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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 ** Fast-food worker Michelle Osborn, 23, of Flint shouts out chants as she and a few dozen others strike outside of McDonald's on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, in Flint. (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jake May)

Fast-food workers around the nation unite for pay strike

Fast-food workers around the nation have called for a massive strike on Thursday, billing it as the largest industry-wide job walk-off in the past year’s push for better pay.

August 29, 2013

** FILE ** Agents of the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives check suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for explosives and give him medical attention after his capture in Watertown,

FBI Hostage Rescue Team moves from Hannah Anderson, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to Iraq missions

The FBI has been busy lately. The same civilian special unit that captured Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in April also rescued 16-year-old Hannah Anderson from her California abductor in August — and also rescued 5-year-old Ethan from his Alabama school bus kidnapping and subsequent bunker ordeal in May.

August 29, 2013

One of the tiny red worms that workers in Colcord, Okla., found in a filtering system for the town's drinking water is pictured in a frame grab from KWTV. Residents were asked to not drink tap water after the worms — ranging from a half-inch to an inch long — showed up earlier this week. (AP Photo/Courtesy KWTV)

Oklahoma town warned off tap water after blood worms discovered

Colcord, Okla., residents were warned earlier this week to keep away from their tap water after health and safety authorities discovered blood worms in the water supply.

August 29, 2013

Afghans investigate the remains of a burned-out vehicle after a suicide attack in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. The Taliban launched their most complex attack this year — a failed effort to overrun a NATO base in the province that killed one U.S. soldier and wounded 10 Polish soldiers and dozens of Afghans. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

Taliban militants ambush, kill 15 Afghan police along highway

Taliban fighters ambushed a group of Afghan police officers riding in a convoy on a main highway, killing 15 and injuring another 10, a province spokesman said on Thursday.

August 29, 2013

**FILE** USS Harry S. Truman. (U.S. Navy)

U.S., Russia both beef up Persian Gulf presence

The United States announced this week it's sending in an extra aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf area — at the same time Russian authorities say they've dispatched some more military craft to the same region.

August 29, 2013

Inmate firefighters walk along Highway 120 after a burnout operation as firefighters continue to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Fire crews are clearing brush and setting sprinklers to protect two groves of giant sequoias as a massive week-old wildfire rages along the remote northwest edge of Yosemite National Park. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Yosemite firefighters bring in the drone to help battle blaze

Firefighters in Yosemite National Park have turned to drone technology to give them aerial views of the massive blaze in order to better plot and plan for new flare-ups.

August 29, 2013

U.S. Park Service worker assaulted, left unconscious in Arizona site

FBI agents joined an investigation Wednesday into the assault of a National Park Service worker who was left unconscious, laying on the ground near a restroom in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona.

August 29, 2013

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaking to the media outside 10 Downing St. in London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) ** FILE **

David Cameron to release British intelligence on Syrian chemical attack

British Prime Minister David Cameron said his country on Thursday will release intelligence it has gathered on the reported chemical weapon assault in Syria.

August 29, 2013

Rev. Dr. Bernice King, CEO of The King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, and daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks as members of the King family walk behind at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, in Washington, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

MLK family members in bus crash while leaving ‘Dream’ rally

Members of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s family who attended the Wednesday event in Washington, D.C., to mark the 50th anniversary of the famous activist's "I Have a Dream Speech" were involved in a bus crash as they were headed home.

August 29, 2013

U.S. to shoot top-secret spy satellite into orbit

The United States on Wednesday afternoon is set to launch a top-secret surveillance satellite into orbit via the nation’s biggest rocket, shooting out of Vandenberg Air Force Base near Los Angeles.

August 28, 2013

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani speaks during debate on the proposed Cabinet at the parliament in Tehran on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

U.N. nuclear agency: Iran poised to test new enrichment centrifuges at Natanz

Iran's new president has dashed Western hopes for a more amicable relationship as the International Atomic Energy Agency reported the recently seated leader has ratcheted up uranium enrichment at the underground Natanz plant.

