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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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People watch from their vehicles as President Donald Trump, on left of video screen, and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speak during a Presidential Debate Watch Party at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The debate party was organized by Manny's, a San Francisco community meeting and learning place. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Donald Trump’s COVID-19 strength versus Joe Biden’s fear

What America doesn't need right now is a White House leader who tiptoes gently around COVID-19 solutions, falling forever and ever on the side of caution -- which means, in medical speak, forever and ever to stay at home. On this, on COVID-19, Donald Trump brings strength versus Joe Biden, who cowers in fear.

October 23, 2020
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., applauds supporters during her appearance at UNC-Asheville, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in Asheville, N.C. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

Kamala Harris clangs a communist gong

A vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is a vote for communism. There's no other way to paint it. Social justice? Economic justice? Climate justice? Economic justice? This is the language of communists. This is the rhetoric of communist revolutionaries trying to jumpstart an uprising against corrupt, mismanaged, tyrannical government.

October 22, 2020
Members of the media gather for a walk-through of the stage set-up for the first democratic debate, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) ** FILE **

Endless campaigns are bad for America

Once upon a time, America's presidential elections came every four years, with campaign seasons that lasted the few months before the fated November date. Now, they're endless. As soon as Election Day cometh, the next White House race dawneth. The overarching effect is a population kept in a constant state of political anxiety.

October 22, 2020
In this file photo, pollster Frank Luntz speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference Monday, April 30, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ** FILE **

Frank Luntz, pollster, moans of Trump’s ‘heads up their a——’ campaign team

Political pollster Frank Luntz said President Donald Trump's reelection campaign advisers have "their heads up their a----" and ought to be "brought up on charges of political malpractice," according to a report in The Hill. Isn't this the same Frank Luntz who apologized profusely in 2018 for underestimating Trump's ability to lead?

October 21, 2020
In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo, a sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google, prepare to be cowed

In what will surely go down in Big Tech history as an "about time" moment for censor-weary Americans, the U.S. Justice Department filed a suit against Google, accusing the online giant of antitrust violations. Google, prepare to be cowed. At least a little bit.

October 20, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden turns from the podium after speaking during a campaign event at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Christmas with the Joe Biden cranks

President Donald Trump said in a rally over the weekend that if Joe Biden wins the White House, be prepared for a canceled Christmas season. That's the truth. Christmas -- and beyond.

October 20, 2020
A lifesize bronze sculpture of international motorcycle racing sensation Nicky Hayden is located in his hometown of Owensboro, Kentucky. (Cheryl Chumley/The Washington Times)

America the great: 14 days, 14 states, optimism abounds

It's easy to become jaded about America. It's easy to sit at home, listen to the news, watch the candidates duke it out, hear as the pundits bicker, moan and groan as the politicians do what politicians do -- politick -- and then think only the darkest of America's future. But go outside the bubble of bickering -- and it's a different world.

October 19, 2020
Facial masks are displayed at a shop at Venice Beach in Los Angeles, Friday, July 3, 2020. California's governor is urging people to wear masks and skip Fourth of July family gatherings as the state's coronavirus tally rises. But Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday said he would rely on people using common sense rather than strict enforcement of the face-covering order. Rates of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have soared in the past two weeks after falling last month. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Masked teens able to shoot vendor in anonymity

A street vendor in California was shot in the leg by a trio of teens who were able to escape identification and flee under cover of the medical face masks their state mandates they wear. How lucky for the criminals that face coverings are oh-so-demanded these days.

October 19, 2020
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, speaks as the Senate Judiciary Committee hears from legal experts on the final day of the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Socialism’s sneaky verbiage

The left will do what it can to tear down normalcy and inject chaos into society, even to the point of redefining commonly accepted words and phrases, because that's a path to Big Government. That's a road toward total government control. That's a sneaky tool of socialists and collectivists and Marxists.

October 17, 2020
FILE - Members of Fleetwood Mac, from left, Peter Green; John McVie; Stevie Nicks; Christine McVie; Mick Fleetwood; and Lindsey Buckingham hold their awards after the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York on Jan. 12, 1998. Nicks has spent the last 10 months homebound, mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic. During that time, she recorded the new single “Show Them the Way," releasing Friday and edited her new concert film “Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold The Concert," available at select theaters and drive-ins on Oct. 21 and 25. (AP Photo/Adam Nadel, File)

Abortion’s sad, sorrowful defense

Fleetwood Mac singing sensation Stevie Nicks said in a recent conversation with a reporter from The Guardian that if she hadn't aborted the child she conceived with the Eagles' Don Henley, "there would have been no Fleetwood Mac" -- there would have been no music magic. But how does she know that for sure?

