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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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Michael Avenatti leaves the Los Angeles Police Department Pacific Division after posting bail for a felony domestic violence charge, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker)

Michael Avenatti’s arrest a good test for due process

Social media has gone into overdrive over the news Michael Avenatti, the anti-President Donald Trump trash-talking attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, was arrested for domestic abuse. But conservatives, at least, ought to save the crowing and mocking and celebrating for behind-the-scenes, at least for the time being.

November 15, 2018
In this Nov. 12, 2018, file photo, ballots are prepared to be tabulated for Maine's 2nd Congressional District's House election in Augusta. Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin and three voters sued Tuesday, Nov. 13, over Maine's new voting system, used for the first time in U.S. House and Senate elections. A lawyer for Poliquin's campaign asked the secretary of state to stop the tabulations to allow a judge to rule, but the secretary declined to stop the process. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Principles, honor and the coming American banana republic

Can you say banana republic? Fact is, the systems are crumbling. The gate-guards of principle are way too few and far between, way too quiet to be effective. And what's going to result from all this Election Day upset, soon enough, is a major shift in how U.S. elections will be conducted.

November 15, 2018
In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, photo, a woman carries a fire extinguisher past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. Internet traffic hijacking disrupted several Google services Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, including search and cloud-hosting services. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Google downplays ‘worst ever’ hack, as Russia, China named and blamed

Google, fresh off the farm of defending last month's leak of 500,000 or so users' sensitive information, has just been hit by another Internet hijacking -- the "worst ever," according to the company that caught the hack. And what's most eye-opening is the hack is the likely work of Russian and Chinese sources.

November 14, 2018
In this April 30, 2017, file photo, Alex Trebek speaks at the 44th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Alex Trebek, Jeopardy host, talks #MeToo truths: ‘Scary time for men’

Alex Trebek, the 78-year-old long-time host of "Jeopardy," sat down with Vulture to talk politics and culture and #MeToo and more and said what we've all been thinking for some time, particularly post-Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court battle, and that's this: It's a "scary time" to be a guy. Indeed.

November 13, 2018
Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks at a rally to encourage voter registration Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) ** FILE **

Michelle Obama, still hating, after all these years

Michelle Obama has a new book out where she vows she will "never forgive" President Donald Trump for spreading the birther talk about former President Barack Obama because -- her words -- it was "dangerous" and "deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks." Never forgive? That seems a bit harsh.

November 13, 2018
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton poses backstage before her conversation with Kara Swisher at the 92nd Street Y on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton for president — again? Seems so, say top Dems

Hillary Clinton is supposedly running for president again in 2020. That's according to Mark Penn, a former pollster and adviser to Bill Clinton, and Andrew Stein, a leading Democrat figure from New York, both of whom penned a piece for the Wall Street Journal titled, simply, "Hillary Will Run Again." And all the Republicans go: Yes!

November 12, 2018
A book and scripts are among the personal and academic possessions of Stephen Hawking at the auction house Christies in London, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) ** FILE **

Science’s godless problem

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking made headlines from beyond the grave this October when, seven months after his death, his presumed last book was published bearing these words: "There is no God." And with that, the already wide gap separating science and religion, physical from spiritual, got a bit wider. What a shame.

November 8, 2018
In this Oct. 31, 2018, photo, Huang Yongzhen, CEO of Watrix, checks his smartphone as employees demonstrate the use of their firm's gait recognition software at his company's offices in Beijing. A Chinese technology startup hopes to begin selling software that recognizes people by their body shape and how they walk, enabling identification when faces are hidden from cameras. Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai, “gait recognition” is part of a major push to develop artificial-intelligence and data-driven surveillance across China, raising concern about how far the technology will go. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Watch how you walk — A.I.’s got you ID’d by gait

China has just employed new "gait recognition" technology that can identify individuals by their manner of walk. This is police surveillance taken to a whole new level of frightening. Whispers are that America's airports might make a decent testing ground to bring the artificial intelligence here.

November 7, 2018
The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington is shrouded in fog early in the morning Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, on Election Day in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Democrats score points — but not big win

So Democrats flipped the House and won some points. But with the Senate firmly in Republicans' control, the left is hardly in a position to crow. What has to happen next is a return to proper politicking -- a laying aside of baseball bats and a call for quieter streets. Democrats, this is up to you to do.

November 7, 2018
Radio personality Rush Limbaugh introduces President Donald Trump at the start of a campaign rally Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, in Cape Girardeau, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Rush Limbaugh scorches in Missouri: ‘Hillary Clinton colluded with Russia’

Rush Limbaugh took to the stage in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to introduce President Donald Trump -- and in classic blunt and bold fashion, laid out the real case of why Democrats are so violent and angry these days. "The Democrats haven't even accepted that they lost the election in 2016," he said. Precisely.

November 6, 2018
Ana Navarro shows her calm, rational and thoughtful style of political punditry on CNN. (Source: CNN screen grab)

Civil discourse tough when media goes mad for money

CNN's go-to so-called conservative pundit Ana Navarro -- go-to only because she calls herself a conservative but hates Donald Trump with a passion, and that makes her a golden egg in the eyes of the left-leaning media -- called the president a "racist pig" on national television.

November 6, 2018
In this Jan. 1, 2010, file photo, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh speaks during a news conference at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity — all 3 at 1 rally

President Donald Trump is due to deliver a rally speech in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on Monday -- and appearing at the scene with him will be radio legend Rush Limbaugh and Fox News favorite Sean Hannity. Talk about a trio of star power politicking.

November 5, 2018
In this Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, file photo, an American flag flies on the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Brett Kavanaugh’s lying accusers should be thrown in jail

Forty interviews later and investigators have found nothing -- nil, zilch, nada, zero -- substantiating the sexual harassment and assault claims made by women against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. These accusers, these lying accusers -- send 'em to jail. That's where they belong.

November 5, 2018
FILE - In this March 31, 1968 file photo, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., left, who heads the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, preaches to a capacity crowd from the pulpit at the National Cathedral in Washington. King spoke from the Cathedral's Canterbury Pulpit. It would be his last Sunday sermon before he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis. (AP Photo/John Rous, File)

Pray for peace, but be prepared for war

Martin Luther King Jr. said in his December 1964 Nobel Lecture that the further humankind goes in terms of material gain, the further humankind drifts on spiritual matters. Wise words. Relevant words for these times.

November 3, 2018
Migrants carry a friend to an ambulance after suffering a heat stroke, at an abandoned hotel in Matias Romero, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Thousands of migrants arrived in the town of Matias Romero after an exhausting 40-mile (65-kilometer) trek from Juchitan, Oaxaca, where they failed to get the bus transportation they had hoped for. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Hondurans in caravan file ridiculous suit against Donald Trump

A dozen migrants heading toward the United States with intent to storm across its borders -- a la "we have a right to be here!" -- kicked off a lawsuit against President Donald Trump this week, alleging he's violating their Fifth Amendment due process rights. Really.

November 2, 2018