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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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A dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is prepared at Lurie Children's hospital, Nov. 5, 2021, in Chicago. The omicron-fueled surge that is sending COVID-19 cases rocketing in the U.S. is putting children in the hospital in close to record numbers, and experts lament that most of the youngsters are not vaccinated. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

FDA and its flimsy COVID-19 FOIA dodge falls flat with federal judge

The FDA was just told by a federal judge that no, it can't take 75 years to release documents showing the process of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine licensing approval -- that it has to cough up the data within eight months. That's a significant win for open-government advocates.

January 7, 2022
This Sept. 9, 2016, file photo shows Harkness Tower on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz, File)

Save the kids, quit the college

Nowadays, parents are better off keeping Johnny in the basement playing video games for another year. Better to rot their minds with gaming than socialist-Marxist-globalist propaganda and COVID-19-tied protocols that teach them solely to fear and obey.

January 6, 2022
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announces his upcoming budget proposal during a news conference inside The Market at 25th in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) ** FILE **

Dear Ralph Northam: Don’t let the door hit you

Northern Virginia was hit by the worst snowstorms in -- well, maybe ever, this week, leaving thousands of residents without power or heat, as temperatures dropped to below freezing, and thousands more struggling to stay alive in their stalled or otherwise stopped vehicles on Interstate 95 and the alternate north-south Route 1. And where were the Democrats? Where was Virginia's illustrious Democratic governor, Ralph Northam? Good question.

January 6, 2022
In this file photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference urging the Senate to secure a pathway to citizenship in President Joe Biden's legislative agenda Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)  **FILE**

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is textbook hypocritical socialist

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez serves a constituency that's been among the most consistently clamped in the nation when it comes to civil rights, civil liberties and civil freedoms, due to political power-grabs based on drummed-up COVID-19 fears. But does she hold herself to these same strict anti-constitutional crackdowns? Nope.

January 5, 2022
Transgender flag at LGBT gay pride march. (Photo credit: Ink Drop via Shutterstock) ** FILE **

China has a point about sissy men

The Chinese Communist Party has just kicked off a cultural campaign to make sure men are dressing and behaving like men and that the effeminate look won't cripple President Xi Jinping's push to become the leading world power. America could take a memo.

January 4, 2022
President Joe Biden waves as he leaves St. Ann Roman Catholic Church after attending Mass in Wilmington, Del., Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Joe Biden has really sucky poll numbers

If President Joe Biden had any ambitions to ring in the new year with newfound favorability among Americans, he can put that dream back in the box. His most recent poll numbers show he trails Donald Trump in a fictional matchup by almost five points. How low can Joe go.

January 3, 2022
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., walks to a caucus lunch at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Manchin is a weak gate guard on Build Back Better socialism

Sen. Joe Manchin III said "no" to President Biden's signature Build Back Better agenda, putting a nail in the Pandora's box of massive spending that would have shot the nation far down the field toward socialism. But will he hold the line? Manchin has voted with Biden's agenda 97% of the time.

December 21, 2021
In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks at a rally in Montgomery, Ala. Palin says she tested positive for COVID-19 and is urging people to take steps to guard against the coronavirus, including wearing masks in public. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Sarah Palin, still making sense after all these years

Former vice presidential contender and ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, speaking from Phoenix, Arizona, on America's coronavirus chaos, called out the flip-flopping nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci's science, the failure of the medical community to talk up natural immunity and the unconstitutional, unlawful aspects of a vaccine mandate.

December 20, 2021
President Joe Biden is greeted as he arrives at Columbia Metropolitan Airport on Air Force One in West Columbia, S.C., en route to South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C., Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Democrats, globalists are determined to keep coronavirus as crisis

President Joe Biden told a coronavirus-weary nation that those who are still unvaccinated are looking at a winter season of "severe illness and death," and that the omicron variant was only "going to increase" as the days turn to weeks and months. Say hello to science, Democrat style.

December 18, 2021
President Joe Biden listens as he meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Flatten the curve and other coronavirus lies

Flatten the curve -- it's a phrase that's a whisper from days gone by. But fast-forward to today and to today's Democrat-fueled crackdowns on personal liberties and it's obvious: The coronavirus has become never-ending. And that's just how the left wants it.

