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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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President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2022. President Joe 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**

Good news! Biden can’t win reelection

America is technically in a recession -- and President Biden's response is to say, hey, man, come on, man, nothing to see here, go home. With shoulder-shrugging like that, it's no surprise Democrats are seeking another candidate to run in 2024. They know Biden can't win.

July 30, 2022
President Joe Biden takes off his mask as he starts to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Biden was returning to working in the Oval Office after recovering from COVID-19. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden sounds like a drug pusher

A heavily vaccinated-slash-boosted President Biden emerged from his COVID-19 test-positive isolation to advise Americans to wear face masks, get the COVID shot and boosters -- in other words, to do all the things he did but that failed to keep him from catching COVID.

July 28, 2022
Demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3, 2022, in Washington, following a news report by Politico that a draft opinion suggests the justices could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Democrats lunge to legislatively limit SCOTUS conservatives

Democrats introduced a piece of legislation to limit the terms of U.S. Supreme Court justices, saying it's necessary in order to "restore legitimacy and independence" at the highest legal authority in the land. That's code for 'these conservatives are killing us!'

July 27, 2022
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg at the Expo/Crenshaw Station part of Metro's Crenshaw/ LAX Transit Project in Los Angeles on Friday, July 8, 2022. (Keith Birmingham/The Orange County Register via AP)

Tweedledee edges out Tweedledum in New Hampshire poll

The headline from The Hill was eye-catching: "Buttigieg edges out Biden among Democrats in New Hampshire poll." That's like saying Tweedledee edges out Tweedledum. Looking through the glass, what's the difference?

July 26, 2022
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, waves hello to the committee at the start of a House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee hearing, about the budget request for the National Institutes of Health, May 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Fauci suggests locking down healthy would’ve made medical sense

President Biden's top medical wonk, Anthony Fauci, said in a recent interview that the initial response to the coronavirus should have been one of immediate lockdowns, immediate mass face masking and immediate "what have you." Here comes that flip-floppy "science" once again.

July 26, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks about climate change and clean energy at Brayton Power Station, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in Somerset, Mass. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Climate alarmism and the coming clampdowns on liberty

The radical environmentalists of the world have found the man of their dreams in Joe Biden. He's the holder of the most powerful office in the world, he's mentally compromised, and he's weak. What more could the pushers of fear and mongers of manufactured mayhem need?

July 23, 2022
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, addresses attendees during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, Friday, July 22, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Ted Cruz: ‘Revival is coming!’

Sen. Ted Cruz, speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Florida, poked fun of the feckless White House leaders, then expressed dismay at their fecklessness, then said their fecklessness was good because it was driving the nation toward a massive revival in spirit and conservatives.

July 23, 2022
More than 180 soldiers with the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team climb the stairs to a charter airplane at Hunter Army Airfield during their deployment to Germany, Wednesday, March 2, 2022, in Savannah, Ga. The division sent 3,800 troops as reinforcements for various NATO allies in Eastern Europe. (Stephen B. Morton /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) ** FILE **

Democrats want Constitution ‘completely rewritten’

A new survey from Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute found that 57% of Democrats believe the Constitution is "rooted in racism," another 64% think it's "sexist," and 49% -- statistically half -- feel it should be "mostly or completely rewritten." It doesn't get much clearer than that.

July 19, 2022
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Fauci, who is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, tested positive for COVID-19, and was experiencing mild coronavirus symptoms, according to a Wednesday, June 15, 2022, press release posted by the NIH. (Shawn Thew/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Ding, dong, Anthony Fauci to retire (reportedly)

After two-plus COVID-19 years of pretending he was above the politics while pushing a far left political agenda that bent America to globalist will, Anthony Fauci is retiring at the end of Joe Biden's presidential term. Reportedly. Reportedly, hopefully and thankfully.

