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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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Tony Danna, left, vice president of international development at Three Square Market in River Falls, Wis., reacts while getting a microchip implanted in his left hand at company headquarters on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. The company is making microchips available to its employees, allowing them to open doors, log onto their computers or buy break room snacks by simply waving their hand. (AP Photos/Jeff Baenen) ** FILE **

Sweden’s human microchip craze a warning for privacy-loving Americans

Thousands of Swedes have been busily inserting microchips beneath the skin on their hands -- for convenience's sake, for goodness sake. That's fine and dandy. For Sweden. But what's alarming is that the trend has been making a beeline for America's shores, as well.

November 29, 2018
An Amnesty International activist gestures during a protest against the China Google censorship in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. According to Amnesty International people who use Google in China will not be able to access services such as Wikipedia or Facebook. and words like "human rights" will not give any results when entering them in the search engine. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Google’s patent pursuits send shivers of Big Brother

Google seems to be taking a little skip down Big Brother lane with some George Orwell-like patent applications that give rise to images of the telescreens described in the popular "1984" novel of dystopian society -- you know, the ones where thought police watch all, hear all and take note of all for Big Government.

November 28, 2018
In this Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, file photo, Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist, walks the corridors of Capitol Hill after listening to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on "Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms" on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey’s got some ‘splainin’ to do

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has just kicked off an investigation into Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's alleged lying to Congress, according to a report from The Federalist. With all this booting of conservatives from his social media platform, he sure does have some 'splainin' to do, yes?

November 27, 2018
Feng Zhang, center, an institute member of Harvard and MIT's Broad Institute, is surrounded by reporters while speaking on the issue of world's first genetically edited babies after the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, claims that he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies twin girls whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Creepy secret science births gene-edited babies

It's the stuff of horror movies -- scientists who go rogue to create their own versions of humanity, ethics be danged. Only it's not science fiction; a Chinese researcher, He Jiankui, is under investigation for gene-editing embryos using the CRISPR tool.

November 27, 2018
Signs are carried during the March for Life 2016, in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, in Washington, during the annual rally on the anniversary of 1973 "Roe v. Wade" U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Nonpartisan cheer: Abortions are on the decline

I don't know any woman who's ever dreamed of growing up and having an abortion -- no, not even any of the furthest left of leftists females who populated the liberal la-la-enclave of Massachusetts I once called home. So it's with nonpartisan cheer that statistics showing the falling rate of abortions in America ought to be received.

November 27, 2018
In this Nov. 14, 2018, file photo, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks with reporters following a photo opportunity on Capitol Hill in Washington, with the freshman class. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is hiring: Might I suggest an historian?

Newly elected Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is seeking to fill 13 slots in her soon-to-be congressional office and has sent out an ad for interested applicants to apply. Might I suggest an historian? After all, with tweets like the one she just penned, comparing the migrant caravaners to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, surely someone with solid historical sense could lend a frequent office hand.

November 26, 2018
Migrants run from tear gas launched by U.S. agents, amid photojournalists covering the Mexico-U.S. border, after a group of migrants got past Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and says that he has asked the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who have arrived in the city. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Border chaos a sign of lawless times

The days of fair play, wait your turn, play by the rules, work hard and reap the results are over. In its place? In its place stands a rush of bodies at the U.S. border pleading, nay demanding, entry.

November 26, 2018
In this file photo, Linda Sarsour with Women's March calls out to other activists opposed to President Donald Trump's embattled Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, in front of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Women’s March, what were you thinking with Linda Sarsour, anyway?

Teresa Shook, one of the Women's March co-founders who organized a gender-based resistance to all-things-President Donald Trump is now calling for her group's leadership to step down, saying their anti-Semitism, anti-LGBTQ rights are too much to bear. But with Linda Sarsour as a leader, one has to wonder: What did you expect?

November 22, 2018
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams makes remarks during a press conference at the Abrams Headquarters in Atlanta, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. Democrat Stacey Abrams says she will file a federal lawsuit to challenge the "gross mismanagement" of Georgia elections. Abrams made the comments in a Friday speech, shortly after she said she can't win the race, effectively ending her challenge to Republican Brian Kemp. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Hollywood’s misguided #BoycottGeorgia for Stacey Abrams

Once again, Hollywood's leftists have inserted themselves into the political world, this time jumping aboard a call to boycott Georgia in defense of Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost the gubernatorial race to Republican Brian Kemp. They better hope Americans don't turn the tables on this one and call for boycotts at the movies, right?

November 21, 2018
In this Nov. 14, 2018, photo, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, center, greets guests after President Donald Trump spoke about prison reform in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser, sent hundreds of emails about government business from a personal email account last year. That’s according to the Washington Post, which reports the emails were sent to other White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Ivanka Trump emails a yawner of a scandal

Ivanka Trump has apparently, reportedly -- according to various media outlets -- used her private email account for official government White House business. In the world of political scandals, it's like Trump took a nibble of apple while Hillary Clinton reaped an entire orchard.

November 20, 2018
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi’s progressives promise revenge on dissenters

Hopeful-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a group of progressive-minded people who have rallied about her, supported her selection to the leadership post -- and promised to take revenge on those who try to elect another. That's called tolerance, Democratic style. Honestly, how about some harmony for a season?

November 20, 2018
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., left, talks with Rep.-elect IIhan Omar, D-Minn., right, as they walk over to member-elect briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Nov. 15, 2018 file photo. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, here’s why you’re wrong

Self-declared socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Republicans that instead of "drooling" to go public with all her mistakes and missteps, they ought to instead "actually step up enough to make the argument they want to make." OK. Invitation accepted. So here goes: Socialists don't belong in American politics.

November 20, 2018
The National Center for Transgender Equality, NCTE, and the Human Rights Campaign gather on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, for a rally. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Clemson University workshop: ‘What gender is this apple?’

"What gender is this apple?" Americo asked, in a Clemson Audio clip of the workshop posted on YouTube and at Campus Reform. "I don't know. Does it really matter?" And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why discussions that lead to considerations of more than two sexes ought to fall on deaf ears.

November 19, 2018
Andrew Shinn, from University City, votes during absentee voting on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, at the St. Louis County Board of Elections in St. Ann, Mo. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Time to tighten absentee, mail-in and early voting rules

Until the 1980s, the majority of American voters -- save for those facing the most dire of extenuating circumstances -- had to physically travel to the polls to cast their ballots, and they had to do so on Election Day. We need to get back to those times.

November 17, 2018
In this Sept. 23, 2016, file photo, Billy Idol performs at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Festival — Day 1 held at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, File)

Billy Idol, ‘80’s rocker, shows caravan how it’s done

Billy Idol, U.K.-born rocker of the '80's, became a U.S. citizen this week -- holding a tiny American flag as he took the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance. Holding the American flag. Swearing allegiance to America. Caravan-ers, are you paying attention?

November 16, 2018