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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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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster speaks to reporters at a news conference on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. McMaster said he thinks after a few bumps COVID-19 vaccinations are going well in South Carolina. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Republicans wage righteous fight against Team Biden ‘socialism’

Five GOP governors have said no to the Biden administration's dole-out of $300 per week more of taxpayer-funded unemployment benefits that are added to states' disbursements to the individual filer, characterizing the cushy giveaways as socialist, un-American and anti-capitalist.

May 12, 2021
In this April 30, 2021, file photo, guests walk along Main Street USA at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Los Angeles and San Francisco are reopening more businesses under California's least restrictive coronavirus safety rules, even though they have more infections than many other big counties, state data shows. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Walt Disney catches critical race theory craze

Is nothing sacred anymore? America can't even take a vacation from all the viciously swirling accusations of perceived racism in this country without being inundated with more vicious accusations of perceived racism.

May 10, 2021
President Joe Biden bows his head in prayer, during a virtual Presidential Inaugural Prayer Service, accompanied by first lady Jill Biden, second from right, in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Joe Biden’s godless prayer sounds alarms on socialism

If we want this country to remain free -- if we want the liberties vested in the individual to remain unchallenged by an overreaching government -- then we must, must, must keep God at the helm. We can't have rights that come from God if we fail to recognize God.

May 8, 2021
Police departments are struggling with a shortage of officers because of mass resignations since protests last summer over racism and police brutality, along with calls to “abolish” and “defund” the police. As a result, officers who remain have heavier caseloads. (Associated Press)

Democrat-socialist war on cops backfiring

Minus the criminals, most in the country respect and support police, the first line of defense in a justice system based on law, based on order, not based on mob rule. And they're not taking kindly to the left's condemnation of police and simultaneous embrace, however light, of thugs.

May 6, 2021
In this Nov. 25, 2019, file photo, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., center, speaks with President Donald Trump during a bill signing ceremony for the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Donald Trump is not a ‘cult of personality,’ as Liz Cheney says

Rep. Liz Cheney just dug her hole a little deeper. The Wyoming Republican said the GOP must "steer away from the dangerous and anti-democratic Trump cult of personality," or else risk a permanent demise of the Constitution. She doesn't get former President Donald Trump. She doesn't get the people.

May 6, 2021
A student holding a U.S. flag upside down stands atop the steps at the Idaho Capitol Building Monday, April 26, 2021, in downtown Boise. The Idaho Senate has approved legislation aimed at preventing schools and universities from "indoctrinating" students through teaching critical race theory, which examines the ways in which race and racism influence American politics, culture and the law. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP) **FILE**

Schools push critical race theory propaganda

Critical race theory is basically teaching a world view that starts with skin color, and then circles everything that happens in life back to that -- to something for which one has no control: a physical feature. And that's what makes CRT so deliciously enticing to Democrats.

May 6, 2021
House Republican Conference chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., center, accompanied by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise of La., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Liz Cheney, Kevin McCarthy, Mitt Romney — they’re all the same

Look. There's a political battle going on within GOP leadership over, well, who's going to lead. But it's potato, potahto. Tomato, tomahto. Liz Cheney, Kevin McCarthy. They're all the same. They're all the same in that their political ambitions come first and those of the voters, second.

May 5, 2021
President Joe Biden puts his face mask on after speaking to a joint session of Congress Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool) ** FILE **

Joe Biden has a strange definition of patriotism

President Biden told America repeatedly that on the coronavirus, his White House would follow the science and issue executive guidance based solely on the science. He lied. He meant he would select which science to follow, which science to ignore.

May 3, 2021
This frame grab from police body cam video provided by the Galveston Police Department, in Galveston, Texas, shows Terry Wright, 65, of Grants Pass, Oregon, arguing with an officer inside a Bank of America branch, Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Galveston, after being told she needed to leave the bank because she was not wearing a face mask, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Galveston Police Department via AP) ** FILE **

COVID-19 crackdowns, as predicted, go permanent in states

This is what civil libertarians warned would occur due to lingering mass hysteria over the coronavirus -- that government, once possessed of its extraordinary powers that were granted because of extraordinary circumstances, would not let go those extra powers.