August 28, 2013

Guo Bin recuperates in a hospital in Taiyuan in northwest China's Shanxi province on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, from an attack in the rural area of Linfen city that left him blind. A woman tricked the 6-year-old boy into going into a field, and then gouged out his eyes, police said. (Associated Press)

Chinese boy, 6, abducted, eyes gouged out

A six-year-old Chinese boy was abducted, drugged and left in a field down the road from his house with his eyes removed, authorities said.

August 28, 2013

The World Trade Center terror attacks in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. (Associated Press)

Atheists threaten suit over 9/11 memorial with Christian cross

Atheists are threatening to sue over a Princeton, N.J., planned memorial to mark the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on American soil because a metal beam that’s part of the display has a small cut-out of a Christian cross.

August 28, 2013

** FILE ** First lady Michelle Obama talks to students from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington as they wait to eat a meal. (The Washington Times)

Kentucky kids to first lady Michelle Obama: Your food ‘tastes like vomit’

First lady Michelle Obama’s healthy eating initiative has hit a roadblock, as students and parents in one rural Kentucky school are lashing back at the mandated menu plans.

August 28, 2013

** FILE ** Then-Army Pfc. Bradley Manning poses wearing a wig and lipstick in an undated photo. Manning emailed his military therapist the photo with a letter titled, "My problem," in which he described his issues with gender identity and his hope that a military career would "get rid of it." (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

Bradley Manning gender fight escalates as Fox plays ‘Dude (Looks Like a Lady)’

The case of Army Pvt. Bradley Edward Manning, who insists his name is now Chelsea Elizabeth Manning because he wants to spend his 35 years behind bars as a woman, just won’t go quietly into the Fort Leavenworth prison night.

August 28, 2013

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (AP Photo/The Daily Reflector, Rhett Butler)

North Carolina bans judges from turning to Shariah law to decide cases

North Carolina's newest law, enacted without the signature of the governor, outright bans judges in certain cases from turning to Islamic law to determine rulings.

August 28, 2013

Oprah Winfrey (left) and Forest Whitaker appear in "The Butler." (AP Photo/The Weinstein Co., Anne Marie Fox)

Obama on ‘The Butler’: ‘My girl,’ Oprah, ‘she can act’

President Obama, speaking on Tuesday about the fictionalized movie version of a black man who worked for decades in the White House titled "The Butler," had only words of praise for "my girl" Oprah Winfrey, who played a leading role.

August 28, 2013

Andrew Young, who was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Carter administration, speaks during the "I Have a Dream" gospel brunch at the Willard InterContinental hotel in Washington on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Jimmy Carter’s U.N. ambassador: ‘Trayvon is a martyr’ for civil rights

The man who served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Jimmy Carter had a somewhat surprising assessment of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's future relevance: He's a martyr to the civil rights cause.

August 28, 2013

Kenan Adams-Kinard, 16, was in court on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, for a first hearing on charges of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery in the beating death of 88-year-old World War II veteran Delbert "Shorty" Belton outside an Eagles lodge in Spokane, Wash. (AP Photo/Spokane Police Department)

Delbert Belton’s accused killer claims WWII veteran, 88, stiffed him on crack deal

One of the teenagers arrested in the brutal beating death of 88-year-old Delbert “Shorty” Belton says he initially approached the World War II veteran to buy crack, then the exchange turned violent.

August 28, 2013

** FILE ** Actor Alec Baldwin and pregnant wife, Hilaria, attend the premiere of the film "Blue Jasmine" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on Monday, July 22, 2013. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Alec Baldwin, poised for MSNBC gig, slams paparazzo into car

Hollywood hothead Alec Baldwin lost his temper yet again this week, slamming and pinning a photographer onto the hood of his car and chastising the paparazzo for trying to take a picture of his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, who just gave birth.

August 28, 2013