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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 image made from video provided by NBC10 Philadelphia, a stolen ambulance collides with a vehicle before police officers capture a man driving the ambulance in Philadelphia on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. The man stole the ambulance and tried to run over an officer who shot him three times, leading to a low-speed chase through Philadelphia that lasted more than an hour Friday night, authorities said. (NBC10 Philadelphia via AP) ** FILE **

Philadelphia police stand down: Thank goodness for Second Amendment

Police in Philadelphia, reacting to the coronavirus outbreak, court closures and the call for social distancing, have entered a sort of No Incarceration Zone and announced that criminals who would normally be jailed, will instead be set free. Thank goodness for the Second Amendment, yes?

March 18, 2020
A man wears a mask while walking under the marquee of The Castro Theatre in San Francisco, Monday, March 16, 2020. Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting nearly 7 million people, including the city of San Francisco itself. The order says residents must stay inside and venture out only for necessities for three weeks starting Tuesday in a desperate attempt by officials to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

America, coronavirus and the coming soldiers in the streets

San Francisco's mayor, London Breed, announced the city was going full Italy and imposing a 'round-the-clock curfew for residents that would keep everyone in their homes for the next three weeks. Other cities have followed suit. Title this: How to tank an economy.

March 17, 2020
An entire section of meat and poultry is left empty after panicked shoppers swept through in fear of the coronavirus at a local grocery store in Burbank, Calif., on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) ** FILE **

America, with coronavirus, gets a taste of socialism

Socialism-loving millennials, look and take note: The clearing of store shelves, the closing of retail, the shuttering of restaurants and nightclubs and bars -- these are the outcomes of mass response to the global pandemic called coronavirus. But they're also what befalls when socialism takes over.

March 17, 2020
In this Jan. 30, 2019, file photo, an advertisement for Pepsi is shown downtown for the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game in Atlanta. PepsiCo says it's buying energy drink maker Rockstar Energy Beverages for $3.85 billion. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Michael Savage son, Russ Weiner, new billionaire: ‘American dream is alive’

Russ Weiner, the son of famed radio voice Michael Savage, has just turned his beverage company, Rockstar Energy Drinks, into a $3.2 billion payout from PepsiCo. That it comes as America is stumbling a bit on coronavirus-related economic blues only serves to show: Capitalism, not socialism, is the way to go.

March 16, 2020
In this Oct. 27, 2016, file photo, the Twitter logo appears on a phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

#QuarantineLife tops trend on U.S. Twitter feeds

The hashtag QuarantineLife has taken over the top of Twitter trends for the United States, a somewhat sobering realization that coronavirus is here, here to stay, here for the long haul and that it ain't no joke. But that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it. Go America.

March 16, 2020
In this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, file photo, people stand in the lobby of Amazon offices in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Amazon ‘out of stock’ as coronavirus panic buying surges

The empty shelves at the local brick and mortar retail has gone online. One of Amazon's most frequent messages for shoppers of staple home items this past 24 hours has been this: Out of stock. It's a new world out there for buyers. Bravery required.

March 16, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus Thursday, March 12, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Democrats see coronavirus as just another crisis to exploit

Fact is, if Democrats cared so much about the spread of the virus, they'd be on board with shutting borders, and shutting borders but quick. Instead, they're focused calling out the Chinese coronavirus as a racist label and, unbelievably enough, getting America back to the table to sign the Paris treaty and fight climate change.

March 14, 2020
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, left, and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America Rebeca Romero Rainey, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with banking industry executives about the coronavirus, at the White House, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Coronavirus panic: NBA, travel, Twitter — all up in arms

President Donald Trump suspended all travel to and from Europe for 30 days, Twitter told employees to work from home, the Pentagon stopped travel for 60 days, and the NBA formally suspended its season after one player tested positive for the virus. The coronavirus has officially entered panic zone.

March 12, 2020
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., speaks at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., Sunday, March 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sees ‘straight up racism’ in coronavirus

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unleashed a rant of logically challenged proportions against "people" -- yes, "people" -- for failing to properly support Chinese restaurants during this health crisis called coronavirus. Leave it to Ocasio-Cortez to find a new way to slide in the left's fave conversation ender, the race card.

March 11, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to members of the press at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Socialism’s seeds: Joe Biden’s ‘I’m not working for you’

Joe Biden, in a widely reported, widely seen confrontation with a construction in Michigan, cursed, argued and behaved like an ill-mannered, entitled elitist -- and when reminded that "you're working for me, man," said this: "I'm not working for you." That's the seeds of socialism, right there.