July 18, 2022
Former President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Joe Lombardo, Clark County sheriff and Republican candidate for Nevada governor, and Republican Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt, on July 8, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Donald Trump for president in 2024

America needs Donald Trump to run again for president, if only to reset the Great Reset clock the globalists have been able to tick forward under the feckless administration of Joe Biden.

July 16, 2022
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster/File)

Violence is the left’s new race card

Khiara Bridges is a professor who told Sen. Josh Hawley he was guilty of opening doors to violence against transgenders because he said he didn't think men could get pregnant. The "v-card," the violence card -- it's the new "r-card," the new racism card, for the Democrats.

July 14, 2022
In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo, people line up to vote outside the Greenfield Community Center on Election Day in Greenfield, Wis. Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled Friday, July 8, 2022, that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in election offices and that no one other than the voter can return a ballot in person, dealing a critical defeat to Democrats in the battleground state. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

America’s coming banana republic storm

Fully 50% of likely voters think it "somewhat likely" that "widespread cheating" will impact the coming midterms, and of that, 24% say it's "very likely," a Rasmussen Report found. Welcome to America's new banana republic reality.

July 12, 2022
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg at the Expo/Crenshaw Station part of Metro's Crenshaw/ LAX Transit Project in Los Angeles on Friday, July 8, 2022. (Keith Birmingham/The Orange County Register via AP)

Pete Buttigieg is ineffective and should be fired

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he's wrapped 10 investigations into late and canceled flights and has "launched another ten or so that we're going to pursue." That's great. Now only another, umm, 10,000 or so and surfaces will really start to be scratched.

July 11, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks before he awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Joe Biden unleashes DOJ, HHS to shove abortion down states’ throats

SCOTUS ruled that abortion must be returned to the states and their legislatures to decide. And Joe Biden's response is to lock and load the Justice Department and Health and Human Services and sic them on the states until they comply with the pro-abortion crowd's radical demands.

July 9, 2022
Bill Gates, co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks at a news conference during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. The sale of prime North Dakota farmland to a group tied to Gates has stirred emotions over a Depression-era law meant to protect family farms and raised questions about whether the billionaire shares the state’s values. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Bill Gates: Let them eat bugs!

Why would a former Microsoft executive who has spent the last two years chiding Americans to be more like China when it comes to coronavirus protections and forced COVID-19 shots want to own prime farmland at all? Good question. Could it be to build a fake meat empire?

July 7, 2022
Vice president Kamala Harris speaks to those gathered near the site of Monday's mass shooting during the Highland Park July 4th parade Tuesday, July 5, 2022, in Highland Park, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Kamala Harris — ‘seriously?’

Vice President Kamala Harris stepped to a Highland Park podium and delivered short remarks on the Independence Day parade shooting -- after which the watching world reconfirmed their assessment of this White House administration as feckless, incompetent and utterly incapable.

July 6, 2022
FILE - In this April 5, 2019, file photo Bette Midler attends Variety's Power of Women: New York in New York. The Kennedy Center Honors is returning in December with a class that includes Motown Records creator Berry Gordy, “Saturday Night Live” mastermind Lorne Michaels and actress-singer Bette Midler. Organizers expect to operate at full capacity, after last year’s Honors ceremony was delayed for months and later conducted under intense COVID-19 restrictions. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Bette Midler latest leftie to buck LGBTQ lunacy

Bette Midler took to Twitter to express disgust with the current state of LGBTQ agenda that makes it seem as if men can get pregnant, menstruate and give birth. That's how crazy the Democrats have become -- they're isolating their normally cozy Hollywood supporters

July 5, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks during the "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" event at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. The administration is holding its first onshore oil and gas leasing sales this week after a court rejected its attempt to suspend sales because of climate change concerns. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool) **FILE**

Climate alarmists seizing their day

Climate alarmists took over the highways of Maryland in the lead-up to the holiday weekend, blocking all lanes across the inner loop of Interstate 495 and causing traffic disruptions that lasted 90 minutes. It's beginning. The switch from COVID-19 to radical environmentalism is in the works.

July 5, 2022