October 16, 2020
FILE - This Feb. 23, 2011 file photo shows the Marshall University Old Main exterior in Huntington, W.Va. The school will temporarily suspend in-person classes once students return from spring break in late March 2020 as it continues to monitor the threat of the new coronavirus in a state with no confirmed cases. (Lori Wolfe/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)

Democrat mayor — gasp! — cuts taxes, admits he’s ‘capitalist’

Make way for the pink elephant. For the pig to fly. For the you know where to freeze. For the blue moon to blaze. For the four-leaf clover among the bed of three's. What's the deal? There's a Democrat who just said this: "I might have 'D' after my name, but I [also] have capital 'C' after my name -- capitalist."

October 15, 2020
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey leaves after his talk with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, In this June 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) ** FILE **

Jack Dorsey offers lame ‘clarity’ on blocking Hunter Biden bits

Twitter's Jack Dorsey, responded to the massive swell of outrage that came when his company blocked the New York Post and the White House's Kayleigh McEnany over a Hunter Biden report that put Joe Biden in a bad light with a tweet that acknowledged poor messaging. No d'oh. That's called a lame attempt to sideline criticisms.

October 15, 2020
FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2020, file photo Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield appears at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on a "Review of Coronavirus Response Efforts" on Capitol Hill in Washington. Vice President Mike Pence in March directed the nation’s top disease control agency to use its emergency powers to effectively seal the U.S. borders. Pence, who had taken over the Trump administration’s response to the growing pandemic, called Redfield, and told him to use the agency’s special legal authority in a pandemic anyway. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

CDC needs to keep its COVID-19 nose out of Thanksgiving

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Robert Redfield just issued a quiet warning of possible COVID-19 case hikes during Thanksgiving festivities. Memo to CDC: Enough. Stay out of Thanksgiving. And don't even think of getting involved in Christmas.

October 14, 2020
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Kimberly Guilfoyle smile as President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Orlando Sanford International Airport, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, in Sanford, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Media watchdogging, COVID-19 style: That Republican rubbed his nose!

A recent Mediaite headline ran this way: "Maskless Ron DeSantis High-Fives Attendees at Packed Trump Rally, Rubs His Nose With Hand." Is this really where we're at, America? At a place and time where a Republican who rubs his nose in public makes national news headlines? For, umm, rubbing his nose?

October 13, 2020
FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington. Part of the church was set on fire during protests on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Kentucky pastor: ‘A win for Joe Biden is a win for Marxism’

HIS church pastor Brian Gibson said in a sit-down interview in Owensboro, Kentucky, that if Joe Biden wins this November, and not Donald Trump, "it's the death of America" -- that "a Joe Biden win is a win for Marxism," he added. Ain't that the truth.

October 12, 2020
In this Sept. 12, 2003, file photo, William H. Gates Sr., left, smiles while sitting next to his son, Bill Gates Jr., during the dedication and grand opening of the William H. Gates Hall, the new home of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. Bill Gates Sr., a lawyer and philanthropist and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, died Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, at age 94. (AP Photo/John Froschauer, File)

Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci — blasted in coronavirus-weary Oklahoma

Oklahoma entrepreneur and podcaster Clay Clark has a bone to pick with Bill Gates. And it's one that goes like this: "I'm hoping to alert people to the idea that all [coronavirus] roads are leading to the gates of hell, a.k.a. Bill Gates, and his vaccines, which are nefarious, at best," he said.

October 12, 2020
17-year-old Makayla Scott, right, and teammate Lilly Goodwin practice skeet shooting at a skeet range in the back yard of their Alvon, W.Va. Makayla Scott's father built a skeet range in their backyard and gathered a team of middle- and high-school shotgun enthusiasts to shoot there. (John McCoy/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)

Christians with guns as American as apple pie

Jesus approves of righteous anger and self-defense. Being Christian doesn't mean being a docile victim. Train the children in the way they should go -- and they won't run wild in the streets, smashing storefront windows, shooting rival gang members, gunning down innocent bystanders and citizens.

October 11, 2020
Scott Veley of Kensington, Conn. holds a Gadsden flag during a tea party protest at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Thursday, April 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) **FILE**

Tea party alive and kicking in Nashville

Nashville has a thriving tea party presence -- thriving, kicking, storming strong and politically charged. More than 202,000 follow the Nashville Tea Party page. More than that followed the group on LinkedIn -- until they got booted, that is. Why? The usual reasons: for the crime of being conservative.

October 11, 2020