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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 Tuesday, July 7, 2020, file photo, a teacher holds up a sign while driving by the Orange County Public Schools headquarters as educators protest in a car parade around the administration center in downtown Orlando, Fla. Teachers unions have begun pushing back on what they see as unnecessarily aggressive timetables for reopening. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

Teachers’ unions shamefully exploit COVID-19 to shutter schools

Public schools in the District of Columbia just announced that all students will be doing the stay-at-home virtual study thing when the year begins. D.C. is not alone in this. For shame. These virtual classes have virtually nothing to do with protecting from the coronavirus and everything to do with scoring wins for the teachers' unions.

July 30, 2020
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci wears a face covering as he listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (Al Drago/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Anthony Fauci, citing ‘mucosa,’ now wants goggles, face shields

Give Dr. Anthony Fauci an inch and he'll take a mile. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases now wants to stick Americans in goggles and shields, in addition to the face masks. What's next, Mission Oriented Protective Posture Gear -- better known by its chemical weapons warfare acronym, MOPP gear? Why not.

July 30, 2020
A man covers his nose with his shirt, left, as Luis Negron, a Miami Beach code compliance officer, right, talks to him about wearing a protective face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic, Friday, July 24, 2020, on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Fla. Masks are mandated both indoors and outdoors in Miami Beach. People found not wearing a mask are subject to a civil fine of $50. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Florida face mask hell a chilling warning for America

Florida's got a problem with face masks -- and it's one that is terrorizing citizens, sending them to jail, stripping them of their most basic civil, human rights. For face masks. For failing or refusing to wear face masks. Has America gone mad?

July 30, 2020
This photo combo of images shows, clockwise, from upper left: President Donald Trump speaking during a news conference at the White House on July 22, 2020, in Washington, the Twitter app, Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaking during a campaign event on July 14, 2020, in Wilmington, Del., and the Facebook app. (AP Photo)

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube desperate to kill countering coronavirus thought

President Donald Trump shared critical tweets about Anthony Fauci and his truth-telling of the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine to help cure the coronavirus -- and the censors on social media responded by removing his posts. Anyone who thinks freedom of speech still stands strong in this nation -- take note: It does not.

July 28, 2020
In this Jan. 29, 2020, file photo Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts Jr. departs at the end of the day in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Chief Justice John Roberts is a shameful secular shill

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined with the liberal wing of the Supreme Court to rule, in essence, that casinos and restaurants have more freedom to operate than churches -- an astonishing unconstitutional and un-American finding, given the roots of this nation as one conceived in the quest for religious freedom.

July 27, 2020
In this June 26, 2020, file photo, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, center, speaks as Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, left, listen during a news conference with members of the Coronavirus task force at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)  ** FILE **

Health bureaucrats have crippled America

Look around. America the free is America the stifled. And what's perhaps the saddest about this reality is the stifling has come not by law, not by ordinance, not by duly passed legislation by duly elected officials -- but by the whims and wishes of unelected, largely unaccountable medical bureaucrats.

July 25, 2020
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear at a news conference at the state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Sunday, April 26, 2020. . (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP) **FILE**

Kentucky pastors fight unconstitutional COVID-19 church closures

Megachurch Pastor Brian Gibson just sent a strong message Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's way that said, in essence, COVID-19 or no COVID-19, this church is staying open. Finally. Churches of the nation, unite. If the coronavirus has taught America anything, it's this: Government will attack religion.

July 25, 2020
An image stating 'No America Without Black America' is projected on to the pedestal of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue Wednesday, July 22, 2020, in Richmond, Va. The statue has become a focal point for the Black Lives Matter protests in the area. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Blacks more racist than Whites, say Americans to Rasmussen

A new poll from Rasmussen Reports finds that Americans, by a majority, see Blacks as more racist than Whites. Make way for the protests. Make way for the Black Lives Matter, Democrat, leftist-outraged arguments. In short: There goes the whole Democratic Party's platform.

