020
In this photo provided by the Connecticut Teachers Association, a "School Safety First" car caravan approaches the governor's mansion in Hartford Conn., Thursday, July 30, 2020. About two dozen groups of teachers, parents, and advocates held coordinated demonstrations on Thursday, demanding more funding to ensure schools can reopen safely during the continuing pandemic. ( Alan Grant, Digital Creations, on behalf of Connecticut Education Association via AP)

Connecticut’s crazy excessive coronavirus fines

Connecticut's ruling political elites have just issued fines in the total of $3,000 to a couple of citizens who didn't comply with all the state's coronavirus-related travel guidelines. Guidelines? Let's be serious. These are dictates -- and constitutional or not, by gosh, they're being enforced.

August 12, 2020
In this July 31, 2019, file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden has chosen Harris as his running mate. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) **FILE**

Kamala Harris jumps to VP attention, choking on hypocrisy

Sen. Kamala Harris is Joe Biden's pick for vice president. But Sen. Kamala Harris thinks Joe Biden is a woman-groper. So much for women's rights? "I believe them," Harris said in April of 2019, of the women who came forward to accuse Biden of inappropriate touching.

August 12, 2020
In this June 1, 2020, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden bows his head in prayer as he visits Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Del. Photos in a campaign ad for President Donald Trump show that former Vice President Biden is “alone, hiding, diminished.” The ad blurs details that show Biden is praying in a church. The ad was tweeted by @TeamTrump on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Joe Biden hasn’t the stamina for four years

The reason Joe Biden's pick for vice president is being watched so closely is that most voters think he won't make it through a full four-year White House term and that it's his second-in-charge who will ultimately lead the country. That's not anecdotal, water-cooler gossip. That's polled fact. So says Rasmussen in its latest survey.

August 10, 2020
In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, file photo, philanthropist and co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates gestures as he speaks to the audience during the Global Fund to Fight AIDS event at the Lyon's congress hall, central France. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Bill Gates whines Team Trump won’t listen to him

Bill Gates is the smartest guy in the room, nay, on the planet, and he wants everybody to know it. How else to explain his feigned incredulity on CNN of America's coronavirus test process to that of other nations? Let's remember: Gates is a computer guy. He's not actually a medical expert.

August 10, 2020
FILE - In this July 22, 2020, file photo, a man takes a coronavirus test at a mobile site at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, in Los Angeles. California has stopped updating a list of counties facing more restrictions on businesses and schools after a problem in the state's coronavirus testing database has led to an undercount. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Coronavirus test positives a big whoop over nothing

Every day, every hour, every news source in America blasts out the latest coronavirus test case positives. But -- and this is a serious question -- so what? If this were a virus by a different name, if this were a different political climate, test positives wouldn't raise national eyebrows.

August 8, 2020
This Nov. 30, 2018, photo shows Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as he sits with fellow justices for a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

John Roberts ‘anti-Trump,’ says SCOTUS insider

Carrie Severino, a former Supreme Court clerk who now heads up the Judicial Crisis Network and who helped pen a bestselling book on the takedown of Brett Kavanaugh, said on "Fox & Friends" that Vice President Mike Pence is right to criticize the chief justice because, by all appearances, John Roberts seems decidedly "anti-Trump."

August 7, 2020
This April 28, 2020, file photo shows a smartphone app built for the state of Utah displaying coronavirus test sites. The app tracks symptoms and shares location data for contact tracing, the process of determining who might have been exposed to the virus. The app is “a tool to help jog the memory of the person who is positive so we can more readily identify where they’ve been, who they’ve been in contact with, if they choose to allow that,” said Angela Dunn, Utah’s state epidemiologist. (AP Photo/Lindsay Whitehurst)

Virginia leaps into contact tracing technology

Virginia has become the first state in the nation to offer for download a contact tracing Apple and Google API app aimed at stopping and slowing the spread of the coronavirus. And so it begins: One of modern government's cleverest means of tracking and surveilling its people, and all for the good health of the people, to boot.

August 6, 2020
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), testifies before a House Select Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus, Friday, July 31, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Erin Scott/Pool via AP)

CDC floats next health scare, post-coronavirus

Just in time for the new school year, virtual as it may be, comes a new warning of a new fright for parents to deal with, and more likely than not, wait for it, wait for it, for government to cite as justification to keep schools closed, and maybe even churches and more -- and it's one that goes like this: Acute flaccid myelitis.

