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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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Former President Barack Obama talks during a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, Ariz., Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego (left) is running for a Senate seat representing Arizona. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP)

Democrats, Obama continue to bleed Black votes

Former President Barack Obama is out and about on the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris, telling Black voters basically they better vote for her in the presidential election, or they ain't Black. But the message is falling flat. He's losing his magic touch. The race card isn't proving effective.

October 22, 2024
The Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States of America, isolated on black background. File photo credit: Roberti via Shutterstock.

Christians must vote for the sake of culture and the Constitution

Leftists -- Democrats -- have successfully silenced much of the Christian voice in politics, and they've done it by threatening Internal Revenue Service action, by threatening lawsuits, by threatening protests and intimidation campaigns and rallies in the streets and media-fueled public condemnations.

October 21, 2024
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Resch Expo in Green Bay, Wis., Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Harris advances big Democrat ‘democracy’ lie

Kamala Harris, in an interview with Fox's Bret Baier that will dot campaign trails for generations to come as a classic textbook example of What Not To Do, slipped in during her off-the-rails critique of Donald Trump that America is "a democracy." No, it isn't. America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

October 18, 2024
Columbia University assistant professor Shai Davidai is denied access to the main campus after his security card was deactivated, to prevent him from accessing the lawn currently occupied by pro-Palestine student demonstrators in New York on Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah) ** FILE **

Columbia University bizarrely bars pro-Israel professor from campus

Columbia University, which tolerated for weeks the presence of pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas agitators on campus, has just banned a loudmouth. His name is Shai Davidai. He's an assistant professor in the business school. And interestingly, he's an avid pro-Israel advocate. The optics just ain't good on this.

October 17, 2024
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) **FILE**

Taliban take full advantage of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris fecklessness

Nice job, Joe Biden. Great job, Kamala Harris. The botched withdrawal of Afghanistan has not just been an embarrassment to America; it's been a total betrayal of American interests and allies. That they're still billing it a success is nothing short of gaslighting and lies.

October 16, 2024
In this Jan. 31, 2016, file photo, Pastor Joshua Nink, right, prays for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as his wife, Melania, left, watches after a Sunday service at First Christian Church, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Christians who fail to vote are shameful

Roughly 104 million people of faith, including 41 million Christians, say they're not going to vote this November. That's not just a dereliction of patriotic and biblical duties. It's an open door to demonic forces to steal away this nation's government.

October 15, 2024
FILE - A "Home of the Whopper" sign welcomes customers outside the Burger King fast food restaurant, on Feb. 1, 2021, in Epping, N.H. The parent company of Burger King is buying out its biggest franchisee in the U.S. for about $1 billion. Restaurant Brands International Inc. will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Carrols Restaurant Group Inc. that it doesn't already hold for $9.55 per share. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Sheriff-gone-nuts on bungled burger order shows arrogance of civil service sector

Sheriff Craig Owens was so angry at Burger King employees for botching his order, he called for police backup and faster than he could finish singing "have it your way," three siren-blasting cop cars arrived on the scene. If only individuals being robbed in the streets could get such a show of police response.

October 14, 2024
A man holds up an Israeli flag as he attends a rally in support of Israel, at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, Oct. 10, 2023, in Miami Beach, Fla. An estimated 525,000 Jews live in Miami's metropolitan area according to the American Jewish Population Project at Brandeis University. In South Florida, rabbis and community leaders are pushing their congregations to call their lawmakers and insist they back Israel as it ramps up its offensive. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Bold & Blunt: November beckons, as world erupts in flames

This November is a crucial turning point for America, for Israel, for free societies of the world -- because the two candidates for the White House couldn't be more different in their approaches to policies and platforms.

October 8, 2024
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel hearing to examine the status of Department of Defense recruiting efforts and plans for fiscal year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

That’s rich: Democrats decimate economy, then blame businesses

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Madeleine Dean, both Democrats, sent cease and desist letters to heads of major companies about "shrinkflation" -- the practice of cutting portion and product sizes while jacking up prices to consumers. That's rich. As if the Democrats themselves weren't to blame for causing the shrinkflation in the first place.

October 8, 2024
Jim Farley, Ford president and CEO, speaks during a presentation on Sept. 28, 2021, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Corporate DEI’s long, slow, happy death

Toyota, facing backlash about forced Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training as well as its sponsorship of pro-LGBTQ events, is reeling in the woke and changing its mind about participating in measures pushed by the leftist advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign. Yay. Another DEI agenda bites the dust.

October 4, 2024
Elon Musk arrives before a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Global attack on free speech is Hail Mary hit at Elon Musk

Democrats have been doing an awful lot of whining about the perils and dangers of free speech lately. It's no coincidence it comes as election season heats; Kamala Harris falters; Donald Trump rises; and Elon Musk has made it impossible for the tyrannical left to stifle dissenting views on his social media platform.

October 3, 2024
A New York Police Department honor guard holds an American flag during a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero, in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bold & Blunt: Democrats use race to divide and conquer

Democrats do love their race cards. It's their go-to for political weaponry. And if you want to know why America seems so divided right now, look only to the Democrat Party. Divide the country into tiny segments. Set those tiny segments against each other. And watch as the political chaos comes.

October 1, 2024
An Israeli soldier raises his fist from a moving APC in northern Israel near the Israel-Lebanon border, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Chumley: Israel fields terrorist fire — and hatred of West

Israel is under attack from Hamas, from Hezbollah and now, from Iran. And most of the Western media go: shut up and take it, Israel. If it weren't for Western media and the narrative that terrorists are victims and Jews, the hostile aggressors, much of what is taking place in the Middle East would stop.

October 1, 2024
President Joe Biden is presented with the Global Citizen Award by Chelsea Clinton, former President Bill Clinton, first lady Jill Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton sees time is ripe to curb free speech

Times have changed. Democrats know this. So they're growing bolder by the day. This is the reality of today's political battles. This is the reality of today's political battles. It's not about party domination; it's about saving America from Marxists and preventing them from crushing all our cherished freedoms.

October 1, 2024
In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) conducts routine underway operations in South China Sea, Friday March 24, 2023. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Greg Johnson/U.S. Navy via AP)

China the largest elephant in the Election Day room

Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris is the story that will determine whether globalists get their Great Reset win; whether America's borders will remain porous; whether inflation and redistribution-of-wealth schemes will destroy this country's economy and entrepreneurial spirit. But a bigger contest is America vs. China.

September 30, 2024
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) **FILE**

McDonald’s french fries and lies won’t win the White House

French fry service is not the American dream. It's a step toward achieving the American dream -- and it's a very low level step, at that. But Harris thinks low-level, zero-skill jobs like the ones that dominate the fast food industry should pay enough that workers could stay the french fry service course their entire lives.

September 27, 2024