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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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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, democratic candidate for the 14th Congressional District of New York, speaks during a rally against Judge Brett Kavanaugh at City Hall, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm) ** FILE **

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the socialist likens climate change to Nazi fight

Today's fight against climate change is yesterday's fight against the Nazis -- at least, that's how socialist legislative wanna-be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez puts it. This is what the Democrats are bringing to the table for the midterms, a House candidate who ties climate change to evil murderers in a potatoes, potahtoes kind of way?

October 22, 2018
FILE - In this June 20, 2017, file photo, the U.S. Capitol in Washington at sunrise. Keep the government running and confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the next Supreme Court justice. Those are the big-ticket items that Republican leaders in Congress hope to accomplish as lawmakers look to wrap up their work in 2018 and head home to campaign for the November elections.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Blue wave, schmue wave, polls are almost always wrong

Listen to the Democrats, and what's coming this November is a so-called blue wave of tidal proportions that sweeps out all those riff-raffy Republicans and ushers in a marked majority of left-leaning liberals in both House and Senate -- and it's a takeover they say is clear backlash to Donald Trump. Grain of salt, meet prognosticators.

October 20, 2018
In this Oct. 28, 2014, file photo provided by Duke University, neurosurgeon Dr. John Sampson places a catheter into a glioblastoma patient at Duke in Durham, N.C. One of the world's most dreaded viruses has been turned into an immune system therapy to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study treated with a modified poliovirus, which helped their bodies attack their cancer, doctors reported on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (Shawn Rocco/Duke Health via AP) ** FILE **

Polio-like paralyzing disease hits hundreds — but don’t call it polio

The United States was declared "polio-free" in 1979, a feat the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is "thanks to [an] effective vaccine." But now it's back -- or is it? The government says no, the condition that's been inflicting hundreds with polio-like symptoms is not, in fact, polio. It's polio-like. It's polio-pretty much. But it's not polio.

October 19, 2018
Robot Running Man from the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition takes a tumble during the competition in the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Robotics Challenge in Pomona, Calif., Friday, June 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo) ** FILE **

DARPA turns to psychology to create machines with common sense

When it comes to building artificial intelligence with good old-fashioned common sense, elusive is thy name. Many have tried. Many have failed. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aims to rectify that by bridging technology with -- get this -- psychology.

October 18, 2018
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, during The Atlantic Festival, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton’s dwindling power

Hillary Clinton, never one for the conservatives, has now managed to isolate -- nay, tick off -- even the hardest core of her supporters. What's come from her fans in the media in the last few hours could very well signal the end of Clinton's long-standing, long-running reign in political courts.

October 18, 2018
President Donald Trump presents the Medal of Honor to U.S. Marine Corps retired Sgt. Maj. John Canley, during an East Room ceremony at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. Canley is the 300th Marine to receive the nation's highest military medal.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump vows U.S. military to ‘CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER’

President Donald Trump, in an early morning tweet, vowed to put a stop to the flow of foreigners making their way from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador into America by using U.S. military, if necessary, to close and protect the southern borders. And with that, Trump's poll numbers, among his base, no doubt flew skyward.

October 18, 2018
President Donald Trump prays with American Pastor Andrew Brunson in the Oval Office of the White House, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, in Washington. Brunson returned to the U.S. around midday after he was freed Friday, from nearly two years of detention in Turkey. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Pastor Andrew Brunson puts focus back on what matters

And Americans think the upcoming elections are the big concerns of the day. What about Pastor Andrew Brunson's ordeal, and his nearly two-year imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit? Perspective: It's what's needed here.

October 18, 2018
Journalists photograph a type of smoke grenade placed by antifa-activists in the middle of 17th street during the "Unite the Right 2" rally in Washington, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. (Craig Hudson/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP) ** FILE **

Minnesota Republicans attacked in streets show true colors of left

A couple of campaigning Minnesota Republicans who were attacked in public -- one at a restaurant, the other when she asked why he kicked away her political sign -- aren't incidences of violence that simply show the signs of heated political times. They go deeper than that. They show the pure evil that's driving the Democratic Party.

