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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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Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, hugs Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., before speaking during a rally, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Mamdani, the choice of the ignorant

There's not a socialist politician in the world who can honestly pledge to uphold the Constitution while remaining true to socialism.

October 28, 2025
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speak to the media as Jared Kushner looks on, in Kiryat Gat, Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Israel really handed short end of Hamas peace stick

It's not that the peace deal between Israel and Hamas is fracturing. It's more that a peace deal between the mostly peaceful Israelis and the antisemitic, hateful, violent anti-Jew Hamas terrorists was never really a viable possibility for the very common sense realization that it's impossible to live in peace with people whose sole reason for existing is to destroy you.

October 24, 2025
Political commentator James Carville discusses the 2020 election landscape on MSNBC, Feb. 4, 2020. (Image: MSNBC video screenshot)

James Carville epitomizes today’s ugly Democrats

Democrat strategist James Carville said his fantasy is to see all those who've collaborated with President Donald Trump to be dressed in orange pajamas, have their heads shaven and then be force-marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., where the public can spit on them.

October 24, 2025
Timothy Walker, a resident at the Los Angeles Mission who graduated from its faith-based drug rehabilitation program, reads the Bible during a service at the mission in Los Angeles, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Bold and Blunt: Revival in America

Americans' trust in media may be dwindling, but when it comes to Christian media -- and Christians working in media -- the public has a different perspective, and it's one that goes like this: News watchers, readers and listeners by and large look to those of faith to give them reports they trust.

October 24, 2025
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks to reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Media is truly failing its mission to tell the truth

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Huffington Post journalist S.V. Date traded some widely reported barbs the other day rooted in large part over the insistence of Date to pretend not to be a hack for the Democrat Party. But here's the thing. All things HuffPost are now hack.

October 23, 2025
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (Marc Israel Sellem/Jerusalem Post via AP, Pool)

Bold and Blunt: Israel makes peace, Hamas fights peace

Israel has won back its hostages from Hamas -- but the future of the 20-point peace plan forged in large part by the White House has some sticking points. And it's not clear if the terror group is going to abide all the terms. This is not to say peace is not possible, though

October 22, 2025
This photo provided by Moderna in August 2025 shows fill and finish production of the updated mNEXSPIKE COVID-19 vaccine, in Madrid. (Moderna via AP)

Bold & Blunt: Fight for health freedom rages on

One of America's core individual freedoms -- and not just freedom, but right -- is the one about choosing which medical treatments to take and which medical treatments to refuse. All that was thrown out during COVID years.

October 21, 2025
Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a mayoral debate, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, Pool)

Mamdani couldn’t be any more open about his un-Americanism

Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner candidate for New York City's mayoral seat, stood side-by-side, arm-in-arm for a photo with a Muslim cleric named Sir Wahhaj, who's been linked to the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, as well as to other terror plots. It really doesn't get any clearer than this.

October 21, 2025
Members of the Pentagon press corp carry their belongings out of the Pentagon after turning in their press credentials, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Sign zee papahs! The Pentagon’s absurd new press policies

Just because Democrats are tyrants and just because the press pools are filled with Democrat-loving, tyrant-enabling journalists who carry water for their Dem friends doesn't mean conservatives have to behave like Democrats. Tit-for-tat is not a solution.

October 16, 2025
A proposed WallBuilders ad depicting George Washington kneeling in prayer was rejected by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority as controversial, prompting a federal lawsuit backers say may eventually reach the Supreme Court. (Photo courtesy of First Liberty Institute, used with permission.)

Manning up: More men than women heading back to church

Newly released findings from Barna's State of the Church initiative show that 43 percent of men are attending weekly church services versus 36 percent of women and that it's the males in the Generation X and millennial age groups especially who are filling the pews.

October 16, 2025
An officer with the Department of Homeland Security's Special Response Team stands against a protester outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility as protests against the Trump administration continue in Portland, Ore., Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

The naked truth: Democrats lose a few more voters to jail

Several naked bicyclists riding in front of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Oregon, to protest the presence of the federal agents in the city were arrested for blocking ICE's driveway. And all the Democrats go -- dang. There go more Dem voters, off to prison!

October 14, 2025
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at a rally with Hotel & Gaming Trades Council workers, in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Zohran Mamdani chased from park — great. Now chase him from USA

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was chased out of a Manhattan park by a man who called him an antisemite, and who demanded he denounce the terror group Hezbollah as well as Sharia law. Good. Mamdani, a proud socialist, i.e. communist, should be chased out of America, too.

October 13, 2025
Author and former Fox News host Steve Hilton announced his run for California governor, as a Republican to replace Democrat Gavin Newsom, during an event in Huntington Beach, Calif., Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP)

Bold and Blunt: California shows signs of shifting right

California has fallen to such depths in all areas of measurement -- economic, educational, cultural -- that voters may finally be ready to do something they haven't done for a very, very long time: vote a Republican for governor.

October 10, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James, center left, waits for the continuation of former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in New York. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Meet the new Letitia James, woman of faith

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted in federal court on charges of bank fraud and lying to a financial institution. Now the woman who was the smiling face of lawfare against President Trump has turned herself into the calm-but-resolute civil rights-fighting prayer warrior.

October 10, 2025
U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., smiles as she prepares to address supporters at an election night party, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Long Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Katie Porter shows her Democrat superiority complex

California's leading Democrat candidate for governor, Katie Porter, exited an interview, stage right, with a CBS News reporter because she didn't like the questions she was being asked.

October 9, 2025
People gather in a park to demand Hamas the release of hostages who remain in captivity in Gaza, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, on the two-year anniversary of Hamas' attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Hamas doesn’t really want peace

Hamas and Israel may have agreed to a peace deal, one that was forged in large part by President Donald Trump who successfully created the collaborative conditions that brought the two sides to the table at all. But this peace deal could turn into simply a pause.

October 8, 2025