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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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FILE - George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria, June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

George Soros should be dragged before Congress

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, told Newsmax in a recent interview that she had asked House Oversight Chairman James Comer to subpoena billionaire George Soros to demand he answer questions about election interference. Good. About time.

June 20, 2025
Smokes raises from a building of the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran in Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Bold and Blunt: Israel, Iran engaged in clash of civilizations

The ongoing war between Israel and Iran isn't so much a fight over land or resources or military superiority as it is a true clash of civilizations and an epic showdown between good and evil. And Israel represents all of civilized society, including America.

June 20, 2025
A pride flag is seen in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Oct. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Tennessee wins big to protect children from LGBTQ evil

This transgender madness, brought courtesy of Democrats, leftists and their mad scientists in the medical community, not to mention their adoring secularists in media, has gone on far too long and has left far too many exploited and victimized children in its wake.

June 19, 2025
Rescue team work at the site where a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Bold and Blunt: America should help Israel win

Israel's war on Iran is America's war on terrorism -- and all of civil society's war against evil.. What role America should play in Israel's war on Iran is a subject of controversy, though.

June 18, 2025
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander speaks during a press conference after being released from arrest outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Democrats do give a good fake victim theatrical show

Brad Lander, Democrat candidate for mayor, was arrested by ICE officials for impeding feds from arresting an illegal immigrant inside a courthouse in Manhattan and for assaulting an agent. This is the Democrat Party's newest genius campaign to win voters' favor: roll cameras; play victim.

June 18, 2025
A row of aircrafts belonging to Israeli airlines El Al sit parked along the apron of Cyprus' main airport in Larnaca, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Israel’s war of peace

Israel has launched strikes against Iran -- but these are not so much preemptive strikes as they are reactive to long-running proxy and direct strikes by Iran against Israel. Now the questions are: to what end? And what should be the U.S. involvement? Well, Israel's war is America's war.

June 17, 2025
FILE - President Donald Trump, right, listens as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, April 7, 2025. (Pool via AP, file)

Iran oh so wishes Joe Biden were still president

Israel on Friday carried out a strategic attack on Iran that struck Natanz, its largest nuclear site, and killed dozens, including top military, political and scientific officials. And all the Iranian terrorists during Friday prayers go: Oh, for the return of Joe Biden to the White House.

June 13, 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: The Bible still matters

Too many Christians in America go to church on Sunday, read their Bible daily and maybe attend worship services again on Wednesday evenings -- but then fail to recognize and acknowledge that God is interested in everything they do all week long, all day long, every second of every day.

June 13, 2025
A legislator puts their hand on a Bible during a swearing-in ceremony on the first day of the legislative session at the Capitol in Atlanta, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) ** FILE **

God-given rights in jeopardy

A year ago, only 20 percent of U.S. adults thought religion was a major influencer of American life. Now? Thirty-four percent believe that, Gallup just found. The question that pops, perhaps most importantly, is this: Which religion? It matters.

June 12, 2025
Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, right, looks to pass the ball as he is defended by Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac, left, during the first half in game 3 of a first-round NBA playoff basketball series,, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Bold and Blunt: Serving God on the job

One of the biggest challenges as a Christian is to maintain the faith even in the face of great pressures of the world, and to carry that faith out of Sunday service and into the work week of Monday-through-Friday. But God doesn't want to be contained to church service.

June 11, 2025
CORRECTS BUDGET DATES Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his revised 2025-2026 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Gavin Newsom’s presidential hopes burn in L.A. fires

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's big response to the murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and illegals and all their enablers and supporters who've set the city streets of Los Angeles on fire has been -- sue President Trump for trying to instill order.

June 11, 2025
A protester holds a sign as a Waymo taxi burns near the metropolitan detention center of downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following last night's immigration raid protest. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

Saul Alinsky alive and well in L.A.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, in the latest showdown with federal authorities attempting to instill law and order in the burning inferno called Los Angeles, dared President Trump's border czar Tom Homan to, colloquially, "arrest me, bro." This is just so Democrat.

June 10, 2025
Climate activist Greta Thunberg stands near a Palestinian flag after boarding the Madleen boat and before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Greta Thunberg, Gaza-bound Gilligan in pigtails, grasps for relevancy

Climate activist Greta Thunberg and "Game of Thrones" actor Liam Cunningham were so moved by the sad plight of people in Gaza they got a boat, hoisted the Palestinian flag and threw some black-and-white checkered cloth around their bodies and set sail. Their goal? Gaza or bust, baby.

June 9, 2025
Ashley Branton lays out tarot cards in the back of her shop, Velvet Witch, in Norfolk, Va., Thursday, June 13, 2024. The city of Norfolk recently repealed its 45-year-old ban on “the practice of palmistry, palm reading, phrenology or clairvoyance, for monetary or other compensation.” The 1979 ordinance was not being enforced, however, and the psychic services industry is growing. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)

America’s unhealthy obsession with New Age spiritualism

Roughly a third of U.S. adults turn to tarot cards, astrology, fortune tellers and the like to help chart their futures or soothe their anxieties, and the practice is most common among Gen Z-ers and millennials, a recent survey shows. It's all fun and games -- until it's not.

June 7, 2025
The Ohio Statehouse is reflected in a window of The Center for Christian Virtue in downtown Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

Bold and Blunt: America the virtuous

Virtue is something very few people think about -- and when they do, it's probably as a word in their minds that's interchangeable with values, or principles, or standards. But virtue is actually a word that represents necessary components for successful, fruitful living.

June 6, 2025
This combination of photos shows White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, on Nov. 13, 2024, left, and the cover of her book "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines." (AP Photo/left, and Grand Central Publishing via AP)

Democrats and their faux ‘independent’ thinking

Karine Jean-Pierre has switched from Democrat to independent, saying in a video shared on Instagram that it's time "we" -- meaning everybody -- "stop thinking in boxes and think outside of our boxes and not be so partisan." LOL. She coincidentally has a new book called "Independent."

June 5, 2025
In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the John Lewis-class replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) conducts a replenishment at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec. 13, 2024. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maxwell Orlosky/U.S. Navy via AP))

Harvey Milk, the left’s fabricated LGBTQ hero

Harvey Milk to Democrats, to many in the media, to the LGBTQ community, is a hero. But like much of what leftists label heroic, such cause celebre is all based on lies and gaslighting and false narratives and revised history.

June 4, 2025
A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Oct. 5, 2021, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Bold and Blunt: Big Pharma, putting America last

The pharmaceutical industry has seen its profits explode in recent years, and part of the reason is that Americans are paying exorbitant prices for prescriptions -- far more than those in other countries. And what does Big Pharma do with those profits? Advertise.

June 4, 2025
Sal Perez, executive producer and VP of Sesame Street at Sesame Workshop, talks to Bert and Ernie after winning the Elevate Prize Foundation's Catalyst Award, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Michael Laughlin)

Pride month goeth before a fall

This LGBTQ thing has gotten way out of hand and gone far beyond what -- we were told -- it was supposed to be about; that is, equality. Equal rights. Equal access. Equal treatment under the law. There is no celebration of equality in Pride Month. There's only destruction.

June 3, 2025