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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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Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley

Virginia Roberts Giuffre holds a news conference outside a Manhattan court following the jailhouse death of Jeffrey Epstein, Aug. 27, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

It’s not about Jeffrey Epstein. It’s about the Epstein victims

There's a whole lot of talk going 'round these days about the need to move on and let go and get over the Jeffrey Epstein matter -- that it's old news, conspiracy talk. But the Jeffrey Epstein matter is not about Jeffrey Epstein. It never was. Not really. It's about the victims.

July 22, 2025
American flags and lights decorate a dining room as staff assist residents with an Independence Day buffet service, in the independent living facility at the Toby and Leon Cooperman Sinai Residences, July 4, 2025, in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Churches, start your engines

West Virginia, for the third year in a row, scored dead last in the 2025 "Religious Liberty in the States" survey conducted by the Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy.

July 18, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at an event where a street was named in her honor, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Cutler Bay. Fla. The street is located in South Dade County, where Justice Jackson grew up. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

When judges are so smart they’re stupid

Leftist judges: If they're not busily activating on behalf of leftist causes, they're just as busily putting their minds to work to bang out the next batch of tortured logic to support their leftist causes.

July 17, 2025
President Joe Biden speaks to the media in North Charleston, S.C., Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Democrats can’t dodge their autopen problem

Oh me, oh my. What a tangled web is weaved when we lie. Turns out, then-White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients actually approved the use of the autopen. His words. He wrote in an email, "I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons."

July 15, 2025
Then-President Barack Obama speaks about Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress during a meeting with Defense Secretary Ash Carter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Barack Obama rallies Democrats to destroy, err, ‘do something’

The former president Barack Obama, at a private fundraiser in New Jersey, said Democrats ought to do "less navel-gazing," "less whining," less rolling into "fetal positions" and more "courage," more fight, fight, fight. This, from the guy who sped up the Democrat Party's decline into Marxism.

July 14, 2025
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during an open meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Jerome Powell has some $2.5 billion ‘splainin’ to do

Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, called out Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for excessive spending on building renovations -- specifically, that a planned and budgeted multimillion-dollar project exceeded costs by $700 million, for a total of $2.5 billion. It's so easy to spend other people's money.

July 11, 2025
Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez holds a Bible translated into Tsotsil, a Mayan language, in the Simojovel municipality, Mexico, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Bold and Blunt: Are you a Jesus freak?

In the 1970s, a spiritual awakening to the presence and power of Jesus swept first the West Coast, and then the East Coast, particularly on college campuses. It was the Jesus Freak movement.

July 10, 2025
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James walk in the NYC Pride March, Sunday, June 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Zohran Mamdani, just another ‘Democrat’ despising on America

Zohran Mamdani, whose family fled the tyranny of Idi Amin's Uganda for a better life in America, celebrated Independence Day with a statement that called this country "beautiful," but "unfinished." As Vice President J.D. Vance put it at a speech in California: "Who the hell does he think he is?"

July 9, 2025
President Donald Trump signs his signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts at the White House, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Washington, surrounded by members of Congress. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Bold and Blunt: Breakdown of the big, beautiful bill

Now that President Donald Trump has successfully passed his One Big Beautiful Bill into law -- what next? According to fiscal experts, the golden age of America's economy may very well be on the horizon.

July 9, 2025
Illegal immigration has become a flashpoint in the 2024 election. With the surge in illegal immigration, the escalating drug crisis, and rising violence, many Americans feel overwhelmed and uncertain about the future of our nation, but how can you discuss the crisis with biblical compassion and wisdom? (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

Democrats don’t deserve another chance to lead

Democrats are opening their eyes to the problems their party pols created on the border and acknowledging they've shifted too far to the left and that when it comes to illegal immigration, they must rethink policy and redo plans and actually control crossings. They're not to be trusted.

July 8, 2025
Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Musk and his misplaced pride

Elon Musk in an X post just announced the creation of a new "American Party" as a means of addressing what he perceives as failures of the Republican and Democrat parties and to give us all back our freedom. Musk's hubris is as remarkable as it is offensive.

July 7, 2025
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, left, speaks on stage with fellow candidate Comptroller Brad Lander at his primary election party in New York on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa) **FILE**

Zohran Mamdani, the latest sign of the death of the Democrat Party

Zohran Mamdani is a Palestinian-loving, Israel-bashing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement supporting, socialist-slash-Marxist-slash-communist who is now the emerging Democrat candidate to beat in New York City's mayoral contest. Calling the Democrat Party. Anyone there?

June 27, 2025
Tucker Carlson speaks during the Republican National Convention Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bold and Blunt: Politics, prophecy, the press and the war on Iran

Pastor Jack Hibbs, president of Real Life Network and founding pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Church in California, and the author of the recent "Living in the Daze of Deception," said Christians and believers should be turning attention to Ezekiel to see prophecy unfolding.

June 27, 2025
In this file photo from May 2, 2019, a cadet works with a virtual reality character named "Ellie" at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making predictions to guide care or help patients. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

COVID a perfect example of dangers of health care AI

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they've developed a new and improved means for artificial intelligence to detect what ails, medically speaking, and alert doctors to possibly unknown patient health problems. But the dark side of predictive and diagnostic AI is significant.

June 26, 2025
Kent State and 1960s radicalism illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Bold and Blunt: America’s time of turning, the 1960s

If one time could be pinpointed in America as a point of national turning, where the foundations crumbled and moral absolutes gave way to decadence and a loss of common decency -- look no further than the 1960s.

June 25, 2025
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, Sep. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

United Nations shows itself as irrelevant once again

"Diplomacy must prevail" -- said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at a New York assemblage of the Security Council, in the wake of Israel's attack on Iran and America's subsequent bombing of its nuclear sites. And like that, the United Nations once again shows why it's utterly inconsequential.

June 24, 2025