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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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Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant gestures while arguing with a referee during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers teammates wear ‘I Can’t Breathe’ shirts for warmups

Kobe Bryant and several of his Los Angeles Lakers' teammates donned "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts for pregame warmups against the Sacramento Kings — the latest athletes to take public stances in the case of Eric Garner, a New York suspect who died an hour or so after a policeman put him in a chokehold.

December 10, 2014
Members of Dallas Fire-Rescue Department prepare to decontaminate common areas near the Dallas apartment of a second health care worker who has tested positive for Ebola. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Dallas senior living complex goes up in five-alarm flames

Fire tore through a senior living apartment complex in a northeastern corner of Dallas, Texas, early Wednesday morning, forcing residents to flee and firefighters to rush to save several at the same time they battled the five-alarm blaze.

December 10, 2014
A tea party rally on the National Mall shows evidence of the grassroots fervor that still makes the movement a 'powerful' force, according to a Gallup poll and analysis. (Andrew Harnick/The Washington Times)

Texas professor teaches students tea party akin to Nazi party

A professor at South Texas College in Weslaco was captured on video explaining to his students some of the perceived similarities between modern day tea party members and 1930's-era Nazis in Germany -- and then imploring them to not tell anyone outside the classroom of his comparison.

December 9, 2014
In this September 2014 photo, Cho Hyun-ah, Korean Air's vice president responsible for cabin service and the oldest child of Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho, answers reporters' question during a news conference in Incheon, west of Seoul, South Korea. Korean Air Lines apologized Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, for inconveniencing passengers after Cho ordered a crew member off a flight for serving bagged nuts in the first class cabin. (AP Photo/Yonhap)

Heather Cho, Korean Air executive, resigns over airplane macadamia nut row

Heather Cho, an executive with Korean Air who also uses the native name of Cho Hyun-ah, resigned Tuesday from the airline's catering and in-flight sales division after facing fire for halting the flight of a plane because crew served her macadamia nuts in a bag and not on a plate.

December 9, 2014
Riders Augusta Iwasaki, 8, of Los Angeles, Calif., and Peter Pletcher of Magnolia, Texas, center, buy snacks from a vending machine as the Washington International Horse Show holds its 55th annual championship at the Verizon Center in Chinatown, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Facial recognition technology put on vending machines to help dieters diet

Those with little to no self-control — take heart. The Luce X2 Touch TV vending machine, complete with facial identification technology, just made its debut to industry insiders in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom with the promise of helping dieters everywhere keep on track with professed plans to quit the junk food and lose weight.

December 9, 2014
Jonathan Gruber poses in his home in Lexington, Mass., in this Feb. 8, 2011, file photo. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Jonathan Gruber admits Obama fudged Obamacare costs: podcast

Jonathan Gruber — the now-famous Obamacare architect who credited the bill's passage to the "stupidity" of the American people — heads into a congressional hearing on Tuesday against a backdrop of one of his most shocking claims: that the president outright lied to the American people about his health care reform.

December 9, 2014
A protester, one of dozens detained by police after a group stormed Interstate 80, peers out from a behind a fence in Emeryville, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. Hundreds of people marched through Berkeley for a third night a row, blocking an interstate highway and stopping a train as activists rallied against grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Eric Garner, Michael Brown protesters fill streets, halt traffic

Protests in California over the police-fueled deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have taken decided turns to the violent, with hundreds of angry individuals hurling objects, setting fires, breaking store windows and blocking off major travel routes in the last 24 hours.

December 9, 2014
Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, about the current state and future of American foreign policy. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Dick Cheney on CIA report: It’s ‘all a bunch of hooey’

Former Vice President Dick Cheney took preemptive action on the looming release of a report that takes a look at President George W. Bush-era interrogation tactics of suspected terrorists, calling the Democratic-fueled discussion little more than political theatrics.

December 9, 2014
Visitors are silhouetted as they view the Nativity scene during the 34th annual "Festival of Lights" at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Washington Temple in Kensington, Md., on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. (The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Indiana town fights atheists on nativity scene: ‘They can look the other way’

Atheists are demanding Brookville, Indiana, governing authorities tear down a nativity display that's nearby the Franklin County Courthouse — where it's been placed every Christmas for nearly five decades — but the townspeople are fighting back, saying simply if you don't like it, don't look.

December 8, 2014