August 5, 2020
In this Feb. 19, 2020, file photo, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice takes part in a discussion on global leadership at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File) **FILE**

Susan Rice, VP contender, wants to ‘re-imagine’ away the police

Susan Rice, former national security adviser and potential Joe Biden vice president pick, said police need a massive "re-imaging" -- meaning, a total rework. Meaning, a total reshaping. Meaning, a total collapse. "Re-imagining" is code for watering law enforcement to the point where they're no longer law enforcement.

August 5, 2020
Following direction, McCartney Moulds, 6, a second-grader, distances herself from a fellow student as she walks to class with full mask following her bus commute, to the Newton County Elementary School in Decatur, Miss., Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Thousands of students across the nation are set to resume in-person school Monday for the first time since March. Parents are having to balance the children's need for socialization and instruction that school provides, with the reality that the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus has hit about 155,000 and cases are rising in numerous places. (Janine Vincent/Newton County Schools via AP)

Democrats use fear to control and dominate

A new poll from Gallup shows that 85% of American parents who identify as Democrats worry their children will contract COVID-19, but only 29% of those who say they're Republican express similar concerns. That's about right. Democrats, by nature, are fear-filled scaremongers.

August 4, 2020
Owners of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, N.J., Ian Smith, right, and Frank Trumbetti replace the front door on its hinges before reopening for members Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. The owners of the gym that has repeatedly defied Gov. Phil Murphy's executive order to remain closed during the COVID-19 pandemic have once again reopened the facility less than a week after their arrests on contempt charges. (Yong Kim/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Americans’ crazy fight for the basic right to work

The Declaration of Independence promises citizens life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that's pretty much what many in America are doing each day as they head to work -- exercising their rights to provide for self and family, for both needs and wants, absent government intervention. Then came the coronavirus pandemic.

August 4, 2020
President Donald Trump waves while walking from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, July 31, 2020, in Washington. Trump is returning from Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump defies naysayers and beats Barack Obama poll numbers

The poll numbers are in and contrary to what the left will tell, President Donald Trump is finding high favor with the majority of U.S. voters. By the numbers: 51% of likely U.S. voters say they approve of Trump's job performance. That's according to Rasmussen.

August 3, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters following a meeting at the Capitol with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on a COVID-19 relief bill, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Democrats use COVID-19 unemployment to buy votes

Democrats want the next round of coronavirus stimulus dollars to extend the $600 unemployment insurance enhancement for those who lost their jobs or who faced mandated furloughs because of economic shutdowns. Republicans say no. But Democrats want that money to buy votes for their subpar candidate, Joe Biden, this fall.

August 3, 2020
FBI supervisory special agent Shawn Brokos shows the recovered 1615 Breeches Edition Bible during a news conference, Thursday, April 25, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The Bible was stolen from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh in the 1990s. It was traced to the American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) ** FILE **

America can’t be moral without God

This country is in a free-fall of cultural rot and moral decay. And how the culture goes, so, too, the politics. Which is why Pew Research Center's latest "Global God Divide" finding that only 44% of Americans think they need the heavenly Creator to shape their morals and values is so illuminating.

August 1, 2020
Rep Jim Jordan, D-Ohio, speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Rep. Jim Jordan hammers Anthony Fauci for favoritism in COVID-19 science

Rep. Jim Jordan asked NIAID Director Anthony Fauci a dozen different ways and a dozen different times to explain why angry protesters could safely gather but peaceful church-goers could not -- and a dozen different ways, a dozen different times, the doctor dodged. And that is why the American people do not trust the COVID-19 crackdowns.

July 31, 2020
This Oct. 17, 2019, file photo shows a McDonald's sign along Interstate 40/85 in Burlington, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

McDonald’s can take new call-cops-on-customers policy, and shove it

McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski, in an interview on CBS, said customers who don't wear face masks inside the restaurant risk having police called to arrest them. And then he did that old Marxist propaganda thing and said for safety's sake, "we also ask our customers to wear masks." Screw McDonald's.

July 31, 2020