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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

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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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Rose McGowan poses for a portrait in New York on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. McGowan's says her tweet that apologized on behalf of the U.S. to Iran for “disrespecting their flag and people” wasn't anti-American. Her tweet Friday came after a U.S. airstrike killed Iran's top general and has been widely criticized. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

Rose McGowan, you’re dismissed

Rose McGowan, Hollywood actress, model, author and lately, political activist, has taken to Twitter Extreme to call out America as the evil empire to Iran's blooming innocence, outright apologizing to the terrorist regime for President Donald Trump's takedown of the Revolutionary Guard's Gen. Qassem Soleimani. So Rose: Move to Iran.

January 6, 2020
Flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters during the 74th session of the U.N. General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. At this year's annual gathering at the United Nations, well-known flash points such as the Middle East and trade tensions got lots of airtime, but some leaders also used their time on the world stage to highlight international disputes that don't usually command the same global attention. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz)

UN pansies up in arms as Trump goes ‘America First’ on Iran

President Donald Trump, with his airstrike order against Iraq's airport that left dead Iran's Gen. Qassem Soleiman, didn't just set the regime on notice that this administration takes seriously attacks on American citizens. He also told the United Nations: your opinion isn't necessary. And the UN doesn't like that at all. Not one bit.

January 4, 2020
Sunlight pours into Grace United Methodist Church during the annual Historic Houses of Worship Tour Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019, in Hagerstown, Md. (Dave McMillion/The Herald-Mail via AP) **FILE**

United Methodist Church split sets sin on display

The United Methodist Church said its organization is going to break into two factions over the issues of LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage. That's not really a surprise. What is a surprise is that a church, any church, can get by with calling itself a place of Christian worship while scoffing basic biblical teachings of sin and God's will.

January 3, 2020
In this Oct. 30, 2019, file photo, released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, reviews armed forces during a graduation ceremony at Iran's Air Defense Academy, in Tehran, Iran. The U.S. airstrike that killed a prominent Iranian general in Baghdad raises tensions even higher between Tehran and Washington after months of trading attacks and threats across the wider Middle East. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Donald Trump sets Iran on notice: This is not your Barack Obama administration

Iran-backed forces attacked Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump sent in the airstrikes and killed Quds force chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport, and now Iran's crying foul, vowing "harsh retaliation" and so forth and so on. But note to Iran: This is not the Barack Obama administration.

January 3, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a gathering during a campaign stop in Exeter, N.H., Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ** FILE **

Joe Biden is a snob, and heart-and-soul America knows it

Joe Biden told a bunch of rally-goers in Derry, New Hampshire, that coal miners, many of whom live and work in the area, ought to stop all this coal mining nonsense and get with the 21st century program and learn a new trade, a cleaner trade, a more environmentally sound trade -- like coding. What an elitist, entitled, arrogant snob.

January 2, 2020
Colorado State Rep. Patrick Neville, front, makes a point as, from back left, Barry Arrington, who represents the advocacy group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Rep. Dave Williams, Dudley Brown, executive director of the gun group, and Rep. Stephen Humphrey look on during the announcement of plans to file a lawsuit to block a "red flag" law allowing courts to order firearms be taken away from people who pose a danger during a news conference in the State Capitol Thursday, May 2, 2019, in Denver. The Republicans and the group claim that House Democrats violated a section of the state constitution governing the legislative process to get the bill passed earlier this year. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) ** FILE **

Colorado’s new red flag gun law well-intentioned, but wrong

A new red flag gun law just took effect in Colorado giving family members and law enforcement officials the authority to petition a judge to strip an individual's Second Amendment rights based on concerns of mental fitness. And well-intentioned as that law might be -- it stems from the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy by a mentally deranged man -- it's still unconstitutional. It's still wrong.

January 2, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., gestures for Democrats to stop taking during a vote on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Impeachment costs stretch into — umm, unknown millions

It's bad enough we've got a highly partisan impeachment hunt being led by highly anti-Donald Trump partisans whose sole purpose in political life is to disrupt this White House and boot the president from office. But how about those taxpayers? How about the taxpayers footing this impeachment bill? Well on that, we just don't know.

December 31, 2019
Church and community members, including Matt Pacholczyk, left, and his wife, Faith Pacholczyk, stand outside West Freeway Church of Christ for a candlelight vigil, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, in White Settlement, Texas. A gunman shot and killed two people before an armed security officer returned fire, killing him during a service at the church on Sunday. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Second Amendment saves lives in Texas church

Two people were killed and another wounded in Texas after a man wearing a fake beard, wig, hat and long coat entered a church in the community of White Settlement, pulled out a shotgun and began firing. Tragic and horrible as that is -- it could've been much worse. The gunman was stopped in his tracks by a gun-carrying church-goer.