July 24, 2020
Rep. Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican, arrives before President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Louie Gohmert raises valid point in call to rename Democratic Party

Rep. Louie Gohmert, Republican from Texas, introduced a resolution that would ban the Democratic Party, among other organizations, based on historical truths about the left's embrace of racism and blatant support of slavery. It's a resolution that yes, is eye-widening -- but at least it strikes the right spirit. He raises some good points.

July 24, 2020
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser wears a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, as she leaves a news conference on the coronavirus and the District's response, Monday, July 20, 2020 in Washington.  In the face of newly rising infection numbers, Bowser says she'll issue an executive order making face masks mandatory outside the home. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Hey, lawyers: Where are you?

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser just issued an executive order requiring all citizens and visitors to wear masks when outside, or else face possible fines of up to $1,000. She's just one of many around the nation issuing similar or identical orders and enforcement threats. And all the free citizens go: Where are the lawyers?

July 23, 2020
In this Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Socialists see Joe Biden as ripe for picking, ready to mold

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro said in an interview with The Hill that Joe Biden, in conjunction with the current hot protest climate, represents the best chance Democrats have seen in a generation to enact significant reform, and in particular, racial justice reforms. So say and see all the socialists.

July 23, 2020
In this Sept. 16, 2018, file photo, American flags are displayed together with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China is killing America

A handful of conservatives just asked President Donald Trump to keep in place a Roadless Rule that prevents loggers from tapping into Alaska's Tongass National Forest. At first blush, this seems an environmental issue. But it's really a question about China and at what point America puts a stop to communist influences on U.S. soil.

July 23, 2020
Rep. Ayanna Pressley talks to comedian  Samantha Bee about racism in America, June 10, 2020. (Image: YouTube, "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" video screenshot)

Rep. Ayanna Pressley and her insane call to ‘cancel debt’

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts Democrat and noted fourth in a socialist "squad" that includes fellow congressional members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, has just called for the outright cancellation of all forms of major debt. In so doing, she may have just secured the rights to the Crown of Insanity.

July 22, 2020
A worshipper wears an "In God We Trust" wristband before evangelist The Rev. Franklin Graham speaks at the Decision America event at the Pitt County Fairgrounds in Greenville, N.C. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) ** FILE **

God save America (only God can save America)

The prevailing rule of thought in America is that the Second Amendment is the civil liberty right that underscores and preserves all the others. There's truth to that. But the Second Amendment won't help with this COVID-19 madness.

July 21, 2020
In this May 13, 2020, file photo, Public Health Madison and Dane County employees and members of the Wisconsin National Guard operate a drive-through testing facility for COVID-19 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis. Tracing the contacts of people who test positive is considered an important way to curb the pandemic. But online conspiracy theories about contact tracing have generated suspicion and mistrust. (Will Cioci, Wisconsin Watch via AP)

America, it’s happening: Government is jailing COVID-19 patients at home

A Kentucky woman who tested positive for COVID-19 was ordered by health bureaucrats to stay at home -- and shackled with an ankle monitor to make she sure does. It's happening, America. Wake up and smell the contact tracing, the "new normal" that allows government to demand citizens "voluntarily" self-quarantine. Or else.

July 20, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event, Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Joe Biden is America’s worst-case puppet

Joe Biden's campaign includes a manager, several press spokespeople, a couple of pollsters -- and a dedicated batch of young engineering interns whose sole mission is to devise clever wooden props that can secretly, behind the scope of the camera's eyes, keep his teetering and tottering to a minimum. That's to say: Biden is a puppet.

July 18, 2020
Graffiti is seen on the curb in front of Berkeley police headquarters seen on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, in Berkeley, Calif. The city of Berkeley, California, moved forward Wednesday with a proposal to eliminate police from conducting traffic stops and instead use unarmed civilian city workers as part of a broad overhaul of law enforcement. The City Council also set a goal of cutting the police budget by 50%. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Berkeley City Council rolls out red carpet for criminals

Berkeley City Council members, in all their wisely owl wisdom, just voted in a reform bill for police that requires them to stop issuing traffic tickets and that will, over the course of time, cut their departmental budgets by 50%. And all the criminals and would-be criminals go: Yay!

July 17, 2020