December 16, 2021
U.S. former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers her speech during an international conference that aims to fast-track the road to gender equality and mobilize millions of dollars to achieve the long-sought goal quickly, at the Louvre Carrousel in Paris, France, Wednesday, June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton, the Democrats’ Hail Mary

Democrats are busily scurrying for a fresh new face to run for 2024 because, as the whispers go, President Biden, isn't working out too well. He can't get inflation under control, he can't get the coronavirus under control, he can't keep Russia in control. Yada, yada, the theme repeats.

December 16, 2021
Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington on March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Elon Musk slam-dunks a big win over Sen. Elizabeth Warren

The just-named "Time Person of the Year" Elon Musk told Sen. Elizabeth Warren to stop acting like a kid's "angry mom" after she called him a "freeloader" for paying low taxes despite his billionaire status. Sorry, but this round goes to Musk.

December 15, 2021
President Joe Biden talks to reporters after receiving a briefing with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the federal response to tornado damage, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden’s approval dismal, even by dismal standards

President Biden is losing favor with the American public to such an extent that he's giving dismal a positive spin. It's a spiraling trend the Democrats are dreading, given the midterms are right around the corner.

December 14, 2021
The steeple of the Corpus Christi Catholic Church is silhouetted against the evening sky, Monday, June 14, 2021, in Galesburg, Ill. Settled more than 180 years ago, Galesburg was built around Knox College, founded by Presbyterians from upstate New York seeking a Christian school on the western frontier. The city soon became home to Illinois' first anti-slavery society. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar) ** FILE **

‘SNL’ blasphemes with twerking Jesus sketch

"Saturday Night Live" kicked off the Christmas season with a "Hip-Hop Nativity" segment that set Mary as a stripper, Joseph as the "baby daddy" and Jesus as a twerking infant. Blasphemous and unfunny.

December 13, 2021
First lady Jill Biden speaks to family members of sailors who are at sea aboard the USS Delaware in Groton, Conn, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

Jill Biden more political opportunist than wife

President Joe Biden has a problem forming complete sentences, has a challenge walking without assistance, has a difficulty stringing together thoughts in a cohesive manner -- and those are his good days. But to his wife, Jill, that's "ridiculous."

December 11, 2021
White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jen Psaki continues Democrat legacy of condescension

Hollywood's Kirstie Alley took to Twitter to call out White House press secretary Jen Psaki as a "mean girl" mirror image whose condescending demeanor is growing tiresome. Multiply that times a few million and there's a description that fits most of modern-day Democrats.

December 10, 2021
In this file photo, President Joe Biden looks to the media as he leaves St. Edmund Roman Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Mr. Biden Wednesday defended his massive social spending bill, saying it will ease inflation and lower prices, going on the defensive after back-to-back grim economic reports from the Department of Labor. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)  **FILE**

Democrats can’t lie their way out of inflation

President Biden and his water carriers want Americans to believe that inflation is good for the economy, good for ye olde pocketbook, good for friends and foes alike because, well, gosh darn it, everyone is helped when prices soar. Don't get the logic? Don't worry. There is none.

December 10, 2021
In this Tuesday, March 12, 2019, file photo, U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, left, listens as Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought testifies before the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Republicans lose sight of war when waging petty, inner-party battles

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Texas Republican, just called out GOP members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group that includes Reps. Louie Gohmert, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, as "grifters" and "performance artists." Can you say, thanks, Dan? Democrats are.

December 9, 2021
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at a news conference in Oxford, Mich., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Authorities say a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at Oxford High School, killing three students and wounding several others, including a teacher. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Gretchen Whitmer — Gretchen Whitmer!! — questions vaccine mandates

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the Michiganian who became the face of American tyranny when she cracked down on seed purchases and gardening supplies during the blooming stages of the coronavirus, is hesitant to adopt vaccine mandates. Look to the skies. Pigs must be flying.

December 8, 2021
In this Aug. 9, 2018, file photo, Safe Night Access Project in Seattle volunteers show some of the products they give away to sex workers and other people who ask for as part of providing harm reduction services along a north Seattle strip known for prostitution. Recent crackdowns targeting the sex-for-hire industry have reduced the number of commercial ads on the internet and helped fight online trafficking. But activists and police say the efforts may have had unintended consequences — landing women and girls back on the streets, where dangers also lurk. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) ** FILE **

America’s lost generation of girls

Teachers who applaud the sex trade? High school girls who dream of selling their sexualized bodies? America is rapidly becoming a Rome. If we want a nation that fosters the best of humanity, not the worst -- we must stop teaching our girls to behave like prostitutes.

December 7, 2021