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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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Illustration on examining the FISA court by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Mueller investigation’s missed opportunities: FISA, law enforcement reform

Democrats have made it clear they're not going to let go the contents of Robert Mueller's report without giving it the full impeachment treatment. This is unfortunate. The Mueller investigation gives opportunities for the parties to come together -- on FISA and on law enforcement's treatment of innocent-until-proven guilty suspects.

April 20, 2019
2020 Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a town hall meeting, Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Pete Buttigieg: Just another climate alarmist extraordinaire

Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic presidential hopeful from the city of South Bend, Indiana, called out climate change as the "greatest security issue of our time" during his recent announcement speech. And if we don't fix it, we'll all die. He's yet the latest from the left to use climate change for political advantage by claiming the same.

April 19, 2019
Attorney General William Barr speaks about the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report during a news conference, Thursday, April 18, 2019, at the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

William Barr speaks — and deaf, dumb Democrats go: #ReleaseTheReport

No collusion. No obstruction. No evidence of trying to stymy the special counsel's investigation -- those are the nuts and bolts of Attorney General William Barr's determinations regarding President Donald Trump and what can now be cavalierly called That Russia Thang. Guess what else is a big "no"? The chance for the left to let this go.

April 18, 2019
A Hispanic supporter holds up a sign for then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally at the Anaheim Convention Center, Wednesday, May 25, 2016, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ** FILE **

America’s shifting demographics, and why GOP should smile

America, come 2020, will have for the first time more Hispanics eligible to vote in the election than blacks -- than any other racial or ethnic minority group, for that matter. And smile, Republicans. This is one minority voting block the Dems can't claim in their pockets.

April 18, 2019
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, speaks at the Heartland Forum held on the campus of Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, Saturday, March 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Tim Ryan, 2020 hopeful, bucks own party’s trend to socialism

Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan, Ohio, in recent comments on national television, said socialism is not the way America should go. Did you catch that? He's a Democrat. And he kind of denounced socialism. Publicly. This is one of those hurrah moments in political times.

April 17, 2019
In this Wednesday, July 20, 2016, file photo, conservative political commentator Laura Ingraham speaks during the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Laura Ingraham’s head on a platter, say all the riled-up rappers

Rappers like Snoop Dogg and The Game are angry with Laura Ingraham and want her to be fired. Isn't this like the 80th or 90th time somebody's called for Ingraham's booting from Fox News? In like, two months or something? Well, in like a year or so, really.

April 17, 2019
A security camera is placed in a New York subway station, Thursday, April 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

A.I. that halts thieves — before they steal

The customer is always right -- except when artificial intelligence says the customer isn't. That's sort of the message being sent by new technology aimed at catching crooks before they commit their crooked acts, anyway.

April 16, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., takes part in a Fox News town-hall style event, Monday April 15, 2019 in Bethlehem, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bernie Sanders, a capitalism success story, still can’t say how he’d pay

Bernie Sanders went on Fox News to talk about his presidential run and tell why his particular brand of socialism, the so-called democratic socialism, is best for America -- but once again failed to explain how he'd pay for Medicare for All, free college tuition and so on and so forth in a way that brings long-term economic stability.

April 16, 2019
In this Oct. 18, 2017, file photo, Rohingya Muslim women, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand holding their sick children after Bangladesh border guard soldiers refused to let them journey toward a hospital and turned them back toward the zero line border in Palong Khali, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

‘Climate refugees’ — Democrats’ new tool to kill U.S. borders

The left has a new tool to bring illegals to America -- to wedge border doors a bit wider in defiance of law and order -- and it goes like this: climate change. The weather. The weather is making people flee their countries and come to America. Wow. This is a new low even for the left. It's U.N.-speak, pure and simple.

April 16, 2019
This March 17, 2019, file photo shows New York Mayor Bill de Blasio listening as he speaks before a group of people at a restaurant in Concord, N.H. A would-be progressive standard bearer, de Blasio has spent the past few months exploring a run, traveling to events in early primary states. (AP Photo/Hunter Woodall) ** FILE **

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s police state measles order mucho un-presidential

So New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may run for the presidency. But he's recently OK'd the forced vaccinations of everyone who lives within the geographical boundaries of four ZIP codes heavily infected with measles. Is this the type of police state governance that belongs in the White House? No. Heck no. And no again.

