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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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In this Thursday, April 23, 2020, photo, Ruth Caballero, a nurse with The Visiting Nurse Service of New York, right, and Catherine Peralta, her Spanish-language translator, leave a patient's home as Caballero makes her rounds in upper Manhattan in New York. Home care nurses, aides and attendants, who normally help an estimated 12 million Americans with everything from bathing to IV medications, are now taking on the difficult and potentially dangerous task of caring for coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ** FILE **

COVID-19 bringing devastating groupthink consequences

The most damaging and lasting effects of COVID-19 on America won't be so much ones of physical or medical as they will be mental. Where Americans once thought for themselves, the government has taken control. Where Americans once decided on their own, bureaucrats have seized the reins.

May 7, 2020
Supporters and media watch as gubernatorial candidate Tim Eyman speaks during a news conference outside of the United States District Courthouse in Union Station in Tacoma, Wash., on Friday, May 1, 2020. Eyman and others sued Gov. Jay Inslee Friday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, alleging his orders during the pandemic to help stop the spread of COVID-19 have violated their constitutional rights. (Joshua Bessex/The News Tribune via AP)

Executive orders are not laws

COVID-19 has shined some important light on the tendency of government to do as Founding Fathers warned -- stretch and reach and overreach, and tread into places it doesn't belong. And as the executive orders come fast and furious from governors' mansions around the nation, it's high time for a reminder: Orders are not laws.

May 5, 2020
Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers a reporter's question during a news conference to provide an update to the latest efforts by the Racial Equity Rapid Response Team in Chicago on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Tyler LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: A blowhard cracking a COVID-19 whip

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened citizens and city-goers with arrest, imprisonment and fines if they dared step foot into the streets, in violation of her COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Wow. Talk about cracking the government whip. Can you say Constitution, anyone? How about 'Bite me, you blowhard, Lori" -- can you say that?

May 4, 2020
Attorney General William Barr speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Virginia COVID-19 smack-down means churches should open, and open now

The Department of Justice just issued a statement suggesting Virginia acted above and beyond its rightful call of COVID-19 government duty by closing churches to more than 10 people while allowing some private businesses to host untold numbers of shoppers. Quite right.

May 4, 2020
In this file photo, a voter reviews his selections on his ballot while voting at the town's highway garage building Tuesday, April 7, 2020 in Dunn, Wis. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP) **FILE**

COVID-19 threatens U.S. election integrity

For the first time in months, Democrats are looking with anticipation and excitement to November's presidential election -- and it has nothing to do with their dismal candidate, Joe Biden. It's because of COVID-19 and the chance to do some heavy Election Day damage.

May 2, 2020
In this Monday, April 27, 2020, photo provided by Vince Warburton, passengers get off an American Airlines flight airplane after they landed at Los Angeles International Airport. JetBlue requires passengers to wear face makes during flights, and Frontier Airlines says it will too, but face coverings are strictly optional on most airlines. American Airlines said it will start providing masks for passengers who want them. (Vince Warburton via AP)

Forced face masking is a civil rights offense

Major U.S. airlines have announced that as a condition of riding their friendly skies, passengers must all put on a face mask. Let the muzzling of America commence. Let the -- hopefully! -- lawsuits against the mask nazis begin, as well.

May 1, 2020
In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020, file photo California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

Californians should do a ‘Stormin’ Norman’ over closed beaches

California's Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, is poised to order all beaches in the state closed because citizens dared to defy his social distancing order by flocking to the seashore, COVID-19 be danged. And this should be the collective Californian response: Storm the beaches anyway.

April 30, 2020
Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, answers questions from the media during a news conference at Liberty Plaza across the street from the Georgia state Capitol building in downtown Atlanta, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia kicks off chilling door-to-door COVID-19 blood collections

Let the government-pressed coronavirus-tied blood collections of citizens begin. And begin they have. They have in Georgia at least, where officials with the state's Department of Public Health recently announced that "to learn more about the spread of COVID-19," they're going door-to-door to ask citizens for blood. Chilling.

April 28, 2020
President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Anthony Fauci should explain ‘$3.7 million to the Wuhan laboratory’

President Donald Trump's legal counsel, Rudy Giuliani, suggested a good U.S. attorney general move about now would be to investigate key members of the past Barack Obama administration on the Wuhan, China, laboratory, to see what they knew and when they knew it. And then he mentioned Anthony Fauci specifically.

April 27, 2020
Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull.

Founding Fathers rolling in graves at the COVID-19 constitutional crisis

The Founders would be shocked to see America, circa COVID-19 2020. In fact, they're probably rolling in their graves right now, watching the Constitution they so carefully created -- with regard for individual rights as bestowed by God, not government -- being crushed by a hammer of coronavirus fears. Especially on fears that are so far misplaced.

April 25, 2020
In this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, file photo, chickens line up to get a bite of spent brewer's grain brought in to feed bison at Sleepy Bison Acres farm in Sleepy Eye, Minn. Sleepy Eye Brewing Co. and the farm have a partnership where they trade bison feed for bison meat to cook in their cafe. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP) ** FILE **

Chicken killing sounds alarm on coronavirus threats to freedom

A farmer in Minnesota told the Star Tribune he had to kill 61,000 of his chickens because the coronavirus crisis had dried up demand for their eggs and he had no way to continue feeding them. Open the freaking country already. America must maintain self-sufficiency with the food supply, if Americans are to remain free.

April 24, 2020
Rob Cortis of Livonia, works the microphone Thursday, April 23, 2020, near the Michigan Governor's Mansion in Lansing, Mich. Cortis drove his "Trump Unity Bridge" float to Lansing joining a small caravan of protesters rallying against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order enacted to help mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)

Gretchen Whitmer shows folly of executive orders

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the "I am zee law!" lady of American politics, is poised to lose some of her powers, as legislators say they're going to intervene and vote and reel her in a bit. Well, ain't that about time. Executives aren't kings. Legislators hold the true authority in determining the extent of executive powers.

April 24, 2020
A Tyson Fresh Meats plant stands in Waterloo, Iowa, date not known. On Friday, April 17, 2020, more than a dozen Iowa elected officials asked Tyson to close the pork processing plant because of the spread of the coronavirus among its workforce of nearly 3,000 people. (Jeff Reinitz/The Courier via AP)

Coronavirus a Groundhog Day for the political world

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director, Dr. Robert Redfield, said during a press conference at the White House that this fall, Americans could experience a complicated flu-slash-coronavirus season of sickness and to be on guard. How convenient for Democrats. Just in time for Election Day.

April 23, 2020
In this Nov. 5, 2018, file photo, Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp speaks a day before Election Day at Peachtree DeKalb Airport in Atlanta. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Georgia governor defies CYA to be beacon of good coronavirus leadership

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is taking a lot of heat for daring to go where no other state has gone before -- and gasp! opening the state back up for business, even as the rest of the country's political leaders sit on coronavirus pins and needles. But what Kemp is really doing is something called Leadership.

April 22, 2020