May 1, 2021
Michael Savage, talk radio icon, rides aboard Air Force One with President Donald Trump. (Image courtesy of Michael Savage)

Michael Savage proves prophetic on leftist-fueled ‘civil war’

America's hurtling toward a showdown between citizens who understand the concept of God-given individual rights and Democrats who want socialism to replace capitalism. And that's "Democrats" in air quotes; this batch of pols sporting the donkey pin are more Marxist.

April 29, 2021
Attorney General Merrick Garland leaves after speaking at the Department of Justice in Washington, Monday, April 26, 2021. The Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville after the March 2020 death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot to death by police during a raid at her home. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Sanctuary cities — they’re back!

With little to no fanfare, the Justice Department repealed a President Donald Trump-era provision that stopped taxpayer-funded grants going to cities and counties and states that didn't turn over illegals for federal apprehension and prosecution. Goodbye law, goodbye order.

April 29, 2021
Immigrants are released after processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, often not aware that they may be spreading the coronavirus. (Associated Press)

Joe Biden has a booming COVID-19 border crisis

President Biden's border policy of letting in illegals and messaging for more to come has created a situation at the border the liberal-leaning New York Times can't even deny -- that these people aren't tested for COVID-19 and that's putting plenty at risk.

April 28, 2021
In this Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, file photo, former U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, second from left, surrounded by family members, places his hand on the Koran as U.S. District Judge Michael Davis administers the oath of office for the new Minnesota attorney general during ceremonies in St. Paul, Minn. Taking over as lead prosecutor in George Floyd's death is giving Ellison a national platform to talk about race in America. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Blacks need to stop resisting police — but they won’t

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told "60 Minutes" host Scott Pelley that George Floyd bears zero responsibility for his own death -- that it's all due to police brutality and racism. This is a lie that's being replicated around the nation by leftists who want to destroy America.

April 27, 2021
President Joe Biden removes his face mask as he speaks from the Treaty Room in the White House on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, about the withdrawal of the remainder of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool) ** FILE **

Joe Biden falls far short of 100-day promises

President Biden rose to the White House on a wave of promises -- some well-defined, some all smoke and mirrors, but all promises to the people just the same. And he's failed to deliver on most all of them.

April 26, 2021
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, questions Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, during a House Select Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021, on the coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Anthony Fauci: Give us the number!

Anthony Fauci was pressed to give the precise measurement America would have to reach to return to normal -- and the good dohktah could't say. He wouldn't say. He couldn't and wouldn't say because the coronavirus is not about health, but rather, political opportunity.

April 17, 2021
From left, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., hold a news conference outside the Supreme Court to announce legislation to expand the number of seats on the high court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats, a la FDR, float court-packing idea to chill conservative justices

Democrats are floating the court-packing idea as far and wide as possible in order to send a message to the constitutionally minded justices to watch it, watch how you rule, watch how you vote. That's how President Franklin D. Roosevelt won concessions from the court on his New Deal ideas.

April 16, 2021
In this photo taken March 24, 2020, customers line up on the sidewalk outside The Reef Capitol Hill, a marijuana store in Seattle and observe social distancing chalk marks on the sidewalk as they wait to get into the store, which was limiting the number of people inside at one time to help slow the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Democrats, party of stoners

The website LawnStarter, which is the advertising forum for a landscaping, pest control and home care company, just put out a list called "2021's Best Cities to Get Stoned." All the cities are run by Democrats. No wonder Democrats can't think clearly. They're stoned.

April 15, 2021
This March 30, 2021, file photo shows minors inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. More Americans disapprove than approve of how President Joe Biden is handling waves of unaccompanied immigrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and his efforts on larger immigration policy aren’t polling as well as those on other top issues. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool)

Democrats should treat borders like restaurants

California's political elites put a chain-link fence around a restaurant in Burbank because the owners refused to obey coronavirus clampdowns. If only Democrats were as strict with illegal border crossers. Imagine. America would be safe and secure for decades to come.

April 13, 2021