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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

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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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** FILE ** This is a Friday, March 3, 2006, file photo of Moazzam Begg outside the United States Embassy in London. British police say a former Guantanamo Bay detainee is one of four people arrested on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offenses. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Freed Gitmo detainee arrested in London during terror investigation

A human rights group in Britain is outraged that one of its members — a high-profile director named Moazzam Begg, who was once imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay — was arrested in London over an investigation into his suspicious ties to terrorists in Syria.

February 26, 2014
Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, the state's leading gay-rights group, urges participants at a Statehouse rally to work to defeat conservative legislators, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in Topeka, Kan. Dozens rallied for gay rights as backers of "religious freedom" legislation worked to counter perceptions that their measure would encourage widespread discrimination against gays and lesbians. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Americans’ approval of gays hikes by 21 percentage points

Americans may not be able to agree on immigration reform, or education policy, or military spending — but on gays, they're speaking loud and clear: More and more are approving of same-sex marriage than ever before, the Public Religion Research Institute found.

February 26, 2014

Colombian informant says U.S. ‘jerking me around’ on $5M reward

A Colombian man who said he helped federal agents in the mid-2000s arrest and convict the then-leader of the nation's most powerful drug cartel — Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez, a.k.a. "Don Diego" — says the FBI has reneged on its promise to pay the $5 million reward.

February 25, 2014
** FILE ** In this Jan. 29, 2014, file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Black pastors group calls for Eric Holder impeachment over gay marriage

"If Obama was a white man, he would be impeached," said Rev. William Owens, the group's founder and president. "Obama has been given a free pass to do what he pleases, but I don't give him a pass. I'm very black, been black all my life. He doesn't get a pass. I don't give him a pass."

February 25, 2014
In this May 21, 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a honeybee is attracted to a flower near an apiary in Washington, D.C. The USDA hopes to help honeybees by providing $3 million to farmers and ranchers in five states to improve their pastures. It turns out that dairy cows and bees like many of the same plants. (AP Photo/USDA, Lance Cheung)

USDA to spend $3M to help feed honeybees in five states

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is poised to spend about $3 million of taxpayer dollars to improve farmlands to help feed honeybees in the Midwest, an initiative aimed at helping farmers and ranchers who depend on the insect to pollinate their plants.

February 25, 2014
** FILE ** This Sept. 18, 2012, file photo shows female soldiers training on a firing range while wearing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky. Only a small fraction of Army women say they’d like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do, say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preliminary results from a survey of the service’s nearly 170,000 women. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Few Army women want combat jobs anyway, survey shows

A preliminary finding from a survey of 170,000 female Army soldiers finds that for all the talk about opening doors to combat for women, most don't want to jump into the middle of the battle zone anyway.

February 25, 2014
A Ugandan reads a copy of the "Red Pepper" tabloid newspaper in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country's "200 top" homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay, one day after the president Yoweri Museveni enacted a harsh anti-gay law. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)

Uganda tabloid outs gays with list of ‘200 top’ homosexuals

Just one day after Uganda's president signed a law that punishes gays with possible lifelong prison sentences, a local newspaper published a list of what editors determined to be the "200 top" homosexuals in the country — some of whom had not yet been outed.

February 25, 2014
A baby cries while receiving a vaccination injection against measles at a clinic in Beijing, China, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. China wants to vaccinate nearly 100 million children in a 10-day nationwide campaign starting Saturday to bring it a step closer to eradicating measles. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Measles cases confirmed in Boston-area suburb

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed two cases of measles in a suburb just west of Boston and issued a warning for other Framingham residents: You may be exposed to the highly contagious disease.

February 25, 2014