October 17, 2018
In this Oct. 4, 2018, file photo, Rick Armstrong, left, Ryan Gosling and Mark Armstrong attend the "First Man" premiere at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Gosling says that one of the biggest challenges of making the Neil Armstrong film was knowing that his sons were going to see it. Armstrong's sons Rick and Mark Armstrong were involved in the production at every step helping to shed light on their father. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

‘First Man,’ the moon landing movie that omitted U.S. flag, falls short on sales

"First Man," the movie that was supposed to showcase the historical greatness of the first man to walk the moon, Neil Armstrong -- but that omitted the triumphant and patriotic planting of the flag of record from the very country that made this greatness possible, America -- has suffered a bit of a red face with its opening weekend ticket sales. Sales were projected at $21 million but came in short, at $16.5 million.

October 16, 2018
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat (Associated Press) **FILE**

Elizabeth Warren, the Boston Red Sox’s Bill Buckner pariah of politics

Elizabeth Warren, who took the puzzling step of announcing her DNA test results showing she was less Native American than most European Americans, has now come under fire from the Cherokee Nation. And how rightly so. Warren has become to politics what Bill Buckner has been to Red Sox fans for decades -- a pariah.

October 16, 2018
In this Dec. 16, 2015, file photo, professor Stephen Hawking listens to a news conference in London. The family of the late British physicist Stephen Hawking has opened a lottery for 1,000 tickets for a service of thanksgiving in his honor at Westminster Abbey. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

A.I. to take over world — or not: Whom to believe?

Stephen Hawking, world-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist, may have died in March but the warnings of his final book, published just this week, shout from beyond the grave as something like this: Watch out, humanity, artificially intelligent beings will soon rule. And 'lest you laugh -- Hawking was regarded by many as the smartest guy in the world.

October 16, 2018
Comedian Joy Behar told her audience on ABC's "The View" that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton resorts to "whataboutism" when asked about the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Oct. 15, 2018. (Image: ABC, "The View" screenshot)

Even Joy Behar of ‘The View’ thinks Hillary Clinton’s full of it

By now, everybody's heard about Hillary Clinton's denial that hubby Bill abused his presidential power by having an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, and denial that he should have stepped aside. Shockingly, even Joy Behar of "The View," thinks Hillary's gone out on a lonely limb to defend her husband with this.

October 15, 2018
Don Lemon attends CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute at the American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) ** FILE **

Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo and their shocking mocking of Tucker Carlson

CNN's Don Lemon and CNN's Chris Cuomo engaged in some mean-spirited banter about Fox's Tucker Carlson during a recent televised spot, showing in 42 short seconds just why they're the worst of the worst -- why nobody with an ounce of intellect takes the mainstream media serious any more. CNN: Painful to watch TV.

October 15, 2018
In this Jan. 20, 2018, file photo, protesters gather at the Grand Park for a Women's March against sexual violence in Los Angeles. A wave of sexual harassment complaints that accompanied the #MeToo movement is straining many of the state and local offices tasked with policing workplace discrimination of all kinds. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

#MeToo ought to emphasize common sense, not just victimhood

#MeToo's an important crusade; sexual harassment, assault, attack are all blots on humanity, particularly against the female side of humanity, and ought to prosecuted to the fullest extent of applicable laws. But it'd be nice if #MeToo weren't simply a finger-point. It'd be nice if the campaign hit hard as an educational tool, as well.

October 12, 2018
In this Oct. 11, 2018, photo, rapper Kanye West speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House with President Donald Trump, in Washington. It’s one of Trump’s favorite talking points in touting his administration’s success: The record low rate of black unemployment. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Democrats’ double standard on racism

Don Lemon, by another name, would be vilified by the left, fired by CNN and relegated to the scrap heap of has-been celebrity-ism. But Lemon furthers the left's narrative against the right -- the one that says President Donald Trump is racist. So he's safe.

October 12, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford accused now-Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her 36 years ago, but her story could not be corroborated. (Associated Press/File)

Christine Blasey Ford’s bogus ‘bravery’ award nomination

Christine Blasey Ford has been nominated for the University of North Carolina's highly esteemed alumna award for speaking publicly about the allegations of sexual assault she hurled then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's way. What a bogus award -- what a bogus nomination.

October 11, 2018