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Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt with Cheryl Chumley” video and audio show for The Washington Times, a Newsmax contributor, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths" and "Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom.” She's also the co-author with Allen West of the upcoming "America's Second Civil War: Rescuing the Republic From the Unholy Alliance of Marxists, Islamists and Democrats" (April 2027). Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, mourners carry the body of Sheik Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old pro-government cleric during his funeral in the eighth century Omayyad Mosque, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian rebels say Assad forces fired chemical weapons

Syrian rebel fighters said Monday that President Bashar Assad's military forces used chemical weapons to attack a base located in Adra, a town just outside Damascus.

March 25, 2013

Karl Rove (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Karl Rove predicts next GOP president could be pro-gay marriage

The next Republican presidential candidate could very well be in favor of same-sex marriage, said GOP strategist Karl Rove, during an interview on ABC.

March 25, 2013

Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association's executive vice president and CEO, speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on Friday, March 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

NBC host to Wayne LaPierre: You’re ‘thwarting the will’ of Americans

NBC David Gregory accused National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre of ignoring the voice of the American people on certain Democratic inspired gun control measures during a "Meet the Press" interview on Sunday.

March 25, 2013

** FILE ** This Sept. 27, 2010, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, shows a U.S. military guard walking a corridor between detainee cells at the Parwan detention facility near Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

U.S. hands over Bagram prison in Afghanistan

The United States has ceded control of its last prison in Afghanistan, the informally dubbed Bagram facility, bringing an end to two years of strained relations and disputes over which country controls prisoners.

March 25, 2013

**FILE** President Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speak to reporters during their joint news conference at the Muqata President Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 21, 2013. (Associated Press)

U.S. to join Arab nations and restart peace talks, Palestinian official says

The United States will take a lead role in restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, said one senior Palestinian official on Monday.

March 25, 2013

** FILE ** Milton Friedman, one of the most famous economists and defenders of the free market, died in 2006. (Associated Press)

Stanford University drops pro-capitalism course; keeps one questioning free market

A popular course with a pro-capitalism slant has been cut from Stanford University course listings. Called "Moral Foundations of Capitalism," the class received rave reviews. Meanwhile, the "Moral Limits of the Market" will continue

March 22, 2013

DNC chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Sequester nearly starving staffers

Automatic federal cuts are bringing staffers to the brink of starvation, suggested Debbie Wasserman Schultz, at a recent House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee hearing.

March 22, 2013

** File ** A child in Johannesburg plays with a water pistol.

5-year-old suspended for toy gun in Mass. school

A Hopkinton, Mass., mother is expressing outrage that administrators at Center School suspended her five-year-old son for bringing a toy gun into class.

March 22, 2013

** FILE ** First lady Michelle Obama speaks during a visit to Chapel Hill, N.C., on Oct. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

British ad showcases Michelle Obama as crown-wearing queen

It may be just an advertisement, but it does grab attention. And it shows just how much the Brits really do love first lady Michelle Obama.

March 22, 2013

Female sailor found shot aboard Navy ship dies from wound

A 19-year-old female sailor discovered aboard a Navy ship off San Diego with a gunshot wound has died, naval officials said.

March 22, 2013

Illegal aliens killed in police chase in Texas

A truck being chased by police at a Navy site in Texas crashed and killed six illegal aliens aboard, police officials said.

March 22, 2013

Myanmar police officers provide security near burnt buildings in Meikhtila, where ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims continues, in Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

State of emergency declared in Myanmar town racked by riot

Mobs in Myanmar stormed Muslim homes and mosques, setting fires and killing residents, in a massive riot that's steeped in sectarian tensions.

March 22, 2013

** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, photo, Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-predicting groundhog, stands on the shoulder of one of his handlers, John Griffiths, while looking at his other handler, Ben Hughes, in Punxsutawney, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Punxsutawney Phil ‘indicted’ by prosecutor for chilly spring

A prosecutor in Ohio has filed a criminal "indictment" against Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who makes an annual appearance to predict the start of spring.

March 22, 2013

** FILE ** Paroled inmate Evan Spencer Ebel, pictured in an undated photo, led Texas authorities on a 100-mph car chase that ended in a shootout on Thursday, March 21, 2013, and may be linked to the slaying of Colorado's state prison chief on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections)

Police believe white supremacist may have murdered Tom Clements

Police are honing in on a killed white supremacist on parole as a key suspect in the shooting death of Colorado prisons' official Tom Clements and a pizza delivery man.

March 22, 2013

A row of portable toilets line the National Mall near the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

U.N.’s latest campaign: Bringing toilets to the world

Move over peacekeeping. The United Nations has a new campaign: Turning the world into an "open defecation-free zone."

March 22, 2013

** FILE ** In this Wednesday, March 13, 2013, file photo, a worker in protective clothing prepares to haul away dead pigs pulled from a river along Zhonglian village of Jinshan district in Shanghai. (AP Photo/File)

Mystery of dead pigs in Shanghai grows to 16,000

More than 16,000 dead pigs have been pulled from Shanghai rivers in the past couple weeks. The rivers feed into the city's drinking water supply, The Associated Press reports.

March 22, 2013

Col. David W. Maxwell holds a press conference at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Va., on Friday, March 22, 2013, regarding a murder/suicide that occurred on Thursday night that resulted in the deaths of three Marines. A Marine killed a male and female colleague in a shooting at a base in northern Virginia before killing himself, officials said early Friday. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Peter Cihelka)

Three Marines dead in shooting at Quantico base

Three Marines — a male and female victim and the suspected male shooter — are dead following a Thursday evening shooting at the base in Quantico, Va.

March 22, 2013

President Obama (center) and Israeli President Shimon Peres (left) shake hands as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a welcoming ceremony upon Mr. Obama's arrival at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Body language experts: Obama likes Peres better than Netanyahu

Tensions between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have smoothed and warmed, if body language experts watching the two leaders interact this week are to be believed.

March 21, 2013

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, gives a speech in a mosque inside the leader's housing compound in Tehran on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Iran threatens to ‘raze Tel Aviv’

Iran's leading cleric vowed to take out Tel Aviv and Haifa if Israel ever dared launch at attack on the Islamic republic.

March 21, 2013

A speed camera on New York Avenue Northeast in Washington (The Washington Times) **FILE**

New York City Council asks state for speed cameras

New York City Council members pushed a speed-camera program forward on Wednesday with a vote to petition state lawmakers to approve a pilot program.

March 21, 2013