March 11, 2020
Empty shelves are seen in a supermarket as people begin to stock up on provisions in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. People have emptied shelves of food and supplies in supermarkets in Madrid after Spain's health minister on Monday announced a sharp spike in coronavirus cases in and around the national capital, and said all schools in the region, including kindergartens and universities, will close for two weeks from Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Democrats, with coronavirus, don’t need Russia — they have ‘recession’

President Donald Trump, on coronavirus, is finally facing a serious political threat. It's called "recession" -- and whether it's true or not, real or hyped, the fact is, with November looming and Democrats in the desperate position of having no candidate who can beat Trump, the "R" word is being played to full political advantage.

March 10, 2020
Hundreds of protesters from the Kurdish community in Lebanon, hold a placard as they chant slogans, during a demonstration against Turkey's military operation in northeastern Syria, in front of the United Nations Headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) ** FILE **

United Nations is coming for your religion

If any government had a vested interest in plowing forth a secularized society, it's the power-hungry bloated elites of the United Nations. Beware the "wolves in sheep's clothing," the Bible teaches. Beware the United Nations' teachings on religions.

March 10, 2020
House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, left, confers with majority leader Del. Charniele Herring, D-Alexandria, second from left, Del. Luke Torian, D-Prince William, second from right, and Del. Marcus Simon, D-Fairfax, right, during the House session at the Capitol Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Virginia Democrats made nonpartisan redistricting a key campaign plank during last year's off-year election, when they won full control of the statehouse for the first time in a generation. Now in power, they may not pass any reform measures because of internal party divisions. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Virginia illegals poised to get driving privileges

Answer this, please: How come for the legal citizens of America, driving is a privilege, but for illegals, apparently, in Virginia, anyway, to Virginia Democrats, anyway, driving is a right?

March 10, 2020
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, enters a letter for the record during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Louie Gohmert, Steve King say whistleblower Philip Haney was ‘murdered’

Reps. Louie Gohmert and Steve King delivered under-the-radar but shockingly powerful statements from the House floor that went like this: Homeland Security whistleblower Philip Haney, found dead of what authorities deemed a suicide, was actually murdered. Dub this the Next Story To Be Ignored By The Major Media.

March 9, 2020
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y. speaks to abortion rights demonstrators at a rally outside the Supreme Court, in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2020, as the court takes up the first major abortion case of the Trump era Wednesday, an election-year look at a Louisiana dispute that could reveal how willing the more conservative court is to roll back abortion rights. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Chuck Schumer, a thug like all the other Democrats

Much ado has been made about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's recent tirade against two Supreme Court justices, during which he told them a "whirlwind" was coming and they'd soon "pay the price" for their votes. But this is just par for the course with Democrats in general.

March 7, 2020
Americans will spend a near-record amount of money on Father's Day in 2018, according to the National Retail Federation. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

White House, Warren Farrell mull fix to ‘boy crisis’

Warren Farrell, co-author of "The Boy Crisis," says America has a problem with males and it's one that goes like this: They're not being raised to be men. And how true that is. Today's boys are being taught that masculinity is a disease. He's reached out to the White House with a proposed "MAFGA" fix.

March 6, 2020
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., cheer for the candidate during a campaign rally Thursday, March 5, 2020, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) ** FILE **

Bernie Sanders’ youths abandoned him for the bong

Sen. Bernie Sanders is finding out the hard way that getting the young people to come to a rally is one thing; getting them to the ballot boxes is entirely another. And for a generation being raised at a time when half the states have either legalized or decriminalized recreational marijuana smoking, one has to wonder: Are they just too stoned to vote?

March 6, 2020
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies at a Senate committee on FISA investigation hearing, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

FISA court’s ban of Carter Page spy guys doesn’t go far enough

Federal agents who botched the whole Carter Page wiretapping process -- and by botched, of course, it's meant politicized and weaponized -- have been banned from pursuing spy permissions through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. And thank goodness for that. That's a common-sense move.

March 5, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arrives at a primary night election rally in Essex Junction, Vt., Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bernie Sanders wins, even when he loses

If socialism is an evil, which it is, then pretending this election season could sound the death to socialism with a decisive Donald Trump victory would be both fallacy and foolish. Socialism, like other evils, doesn't disappear. It just morphs into something else.

March 5, 2020