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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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President Joe Biden welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, Dec. 21, 2022. Expect lots of new faces and fresh political dynamics as President Joe Biden delivers this year’s State of the Union address. That will be coupled with attention to some old problems that have been brought back into painful focus by recent events. Biden on Tuesday night will stand before a joint session of Congress for the first time since voters in the midtem elections handed control of the House to Republicans. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden plus SOTU equals lies, lies, lies, lies

So President Biden is set to deliver his State of the Union address this evening. That is to say: Make way for the lies. The only question is how many Pinocchios will he earn? What a great drinking game this would make.

February 7, 2023
An American flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed  a planned high-stakes weekend diplomatic trip to China as the Biden administration weighs a broader response to the discovery of a high-altitude Chinese balloon flying over sensitive sites in the western United States, a U.S. official said Friday.(AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China, with a single balloon, mocks and weakens America

China can deny, dismiss and apologize all it wants -- fact is, a balloon owned by the communist country found floating over Montana sends a clear, compelling and even chilling message to the world that goes like this: America is weak. Weak, weak and very, very vulnerable.

February 3, 2023
Will Gordon follows his shot onto the 16th green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

DirecTV, by booting Newsmax, has woken a sleeping giant

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, after orchestrating the December, 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, would later write in his diary, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Fast-forward to 2023. This seems DirecTV's problem, too.

February 3, 2023
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

CDC goes ballistic on eyedrops — but not on COVID shots?

On the heels of fielding 50 reports of eye infections from 11 different states, the CDC has decided enough is enough: The agency is now warning Americans to stop buying and using EzriCare Artificial Tears. That's nice. Now where's the warning to stop taking the COVID-tied shots?

February 2, 2023
President Joe Biden steps off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, after returning from New York. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden’s bogus ‘end’ of COVID emergency health orders

President Biden is going to "end" on May 11 the two COVID-tied public health emergencies that America has been living under since 2020. Given these same PHEs were due to expire on March 1 and on April 11 -- what Biden actually meant by "end" was expand.

February 1, 2023
A tourist is reflected in a window of the closed building housing the Liberty Bell, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, in Philadelphia. The building was closed due to the partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) ** FILE **

Patrick Henry wouldn’t have worn a face mask

Imagine Patrick Henry delivering his famous, "Give me liberty or give me death" speech today, complete with face mask. It wouldn't happen. Fiery speeches of freedom and forced face masks do not mix.

January 31, 2023
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a press conference in the Greektown neighborhood, of Chicago, Sept. 14, 2022. While the 2024 race for the White House is brewing, a scattering of states will hold elections next year. (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

More guns, not fewer, key to safer American streets

Noticeably lacking from all the Democrats' trampling of the Second Amendment is any sort of recognition of the real roots of gun violence; that is to say, these leftists never call for address of broken homes, fatherless homes, open borders that fuel cartel-related trafficking.

January 27, 2023
Crickets are seen in a tray of moistened peat as Shelby Smith owner of Gym-N-Eat Crickets works in her facility in Ames, Iowa, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Smith ordered her first 10,000 crickets Jan. 10, 2018, after her father, a farmer, encouraged her to explore a niche market rather than traditional farming markets like corn and soybeans. Smith produces the crickets that go into her protein bars, cricket powder and flavored, roasted cricket snacks. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette via AP) ** FILE **

Don’t drink the water? Don’t eat EU food

The European Union couldn't get people to go along with its push for people to stop eating meat and instead eat bugs -- so EU elites have sneaked in a rule to let manufacturers use ground-up crickets in place of flour in their starch-based foods. Good time to stock up on MREs.

January 26, 2023
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., look at vote totals during the roll call vote on the motion to adjourn for the evening in the House chamber as the House meets for a second day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Kevin McCarthy — oh no he didn’t! — smacks down journalist

A female journalist whose voice was captured by C-SPAN recently pressed Speaker Kevin McCarthy to explain his decision to keep off Chinese-spy-loving Eric Swalwell and liar-liar-pants-on-fire Adam Schiff from the House Intelligence Committee. So he did. And it was great.

January 25, 2023
In this undated photograph, employees at the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, work at their facility in Pune, India. (Serum Institute of India via AP) ** FILE **

WEF pushes global treaty for vaccine passports, never-ending shots

Among the many anti-American agendas pushed at the recent WEF gathering was this: a "zero draft" of a pandemic treaty to speed up vaccine approvals, even in the U.S., and simultaneously implement worldwide vaccine passports. Call this the end of freedom as we know it.

January 24, 2023
Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, arrives to speak about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, April 22, 2020, in Washington. Fauci steps down from a five-decade career in public service at the end of the month, one shaped by the HIV pandemic early on and the COVID-19 pandemic at the end. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Survey says: Investigate Anthony Fauci

A new survey from the Trafalgar Group finds the majority of Americans would like to see Anthony Fauci investigated by Congress for his inconsistent -- read: highly politicized -- recommendations regarding COVID-19 mitigation strategies. Not surprising.

January 23, 2023
President Joe Biden removes his face mask as he arrives to speak about the economy during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, July 30, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Biden, Democrats want face masks forever

Joe Biden's biggest presidential fight isn't about securing the borders or reeling in China or blasting back at globalists who want to cripple America's Constitution. No. It's about forcing free citizens to wear stupid face masks -- forever, it would seem.

January 20, 2023
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gestures during an address at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Ardern, who was praised around the world for her handling of the nation’s worst mass shooting and the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, said Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, she was leaving office. (Dean Lewins/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Jacindamania bites the dust

Jacinda Ardern, queen of the coronavirus lockdowns, celebrity for the anti-freedom left, face of the "politics of kindness" tag that led to a cultural phenomenon dubbed "Jacindamania," has just announced, with tears in her eyes, she's leaving her prime minister post in New Zealand. Good.

January 19, 2023
FILE - Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., leaves the Speaker's office to walk to the House chamber, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, to attend the 14th vote for speaker of the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers arguably most important woman in D.C.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is the new chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee. And that makes her just about the most important female politician in Washington, D.C. Why? She can point America toward freedom and individualism -- or toward tyranny and collectivism.

January 18, 2023
A woman wearing multiple face masks walks in the Retiro park in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. Italy, Spain and other European countries are re-instating or stiffening mask mandates as their hospitals struggle with mounting numbers of COVID-19 patients. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) ** FILE **

The near-sociopathic medical push for never-ending face masking

Face masks don't work. Yet medical tyrants continue to insist they do -- in part, by redefining the word "work" -- and a la sociopath style, continue to insist that those members of the public under their control play active roles in the lie. Why? Control, power and money, money, money.

January 16, 2023