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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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In this June 24, 2018, file photo, revelers carry a rainbow flag along Fifth Avenue during the New York City Pride Parade in New York. June 28, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which fueled the fire for a global LGBTQ movement. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

Democrats are great for Republicans

Democrats -- Democrats and don't forget Rep. Liz Cheney -- are giving Republicans massive wind at their backs for both the midterms and the next presidential election. Emily Post might suggest thank-you notes are in order.

July 2, 2022
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., left, and Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., listen as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Adam Kinzinger stupidly calls out ‘Christian Taliban’

Rep. Lauren Boebert said she was "tired of this separation of church and state junk." Rep. Adam Kinzinger responded by likening Boebert's chalking up her remark as "Christian Taliban." This is a manufactured lie from the left and RINO-ey Kinzinger that ultimately skews America's history.

June 30, 2022
A woman waves a rainbow flag as she shouts slogans during the LGBTQ Pride March in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 26, 2022. Dozens of people were detained in central Istanbul Sunday after city authorities banned a LGBTQ Pride March, organizers said. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) ** FILE **

LGBTQ agenda emasculating police in Columbus

Police in Columbus, Ohio, have a new vehicle in their law enforcement lineup -- a shiny white SUV painted in Pride Month glory in glossy rainbow stripes and adorned with the movement's signature phrase, "Love Is Love. And all the criminals go: Yay.

June 28, 2022
Bremerton assistant football coach Joe Kennedy, obscured at center in blue, is surrounded by Centralia High School football players as they kneel and pray with him on the field after their game against Bremerton on Oct. 16, 2015, in Bremerton, Wash. (Meegan M. Reid/Kitsap Sun via AP, File)

Religious freedom wins! American exceptionalism wins

The Supreme Court ruled that high school football coach Joseph Kennedy indeed had a right to pray on the 50-yard line post-game. And with that, years of ridiculous leftist-fueled fights against obvious American rights -- to pray and worship freely -- come to an end.

June 28, 2022
An abortion-rights activist protests outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Saturday, June 25, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Pro-lifers now have opportunity to heal, unite

Somewhere, in some clinic, in some state across America right now is a frightened girl who was about to have an abortion, but now, after the Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v. Wade, is told she can't. And it's not enough for pro-lifers to respond to that scenario by saying, "good."

June 27, 2022
This combination image shows U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington, Nov. 6, 2021, and China's President Xi Jinping in Brasília, Brazil, Nov. 13, 2019. Americans are increasingly seeing China as a world superpower and a threat, though growing numbers perceive China more as a competitor than an enemy, according to a Washington-based Pew Research Center survey released Thursday, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Eraldo Peres, File) **FILE**

Biden’s red energy plan

The more President Joe Biden sends America down the path of green energy, the more power he puts in the hands of communist China to dominate the world stage. The greener America goes, the redder America grows.

June 25, 2022
A child praying on an open Bible at a wooden table. (Photo credit: Freedom Studio via Shutterstock)

America’s moral crisis calls for return to Bible

Eighty-seven percent of Americans see the state of moral values in the nation as either "poor" or "only fair," according to Gallup polling numbers released this month. In other words: Americans know this country is facing a moral crisis.

June 23, 2022
A row of rifles for sale is on display at a gun shop in Aurora, Colo., on July 20, 2012. The mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., has prompted questions about the effectiveness of red flag laws passed in 19 states and the District of Columbia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Red flag laws will lead to gun confiscations

Gun control legislation is winding through the Senate, largely on the wings of Democrats but floated, too, by a dozen or so Republicans who've seen fit to sign on to red flag laws.These Republicans are politically misstepping. Republicans have no business supporting red flag laws.

June 23, 2022
This image released by Netflix shows Jennifer Lopez from "Halftime," a documentary that will kick off the Tribeca Festival on Wednesday, June 8. The film, shot around Lopez's Super Bowl performance and the release of the film "Hustlers," captures Lopez at a pivotal moment in her career. (Netflix via AP)

J.Lo jumps the shark on LGBTQ

Jennifer Lopez introduced her daughter Emme at a recent Los Angeles event as "they" and "them" -- confusing listeners and next-day media readers, while also advancing an agenda that is sheer lunacy and, truth be told, abusive to children. Enough of the normalization of mental disorders.

June 21, 2022
A person is shadowed on a voting booth in a polling station Sunday, June 19, 2022 in Bischeim, outside Strasbourg, eastern France. French voters are going to the polls in the final round of key parliamentary elections that will demonstrate how much legroom President Emmanuel Macron's party will be given to implement his ambitious domestic agenda. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

France sees a ‘France First’ voting moment

France's conservative faction just scored big in recent legislative elections, setting President Emmanuel Macron and his leftist agenda on notice and saying, in essence, the people don't want no stinkin' socialist economy. Take note, Democrats. This is you, come November.

June 20, 2022
Bill Gates attends the TIME100 Gala celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Bill Gates wants $1 billion annually to prevent next pandemic

Bill Gates said he knows how to prevent the next pandemic -- but it'll cost you $1 billion annually. He's putting into play the next wave of virus lockdowns; the next stage of health emergency orders; the next phase of seizing individual liberties from free American citizens.

June 11, 2022
EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - Abortion-rights protesters Greg Piteo, left, and Maeve Bradley, hold up signs during a demonstration outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, Saturday, May 7, 2022, in Washington. A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report released Monday. Whatever the outcome, the Politico report represents an extremely rare breach of the court's secretive deliberation process, and on a case of surpassing importance. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Pro-abortion nuts ratchet nuttiness

An armed man carrying a handgun, knife and pepper spray was arrested near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. According to media reports, he then told police he was there to kill Kavanaugh. Democrats would call this "exercising one's First Amendment" right.

June 8, 2022
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin greets supporters after partial election returns showed him being recalled by voters on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, in San Francisco. Recall proponents say Boudin's policies have made San Francisco less safe. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Chesa Boudin bites the dust, but to Democrats, he’s just a blip

San Francisco voters ousted soft-on-crime Chesa Boudin in a recall election that wrapped with such wide margins, the message is hard to mistake: Even Democrat-dominated districts don't like thieves and murderers within their midsts. But how long will this attitude last?

June 8, 2022
In this May 29, 2018, file photo, George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, listens to the conference after his speech titled "How to save the European Union" as he attends the European Council On Foreign Relations Annual Council Meeting in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) ** FILE **

George Soros primes super PAC to buy 2022 midterms

The nonprofit money-in-politics tracker OpenSecrets just reported "Democratic mega-donor George Soros is currently the top individual super PAC donor for the 2022 midterm election." How tragic. George Soros regularly interferes in elections in which he has no personal stake.

June 4, 2022
Activists join Senate Democrats outside the Capitol to demand action on gun control legislation after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a Texas elementary school this week, in Washington, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats ignore root causes of gun crime on purpose

Democrats know their bluster, grandstanding and political posturing about gun control is just that -- bluster, grandstanding and political posturing. Dems know they can't disarm criminals by passing more gun control laws. So they push for more restrictions on those who obey laws.

May 31, 2022
In this file photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, is Sgt. Matthew Elseth with "ghost guns" on display at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Haven Daley,File) **FILE**

School shootings are a symptom of a godless society

If Democrats truly cared about gun-related violence, and wanted to save kids from future school shootings, they would address the heart of such matters: which is to say, they would look to the evil nature of human hearts and endeavor to drive out that evil by godly means.

May 28, 2022