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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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A Bible is seen on a chair in the House chamber in Washington, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

How another symbol of America’s faith-based culture bites the dust

The Christian-based King's College, a longtime go-to for families seeking biblically based training for their kids, will lose its accreditation by the end of this month. Another blow to Christianity in America. Another symbol of America's faith-based culture bites the dust.

August 29, 2023
In this May 6, 2021, photo, George Ripley, 72, of Washington, holds up his free beer after receiving the J&J COVID-19 vaccine shot, at The REACH at the Kennedy Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE  **

Americans under Biden need more beer, not less

It's laughable, truly, but the Biden administration's guy in charge of alcohol consumption guidelines -- is that really a thing?? -- is actually considering a Canada-like recommendation of two beers max per week. Wait. What? Shouldn't the recommendation be for more beer, not less?

August 29, 2023
FILE - President Joe Biden listens during a joint news conference with South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, at Camp David, the presidential retreat, near Thurmont, Md. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden, most of America agrees, is totally ineffective

Fully 77% of Americans say Joe Biden is too old to be effective if he is indeed reelected as president. The stragglers are finally catching up. The only question is: What took these people so long?

August 28, 2023
In this Sunday, April 12, 2020, file photo, a parishioner prays outside the closed doors decorated with Easter lily flowers at the Christ the King Church Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles. A federal appeals court has denied a Southern California church's request to overturn the state's coronavirus restrictions barring worship services indoors during the coronavirus pandemic. The Sacramento Bee says Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals leaves the door open for addressing Gov. Gavin Newsom administration's limits on church attendance if a California county is in a less-restrictive COVID-19 tier. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Government spies in California church slapped with lawsuit

Calvary Christian Fellowship -- formerly Calvary Chapel San Jose -- has slapped Santa Clara County officials with a lawsuit for spying on members during the state's mandated COVID-related lockdown. Honestly. The U.S. government, with each passing day, is growing more and more like a China CCP cancer.

August 25, 2023
This combination of photos shows Republican presidential candidates, top row from left, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy, bottom row from left, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. (AP Photo)

Bold & Blunt: Searching for sanity in an insane world

Democrats have gone socialist -- Marxist -- communist! Republicans have gone quiet on matters they need to go loud on. And the president is a puppet whose biggest concern is more focused on ice cream stops than on Maui, anti-American globalism, CCP dominance and the U.S. economy. What's happening?

August 24, 2023
A general view shows the aftermath of a devastating wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century swept through the Maui community of Lahaina, authorities say anywhere between 500 and 1,000 people remain unaccounted for. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Maui: There but for the grace of God go all

President Biden made a much-awaited, widely watched visit to the devastation called Maui fire, and with the ghosts of more than 100 dead drifting in the background, cracked jokes about a dog. It's notable that not only did it take Biden 13 days to visit Maui, but that after his comic bit, most wished he had stayed in D.C.

August 24, 2023
Pope Francis speaks with Brazilian theologian and writer Frei Betto during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican hypocrisy on America’s ‘inhuman’ border control grows intolerable

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano just ran a front page headline decrying "that inhuman wire" -- "quel filo disumano" -- in reference to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border protection, above a photograph of illegal crossers caught among the concertina wire crosshairs. And Americans ought to go: Bite me.

August 24, 2023
A former president Donald Trump supporter stands near the Fiserv Forum as set up continues for the upcoming Republican presidential debate Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Bold & Blunt: Democrats’ big folly

One thing Democrats can be counted on to do, and that's go too far. And that's exactly what they're doing with the indictment after indictment after indictment of Donald Trump. "Donald Trump stands in their way," said Monica Crowley, best-selling author, podcaster, media pundit and former Trump Team official.

August 23, 2023
Adderall XR capsules are displayed on Feb. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Zombie nation: Marijuana, Adderall and the destruction of America

America is becoming a nation of druggies. Whether these drugs are prescribed, illegal, legalized for recreational use or a combination of all three, the minds of Americans, both young and old, are being compromised. There's no way to look at that reality without also acknowledging a larger societal effect. And it ain't a good one.

