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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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Taliban fighters stand guard in front of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. Thousands of people packed into the Afghan capital's airport on Monday, rushing the tarmac and pushing onto planes in desperate attempts to flee the country after the Taliban overthrew the Western-backed government. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan shows utter folly of Democrats

For a brief moment in time -- four years, four Donald Trump years -- the world's heads of state respected America; the nation's limited government types took a refreshing breather. Then came President Biden, fresh from his basement, and within months, chaos.

August 17, 2021
President Joe Biden helps first lady Jill Biden as they board Marine One to depart Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Joe Biden does a Barack Obama and flees accountability

Rome burns as Nero fiddles. Afghanistan churns as President Biden vacations. But what to expect from a man who campaigned for the highest office in the land from the safety and security of his man-cave basement

August 16, 2021
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announces that all state workers must be vaccinated or face weekly testing for COVID-19 as he speaks to reporters inside the Patrick Henry Building in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)./Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Fear plus false figures equals Democrat coronavirus control

Once upon a time, critical thinking used to be a prized trait. Not any more. Fear -- the emotion that by nature causes irrational, impulsive and oft-erroneous thinking and behavior -- has taken root of America and ridden roughshod over constitutional and God-given rights.

August 14, 2021
This Nov. 19, 2013, file photo shows a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logo at the agency's federal headquarters in Atlanta. In a growing medical mystery, a person who died in July 2021 in Georgia has been confirmed as the fourth U.S. case this year of an illness called meliodosis caused by bacteria from South Asia. On Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent an alert about the latest case to U.S. doctors. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

CDC tees up next mass hysteria

The CDC just warned that a new tropical disease, a rare tropical disease, a new and rare and hardly ever-before-seen tropical disease, has come to America's soil. And now two people have died. And the scary part is: More people could die. A lockdown of the nation seems warranted.

August 12, 2021
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, is followed by his daughter Michaela Kennedy Cuomo, from left, Office Director Stephanie Benton and former Executive Secretary Melissa DeRosa as they prepare to board a helicopter after announcing Cuomo's resignation, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in New York. Cuomo says he will resign over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations. The three-term Democratic governor's decision, which will take effect in two weeks, was announced as momentum built in the Legislature to remove him by impeachment. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Andrew Cuomo, consummate narcissist, bows out by blaming women

Andrew Cuomo, what a guy. He may be a serial sexual harasser -- allegedly -- but he's got a real "looking out for you, kid" persona. And guess what: He very likely, quite possibly, almost certainly, maybe and perhaps thinks he still has a chance to pursue his political career.

August 11, 2021
President Joe Biden takes off his mask as he arrives to speak about the coronavirus pandemic in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. The U.S. has donated and shipped more than 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to more than 60 countries, ranging from Afghanistan to Zambia, the White House announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Joe Biden’s own Delaware homies hit back hard at vaccine mandates

Hundreds of Delaware medical professionals and their supporters are bucking a mandate from the state's largest hospital that all employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. These are President Joe Biden's home state people.

August 10, 2021
In this March 18, 2020, file photo, Harry Powell, of Lexington, Ky., works to change the marquee at the Kentucky Theatre in Lexington, Ky., The Kentucky Theatre will be closed following an executive order from Gov. Andy Beshear asking all public-facing businesses to close to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. (Alex Slitz/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP, File)

Make way for more lockdowns

The Democrats and the socialists and communists and cultural Marxists masquerading as members of the Democratic Party, in collaboration with the globalists at the World Economic Forum and elsewhere, are rapidly pushing America into a second lockdown.

August 10, 2021
Former U.S. President Barack Obama gesture as he attends the "values-based leadership" during a plenary session of the Gathering of Rising Leaders in the Asia Pacific, organized by the Obama Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Dec. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) ** FILE **

Barack Obama gets his ‘Birthday Bitch’ on

Barack Obama, former president, just spent his 60th birthday with friends, family and fawning celebrity types at a bash on Martha's Vineyard. Not unexpected. And according to reports, he grooved to the song "Birthday Bitch" performed live by guest Trap Beckham. A bit unexpected.

August 9, 2021
Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who arrived in Poland on Wednesday fearing reprisals at home after criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games, holds up an Olympic-related T-shirt with the slogan "I Just Want to Run" after her news conference in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. Tsimanouskaya reached Poland by plane from Tokyo through Vienna, a circuitous route due to security concerns, days after she accused team officials of trying to force her to fly back to Belarus, where an authoritarian government has relentlessly pursued its critics. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Belarus and Democrats: Two peas in a communist pod

The international stage is afire with a story of a Belarus Olympic sprinter who fled to Warsaw after her coaches tried to stuff her on an airplane and ship her home for arrest due to her criticism of their decisions at the Tokyo Olympic games. But really, these coaches aren't so different from Democrats.

