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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 with Cheryl Chumley” video and audio show for The Washington Times, a Newsmax contributor, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths" and "Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom.” She's also the co-author with Allen West of the upcoming "America's Second Civil War: Rescuing the Republic From the Unholy Alliance of Marxists, Islamists and Democrats" (April 2027). Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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There used to be a time in America when members of Congress passed actual budgets and when politicians actually cared about bringing down debt and spending in line with revenues. Not so today.

WATCH: Budget has become a tool for political power

There used to be a time in America when members of Congress passed actual budgets and when politicians actually cared about bringing down debt and spending in line with revenues. Not so today.

October 9, 2026
This April 9, 2010, file photo released by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows U.S. Major Nidal Hasan at the Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas. (AP Photo/Bell County Sheriff's Department, File)

Obama’s legacy of emboldening Islamic terrorism

Nidal Malik Hasan is scheduled for death by firing squad on Dec. 3. Hasan will soon be dead. But former President Obama's legacy of watering down, defending and ultimately enabling Islamic terror will live on.

October 8, 2026
A man wears an "I voted" sticker on his shirt, printed with the American flag and the U.S. Constitution, after voting at Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center in Fort Myers, Fla, on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Sharia strikes favorable chord with younger voters

Forty-three percent of U.S. voters between the ages of 18 and 24 years old say they're OK with Sharia law coming to America, according to a Rasmussen Reports/Our Republic survey. This should leave Americans speechless.

October 6, 2026
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency is displayed on April 13, 2016, at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

The way to AI superiority is with a superior CIA

If the deep state can spend years planting and investigating the mythological "Russia collusion" against an American president and MAGA citizens, just think of what it could accomplish by putting those same energies toward beating an actual U.S. adversary with an actual threat to U.S. interests.

October 3, 2026
The price for diesel fuel is displayed on a pump at a gas station Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in Dickson, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Diesel’s shock-and-awe prices complicate midterms

As a counter to rising fuel prices, President Trump said in an interview over the weekend that his White House is "very seriously" considering a ban on diesel exports. It's a tricky maneuver that economic experts suggest could backfire -- epically.

September 29, 2026
An organizer for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), second from left in red shirt, coaches sex workers and allies before they canvass for Julia Salazar, who is running for the Democratic primary of the 18th district seat of the New York State Senate on Aug. 19, 2018, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Salazar supports decriminalizing sex work and repealing laws that target people in the sex industry. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

WATCH: DSA dominated by overeducated elitists

The Democratic Socialists of America and its accompanying far-leftist movement are filled with college-educated youth who've been blessed with opportunities and resources.

September 24, 2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally for Democratic candidates Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026, in Monroe, N.C. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond) ** FILE **

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s too little, too late COVID moment

California Gov. Gavin Newsom told CNN's Jake Tapper during a totally staged fly-fishing interview -- just two dudes hashing out the world's problems while tossing a line in the water, LOL! -- that he regretted closing beaches during COVID because it was an "insane" policy.

September 24, 2026
Republicans and Democrats and Obamacare health care subsidies illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Obamacare gets a well-deserved vetting

Nearly 760,000 people are set to lose their Obamacare coverage because they never should have received coverage in the first place. Booting these fraudsters is estimated to save taxpayers $2.2 billion. And Democrats are calling out this action as cruel.

September 23, 2026
The sun sets over commercial vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, with the city's skyline in the background, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Trump’s tough talk on Iran seriously falling flat

President Donald Trump over the weekend floated the idea of blowing up Iran to bring a speedy end to the war. But since his administration has claimed on numerous occasions and over numerous spans of time that the war with Iran has already ended, his threats seem a bit superfluous.

September 21, 2026
Visitors walk past a display depicting artificial intelligence and a human hand at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Monday, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

AI is dangerous, but not in the way Democrats mean

Democrats look at AI through the prism of how it might threaten their political power -- and they panic because the idea of losing control means they might have to serve the people, rather than rule over the people.

September 16, 2026