August 22, 2023
The Independent Women's Forum held an "Our Bodies, Our Sports" rally in favor of single-sex sports during the 2023 USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships held June 22-25 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo courtesy Independent Women's Forum) ** FILE **

Heartbreaking erasure of women’s sports — of women — continues

A man pretending to be a woman -- and who claims he's been a woman for the last 20 years or so -- blew up the woman's powerlifting record in Canada, with a lift that was about 500 pounds more than any female in that nation's history. The heartbreaking erasure of women's sports -- of women -- goes on.

August 21, 2023
President Joe Biden speaks at the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center and Preserve in Palo Alto, Calif., Monday, June 19, 2023. Biden talked about climate change, clean energy jobs and protecting the environment. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Democrats’ obsessive bowing to their god of environmentalism

We all know Democrats are hypocrites. But the left's obsession with environmentalism and climate-based regulatory controls go beyond politics, into the realm of cultish. Truly, environmentalism is the left's religion. And they've become fanatical about it. They're capturing the youth.

August 18, 2023
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, testifies during a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing on COVID-19 school closures, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Bold & Blunt: Public schools teach kids subversion techniques

It's not just about teaching that capitalism is evil. It's about filling the minds of the youngest and most vulnerable that America itself is evil -- and must be changed. This is why the public schools might have finally reached the stage of unfixable.

August 17, 2023
President Joe Biden speaks about wildfires that ravaged Maui during a visit to Ingeteteam Inc., in Milwaukee, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bold & Blunt: Joe Biden and his climate foolishness

It's bad enough America has a White House leader that's weak. But it's even worse when the policies that this president is able to advance are all the anti-American ones. Witness: climate change.

August 15, 2023
Eric Meyer, the editor and publisher of the Marion County Record, answers questions about a raid by local police and sheriff's deputies on his newspaper's newsroom and his home, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, in Marion, Kan.. The officers seized computers and cellphones and took photos of Meyer's personal financial records. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Police raid on Kansas newspaper latest sign of America’s downfall

These aren't the best of times. These are the worst of times. A simple allegation can oh-so-quickly turn into a cause to toss out the Constitution. This is what happens when a nation formed on a model of God first, government subservient, abandons that premise and flips the structure of power.

August 15, 2023
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a fundraiser event for the Alabama GOP, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Montgomery, Ala. Just one month after Donald Trump’s January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgia’s secretary of state could overturn his election loss, District Attorney Fani Willis announced she was looking into possibly illegal “attempts to influence” the results. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

Trump’s indictments all the more reason to vote for him

Another day, another Donald Trump indictment. The takeaway is this: The more indictments fly Trump's way, the more voters should dig down and decide he's the guy to elect in 2024. At this point, voters should choose Trump because of the indictments, not in spite of them.

August 14, 2023
An advertisement of Bitcoin, one of the cryptocurrencies, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong, on Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Bold & Blunt: Perils from across the pond

Digital currency is coming. And that means individual freedom is going. Former Brexit Party political candidate and patriot across the pond -- Jim Ferguson in the United Kingdom --has much to say about the massive perils to freedom that are taking place at the hands of governments around the world.

August 11, 2023
In this June 12, 2018, file photo, people pray for America at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Dallas Convention Center in Dallas. The SBC confronted a sex-abuse crisis in the form of an investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. The newspapers reported that hundreds of Southern Baptist clergy and staff had been accused of sexual misconduct over the past 20 years. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

Fear in the church: Too many of God’s people afraid to fight

Sixty-nine percent of Protestant pastors in a Lifeway Research survey said they see a "growing sense of fear" among their congregants, and another 63%, that their pews are also filled with people who feel "dread" about the "future of Christianity" in America and around the world. That explains a lot.

August 11, 2023