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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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George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, listens to the conference after his speech titled "How to save the European Union" as he attends the European Council On Foreign Relations Annual Council Meeting in Paris, Tuesday, May 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) ** FILE **

George Soros, buying a district attorney near you

George Soros, the billionaire of progressive-slash-socialist and globalist causes the world over, has been busy buying his way into local district attorney campaigns in the United States. Talk about trying to turn the judicial system into an activist camp for the left.

May 30, 2018
Comedian Kathy Griffin says she's "no longer sorry" for the President Trump beheading stunt that jeopardized her career. (Sunrise Live) ** FILE **

Donald Trump is to Roseanne Barr like Barack Obama is to Kathy Griffin

Roseanne Barr mistakenly fired off a racist tweet aimed at Valerie Jarrett and now the left is crowing, "See? See? This is what happens when you have Donald Trump in the White House." Stuff and nonsense. Trump is not to blame for Barr -- just as Barack Obama, say, can't be faulted for Kathy Griffin.

May 30, 2018
A team of researchers in Maryland used shoes to show their general artificial intelligence discovery, which they say is the "holy grail" of machine learning. (Photo Credit: Z Advance Computing Inc.)

Maryland researchers say they discovered ‘Holy Grail’ of machine learning

A team of researchers from Maryland say they've invented a general artificial intelligence way for machines to identify and process 3-D images that doesn't require humans to go through the tedium of inputting specific information that accounts for each and every instance, scenario, difference, change and category that could crop up. The "Holy Grail" of machine learning, in other words -- in their words, in fact.

May 29, 2018
In this Oct. 19, 2016, file photo, Chelsea Clinton laughs as she talks to a crowd at Arizona State University about her years in the White House as a kid while campaigning for her mother, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Chelsea Clinton, a perfect example of why left is Not Real American

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of the president who was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, nonetheless found the nerve to tell an overseas newspaper, The Guardian, that Donald Trump is not only less than presidential -- but he's also less than American. He's not a real American, she suggested.

May 29, 2018
People participate in a gun rights rally as a Second Amendment flag is carried at the state capitol, Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Atlanta. About 40 gun rights supporters have gathered for one of dozens of rallies planned at statehouses across the U.S. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) ** FILE **

God-given, not government granted, guides Second Amendment

Patrick Ryan, a Democrat running for Congress in New York, told a CNN audience that one of his political platforms is to put into effect strict limits on the Second Amendment because the First Amendment comes with limits, so why not the second, as well? Well, sorry, Mr. Ryan. The Second Amendment, like the First, is God-given, not government granted.

May 29, 2018
Former CIA Director John Brennan (left) and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, among others, aggressively pursued political agendas in opposition to former President Trump from 2016 to 2021, former CIA analyst John A. Gentry said. (Associated Press)

Spying, schmying, fact is — perception is reality

Former intel guy James Clapper told Joy Behar, co-host of "The View," the FBI was not spying on then-candidate Donald Trump, but rather only Russians, and that yada yada, there's nothing to see here folks, go home. But let's hold up the horses, just a bit. After all, in dictionary-speak, a spy's a spy's a spy.

May 26, 2018
FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2017, file photo, Amazon Echo Plus, center, and other Echo devices sit on display during an event announcing several new Amazon products by the company in Seattle. Amazon says an "unlikely" string of events prompted its Echo personal assistant device to record a Portland, Ore., family's private conversation and then send the recording to an acquaintance in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Alexa? Why are you recording me, Alexa?

A husband in Oregon recently received a strange telephone call from his boss that went like this: Unplug your Alexa. You're being hacked. Except he wasn't being hacked. His Amazon Echo device had actually recorded conversations between the man and his wife, and then sent them along to the man's boss as audio file attachments.

May 25, 2018
Orajel is displayed for sale in a pharmacy in New York Wednesday, May 23, 2018. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning parents about potentially deadly risks of teething remedies that contain a numbing ingredient used in popular brands like Orajel. The agency on Wednesday said it wants manufacturers to stop selling products intended for babies and toddlers because the products contain a drug ingredient that can cause a rare but dangerous blood condition that interferes with normal breathing. (AP Photo/Stephanie Nano)

FDA’s pitiful, politicized press to pull baby teething meds from market

The Food and Drug Administration issued parents some stern warnings about teething medicines for their babies, and simultaneously told manufacturers and retailers that if they didn't "voluntarily" stop selling the product to the tiny toddler demographic, they would face legal action from the feds. Voluntary compliance -- gotta love the federal definition of that, yes?