August 7, 2021
A proof of vaccination sign is posted at a bar in San Francisco on Thursday, July 29, 2021. Until now, many employers had taken a passive approach to their unvaccinated workers, relying outreach and incentives. But that has been shifting, with vaccine mandates gaining momentum. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

Vaccine-mandating our way merrily toward communism

The spirit of America is being blotted and bludgeoned by an angry pro-vaccine crowd that wants to strip away an entire chunk of freedom in one coronavirus-crying fell swoop: that of informed consent.

August 5, 2021
A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Thursday, July 22, 2021, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The number of Americans getting a COVID-19 vaccine has been rising in recent days as virus cases once again surge and officials raise dire warnings about the consequences of remaining unvaccinated. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Pete Parada, Offspring drummer, segregated by vaccine tyrants

Pete Parada, drummer of The Offspring, has been kicked off his band's back-to-business, back-to-near-normalcy, post-coronavirus tour because he refuses -- for personal medical decisions made in part with his personal medical doctor -- to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

August 4, 2021
A supervisor sews the stars to finish the assembly of the American flag at North American Manufacturing on June 28, 2021, in Scranton, Pa. Since 2016, the staff at North American Manufacturing on Barring Avenue has meticulously produced about 8,000 full-size American flags each year, which are sold to the Defense Logistics Agency and awarded to government retirees. (Jason Farmer/The Times-Tribune via AP) ** FILE **

The two Americas: Collectivists vs. individualists

If there were a line that could be drawn to show the precise crossing into America's demise, then the mental figurings that form the accusatory and hostile arguments against those who are reluctant to take the COVID-19 vaccine are it. It's the crossing from individualism into collectivism.

August 3, 2021
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison adjusts his mask during the announcement of a COVID-19 financial support package in Sydney, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Morrison announced added financial support for businesses and households as Sydney appears increasingly likely to enter a fourth week of lockdown due to coronavirus clusters. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australia goes full-steam police state on coronavirus clampdowns

Australia has gone a bit off the deep end with coronavirus clampdowns, sending police in helicopters to buzz by people who are congregating and blare through bull horns a warning of fines to come if they don't disperse. America, take note.

August 2, 2021
An oil tanker owned by Irving Oil is pushed toward a dock by tugboats Friday, April 23, 2021, in South Portland, Maine. On the second day of a virtual summit hosted by the White House, the United States and other nations are discussing ways to ramp up renewable energy development while decreasing the world's dependency on fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Climate scientists prepare to clamp down on the world’s freedoms

We're still battling the coronavirus tyrants. Now come the climate authoritarians. More than 200 climate scientists are gathering to take the lessons learning from the coronavirus, meaning the idea that fear sells and sells well, and apply them to the field of environmental regulation.

July 26, 2021
A health care workers register Evelyn Pereira, left, and her daughter Soile Reyes, 12, of Brooklyn, for an appointment for the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine while they wait in the observation area after being vaccinated, Thursday, July 22, 2021, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The museum moved their vaccination site from the Hall of Ocean Life where the famous 94-foot-long model of a blue whale is hanging from the ceiling to a smaller adjacent gallery. New York City is closing the big vaccination sites to focus on areas with low vaccination rates. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Coronavirus vaccine wordplay: Defining ‘effective’ proves elusive

If the coronavirus vaccines are so effective -- "highly effective," as Anthony Fauci has claimed -- then why do the vaccinated test positive so frequently for COVID? This is just one of the questions that needs to be addressed by health authorities pushing the vaccine.

July 24, 2021
Women wearing face masks shop at an American fashion boutique in Beijing on Sunday, July 11, 2021. China on Tuesday, July 13, denounced an appeal by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for a U.S.-European "unified front" against Chinese "unfair economic practices" and human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Face masks will never go away until Americans say no

Well, memo to all who are on the fence about face masks: They aren't going to go away until the people of the United States make them go away. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not the enemy here. Politicized, weaponized science is the real threat.

July 23, 2021
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. From left, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

America’s schools are breeding grounds for socialists

Abolitionist Teaching Network, the group President Biden's administration cited as part of its recommendations for in-person instruction this fall, is so left of left that it makes the Democratic Socialists of America -- another group that's infiltrated the public schools -- seem moderate.

July 22, 2021
Talk radio host Michael Savage (middle) hopes President Trump will act to remove his name from a list of undesirables banned in Britain. (Michael Savage) ** FILE **

Michael Savage, Donald Trump: America ‘melting down’ under Joe Biden

Radio and podcast great Michael Savage, in an exclusive interview with Donald Trump, asked the former president if he agreed that the country was "melting down" under the Democrat President Biden, and the paraphrased answer -- perhaps not so surprisingly -- was yes, yes and yes again. But even that's an understatement.

July 21, 2021