December 31, 2019
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones addressed the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump during a Sept.30, 2019 town hall on the campus of Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Ala. The prospect of an impeachment vote in the Senate is potentially complicating an already tough election fight for the red state Democrat. “If,” he said, repeating the word to emphasize the uncertainty. “If it comes over to the Senate, then I will vote my conscience based on the evidence and not the politics of anything.” (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

Doug Jones, Alabama’s Democratic senator, on dying last campaign legs

Sen. Doug Jones rose to political power in 2018 to become the first Democrat U.S. senator to be elected from Alabama in 25 years, in a state that also voted for Donald Trump for president by almost 28 percentage points in 2016. And his journey down is about to take place just as rapidly.

December 30, 2019
In this Oct. 28, 2015, file photo, replicas of Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush, left, and Marco Rubio face off in the free speech zone on the campus of the University of Colorado before the Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo. Some colleges provide so-called "free speech zones" as the only place where people can protest and distribute fliers. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

American colleges are veering into academic ‘police state’ territory

The assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice just issued a statement reminding that America is not a "police state," and neither should be the college campuses that dot the landscape of this country. The very fact the DOJ has to release this statement shows how far America's freedoms have fallen.

December 28, 2019
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for Christmas Eve dinner at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Yale anti-Trump psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee gives psychiatry bad name

Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee, in an interview with Salon, called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to "submit" President Donald Trump "to an involuntary evaluation" -- giving Americans, in one fell swoop, one big weighty reason to regard the entire field of mental health therapy with at least a modicum of suspicion.

December 27, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a weak hand in withholding the two articles of impeachment from the Senate. (Associated Press)

Democrats’ strategy: Impeach ‘til the cows come home

Democratic members on the House Judiciary Committee, sad because Speaker Nancy Pelosi gets to hold the articles and they don't have any left, have gone back to court to petition for information from former White House Counsel Don McGahn and on grand jury testimony tied to Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation.

December 27, 2019
Pope Francis reads is message before delivering the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At right is Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Vatican Almoner. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis, secure in his Vatican, scolds ‘stony’ hearts toward migrants

Pope Francis on Christmas called for a softening of "self-centered hearts" to help migrants -- to basically drop the border walls and let these people in. His remarks may have packed more punch if he didn't deliver them from the fortified St. Peter's Basilica, while gazing from a secure Vatican balcony, 200 feet or so above the assembled fray.

December 26, 2019
Christian worshippers light candles at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally recognized by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) ** FILE **

Christian clash a Christmas miracle

Christianity Today, in an editorial calling for the ouster of President Donald Trump, sure has unleashed a firestorm. Good. It's good to see Christians getting in the political game. And so passionately so. A great awakening of America dawns.

December 24, 2019
In this Feb. 6, 2019, file photo, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts answers questions during an appearance at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. How a Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump would unfold is not yet known, but among the issues senators will have to decide are how long it lasts and whether witnesses are called. Presiding over the trial will be Roberts, who theoretically could issue key rulings on some of these questions. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) ** FILE **

John Roberts raises Republican caution flags

Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is too "mentally erratic" to serve in any capacity in the Senate's hearing of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, said Rep. Mo Brooks, Republican from Alabama, in a recent interview on WVNN radio that was reported by Breitbart. He's got a point.

December 23, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., walks from the chamber through Statuary Hall a day after the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi’s pause on impeachment doesn’t play well

Speaker Nancy Pelosi may think she's strategizing with brilliance by letting the articles of impeachment stand in limbo in the House as she tries to wrest control and tell the Senate how to operate. But out here in the real world, in the place where politicians infrequently tread and barely dare go, Americans aren't impressed.

December 23, 2019
In this Aug. 14, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump pauses while speaking in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington. Is it really so far-fetched to put Robert E. Lee in the same category as George Washington, as President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday? Many historians say yes. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

America’s intellectuals go poof! — up in liberal smoke

Thousands of America's supposedly most sober, somber, serious and best-educated of the nation, the historians, scholars, professors, attorneys and the like, have called for impeachment of President Donald Trump. But be not blinded by their dazzling degrees. They are bubble dwellers, living happily in their liberal enclaves.

December 21, 2019
Mark Levin on Fox News.

Mark Levin’s speedy solution to the Pelosi impeachment problem

Talk radio great and Fox News host Mark Levin, on his Facebook page, called for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to "put an end" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's politically motivated hold-up of the impeachment articles, by declaring the whole matter "null and void." That's one way of making clear the nonsense of the Dems has come to an end.

December 20, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Kellogg Arena, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, in Battle Creek, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Christianity Today editor Mark Galli all wrong on Donald Trump

Christianity Today's editor-in-chief Mark Galli penned a scathing commentary against President Donald Trump, saying he should be removed from office. The mainstream media is loving this because it gives an appearance of Trump's loss of the evangelicals. But Galli is wrong. And he's hardly representative of the Christian view.

December 20, 2019