April 15, 2019
In this Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, a local resident leaves a church after voting in the general election in Cumming, Iowa. Religion's role in politics and social policies is in the spotlight heading toward the midterm elections, yet relatively few Americans consider it crucial that a candidate be devoutly religious or share their religious beliefs, according to an AP-NORC national poll conducted Aug. 16-20, 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) **FILE**

The return of the politicking pastors

Today's churches are filled with leaders who worry too much about maintaining their IRS tax exemptions, or about offending their tithe-paying members, than about delving too deeply into the pressing political affairs of our time. But ceding the political ground has not served America well.

April 13, 2019
In this March 16, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally in Henderson, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Medicare for All terrible, deceptive and un-American

America was founded on principles of limited government and individual freedom, where rights come from God, not government. Then came the left's message that health care is a right, a basic human right, and slash went the Constitution. Medicare for All, as Sen. Bernie Sanders is pushing, is about as un-American as policy can come.

April 12, 2019
Police officers apprehend a demonstrator outside Westminster magistrates court where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was appearing in London, Thursday, April 11, 2019. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday, setting up a potential court battle over attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges related to the publication of tens of thousands of secret government documents. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Julian Assange’s U.S. charges a ‘say what?’ moment

Let's hold the phone on the conviction and sentencing of Julian Assange for a moment. Exactly what did Assange do that, say, journalists protected by credentials from big corporate media entities don't commonly do during the course of pulling threads of information from their sources?

April 11, 2019
Activists dressed as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale" protest a bill in the Texas Legislature that would require health care facilities, including hospitals and abortion clinics, to bury or cremate any fetal remains whether from abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Texas Republican’s crazy anti-abortion bill

A Texas Republican has re-introduced a bill that would criminalize and ban abortion and classify it as homicide, opening doors for women who terminate their pregnancies to face imprisonment and even sentences of death. And their little abortion doctors, too. Wow. There's pro-life. And then there's this: Crazy pro-life.

April 11, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during the National Action Network Convention in New York, Friday, April 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s costly Amazon misstep

Freshman lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was slammed by the majority of voters in her district who told pollsters she was wrong for driving away Amazon and its promised 25,000 highly paid job openings. Such is the thinking of a socialist: On paper, hitting hard at Big Business can seem noble. But the people still have to eat.

April 11, 2019
In this Feb. 11, 2011, photo released by CBS, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the reaction in in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. CBS News says Logan was attacked Friday, and suffered a brutal beating and sexual assault before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She is recovering in a U.S. hospital. (AP Photo/CBS News)

Lara Logan nabs border gig at Sinclair — and all the left go, Oh no!

Former CBS correspondent Lara Logan nabbed a broadcast gig with Sinclair to go to the border and report the goings-on. Prepare for the left to go into hyper-drive. Logan is hardly the far-right ideologue the left would like to paint. She's going to be a tough one for Democrats to dismiss.

April 10, 2019
House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters, D-Calif., leads a hearing to review the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's mission to focus priority on consumers with the CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 7, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Congressional members behaving badly

Rep. Maxine Waters climbed atop the high horse alongside her chairwoman's seat in the House Financial Services Committee hearing room to thunder at Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and tell him, basically anyway, to sit down, you're not dismissed. I am zee law!

April 10, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a convention of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Monday, April 8, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Democrats could learn a thing from Bernie Sanders

Sen. Bernie Sanders is planning to participate in a town hall on Fox News, and for that, his far leftist cronies in the far leftist media are wrinkling noses, wondering why. But here's where the socialist-minded presidential hopeful deserves some credit: He's got guts to enter what others in his base perceive as a hostile environment.

April 9, 2019
Wearing the uniform of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, lawmakers chant slogan during an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Chanting "Death to America," Iranian lawmakers convened an open session of parliament Tuesday following the White House's decision to designate Iran's elite paramilitary Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist organization. (AP Photo/Hamidreza Rahel/ICANA)

Iran, on cue, resumes ‘Death to America’

Iran, the nation that former President Barack Obama told us to trust, has been busily broadcasting its trademark "Death to America" chant as payback for President Donald Trump's designation of the Revolutionary Guard as a foreign terrorist organization. And now the Obama copycats are nibbling nervously at their nails. But why?

April 9, 2019