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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

Workers walk by an American Flag at the Ford Motor Company Kentucky Truck Plant to attend the announcement of the launch of the 2025 Ford Expedition, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House reshapes, restores America as land of opportunity

The Donald Trump administration is establishing a new hiring plan for the federal government that will recognize competency, skill and experience more than skin color, sexual identification or pronoun preference as key factors of selection. It's called merit-based. What a concept, right?

May 30, 2025
This composite radio and optical image provided by researchers in May 2024 shows IRAS 23077, center, a planet-forming disk, and several surrounding stars. The star at the center of IRAS 23077 is not visible because its light is blocked by its surrounding disk, which is viewed from the side. The diameter of this colossal disk is roughly 3,300 times the distance between Earth and the sun, with enough gas and dust to form super-sized planets in far-flung orbits, the U.S. and German researchers reported in May 2024. (Radio: SAO/ASIAA/SMA/K. Monsch et al; Optical: Pan-STARRS via AP)

Bold and Blunt: God the genius mathematician

God is the master designer of our universe, and He created all using -- get this -- mathematical equations. Suddenly, high school algebra doesn't seem so unnecessary.

May 30, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing for the Department of State and related programs on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Rubio’s so simple yet so effective free speech mandate

Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a new visa restriction against foreigners that says if they want to come to the United States, they can't have a history of censoring and stifling Americans' speech. So simple. So effective. So overdue.

May 28, 2025
Demonstrators chant at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas, on April 24, 2024, in Austin, Texas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly accused critics of Israel or his policies of antisemitism, including the U.S. college campus protests and the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Antisemitism may well be the downfall of America

America has a Constitution that underscores the rights of citizens to speak freely, to petition their government for grievances, to assemble in protest and to express in print, on radio, on television as desired. But antisemitism is not free speech.

May 23, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen, April 5, 2009, in Washington. Tennessee will soon become the first state in the country to offer free diapers to families enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program after receiving federal approval on May 17, 2024, state officials have confirmed. Similarly, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also approved extending a pilot program in Delaware that provides free diapers and wipes to postpartum parents for the first three months after giving birth. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Medicaid work requirement makes sense and builds character

President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" includes provisions to boot illegals off Medicaid and make those between the ages of 19 and 64 years old work at least 20 hours per week as a condition of receiving the benefit. These are common-sense reforms.

May 21, 2025
Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, listens during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 7, 2025. (Stephanie Lecocq/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Bold and Blunt: Trump’s Middle East miscalculation

Donald Trump is the best president this nation has seen since Ronald Reagan days. But even he's only human, and therefore, capable of missteps. And his recent deals in the Middle East may indeed one day come back to haunt America.

May 21, 2025
Former U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled conference in Chicago, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Biden has cancer. The Democrat Party is a cancer

Former President Joseph R. Biden has a prostate cancer that is so advanced that it's impossible to believe he didn't know he had it while president; his wife didn't know he had it while president; and those who surrounded him in the medical world, in the Democrat Party, in the White House didn't know he had it while president.

May 20, 2025
President Joe Biden walks out to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Democrats lied, and apologizing for Biden cover-up doesn’t change that

Van Jones, a former adviser to ex-President Barack Obama, said Democrats should apologize to the American people for misleading-slash-lying about former President Joseph R. Biden's mental and physical frailties, else the next election, and maybe the next and next and next, will go Republican. It's true. Americans don't like lying politicians and media.

May 19, 2025
Bruce Springsteen arrives to perform at a campaign rally with former President Barack Obama supporting Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bruce Springsteen scorns blessings of being born in the U.S.A.

Rocker Bruce Springsteen jetted off to Manchester, United Kingdom, and railed against President Donald Trump as "unfit" for office, as a "incompetent," as "treasonous." Another leftist slams America, even while rising to fame and glory because of America. Yawn.

May 16, 2025
A Bible sits open as Pastor Rick Mannon stands at the pulpit at Calvary Assembly of God in Wilson, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman) ** FILE **

Bold & Blunt: America’s divine founding

America is great because America is good -- that's the widely quoted phrase attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville. It's wrongly attributed; this exact phrase is not found in his writings. But the theme applies nevertheless.

May 16, 2025
Then-FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Oversight Committee on July 7, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Imagine if ‘8647’ seashells had been ‘8644,’ for Obama

It's hard to imagine the guy who previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and as lead prosector for the federal case against John Gambino and the mafia -- whose members conceal their criminal activities with coded language -- that the term "86" threw him for a loop.

May 16, 2025
A.G. Sulzberger and President Donald Trump. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Media ought to quit whining about Trump

The problem with the press is that it's filled with members who think they know best what the rest of the world should know and not know, and that anyone who dares object to their coverage decisions should keep their criticisms quiet.

May 15, 2025
A woman sits on the steps of the Wangfujing Catholic Church also known as East Church in Beijing, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Bold and Blunt: CCP can’t stop Christianity from spreading

China has imposed new rules on foreign missionaries, saying those who want to travel to the country to spread and preach the gospel may do so, but only after they register with the government. That's akin to putting a target on their backs for the CCP to take notice -- and surveil -- and persecute.

May 14, 2025
Congresswoman Rep. LaMonica McIver demands the release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest while protesting outside an ICE detention prison, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J, (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

When politicians become the enemy

Protesting and physically assaulting immigration agents who are simply carrying out their duties to protect America's borders and secure citizens' safety is not just an odd stance for a duly elected politician to take. It's what enemies of America do. It's how enemies of American citizens behave.

May 14, 2025
President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Democrats cheer for China to beat Trump in trade war

A new survey from the Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center at The Heartland Institute found that the majority of polled Democrats actually want China to beat President Trump's administration in the trade war. Democrats, party of communists.

May 13, 2025