May 25, 2018
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell tells reporters the NFL team owners have reached agreement on a new league policy that requires players to stand for the national anthem or remain in the locker room during the NFL owner's spring meeting Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Roger Goodell gets one right

Roger Goodell, NFL commissioner, has sparked some players' union backlash by announcing those who want to bend knees during this season's game-time playing of the national anthem may do so -- but from the locker room, not the field. But really, Goodell got it right. Finally.

May 24, 2018
Freddy Cuevas, left, and President Donald Trump listen as Evelyn Rodriguez speaks about the murder of her daughter by the MS-13 street gang during a roundtable on immigration policy at Morrelly Homeland Security Center, Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Bethpage, N.Y. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump vows not to sign border bill without ‘real wall’

President Donald Trump, speaking to Fox News' "Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade in an exclusive interview, vowed border-related bills weaving through Congress that don't include provisions to fund and build a "real wall" won't meet with his approval, and ultimately, won't pass his White House desk. Take a memo, Democrats and soft-on-border-control Republicans.

May 24, 2018
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY., right, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, talk to one another after hosting a news conference to announce a proposed increase to teacher pay, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Democrats, desperate, face doozy of election fight

Democrats, according to recent polls, face what could kindly be called an uphill election-time battle. Kindly. More to truth, they're facing a Chimborazo climb, so dubbed in recognition of the world's highest peak -- yes, higher even than Mount Everest.

May 24, 2018
Tomi Lahren seen at Politicon 2016 at The Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, June 25, 2016, in Pasadena, CA. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)

Tomi Lahren assaulted — and even Kathy Griffin rises to her defense

Tomi Lahren, Fox News contributor and bold-to-the-point-of-brash political pundit, was verbally assaulted and physically hit with the contents of a drink by a bunch of angry brunchers at a Minneapolis restaurant. And get this: Even Kathy Griffin says that's not "cool."

May 23, 2018
Boolah, a 17-year-old, wears a doggie diaper  while competing in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair on Friday, June 26, 2015, in Petaluma, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) ** FILE **

Alphabet ‘smart nappy’ notion an example of tech overkill

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has filed for a patent via its Verily division that will tell parents, by way of technology, when their diapered babies have gone to the bathroom. This is a solid example of When Technology Goes Overboard.

May 22, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, right, discusses his biography of former President George H. W. Bush with Bush's son, former President George W. Bush, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter) ** FILE **

Jon Meacham, presidential historian, newest shill to predict impeachment for Donald Trump

Jon Meacham, a presidential historian who has a pretty impressive background, as far as writers go, anyway, took to national television to predict: Donald Trump will be impeached. Well, with all due respect to Meacham, his Pulitzer for a biography of Andrew Jackson, his executive stints at Random House and his many, many writing contributions to The New York Times and other left-leaning publications -- he's full of it.

May 22, 2018
A petition has been launched to persuade veteran actor and political provocateur James Woods to run for California governor this year. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

James Woods faults Democrats for school insecurity

James Woods, one of the few conservatives in Hollywood, sent out a scathing tweet about Democrats and their blocking of common-sense measures that could secure our nation's public schools from shooting attackers. Like how? Like pressing for gun-free zones, for example.

May 21, 2018
In this Wednesday, May 16, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump waves from the White House, in Washington. In a series of tweets Sunday, May 20, 2018, Trump skims over the facts involving the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Donald Trump: ‘Drain the Swamp!’ And he is

President Donald Trump is poised to officially demand a federal investigation into whether the Department of Justice "infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes," as he put it. And that means, once again, he is putting his mockers to shame.

May 21, 2018
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with law enforcement officials on the MS-13 street gang and border security, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump doubles down on MS-13 as ‘animals’

So President Donald Trump referred to MS-13 murderous gang members as "animals" -- and the left went nuts. Trump, to his great credit, laughed off the criticism and doubled down on his original comments.

May 18, 2018
A protester carries a sign down the street near a Planned Parenthood health center in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. Several dozen protesters gathered in California's San Fernando Valley demanding the organization be stripped of its federal funding.  (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) ** FILE **

Donald Trump sets anti-abortion sights on Planned Parenthood

President Donald Trump has a new proposal, and it's one that's going to make his Christian and evangelical base quite happy. He's set his sights on reeling in Planned Parenthood and abortion -- another campaign promise coming true.

May 18, 2018